Adopting “green” strategies and maintaining them during a pandemic is no easy matter: such strategies cost money, and businesses try hard to not pass along those costs to consumers. Yet, that doesn’t deter them from working hard to do the right thing when it comes to sustainable food operations.
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Head chef Annie Street is in the kitchen at Uptown Waterloo’s popular Loloan Lobby Bar. For Street, a few years of work in a restaurant front-of-house after high-school graduation evolved into a decision to attend Conestoga College’s School of Hospitality and Culinary Arts.
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The patios in the Charcoal Group of Restaurants have been open since February 25, according to managing partner Jody Palubiski. More than ever during the pandemic, patios have become a critical part of a restaurant’s business model.
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Maple syrup is a year-long favourite condiment and ingredient and one with a very long history that needs to be acknowledged. Long before Europeans arrived in North America and introduced the honeybee, Canada’s indigenous peoples were drawing sap from trees and creating the sweet elixir: maple syrup
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From its first appearance at the Kitchener Market in 2019, to its current location in the Preston area of Cambridge, La Lola Catering has provided an authentic Spanish cooking experience to Waterloo Region.
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While the pandemic has knocked down a lot of businesses, Sourabh Gandotra is positive in the face of dining room closures and other Covid-19 restrictions. He maintains an excitement for what he has been able to do – and to learn – as a young cook at Public Kitchen & Bar.
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One of the biggest lessons learned in the year that was 2020 is just how adaptive and innovative our restaurant community is, We checked in with several Waterloo Region restaurateurs and other food operations to see what kind of changes might represent a new normal in the future.
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Waterloo Chronicle - There’s a new restaurant in St. Jacobs that is in fact a very old restaurant: the historic Stone Crock has just reopened with a new vision from the Fat Sparrow Group.
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