Lockdowns and physical distancing have helped keep us safe during the pandemic — but they’ve wreaked havoc on our social lives. Now that Ontario is well into step three of its reopening plan, we’re here with some fantastic date night ideas across Waterloo Region.
KitchenerToday.com – With nine local restaurants participating, there’s a rainbow of mouthwatering dishes to pick from at this year’s Uptown Comfort Food Crawl. Tracy Van Kalsbeek of the Uptown Waterloo BIA said this year, there will be nine different restaurants participating.
Over the past few decades, Waterloo Region has fully embraced creative place-making, the act of combining art, culture, and creativity to proudly display an area’s character and unite its community. The Region can now include the Uptown Waterloo Hughes Lane Art Walk in its creative place-making.
The 2019 Sun Life Financial UpTown Waterloo Jazz Festival features a program of world class performers that is diverse, not only from a perspective of where they come from, but also from the diversity of jazz styles they bring to the Festival. This 3-day festival is free to attend.
When was the last time you spent a day in UpTown Waterloo? There’s a new vibe in UpTown Waterloo that offers both a vibrant lifestyle for those who live in the core, and an urban, exciting experience for those who are new – or returning – to the area.
Yes, you can easily tell: school is back in session. That much is obvious from the busy and crowded streets near any university with throngs of students, tightly packed and grouped together, as they make their way through the course of a day – including the pursuit of something good to eat.
The Fat Sparrow Group business appeared in Waterloo Region in only 2017, but the names behind it have long made a mark when it comes to food and hospitality; it’s a parent company for the collection of eateries that chef Nick Benninger spearheads.
Uptown Waterloo: pick a block. Any block. From Union Street to Central Street, the centre of the city is chock-a-block full of restaurants and eateries, brew pubs and bars.
From craft beer on a patio, or a board game cafe, to small venues with big flavour. Get inspired by these date night suggestions from around Waterloo Region that cover the simple and casual to the more refined and elegant.
