Food & Drink
Top Five Things to See and Do
It’s that magical time year where we rhyme off our top five most anticipated community, cultural social and entertainment calendar highlights over the next three months. With Thanksgiving, Halloween and the silly season all fast approaching, here’s what we plan on slowing down to check out! Wolfe Island Corn Maze, September-October: This year’s design features [...]
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Guide to Late Night Bites
What do most of us like to do after an evening of imbibing and enjoying great live music or a DJ at a local watering hole? If you’re like me, you want to eat! I always found finding good late night food in Kingston to be a challenge unless you’re interested in fast food or [...]
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Fare on the Square (2 of 2)
Yesterday we gave you Part One of our review of Fare on the Square. Today I’ll show you what other yummy items we sampled last Saturday. Our next stop was The Kingston Brew Pub. They were offering Local Bison Burgers. Once again, I didn’t sample since I don’t really like Bison and I was also [...]
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Fare on the Square (1 of 2)
As I’m sure many of you know, this past Saturday, Market Square played host to the Third Annual Fare on the Square. This event promotes locally sourced food by featuring dishes prepared by nine downtown restaurants. At $2 a sample, it’s easy to try a bit of everything. In addition to the paid menu items, [...]
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ONroute to Kingston
Whether it’s the result of a gas light turning on, someone in desperate need of a pit stop, or annoying passengers that makes you want to get out and walk the rest of the way, at one time or another we’ve all welcomed the road side sign that reads: Service Centre Ahead. Within the past [...]
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Guide to Bakeries
This is one of those posts that I find somewhat torturous to write because I get distracted by all the deliciousness I discover in my research. Today’s guide is all about bakeries. We asked our readers and did some searching of our own and came up with a list of great places to get fresh, [...]
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Weekly Poll: The Burger/Poutine Wars Revisited
Last August, a handful of new downtown restaurants began to emerge, while each specialized in their own brand of gourmet burgers, poutine and trans fat-laden delicacies. Kingstonist’s poll regarding the burger/poutine wars went on to crown Smoke’s Poutinerie as the most anticipated new establishment of 2010, while this post also received a record number of [...]
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End of Summer Bucket List
How dare I even utter (or type…) those words together?! End and summer.. it’s so sad but it’s the inevitable truth. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen back to school signs going up in stores, fall displays in windows and the berry picking farms are starting to advertise for pumpkin season. Sigh. The [...]
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Cafe India
When we canvassed our readers to seek out the best local Indian restaurant, they were quick to point out that we neglected to include a few of their favorite local mainstays including Rahim’s Cuisine and Cafe India. In a past life I lived next door to one of this city’s best Indian restaurants, while that [...]
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The Works
Nearly one year ago, I wrote about an epic battle that was shaping up in downtown Kingston, whereby a handful of new burger and poutine joints had emerged to tantalize your taste buds. While Harper’s, Smoke’s and Five Guys have succeeded thus far, casualties of the burger/poutine war include The Poutine Place as well as [...]
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