All Posts Tagged With: "downtown Kingston"
Guide to Homegrown
Homegrown Live Music Festival is celebrating its 5th year tomorrow, May 11th, at 10 downtown venues. The festival showcases some of Kingston’s finest musicians all in support of Joe’s MILL and The Partners in Mission Food Bank. Each venue will play host to one specific genre of music. By purchasing a bracelet for a mere [...]
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Guide to Patios 2013
Once again, dear reader, I am going to take my chances and allude to the fact that spring is here. Hopefully these words will ring true and won’t jinx us anymore this year. It is that time of year when (on some days) we can toy with the idea of enjoying some time on one [...]
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Menchies: Got Recycling?
I’ll be the first to admit to being sucked into the froyo frenzy – I feel a lot better knowing I’m savoring nonfat soft serve topped with my signature choice of strawberries and yogurt covered pretzels as oppose to sitting on the couch with a bucket of Haagen-Dazs. Not to mention, I’m a stone-throw away [...]
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Weekly Poll: Development of Block 4
During a special meeting last Wednesday evening, City Council voted to begin the process of developing the downtown property known as North Block 4. Located across from the KRock Centre and dubbed “the gateway to the downtown”, this area offers great opportunity to potential developers. Thus far, council has created a starting point for options [...]
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Mobile Sustainability
Trailer fare has steered into a fresh new direction with an undeniable facelift, transforming your average chip trucks into slick mobile eateries as top chefs trade restaurant kitchens for the tight squeeze of mobile cooking quarters. Gone are the deep-fried chips and corndogs, in are gourmet dishes that you would normally find in an upscale [...]
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Weekly Poll: Big Dig Phase Two
Two years ago, Kingstonians endured phase one of the big dig, a massive construction project to replace aging sewer infrastructure and utilities below Princess Street, from the intersection at King all the way down to the waterfront. The massive $4 million upgrade included a serious facelift to the renovated section of downtown Kingston, providing granite [...]
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Local Restaurants Face New Kind of Competition
Restaurant business is a tough business. Profit margins are low – often 10-15%, and costs are always increasing. They say that 1 in 4 restaurants that open will close within a year. In Kingston, the density of restaurants downtown is very high, and although the natural lifecycle of openings and closing occur every year, there [...]
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Top Five Things to See and Do
If you’re reading this, it means that you survived the worst of what 2012 could muster: snowmaggedon, the NHL lockout, Gangnam style, the fiscal cliff, teachers’ job action, and the list goes on. Love it or leave it, 2012 is now a part of the history books, and it’s high time we start looking forward [...]
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Best of 2012: Heritage vs Development
Our final post from our Best of 2012 is a recent poll regarding the construction of new buildings or the revitalization of old buildings in Kingston’s historic downtown. Prompted by the latest additions of Milestones and other shops and offices in the old S&R, and the reformation of the TD bank in Market Square to [...]
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Best of 2012: Geneva Crêpe Café
We were incredibly happy to welcome Melinda Knox to our team this year. She has reviewed several restaurants for us with great balance and details that leave our mouths watering. She has expanded our culinary horizons, covering restaurants beyond the borders of downtown Kingston and many off the beaten path. This early review of Melinda’s [...]
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