A Trio of Restaurant Choices

As you contemplate what you might like to eat at area restaurants over the next few days, here are a few suggestions from Waterloo Region Eats. [ Please remember to check with individual restaurants for their hours of opening and current availability of dishes--Ed. ]

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King Tin Seafood Restaurant
Address: 258 King Street N, Waterloo
Contact: 519-885-4716
A popular spot near Wilfrid Laurier University serving a lunch buffet during the week, but the highlight during the weekend is riding the trolley service for dim sum.

Dim sum trolley.

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Rainbow Caribbean Cuisine
Address: 29 King Street E, Kitchener
Contact: 519-579-2618
Small cod fritters (three for $1.25) are another choice and simple delicacy, even though a bit of microwaving has toughened them up a bit. There’s still a decent fish flavour and saltiness to the little morsels.

From a few fish dishes—including cod and kingfish—the small red snapper dinner ($12) asks you to be careful picking around the bones and skeletal structure of the head-on fish. What yields is a sweetish, low-fat flesh and crispy skin that is served with some of Caribbean Cuisine’s delicious and satisfying rice and peas, a bit of plantain and some callaloo, a green-leaf and rich stew-like side that has some spice and garlic notes. The grassiness often ends up in soups along with bits of meat, maybe some cod and some yam bits.

A rainbow of flavours.

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Babelfish Bistro
Address: 80 Macdonell St., Guelph
Contact: 519-826-6709; babelfishbistro.com
Casual dining in a pleasant and cosy venue that draws on a range of flavours and ingredients to inject some verve and energy into several thoughtful dishes. Service is efficient and professional too.

Babelfish Guelph.