Weekly Resto Hits

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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Rana Taste of Turkish
Address: 327 King Street W, Kitchener
Open: Monday to Saturday
Cost: Dinner for two is about $20 (not licensed)
Contact: 519-579-7262

It is in fact a taste of Turkey, albeit a small one. For dine-in or take-away, Rana has a handful of Halal dishes on the menu. Doner, the Turkish delight, is the primary example. Rana is small, family-run and nice to have in the in the city centre.

Rana cooks with wood fire at last summer's Turkish Festival in Waterloo.

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Pak Indian Kitchen & Sweet House
Address: 656 King Street E, Cambridge (P)
Open: Daily with varying hours
Cost: Dinner for two before tax and tip is about $35-$45
Contact: 519-342-3755; pakindianrestaurant.ca

Relatively new restaurant located in the former Groove Kitchen in Preston serves Indian and Pakistani dishes in an informal setting. The pakoras were a favourite.

Sweet dessert.

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QB2 Ethiopian and Eritrean Cuisine
Address: #4-86 Dawson Road, Guelph
Open: Monday-Friday at 11 a.m.; Saturday at 4 p.m.
Cost: Dinner for two is about $45 (not licensed)
Contact: 519-546-8811; qb2.goldbook.ca

QB2’s Ethiopian and Eritrean cooking features classic berbere sauce, stews (wot), a wide range of vegetables and vegetarian dishes and the flat, bubbly and fermented injera bread which serves as your fork and spoon with which to gobble it up.

Injera is both something to eat ... and your utensil.