Restaurant casualties of COVID-19

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Rainbow Cuisine has closed down and have been evicted due to a failure to pay rent. Not sure if it was pandemic related, but it's sure a loss. It was one of the most popular Caribbean restaurants downtown.

Not sure where I'll get my Jamaican patties while in Kitchener now haha...any recommendations would be appreciated if they're vegetable!

According to multiple google reviews. Rainbow Cusine got a new owner and the food quality and taste significantly dropped in the last year or so. Some of the reviews are frightening. I haven't been to The Kitchener Farmers market since before the pandemic so I'm not sure the place is still there but I know there was a place that sold different flavours of Jamaican patties, I believe Vegetable was one of the flavours.

That's too bad. I'd only been there once or twice for a patty since 2021.

Here are the worthwhile Jamaican patty options that I know if. There might be more.
* Caribbean Kitchen in the Kitchener market actually has patties that I find to be better than Rainbow, but the hours are lunchtime Tuesday-Saturday; if that works for you, then it's a good option.
* Deyjahs House of Patties (https://www.houseofpatties.com/) was operating at 42 Bridgeport but got evicted. You can still order patties online. I ordered a box once and they have all sorts of options, more than I've ever seen elsewhere.

The ones on campus at the University of Waterloo (EngSoc C&D and math C&D, when that's a thing) are really not that good, but they do stave off starvation.

I tried making some when I was in New Zealand and there was no local supply. They were good but a lot of work!