General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[GarthDanlor]

Everyone is describing Belmont Village as a home to fancy, expensive restaurants, but it's also home to places like Checkerboard, Big John's and Thai Bistro.

Yeah it was never a well heeled shopping area in the past, just an ordinary and quite busy commercial area at one time.  I vaguely recall a  busy little grocery store where the drug store now is and a Donut Queen (across the street from where Tim Horton's now is) in addition to all the little restaurants, flower shops, banks, beer store, gas station etc.  Also used to be a lot of Doctor's offices but many of those migrated to the medical centers further down the street by Gage when those eventually opened.  Marketing Belmont Village as upscale is definitely of more recent vintage.

Looks like it was actually a Zehrs at 696 Belmont:

https://www.groceteria.com/place/ontario...rwaterloo/ 

I had forgotten that the convenience store further down Belmont (between Gage & Karn) used to be a Dutch Girl!