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Dec 31, 2018

What to do.

We'll be back with our regularly scheduled content next week.

This week....

Descendants Beer & Beverage Co's New Year's Eve Masquerade Ball is tonight, December 31. They're open till 5:30 pm to prepare for the ball. Retail open until 10 pm. They're back on Friday, January 4 with Steve Hogg playing in the evening

Graffiti Market's New Years Bash is a Detroit-Style warehouse party starting at 8 pm. Ticket includes complimentary pizza, beats and bubbly.

Gilt has a special New Year's Eve menu and (according to Instagram) a lot of champagne.

Speaking of special menus - Marbles has a New Year's menu too - with plenty of awesome vegan, vegetarian and gluten free dishes.

“No Party Favours, No Fancy Decorations, Just F**king Rock n’ Roll!” - Maxwell’s Concerts & Events present New Years Eve with Danko Jones. Doors open at 9:00pm. 19+

Ring in the New Year with friends and family at Kitchener City Hall with a Ghostbusters themed party. Have your picture taken with a replica Ghostbusters’ vehicle, play one of the many vintage arcade games presented by Canadian Toy Con, visit the toy, comic and collectable marketplace, fee ice skating on Carl Zehr Square, live musical performance by Clean SL8 from 10pm to midnight, a live countdown to 2019 with members of council and more! Please bring a donation to the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

Since opening its doors in 2015, Bao Sandwich Bar has become a Kitchener-Waterloo staple and foodie landmark. Bao Sandwich Bar serves up an Asian fusion cuisine of Vietnamese “banh mi”, Taiwanese street food buns “gua bao”, and Korean inspired kimchi fries. You choose your filling then choose what you’d like to eat it in: a French baguette or a steamed bao bun. If you get it in a bao, I would recommend getting two as they’re much smaller than their baguette counterparts. For sides, you can’t go wrong with their Seoul Kimchi Fries, Fried Ice Cream Bao, and Thai Tea to clean your palate at the end of the satisfying meal. The hardest part, besides deciding what to get, is finding the place. The address uses Balsam Street, behind Wilfrid Laurier University’s new Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, but the entrance is off Larch Street and in the residential complex but slightly underground.

Bao Sandwich Bar also caters and have served parties and events of any size. Most notoriously, Bao have fed more than 1,000 hungry students for Canada’s biggest hackathon, Hack the North.