Creekside Kitchen

When a table can't agree on whether it wants Greek or it wants comfort food, Creekside Kitchen is the south Guelph answer that doesn't make anyone choose. One diner orders souvlaki with roast potatoes, tzatziki and a Greek salad; the person across the table gets a half-pound prime rib burger on a sesame kaiser; someone else lands on seafood linguini with scallops and tiger shrimp. The menu runs wide on purpose — Mediterranean and Greek plates sharing a page with Canadian comfort mains, seafood, pastas, sandwiches and wraps — and the breadth is the whole point. This is a restaurant built so a mixed table finds its plates without a negotiation.

The kitchen's clearest dinner statement is the stuffed chicken: a breast filled with spinach, mushrooms and goat cheese, finished with a creamy peppercorn sauce and set down with garlic mashed potatoes and vegetables. The Greek side runs through souvlaki — chicken, pork, lamb or shrimp, charbroiled and plated with rice pilaf and a Greek salad — and through the spanakopita, spinach and feta folded into flaky filo. Starters lean the same direction, calamari rustica pan-tossed with peppers and house tzatziki, a red pepper feta dip served with warm pita. Even the fish and chips carries a local signature: haddock hand-battered in Wellington Brewery's Special Pale Ale, fried and served with hand-cut fries.