Jacob's Grill

The Havarti Burger reads like a short tour of the building it is served in. The beef comes off the butcher counter at the Stone Crock Market; the bun comes out of the Stone Crock Bakery; between them go thick-cut Havarti, bacon, caramelized onion and a spicy aioli. Jacob's Grill is the sit-down restaurant inside the Stone Crock complex in St. Jacobs village — a 150-seat, country-style dining room that shares a roof with a bakery, a market and a pub. The burger is comfort food assembled, almost literally, from the parts of the property around it.

From there the menu leans into the heritage that gives the place its name. German Schnitzel arrives with house-made sauerkraut, German potato salad and Stone Crock grainy mustard, the kind of plate that keeps it from reading like a generic pub schnitzel. Fish and chips means beer-battered haddock with house fries, tartar and a creamy coleslaw. The Barn Raiser Burger borrows its name from the local barn-raising tradition. Around those sit a smoked pork chop, chicken wings, a spinach and artichoke dip, and a pesto fettuccine for the table that did not come for red meat. Dessert points straight back to the bakery: a Stone Crock Bakery pie, and a butter tart sundae that reworks a Waterloo County classic into something served in a glass.