B_A_D
Member since Jan 10, 2010

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Average Vegan Girl Living in an Unvegan world. Playing video games and working at the Women's Centre.

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Concert Announcement, geek, glbtq, nerd, pansexual, poly, vegan, videogames

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Locally owned Featured Happy Hour
Menz & Mollyz Bar $ ($10 and under)
- 2182 Gottingen Street (map)
- North End 446-6969
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Live Music, Live Music Venue, Gay Bar, Locally owned, Featured Happy Hour

Home to Atlantic Canadian's only locally brewed Queer Beer and one of the city's most popular gay venues, it sports a handyman vibe with roughshod walls and tire-tread tables. Karaoke and retro nights mix it up with DJs, leather nights and best chest contests.

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Featured Happy Hour
Reflections Cabaret $$ ($11-$20)
- 5184 Sackville Street (map)
- Barrington 422-2957
- (based on 4 user reviews)
DJ/Dancefloor, Live Music Venue, Gay Bar, Featured Happy Hour

Reflections is notorious for being the undefeated champs of the category Best Place to Dance in the Best of Halifax readers' poll. On top of this amazing feat, they also hold virtually every other nightlife title. This no labels club brings in world class DJs, great local and international bands, hosts theme parties and drag shows, and caters to anyone as long as the goal is to have fun. If you are ready to break a sweat, this nightclub is calling for you. Watch out for Refs' big move 5187 Salter Street in the fall of 2013.

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Locally owned
The Last Gamestore
- 278 Lacewood Drive (map)
- Bayers Lake/Fairview/Clayton Park 457-7529
- (based on 5 user reviews)
Gaming, Locally owned

NThis store is your destination for retro, new and used video games for buying or renting. This is the last stop for super friends, guitar heroes and games people of all sorts.

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Best Of Locally owned
Freak Lunchbox, Halifax
- 1723 Barrington Street (map)
- Barrington 420-9151
- (based on 1 user review)
Pastries, Candies & Chocolates, Best Of, Locally owned

If Freak Lunchbox sold only traditional candies like jellybeans and jujubes, it would "just be a grocery store," says co-owner Jeremy Smith. So he's happy to stock unusual treats, weird novelties and delicious sweets that keep the store true to its name, which has been selling candy to young and old since 2001.

Other locations:
1595 Bedford Highway (Sunnyside Mall), 405-4052

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The Seahorse Tavern $$ ($11-$20)
- 1665 Argyle Street (map)
- Downtown 423-7200
- (based on 7 user reviews)
Other Arts Spaces, Live Music, Live Music Venue, Pub Food

The Seahorse's long wood tables have packed them in since 1948. Best known as a live music venue, the stage walls stained with the sweat of various punk, indie and metal bands, it also offers a renovated back room suitable for private parties, a full menu including Seahorse wings and Horsepower Propeller Beer.

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Best Of Green
Heartwood $ ($10 and under)
- 6250 Quinpool Road (map)
- Quinpool 425-2808
- (based on 10 user reviews)
Vegetarian, Vegan, Cafes, Best Of, Green, Green: Food

Few plates and bowls in Halifax are this green. Halifax's much-loved vegan and vegetarian restaurant prepares its local and organic centric dishes with a serious focus on natural—meaning these eats are fresh, unrefined and unprocessed. The coffee is fair trade, the wine is organic and the sour dough bread is out of this world. Try the Wild Card salad, one of Heartwood's famous bowls or their new selection of gluten-free burgers. And did we mention brunch? Yep, you guessed it, the weekend brunch rocks too.

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Locally owned
Fashionably Dead
- 13-5239 Blowers Street (map)
- Downtown 406-7050
- (based on 4 user reviews)
Clothing: New, Locally owned, Green: Shopping

For all you goth, rockabilly, punk and horror fans out there, you've got a source for your armour. Fashionably Dead carries clothing, footwear and accessories for men and women, and even baby stuff. Check out the local artists' work displayed on their walls.

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Best Of Green Locally owned
The Wooden Monkey, Halifax $$ ($11-$20)
- 1707 Grafton Street (map)
- Downtown 444-3844
- (based on 15 user reviews)
Vegetarian, Healthy Eating, Vegan, Continental, Brunch, Cocktail Lounge, Best Of, Green, Locally owned, Green: Food

Vegans, veggies and carnivores join hands: There's something for everyone at this sophisticated restaurant, perhaps the only place in town where a seitan (wheat meat) entree is at home with free-range chicken and beef. Organic and locally grown produce makes its way into every pizza, sandwich and salad. Fish and roasties is great value for your money, like fish and chips except without the deep fryer. Make a toast over locally brewed beer and wine with the reassurance that your Arctic char was caught by non-invasive means.

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Best Of Green
Mary's Place Cafe
- 2752 Robie Street (map)
- North End 454-2558
- (based on 20 user reviews)
Middle Eastern, Diner, Brunch, Best Of, Green, Green: Food

If you haven't had a drawn out breakfast at Mary's, you haven't lived. Its perhaps the only north end Halifax eatery with a vegan brunch, with all the Lebanese delights and a menu full of options that'll run you under 10 dollars. Cheap doesn't mean the skimp on size thought, hefty portions abound here.

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Minato Sushi Japanese Restaurant $$ ($11-$20)
- 1520 Queen Street (map)
- Spring Garden 420-0331
- (based on 13 user reviews)
Korean, Japanese / Sushi

The character-filled Minato is cozy but there's enough space to put down your shopping bags and enjoy some good sushi. Maki, sashimi and other Japanese treats are well represented, but leave room for their spicy Korean dishes, including bee-bim-bap and noodles.

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Green
Satisfaction Feast $$ ($11-$20)
- 3559 Robie Street (map)
- North End 422-3540
- (based on 8 user reviews)
Vegetarian, Vegan, Brunch, Green, Green: Food

Halifax's oldest vegetarian restaurant claims to offer healthy food cooked with caring and nourishment. If that Neatloaf (brown rice, tofu and grains) could speak, it would declare, "love you". Vegetarian and vegan dishes are influenced by a variety of international tastes, and thankfully, desserts such as fruit crisps and tofu truffles aren't forgotten either. Menu items change seasonally.