Chef Craig Flinn said as much when he accepted this award on behalf of his popular Barrington Street restaurant: we all need to be thinking about sourcing our food locally, even when we go out to eat. A subscriber to the slow food movement, a regular at the Farmers’ Market and a frequenter of Annapolis […]
Carsten Knox
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Best Asian Grocer
Just a little ways past MSVU you’ll find this fully stocked collection of Asian delicacies and hard-to-find products. After 10 years in business, the store has become a hub for the local Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipino community looking for important ingredients with a taste of home, and that includes spices and dried goods from Japan […]
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Best Lunch Specials
What are we talking about? This is what we’re talking about: Bento box specials of chicken, beef, salmon or shrimp teriyaki, tonkatsu (pork), unagi (eel), gindara (black cod) and cutlets, all with salad, rice, miso soup and one of the following four options: maki sushi, Japanese dumplings, sorted tempura or spring rolls. Or how about […]
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Best Brunch
Owner Jane Wright has remarked that jane’s doesn’t need any more readers’ poll kudos, that they’re almost too busy. Can Coast readers help it if they love you, Jane? Can they help it if they find your your weekend brunches irresistable, irreplaceable and incomparable? We know we can’t. 1st Runner-up Coastal Cafe 2nd Runner-up Brooklyn […]
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Best Beer Selection
“My eyes have seen the glory of the pouring of the beer, Maxwell’s Plum has 60 types that’s why we love it here.” So goes the song, often booming out from speakers over Grafton and Sackville streets, in case you missed it. And the 60 are just the ones on tap, not counting the many […]
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Best Diner
They call the Armview a retro-style diner, but we see it a little differently than we would, say, a ’50s-style diner with just burgers and shakes. No offense to other stellar retro eateries, but one look at the Armview menu and you’ll twig to the differences—avacado wraps, garlic mayo, horiatiki, scallop noodle salad and blue […]
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Best Chinese Restaurant
Honey ginger chicken. That’s right, it’s the stuff, but only one of the reasons Great Wall has this category sewn up, year after year. Amongst the others are the ginger fried beef, hunan chicken, general tao chicken and many more delectible dishes, made from scratch in their experienced kitchen. Great if you eat in and […]
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Best Bakery
Have you tried The Diplomat? As stylish as the name suggests, its a bread-puddling/chocolate croissant cake, one of the thick and delightful products born out of the Chester-based bakery with its Hydrostone location, Farmers’ Market presence and treats found in a few choice eateries in town. They rock the sweet things (carrot cakes, croissants, tarts, […]
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Best Pasta
Il Mercato, 5650 Spring Garden Road, 422-2866 Winning in three separate categories means they’re doing something right. Scratch that, they’re doing a lot of things right and doing it all the time. That they scooped the same three from last year, shows a welcome consistency. As we have remarked upon, there is magic in that […]
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Best Cheap Drinks
This is a new category with all you folks in mind hard done by in the economic downturn. Or, you know, students, who don’t want to spend that entire loan on Thursday night down at the pub. Keep this in mind before you sell off your DNA, tattoo a soft drink company logo to your […]
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Japanese Food Paradise Opens
[image-1] Opened less than a year ago is Japanese Food Paradise (1020 Barrington, 446-8268), a grocery store that carries exclusively Japanese products. Crazy fun snacks include Meiji and Pocky chocolate, Hello Kitty fruit candy, tea cakes and other, less immediately identifiable, but no less tasty, foodstuff.
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Clean Nova Scotia offers litter aid
It’s called The Great Nova Scotia Pick Me Up program, made possible through Clean Nova Scotia (clean.ns.ca/pmu). It supplies the public with materials used to pick up litter in public areas. Shoptalk was notified by industrious reader Therese Bombardier, who in early May, with the help of a group of friends, cleaned up a big […]