On a winter’s night when the wind is in the trees, as foretold a century ago, The Highwayman will come riding (riding, riding) into Halifax. For in early or mid-March—the official date is yet to be announced-—The Highwayman Restaurant will open at 1673 Barrington Street (the former Certainly Cinnamon location). The Highwayman is a new […]
Melissa Buote
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Growing a beer garden
If Norma Desmond was a city street, dreaming of a return to star billing—a return to the halcyon days when CDs and books would bring people to stores and the windows of pool halls and artsy bars glowed with life—she wouldn’t have been Sunset Boulevard, she woulda been Barrington Street. Barrington has creaked along over […]
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Il Trullo tasty
It’s barely 5pm and Rachelle and I are watching the sun set on the shitty view of downtown Dartmouth that we have from our table in Il Trullo. We have been seated on the drab side of the almost-empty restaurant, with a view of the ass-side of residential downtown Dartmouth with its industrial buildings, train […]
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A royal flush at King Street Cafe
Of the 140 characters you’ll find on King Street at any given time, Fran Hiscock is the queen, the living jewel in the crown of downtown Dartmouth’s food community. Fran Hiscock is Fran’s Fish and Chips. For nine years, Fran’s has been parked in downtown Dartmouth, between Portland and Queen, fragrant steam puffing out of […]
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Lemon Tree’s company
The sandwich board advertising The Lemon Tree Restaurant sits out on the corner of Queen Street and Spring Garden, inviting you down the street to the little pink storefront in the middle of Queen Street’s eclectic Vintage Row rainbow. Entering the restaurant, we’re each warmly greeted by Muallah Gunduz, who owns the restaurant with her […]
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Bloody delicious
Blood is creepy, right? Nine times out of 10, if you find a list with the word “blood” on it, that list is going to be written by a total maniac. It seems like it would make for a very macabre recipe card, one more suited to Elizabeth Bathory than Betty Crocker. But that’s not […]
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Lot Six sense
Lot Six is a very beautiful restaurant. The upstairs is cozy and sleek, while the downstairs has an airy sense of space with the lofty glass ceiling of the atrium. Lush leafy plants and string lights lend an outdoorsy lightness to the room, while woodsy textures and earthy colours give it warmth. Once seated, we […]
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It takes a community
Dartmouth north is a food desert. There are no dedicated grocery stores between the Sobeys on Wyse Road and Chops Meat Market on Wright Avenue, from the waterfront to the Walmart in Dartmouth Crossing. To be generous—to geography, not the residents of Dartmouth north—that’s six to eight square kilometres of the HRM where corner stores […]
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The merroir the merrier
If anybody knows oysters, it’s Patrick McMurray. A two-time world-champion oyster-shucker, McMurray holds the Guinness World Record for the most oysters shucked in one minute—38 oysters—he set in 2010, breaking the old 2002 record of 33 oysters held by, well, Patrick McMurray. His quick hands also helped lead a Canada shucking team to a Guinness […]
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For shuck’s sake
1. The first step is the easiest one, but maybe the most important. “Keep your eyes on the oyster,” McMurray says. You need to pay attention to what you’re doing. “And use an oyster knife; don’t try a steak knife or a butter knife or anything like that. They don’t have to be as fancy […]
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A Star is born
Ugh, Burnside. If Dartmouth’s industrial park were to have a slogan, it could easily be something along the lines of “Want to feel like a rat in a maze? Come to Burnside!” A labyrinth of streets walled with a series of squat warehouses and industrial-commercial buildings that have all the charm of a knocked-over stack […]
