Gahan House 1869 Upper Water Street, 902-444-3060 Sun-Tue 11am-11pm Wed-Sat 11am-midnight The Gahan House has been in Charlottetown for over 10 years. It’s been in Halifax for over 10 weeks. So why not compare the two? Let me get this out of the way: I find the beer at the Gahan House pretty samey, hoppy […]
Melissa Buote
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Staggers walks the line
Staggers Pub & Grub 26 Portland Street, 902-406-3661 Tina Turner is rasping her way through one of her hits as we wander into Staggers, a small pub on the Alderney end of Portland Street. It was $7 lunch specials that lured us here. It’s a pretty irresistible price. We sit at a table by windows […]
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Whose wine is it anyway?
THE PANEL Erin Horton, a sommelier and licensee sales manager at Bishop’s Cellar. Heather Rankin, sommelier and co-owner of Obladee. A Wine Bar. Jordan Dickie, a bartender, formerly of Gio, and founder of the Facebook-based publication Viral Barman. THE STORY “I love these little glasses,” says Heather Rankin. She’s seated at a table in Field […]
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2014’s meals to remember
The train heaved its way through the countryside, a blur of yellow mustard flowers and salt and pepper specs of Holstein cows whisked by, punctuated by storybook towns and train stations that got smaller and smaller the further I strayed from Antwerp and Gent. Poperinge’s train station is the size of Highfield Terminal in Dartmouth. […]
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You can plan on me: gift ideas for food lovers
For a friend If you’re buying for a buddy, you should just cut the crap and give some good quality candy. Don’t buy a bracelet they’ll secretly hate or try to pick a sweater for them. Buying people things they don’t want is what families are for. There was a time when you might have […]
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Lia Rinaldo
Managing director Devour! The Food Film Festival As a teenager, Lia Rinaldo got a job at the legendary Wormwoods Dog & Monkey Cinema, which led to the Atlantic Film Festival. “All of a sudden I blinked and 20 years had passed. It was a life in film and I never really planned on it,” she […]
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Lil MacPherson
Owner The Wooden Monkey, 1707 Grafton Street and 40 Alderney Drive “It was an a-ha moment,” Lil MacPherson says. When Hurricane Juan struck Nova Scotia, a storm of concerns about food security hit her hard. “To me the very foundation of business, life, a province, a country is to make sure you have enough food […]
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Marie Nightingale
Food writer and editor 1928-2014 On March 15 of this year, Marie Nightingale passed away after a battle with cancer. The obituary she wrote for herself was “Marie says goodbye.” The legacy she wrote for herself was Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens. You really can’t talk about food or cooking in Nova Scotia, the […]
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Amber MacLean
Manager and server Morris East, 620 Nine Mile Drive A lot of people say that the secret ingredient to any great recipe is love, but for Jennie Dobbs and her Morris East restaurants, the secret to greatness just might to be Amber MacLean. With a decade of experience as a server under her belt, MacLean […]
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Natalie Chavarie
Owner, The Food Wolf, @thefoodwolf Natalie Chavarie isn’t overstating when she says her role in developing food truck culture in Nova Scotia has been a pivotal one. In just over two years with The Food Wolf, Chavarie has done more than bring southeast Asian street food influences into Halifax’s culinary scene. “I see a really […]
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Annaleisa Scigliano
Pastry arts instructor, NSCC A pastry chef since 2002, Annaleisa Scigliano trained at NSCC before working at restaurants like Fox Harb’r Resort and Gio. Since 2012 she’s been teaching baking and pastry arts at NSCC’s Kingstec campus in Kentville. “I always felt like I was training anyways when I was working,” she laughs. She credits […]
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Renée Lavallée
Owner and chef The Canteen, 66 Ochterloney Street Renée Lavallée seems, at first glance, like a bit of a badass. She’s tiny and strong. She’s loud and she laughs a lot. Her big, fawn eyes are keen and observant. Her mouth slashes into a wicked grin at a moment’s notice. That first impression is wrong, […]
