Bar Kismet 2733 Agricola Street Tue-Sun 5pm-12am One of the biggest downsides of writing about a restaurant that you really love is the potential to ruin your chance of ever getting a table at that restaurant ever again. When there are only a few dozen seats, you kind of want to keep every single one […]
Melissa Buote
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Qiu Brothers Dumplings feels like home
Qiu Brothers Dumplings 1335 Barrington Street 11am-9pm daily My favourite restaurants are the ones that feel personal, the ones that combine not just a point of view, but a point of reference. Think of the needlepoint on a compass: That steady leg rooted into the very core of what defines a person, the hinge stretching […]
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Patrons 902 Modern Food Fusion finds its course
Patrons 902 Modern Food Fusion27 Dellridge Lane #105 Tue-Fri, 4-10pm Sat-Sun, 11am-10pm There is quite literally nothing I care less about in this world than golf. My knowledge of that sport starts and ends with a childhood viewing of Dorf on Golf, so I know there is a ball and a hole and a flag […]
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25 all right: a round-up of dishes you have to eat right now
We’ve rounded up 25 meals from across the city that blow our minds, stand the test of time and keep our cravings constant. These are the things you should absolutely have eaten, should be eating right now or should plan to eat in the near future. In the words of Thrush Hermit, which celebrates 25 […]
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CHKN CHOP opens soon
A post shared by CHKNCHOP (@chknchop) on Sep 17, 2017 at 4:38pm PDT Get ready for CHKN CHOP. The charcoal rotisserie chicken restaurant Jenna Mooers (EDNA) and Andrew Flood (Five by Five Renovations) announced in May is finally getting ready to open. “We are getting very close,” says Mooers, adding that the restaurant will be open […]
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Benjamin Bridge is a force of nature
The tide is high in the Bay of Fundy. The highest in the world. The power of those tides is as if half the planet’s horses were kelpies caught in a thunderous, watery gallop through the channel. The tides are strong enough to create bores that surge against the current and can change the direction […]
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Annapolis royalty: a first look at Lightfoot & Wolfville
L ightfoot & Wolfville is a winery that was planted by a farm, a wonderful expression of what can be grown in Nova Scotia. For eight generations, hundreds of years, the Lightfoot family has been farming in the Annapolis Valley. Winemaking just felt like a natural evolution. “Growing grapes on our ancestral land, land with […]
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Kaiser’s, king of subs
Nostalgia is a force of nature. It can come in a lightning flash and turn into a whirlwind of sentimentality or a tidal wave of longing or regret. It can’t be manufactured in irony or kitsch lest you wind up with a pair of ruby slippers that do nothing but remind you of the home […]
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Gangnam’s paradise
The first time I had Korean food was around 15 years ago. Jim’s Grill was a little greasy spoon not far from Wrigleyville, in Chicago. It was tiny, just a handful of tables with bright orange swivel seats and chipped counters. The menu was simple: Noodles, soups, bibimbap, bulgogi. It was the first place I’d […]
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The Noodle Guy’s pasta present
The Noodle Guy 964 Main Street (Highway 358) Port Williams @valleynoodleguy Ross Patterson has been a noodle guy for as long as he can remember. “I grew up with a lot of Italian people in Toronto,” he says. He moved there from Montreal when he was a kid. “Because I’m Catholic, I ended up in […]
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A look inside Chives’ latest renovation
This is the fourth renovation since Chives (1537 Barrington Street) opened 16 years ago—in the last renovation they built new bathrooms and tiled the entry to the kitchen, so working with Staged for Upsell were able to focus on the dining room this time. Craig Flinn says they had five focuses: “The first was to […]
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Cooking in a Tall Ship is like cooking at home, until there’s a storm
Life at sea seems romantic. A Tall Ship’s foresails fraught with salty wind, and mist breaking on the bowsprit as it stabs its way through the cold, pounding waves of the Atlantic. Nimble deckhands scramble up webbed rigging to a perch high above—unfathomable waters swirling darkly below while the horizon stretches boundless and bright—to shade […]
