Summer and the ’60s go hand in hand for me. Not because I bought my first six-string at the five and dime, but because every time the mercury starts rising, I dig out my Frankie and Annette, Beach Boys, Drifters and Diane Renay records. All of the catchy oohs, ahhs and baa-daa-daas basically turn life […]
Melissa Buote
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City spread
NORTH END Fort Needham Memorial Park Every jerk likes a picnic. Steve Martin might suggest brownbagging some “tunafish on white bread with mayonnaise, a Tab and a couple of Twinkies,” but if you’re headed up to Fort Needham, you can stop by Caribbean Twist (3081 Gottingen, 404-3855) for some jerk of a different kind—jerk chicken […]
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Belle’s a beaut
A tiny house on Ochterloney Street, Ma Belle’s could just as easily be called Ma’s. It feels like a home— if home is a place where your mother likes to sell fresh, simple lunches to random strangers. It’s a tiny space, at once cozy and sunny, with a deep bordeaux paint on the walls and […]
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Fire brand
For more than 20 years, Cafe Chianti sat on the corner of Hollis and South, romancing the south end with a delicious European menu and understated elegance. Five months ago, a fire shut down the restaurant, leading to a few furious months of relocation and renovation. Now, Cafe Chianti is open again, in the old […]
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Palatial appetites
“I can’t tell you I’m something I’m not,” croons Meat Loaf, unwilling and unable to get a perfect score on his song’s three-point checklist. The owners of Indian Buffet Palace could learn a lesson from Mr. Aday. The restaurant is definitely Indian and certainly a buffet, but it is by no means a palace. But […]
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Cue the Q
“It has to be tender and it has to be flavourful,” drawls Mark Lambert, his phone crackling as he travels the Interstate. “And it has to have hickory on it. It’s not Southern if it doesn’t have hickory on it.” If anybody knows good BBQ, it’s Lambert. His blood, sweat and tears have created the […]
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All you can tweet
They say you are what you eat, although more and more these days it seems like the more appropriate saying is “you are what you tweet.” But if you want to get really meta about it, the two are interchangeable. After all, half of the people using the internet these days tweet what they eat. […]
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Slow Food Nova Scotia Spring Supper
There’s nothing slow about ticket sales for the May 1st Slow Food Spring Supper, taking place at Christchurch Anglican on Ochterloney Street in Dartmouth. With a handful of Nova Scotia’s top chefs slicing, dicing, toasting and roasting some of the best food our province has to offer, it’s no wonder. Chefs Craig Flinn and Darren […]
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Bordering Mexico
Last week my best friends took a springtime vacation in Puebla, Mexico. While they wandered the sunny, earthy streets of Puebla, I took refuge from Halifax’s gray, rainy days in their Facebook picture albums. Every day I was treated to photos of chalupas, cemitas, tacos arabes and deep-fried quesadillas. So I was excited when, suddenly, […]
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Shining sushi
Small and bright, the B-well Sushi and Cafe is an unassuming space, with a handful of small tables and a tight scattering of relaxed seating where sushi fans and coffee drinkers can take up half of the restaurant, and a takeout counter on the other. We walk in and are given a friendly greeting from […]
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European delight
Tucked into Halifax’s own little Europe, the Hydrostone Market, the restaurant Little Europe does its best to give you a continental experience. It’s a small space, warm and dusky with a faux-finish cobblestone floor that gives the dining room the air of a sidewalk cafe in Portofino or Madrid. A large chandelier looms above with […]
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Luis Clavel lands at Cafe 101
A stainless steel battleground, the kitchen stadium is a fixture of The Iron Chef, the television show where culinary masters face off, hoping to burnish their golden reputations as celebrity chefs. Outside of the glow of that limelight, there is another world of cooking competitions, a world the public isn’t really privy to, where food […]
