I just got back from Los Angeles (brag) and have a newfound appreciation for strip malls. If you’ve been to LA (like I have, brag), you know it is nothing but a series of strip malls punctuated by gas stations, movie studios and Baldwin brothers. Inside those strip malls are some seriously great restaurants. On […]
Melissa Buote
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Selling the sizzle
Hot Plate: The Sizzling House 1022 Barrington Street Mon-Sat 11:30am-9pm; Sun 12-9pm It’s funny to find hidden gems in a city as small as Halifax. You’d think all our treasures would be easily laid out for us, obvious in the crosshatch of our streets—which, frankly, aren’t exactly thick with dark corners and shadowy alleys. What’s […]
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Breaking bread with LF Bakery
That little slip of space on Gottingen Street between Portland Place and Cornwallis Street is thick with incredible food and drink options. Not only did The Foggy Goggle just announce a move across from Squiggle Park this past week, bringing a new, chill pub vibe to the area, but last month also saw the opening […]
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Gobblefest: 11 Thanksgiving dinners to try
Cousin’s Restaurant Every dinner at Cousin’s feels like a family dinner, and Thanksgiving takes it to a new level. The Kanellakos family serves up a tasty turkey dinner with all the fixings, served with a soup appetizer and either pumpkin pie or rice pudding for dessert. 3545 Robie Street, $14.95 The Esquire Restaurant You don’t […]
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Where I work: Arla Johnson and Julie Shore
WHO THEY ARE Almost a decade ago, Arla Johnson and Julie Shore became Canada’s first producers of potato vodka, using PEI potatoes at the Prince Edward Distillery in Hermanville. This summer they opened Halifax Distilling Co. “It’s really my partner, Julie, who is the master distiller and the brainchild behind all this. We do it […]
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Warner Vineyards—Nova Scotia’s grape god
It’s been a dry summer. As John and Anne Warner walk around their vineyards, the grass crunches underfoot like gravel. Leaves and fields are tinged with yellow and dust picks up on the country roads with each breeze. Cereal crops planted in between the grape trellises struggle to make their way through the cracked dirt. […]
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Viticulture shock
Sean Myles has been working on breeding new grape varieties since 2011, when he partnered with Hans Christian Jost—the then-owner of Jost Vineyards—on a cross of Muscat and L’Acadie Blanc grapes. An assistant professor at Dalhousie, Myles works in the Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences and is the Canada Research Chair in Agricultural […]
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The EAC’s perfect plates
It’s going to be a Perfect World on Sunday. No, Kevin Costner hasn’t escaped from prison. On Sunday, the Ecology Action Centre is hosting its signature annual fundraiser. “As environmentalists, we are idealists,” says Joanna Bull, the EAC’s volunteer and events coordinator. “We’re trying to make the world better; we’re trying to create a more […]
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Devour! festival celebrates Women in Gastronomy
Devour! The Food Film Fest, one of autumn’s best reasons for a road trip to the valley, is headed back to Wolfville on November 2-6. Today, festival organizers announced a Women In Gastronomy theme that will be highlighted in the world premiere screening of Vérane Frédiani’s new feature documentary, The Goddesses of Food. The film […]
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Halifax’s unofficial foods
[Image-1] One of the city’s strangest claims to fame is that last year council took the time to vote the drippy donair our Official Food. But instead of making a case for why the no-frills, late-night snack defines our collective palate, we’ve created a menu of unofficial Halifax foods that can give you an introduction […]
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Why you need to eat a bubble waffle sundae
As people stand in long lineups in the hot sun at Bang Bang Ice Cream in Toronto and Hong Kong waffles become one of the season’s most Instagrammable desserts, Halifax, of course, quietly lets a rare moment where we are in step with the times go completely unnoticed. In a basement on Spring Garden Road, […]
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Shuck’s sea fever
I went to Shuck wanting to love it. Expecting to love it, frankly. But I didn’t. It’s a good restaurant, but even with the creativity and rare-in-Halifax modernist point of view that chef Luis Clavel brings to the table, and as much as it tries to innovate, it doesn’t reinvent the wheel in a way […]