It sounds like the most natural thing in the world. “You’re harvesting grapes, pressing them in whole clusters, letting the juice sit, and the ferment starts,” explains Bruce Ewert. “When the sugar gets to a level that I know would produce bubbles, it’s bottled.” And that’s it? “And that’s it.” Ewert, winemaker at l’Acadie Vineyards, […]
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Tidal bae: the best three Tidal Bays of the 2017 vintage
You pull a bottle out of a cooler of mostly melted ice, water drips down the label and onto the dock. You pour the almost clear, cool liquid into glasses for you and your friends jumping off the floating raft in the lake. The sun is behind the trees. Apple blossom petals float on the […]
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Wake me up before you go-go: 7 brunch dishes to try
Breakfast bowl Wild Leek, 2148 Windsor Street A brunch that’ll keep you pleasantly full instead of I-need-to-go-back-to-sleep full, this egg-free, meat-free, vegan-loving option piles up potatoes, sauteed and steamed veggies and tops them with seitan bacon, sesame seeds and a very addictive dragon sauce. Chilaquiles Fox Hill Market and Deli, 2760 Robie Street A traditional […]
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Mark Giffin’s breakfast, brunch, whatever
WHO HE IS Mark Giffin, owner and chef at The Coastal Cafe, swore off making breakfast food. After he sold his bed and breakfast on the west coast, he moved to Halifax to pursue six years of fine dining at Bish World Cuisine. “I thought I would never cook another egg,’” he says. But one […]
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Flameworks Elixirs brings the magic
Flameworks Elixirs Halifax Brewery Farmers’ Market 1496 Lower Water Street Saturdays 7am-1pm “No weird stuff.” That’s the slogan printed on each jar of Flameworks Elixirs’ sauces, rubs, marinades and jellies. Last winter—five years from the day they first met—Ken Jones and Sue Belford decided to create a line of gluten-free condiments without preservatives or additives. […]
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Real friends, fake meats
It’s mid-morning on a Monday when Brandon Levesque and Lauren Marshall, co-founders of Real Fake Meats, Halifax’s first plant-based butcher, answer the phone for this interview, sitting down to a cup of coffee with almond milk creamer. The duo—friends for about a year—are both food-obsessed vegans: Marshall having helmed the kitchen at EnVie for two […]
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Where I work: Fancy Lebanese Bakery
Fancy Lebanese Bakery 2573 Agricola Street Who she is Mary Laba, owner of the Fancy Lebanese Bakery, couldn’t fry an egg when she moved to Canada from Lebanon. Now, she can quickly troubleshoot the bakery’s pita dough. Less salt. More yeast. “She could tell me if there wasn’t enough water just by the sound the […]
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Drink up at the Halifax Beverage Expo
HFX Beverage Expo 2018 Sunday April 9, 9am-7pm Dalhousie Student Union Building $7/$5 hfxbev.com Get ready to get hydrated (and make sure there’s a bathroom nearby). The first Halifax Beverage Expo is taking place this weekend. “We want a really diverse crowd,” says Phil Holmans, owner of World Tea House. He’s organizing the expo with […]
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Finding Jassi Da Dhaba
Jassi Da Dhaba facebook.com/jassidadhabahfx 902-410-5272 Jasvinder Kaur and Swati Chaudhary were looking for each other before they met through a friend on a Friday night two years ago. “I cannot do this by myself,” Kaur says, “so I was looking for someone I can get in touch with, someone I can trust.” “I was looking […]
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Avondale Sky Winery gets intimate and interactive
Discover Our Vineyard Secrets Avondale Sky Winery, 80 Avondale Cross Road, Newport Landing Sat March 31, 2-7pm Winemaker for a Day Sat April 14, 2-7:30pm Late one Monday morning in the middle of March, as a few snowflakes made their way hesitantly to the earth, I left home, driving west along Highway 215, following the […]
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Turning the tables: stories from Halifax’s restaurant industry
Unwelcome advances. Belittling language. Grabbing, touching and sexual assault. The restaurant industry’s reputation for the mistreatment and harassment of its employees precedes it on both a grand scale and here at home. This week, servers, bakers and baristas share their stories. As told to Melissa Buote and Allison Saunders. Editor’s note: This piece contains details […]
