Josh Nordin can’t quite part with the VHS tapes. Nor, perhaps, the crayoned-over paper plates. If you set foot in Yeah Yeahs Pizza’s Barrington Street or Ochterloney Street shops over the past six years, chances are you aren’t ready to part with them, either. They’re part of the lore of the place—the literal walls, as […]
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This Halifax restaurant was just chosen as one of Canada’s best
From The Coast’s reader-selected “Best New Restaurant” honours in 1999 to joining a roster of Canada’s best, The Press Gang restaurant and oyster bar has new reason to celebrate. The Prince Street seafood and cocktail hub was just named one of the “Top 100 Restaurants in Canada” by reservation and review platform OpenTable. The honours […]
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First look at Aroma Maya, Dartmouth’s new donut delight
It’s well past the morning rush when The Coast visits Aroma Maya Coffee + Donuts on a Friday. No matter. The colourful Prince Albert Road bakery and cafe is still brimming with regulars, even by 1pm. One customer orders a four-pack of donuts to go—an Eggnog Glazed, one Funfetti, two Nova Creams. Another eyes the […]
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Thanks for all the fish: John’s Lunch bids farewell after 54 years
Open the front door of John’s Lunch on Pleasant Street, decaled over with a slew of Best of Halifax awards, and once you pass by the rows of red vinyl booths and galley kitchen—fries and haddock tips sizzling away in the deep fryer—you’ll come across a wall. It’s a narrow one, not much wider than […]
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Acadian food the star dish at this year’s Devour! The Food Film Fest
Shane Robicheau was born into the kitchen. A second-generation chef from Clare, NS, the 24-year-old grew up in his parents’ restaurant, Seashore Restaurant & Blue Rock Lounge, smelling the brine and salt and broth of freshly caught clams and lobsters, the simmering potatoes and onions, that made up the Acadian dishes his family had cooked […]
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Halifax’s Sydney Hayden vies for cake crown on The Great Canadian Baking Show
It was 1am in February, and Sydney Hayden was baking up a kitchen flurry. The goal: A three-tier, eight-layer snowman cake that would impress the judges enough to nab her a spot on the upcoming season of The Great Canadian Baking Show. Auditions were the following morning at Marriott’s Residence Inn on Grafton Street. The […]
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Fortune Doughnut is closing—and reopening as Vandal Doughnuts
Ten months after Vandal Doughnuts closed its doors on Gottingen Street, the popular north end Halifax haunt is back as of this weekend. Gone instead? Fellow Gottingen bakery Fortune Doughnut. On Sunday, Aug. 27, Fortune shared on its Instagram that it would be closing for renovations. The reason, it revealed Tuesday, is that it had […]
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Meet the comedian ordering the same poutine at Willy’s in Halifax every day
Michael Moses has three days left in Halifax to order “the usual.” If, within seven days, one of the Willy’s Poutine crew at Pizza Corner recognizes him and remembers his daily order (a steak poutine with mushrooms and onions), he’ll give them $100 in cash. No strings attached. It’s a gambit the 33-year-old comedian from […]
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Palm Tree Kitchen brings Island flavour to Quinpool Road
Demetrius “Meech” Ferguson is putting the finishing touches on a pair of fried fish sandwiches when a visitor arrives at his newest venture on Quinpool Road, the colourful—and intimately friendly—Palm Tree Kitchen. Soca music wafts over the stereo. The Toy Story VHS tape plays on a 15-inch tube TV behind the bar counter. Palm fronds […]
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Au Liban brings haute Lebanese cuisine to Lower Water Street
The first taste of grape leaves lands light and lemony on the tongue and immediately begs for more. Topped with pomegranate seeds and stuffed with rice, parsley and tomatoes, it’s both singing with flavour and seductively simple—the kind of cool dish perfect for a hot summer afternoon in Halifax. It’s the first thing chef Georges […]
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Caribbean Bliss offers great eggs Benedict *and* inspo for city planning
The best way to judge a breakfast place is to order the eggs Benedict, because there are only two correct ways to make the dish. The first correct way to cook an eggs Benedict can only be found in greasy spoon diners. Greasy spoon Hollandaise sauces are usually made by adding water to some powdered […]
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Take an ice cream bicycle tour of St. Margaret’s Bay this summer
Of Nova Scotia’s many charms, my favourite might well be the province’s fondness for ice cream. I’m not talking about the Instagram-worthy waffle cones you’ll find for $8 on Spring Garden Road and Halifax’s waterfront—no, my heart holds a special place for the other kind. I’m talking about the side-of-the-road convenience stores you’ll find from […]