Frankly, it’s getting harder and harder to find cheap food in Halifax, whether it’s at a restaurant or a grocery store. But as downtown Dartmouth continues to grow and flower with new small businesses, it’s become clear that it is also a destination for affordable dining. Tiny, well-honed concepts like Souper Duper are neighbours to […]
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Crepe life
It can be hard to see inside the Portland Street Creperie. The windows are often speckled with a layer of condensation, heat rising off of the griddles wetly knocking against the cold winter chill on the glass. And when they’re clear, there’s a good chance you’re just looking at a small crowd huddled inside, standing […]
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Cottage fever
This spring-winter-spring-winter tease has gone too far, and the folks at the Savour Food and Wine Festival have clearly gone just as shack-wacky as the rest of us. This Saturday the folks at SFWF are hosting the antidote to winter 2016: a Craft Beer Cottage Party. Ticket-holders will have the opportunity to “enjoy beer the […]
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Killer combination
Yan’s Restaurant 752 Sackville Drive At this Sackville family restaurant, which specializes in Cantonese and Szechuan, every combination is under $10, every extra add-on (extra spare ribs, please!) is $3.50 and the classics—you know, the sweet and sour chicken, almond gai ding, beef and broccoli deals—are a cool $7.95. Jean’s Restaurant 5972 Spring Garden Road […]
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Supper heroes
Ray sits on the front steps to the Discovery Centre holding out a cup. It’s -14 and Barrington Street is quiet. He makes little eye contact with strangers who walk by him as he holds himself tightly together, mumbling a few words. Ray usually finds himself sitting here until midnight. His wife Connie, who he […]
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Special delivery
Simon Bourgeois has a whole lotta love for local businesses and thinks you should too. The Dalhousie grad and co-founder and president of Gata Hub aims to connect locally owned organizations to their customers through a high-quality mobile experience. Founded in 2013, the app seeks to encourage a shift from consuming on a corporate level […]
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Good enough to eat
There are two types of people in the world. One thinks that it’s really sexy when young Mickey Rourke pops olives and strawberries into Kim Basinger’s trembling mouth and drizzles honey all over her body in the dim light of an open fridge. And the other thinks that chugging a glass of whole milk and […]
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Good as gold
This weekend there’s an event in Kelowna, British Columbia, called Gold Medal Plates. Every fall for the past handful of years, the Halifax qualifying round for this event has rolled into town, perhaps most notably bringing silver fox Jim Cuddy back to the Cunard Centre to remind everybody how great the song “Bad Timing” is. […]
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You make me wanna soup
Your toes and fingers are perma-cold, your throat is on the scratchy side and the idea of being swaddled at home on your couch beats just about anything else. Except maybe a piping hot, hand-warmer/meal hybrid. From chunk chilis to spicy phos and every butternut squash blend in between, Halifax’s menus have lots of hot […]
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First look: Black Sheep Restaurant
A lot can change in eight months. It was only that long ago that Dave Woodley and John House— chefs who were co-workers at the Prince George Hotel’s Gio—cooked up the idea of going into business and opening a place of their own. Two months later, they’d jumped at the chance to sign a lease […]
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How to hangover brunch
When all of your routine hangover cure routines have failed you, the answer’s brunch. But like hunting down a glimmering mirage of a waterfall in a parched desert, attaining this necessary salty antidote isn’t easy when you’re still shaking off the last of 2015, and 2016’s first bout of overconsumption. Whether you’re chasing the hair […]
