Get your towels ready, it’s about to go down. Ships start here, so it makes sense that Right Some Good pops up in Halifax with at the Stadacona Drill Shed and, yep, you guessed it, sha-sha-shorty: on a motherfuckin’ boat. “The flight deck on HMCS Preserver is obviously an incredible spot for a pop-up, that […]
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Clear eyes, full cart
“That lady right there is responsible for the store that provides me with the bacon. And she can introduce me to the man that made the bacon and, if I want to, I can go visit the pig,” says Jon Blanchard, pointing out Getaway Farms Butcher Shop’s Cynthia Kennedy as she stops by his hot […]
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Shawarma feelings
It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon and a small group sits in the dining room of Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, where a guide from Local Tasting Tours regales them with the sweet and spicy story of the Halifax donair. Moments later they are given samples of something a little more savoury, and the “oooh”s (“ewws”?) over the […]
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Cafe no way
I don’t drink coffee—it makes my heart go nuts—and I usually only drink tea to be polite. Yet the pressure to ingest hot beverages is everywhere: first dates, support group meetings, awkward family visits and so on. What are the coffee-averse to do? I decided to find an answer by sampling hot-beverage alternatives at locations […]
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Do it on the deck
This will be the year I finally stop being lazy and plant a garden. Sure we have no grass, the earth on our land is acidic and our property is ridden with large rocks, but my determination has got to count for something, right? Determination, and sun, water, earth and food will lead me to […]
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Shared finds
There is a bowl of soup waiting for you in a strip mall in Clayton Park. Its broth is made rich and meaty with pork and beef bones, yet bright with lemongrass. When it arrives at the table, there are large rounds of fatty and soft pink sausage laying on top of long flat rice noodles. There […]
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Burger Week is back
It feels like just yesterday we were pulling on the elastic waistbands in anticipation of Halifax’s first Burger Week. Now it’s back for a second serving, this time bringing with it fine offerings from 50 restaurants. We’re talkin’ $5 burgs, special Feed Nova Scotia charity burgs, brisket, pulled pork, haddock, tofu, grass-fed beef, fried chicken, […]
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The big chili
I like the idea of food events, but I rarely like the actual events. So many of them pump out reception-quality food from normally excellent restaurants, so focused on marketing to a walk-through audience that they end up losing not only the restaurants’ real identities, but the sense of community that truly makes a group […]
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A slice to remember
Your unpretentious, hardworking neighbourhood pizza joints don’t often get the spotlight. We tend to take their greatness, and their appreciation for quantity (XL pizzas and slices so big they droop over their Styrofoam plates) for granted. Sure, these aren’t the newest, trendiest talk-of-the-town restos, but no matter how you slice it the modest pizzerias that […]
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The Xtreme factor
Hot chicken tamale. BBQ bacon cheeseburger. Peppercorn chicken ranch. Onion ring burger. Spicy clubhouse. Chicken Caesar. Chili. Taco. Thanksgiving. Xtreme Pizza is not fucking around. Nine years ago, a pizzeria named Saluzzo opened in the south end of Halifax. Two years later the decision was made: it needed a name change. They wanted the name […]
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The life and times of Pizza Corner
Angel or devil, blessing or curse, Pizza Corner was, at once, a slice of heaven and the third circle of hell. Perhaps it still is. All I know is once you’ve scrambled out of your 20s and left late nights downtown behind you, it’s easy to think of it as nothing but a neon-lit, pepperoni-scented […]
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Heart of garlic
If you wind up at Freeman’s at the end of a long night—whether you’ve spent it slamming back beers or cramming for a final exam, if you’re a local or an out-of-towner—and ask for a recommendation, chances are it’ll be garlic fingers. The uniquely Nova Scotian, highly addictive snack is comfort food at its finest, […]
