The Marriott’s new restaurant-bar hybrid The Harbourstone Sea Grill & Pour House nails the sharing plates, and the AC. by Melissa Buote It’s hot out. The air is thick with sweat and air conditioning is the first thing on my mind. I stroll into the cool lobby of the Marriott where The Harbourstone Sea Grill […]
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Fogg season
There’s a storm of ideas brewing in Larry Fogg’s head, but opening his own restaurant isn’t one of them. “Restaurants, for me, are over,” the 20-year veteran chef says. “We’re really looking at doing events.” Harnessing community ingredients with innovative services, Larry and his wife Gilly Fogg are shaping the future of local cooking from […]
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Ratinaud’s dream Cuisine
“You must be here for dinner,” Tom Crilley says, leaning against the wall outside of Ratinaud French Cuisine. Two bottles of sparkling wine clink together in my bag as I walk down Gottingen toward him. He introduces himself and leads me inside, where my friends Ron and Kristina are perched on two of the 10 […]
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Liquid gold
It’s just after 8pm on Saturday night and Noble, the fallout shelter of a bar that is tucked into a concrete room underneath The Middle Spoon, is gearing up for a night of service. Champagne coupes, margarita saucers and highball glasses gleam in the dim light behind the bar. Jenner Cormier pulls an old-fashioned glass […]
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Resto revolution
The past 20 years have possibly been the most exciting, progressive two decades that the city has seen—food-wise, at least. While various special interest groups argue about what’s progress and what’s not, and development is bogged in municipal government mire, restaurant culture has seen significant changes. In 1993, Mosaic (the web browser that would popularize surfing) […]
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Best of Food 2013: Editor’s Picks
BEST SPICY Chili Beef, Jincheng Chinese Cuisine “Twice-cooked pork, chili chicken, chili beef and gonbao chicken.” Chef Daigen Zou rhymes off the most popular hot and spicy dishes on the Jincheng menu. The special chili sauce—a chef’s secret—is what he attributes to the flavourful secret of the chili beef’s success. A simple mix of thinly […]
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The slow down
The say that slow and steady wins the race. Over the next two weekends, Nova Scotia’s top culinary minds hope to prove it. First up is the Slow Food Spring Supper on May 4 at Christ Church in Dartmouth. Chefs Mark Gray, David Smart and Andrew Aitken are three of the nine chefs teaming up […]
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Secret service
The next time you’re at a Japanese restaurant and having trouble deciding between the shrimp tempura and gyoza and 50 other dishes that sound equally tempting, try asking for one thing instead: omakase. The word roughly translates to “I leave it to you,” and when used in a Japanese restaurant it means your meal is […]
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Get baked
Karen Foster is very picky when it comes to cookies. “I’m easily disappointed,” she says. “When I buy a cookie, I usually look for signs that it’s soft in the middle. If it’s rock-hard the whole way through, I’m not interested.” Imagining that she’s not the only cookie dilettante in the HRM, she and her […]
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Berry treasure
Some businesspeople talk about their work in a manner that speaks of self-interest. Logie Cassels has a tendency to speak quickly, but his interests aren’t strictly his own. “Nova Scotia is an amazing place,” he says. “And it’s worthy of more than just the paltry lip service it gets.” Cassels is the managing director for […]
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Fine vines
Why was making organic wine a priority for you at L’Acadie? I was a winemaker in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley in the beginning of my career and saw many conventional vineyards use synthetic fertilizers for greedy, higher crop yields and then have to spray many dangerous pesticides to react to diseases in their artificially high-vigour, […]
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March Madness: Beer vs Bar snacks
This year, to make the month of March a little more bearable we’ve decided to engage our competitive sides in some NCAA-inspired tournament action. Except, instead of basketball we’re cheering on our favourite beers and bar snacks. Intrigued? Get your head in the game via all the juicy details here. Once you’re done your research, […]