Island Greek 2150 Gottingen Street, 422-8888 The donair pogo (two for $3.50) is utterly pornographic, but strangely, um, magentic. Plus, it’s locally made. Caribbean Twist 3081 Gottingen Street, 404-3855 Their Jamaican patty ($2), a meat pie, is a Caribbean wonder. Ciboulette 1541 Barrington Street, 423-JAVA Some say the cinammon bun ($2) is the tastiest, gooiest […]
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Cheap eats: breakfasts and brunches
Ardmore 6499 Quinpool, 423-7523 Everything here is cheap! Mon-Friday before 11am, the two-egg breakfast special (with toast, bacon and hashbrowns) is only $3.49. You can also carbo-load Olympic-style with two giant, delicious pancakes for only $4.95. Gus’ Pub 2605 Agricola Street, 423-7786 Heavy Metal breakfast is over, but Gus’ still has bacon, hash browns, toast […]
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Pale ales in comparison
After spending a week eating and drinking in Halifax over the holidays, I began to notice a pattern in my beer consumption: I was consistently forgoing extreme brews in favour of lighter, more quaffable pale ales. This is no insult to the highly characterful and bitter IPAs that garner a lot of attention, at least […]
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Creating sparkling duos with champagne
The Liberace of holidays, New Year’s Eve is all about sparkle. From fireworks to sequins to sparklers to wine, everybody is looking for a little more razzle and a lot more dazzle. And if your drink can erase Ryan Seacrest’s spray-tanned face in a haze of bubbles by the time the ball drops, so much […]
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New Years’ bubbly drinks checklist
Moet Dom Perignon Whether you’re a rapper or just have a general predilection for ballin’, nothing says extravagance like a $200 bottle of Dom P. You can sip it reflectively or, for the ultimate fuck-you to poor people, spray it around like you’ve just won the Tour de France. Piper-Heidsieck Recession got you down? Piper-Heidsieck […]
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Holiday parties: Drinking on the company’s bill
Trying to find the right place to drink too many rum and eggnogs and sloppily make-out with that guy from accounting? Whether you have a small crew or a full staff, consider these places for your next drunken rendition of “Frosty the Snowman.” –Kyle Wells Victory Arms Pub This Lord Nelson Hotel bar can hold […]
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Local family’s food miles documented
The McMillins may seem like an ordinary family, but they’re not. They’ve cut their food miles by nearly 70 percent and have done so without depriving themselves of any of life’s pleasures, like the hot chocolates they’re sipping in a downtown cafe. The family reduced their average food miles from 2,569 km/month to 880 km/month, […]
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Monster chicken
Odds are, the chicken that winds up on your table today is quite a different beast than it was 50 years ago. Thanks to careful genetic selection, Canada’s commercial chickens have enormous breasts, twice as big as the ones they had in the ’70s. Comercial white broiler chickens, often called Meat Kings, can grow twice […]
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Pete Luckett makes wine
September saw the first release of wine from Pete’s Frootique founder Pete Luckett’s Gaspereau Valley Vineyard. The 2008 Millot was made by Jürg Stutz at Domaine de Grand Pre, outside of Wolfville, but that is just a temporary arrangement—until Luckett’s own winery is built. Luckett’s is a good example of what Nova Scotia has to […]
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Nova Scotia Food Summit pushes local food
This week marks the first Nova Scotia Food Summit. Event organizers say the summit responds to a mounting need to overhaul our “broken” food system—paying homage to local food and wrangling some much needed support for an agriculture sector in crisis. From Sunday through Tuesday, supporters, thinkers and curious folk alike will congregate at the […]
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Decline of fine dining
Although Halifax has been dubbed “recession-proof,” many downtown restaurateurs admit their fine dining establishments have felt the pinch of the current climate. The recession, which came into public consciousness in October of 2008, only began hitting the high-end restaurant market after the turn of the year. “Winters are always quiet, but usually it starts to […]
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How to respond to criticism
Thecoast.ca‘s restaurant and bar listings provide a wealth of useful information about everywhere to go out to eat and drink in greater Halifax. As a business owner, your restaurant or bar location page on our site is a valuable tool to promote your business on the internet. If managed well, it will bring Coast readers […]