Halifax drinkers get drunk and fight too much now. Not like the 1980s…
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Best date restaurants
One-night stand? Falling in love? Proposing? Breaking up? Liz Feltham’s got just the place to do it.
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Home cooking
Looking for modern Canadian cuisine? Look no further than Nova Scotia.
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Shifting plates 2007
In an industry where flux is the norm, where restaurants can open and close faster than cash register drawers during a sale, it’s difficult to keep track of everything that happens in a year. But there are always notable events that come to mind—those big things that define the year in food—and here are a […]
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Shell game
On a recent sojourn to the Halifax Farmers’ Market, I discovered “the oyster guy.” For many of us faithful Saturday morning marketeers, Philip Docker is a familiar face. On the day of discovery, my eye caught a bottle of Tabasco sauce and a freshly cut lemon and I was suddenly in the mood for a […]
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Take your pils
Propeller just launched Atlantic Canada’s first bottled premium lager.
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Fizz the season
Getting it poppin’ with a crash course on bubbly, just in time for the holidays.
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NSLC Cuts Their Mark-up on Locally Grown Wines
The Nova Scotia wine industry gets a shot in the arm from the most unlikely of source.
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Oh beans!
Jane Kansas espouses her love and appreciation for beans, beans, the magical fruit…
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Think globally, eat locally
At Chives Canadian Bistro, Craig Flinn serves a (delicious, exquisite) helping of politics on every plate.
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The farming industrial complex
Why food trucked in from all over the continent gets priced lower than Nova Scotia’s organic strawberries
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A better beer fest
Where will you be August 11? Chances are if you’re an Atlantic “beer geek,” you’ll be at the Seaport Beer Festival on Halifax’s waterfront. Previous efforts, including the East Coast Festival of Beer (1999) and the NSLC Beer Gala (2004, 2005) have left much to be desired, the former marred by bad weather and the […]