A small group of people, mostly NSCAD students, sit elbow to elbow around a small table, sharing the remains of a dinner in an otherwise empty hall attached to St. Matthew’s Church on Barrington. They are celebrating the success of the first Recipe Exchange Project event, an art experiment designed to teach cooking to the […]
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Sea Choice guide wraps up sushi problems
Let’s face it, your average sushi plate is about as vapid as a fistful of colourful pills wrapped in papery seaweed. Reliably available, uniformly identical, cut up, cubed, it tastes as stolid as any other fast food. Somewhere in our rush to be healthy, fish stopped being fish and became a product. Tony Soprano loved […]
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True North Diner’s retro-fitted comforts
In going for a retro look and feel for the True North Diner, the owners have apparently spared no expense. The vast cavern of mediocrity that was the Ponderosa has become a gleaming, chrome and red, black and white tiled bastion of days past. It looks really sharp—not the genuine patina of age that the […]
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Spring means riesling
Ask any Sommelier or winemaker in Nova Scotia what their favourite white wine is, and it’s a good bet they’ll say riesling. Some might say it’s their favourite wine, period. There’s something special about Germany’s most noble grape that elicits this response. Riesling has beautiful lime, lemon, apple and/or peach notes, plus pretty white flowers […]
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Fid reopens!
After a six week wait, Fid pre-opened to media and fans last night. The new reno is modest and sets the tone for a more casual approach by the owners, Monica Bauché and Dennis Johnston, to their ten-year old fine dining institution. A banquette between the fireplaces, a redone bar where you can sit and […]
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Polarized over Snaubar
It’s good, it’s bad, the service is great, the service is awful…does everyone have an opinion about new Lebanese eatery Snaubar? It’s easily the most polarized debate I’ve heard about one restaurant lately. Since it’s been open a few months now, I’ve got to find out what the deal is for myself. Snaubar (pronounced “snow […]
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Bear country
For a while, it seemed like we nearly lost him in the wilderness. For the last year or so, Haligonians wondered what happened to the former Gio chef, Ray Bear, when he struck out on his own. Answer: After a Valley hibernation, he opened every chef’s dream restaurant, Bear. Bear is a destination spot. A […]
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Growlers filled with wheat
Don Harms, brewmaster for Propeller, pours bottles of Propeller’s new wheat beer, Hefeweizen*, into glasses. He places them on the bar. Daniel Girard, Garrison Brewer, puts his nose right up to the sudsy glass and takes a huff. Banana and cloves, that’s good. Lorne Romano, Rogue’s Roost brewer, takes his glass over to a window […]
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Emma’s fishcake heaven
I have a vested interest in fishcakes, having written a book on them a few years back; the collection of recipes required extensive testing and tasting, and I know fishcakes about as well as anybody can. So when word of an Eastern Passage eatery that starred fabulous fishcakes came wafting along, I knew I had […]
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How to write a reader review
Reader review guidelines 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. We know Coast readers love to go out, and since we love our readers, we consider their candid reviews and ratings an integral part of restaurant profiles on our […]
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Seaport looks for new markets
For anyone wondering how the Halifax Farmers’ Market will fill up its new 42,000 square-foot space seven days and seven nights a week, the seeds of the Seaport Market are germinating in a new project sponsored by the market, called community connectors. “Everything we do is local, personal and direct,” says general manager Fred Kilcup, […]
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Hey, Porter!
Daniel Girard darts about the Garrison Brewery plant, sliding down the rails from the top of his kettle, a large steel vat nearing the end of a long boil. He then bounds over to a hose that has a tiny window through which he observes the rushing liquid, making sure it’s darkening in colour. His […]
