Food + Drink

Nova Scotia is flush with tourist towns, the communities so often called “quaint” and “charming” that they become cliches themselves; villages so tourism-based that come late October, I imagine the locals folding up the main streets like so many cardboard façades, tucking them under their arms and heading off somewhere for the winter. As I […]

Halloween is coming and along with planning costumes, we’re thinking of the food to serve at our All Hallow’s night parties—graveyard cakes, dried cherry scabs, witch’s fingers and bat wings. But we Atlantic Canadians don’t have to look very far to find some unusual food that, to those who are unfamiliar with it, may seem […]

Students down it to pull all-night study sessions, office workers to put in 100-hour work weeks, truck drivers to go the extra kilometres and even partygoers to dance until dawn. Caffeine, one of the world’s most commonly used psychoactive drugs—meaning it affects a person’s mind, mood or behaviour—can now be found in a consortium of […]

Trinity is the third restaurant to occupy the space in the Park Victoria apartment complex on South Park, the first being the legendary le Bistro, the second the short-lived Spice Urban Grill. It’s a great location on the front corner of the building, allowing room for a summer patio and a great view of the […]

It is just like Christmas morning the day the satellite man comes to install the dish at my house and with it, the Food Network. Beside myself with excitement, all channel surfing comes to a screeching halt as I set up camp in front of the tube, watching the FN until my brain is saturated […]

It surprises me that exactly two weeks before Thanksgiving, the Turducken King has two hours to spare to sit down and talk. Shouldn’t he be busy stuffing chickens into ducks into turkeys, making sure that there are turduckens aplenty for his hungry subjects to enjoy on Thanksgiving weekend? The King has a philosophical answer. “Thanksgiving […]

A few short years ago, we didn’t have any Thai restaurants, now we have a trio of them—oh, how our taste buds have grown. Talay Thai is the newest restaurant to Thai one on, down the south end of Barrington Street in the former Clay Cafe digs. Not that the interior would give any hints […]

We watch our southern neighbours get pummeled by the likes of Rita and Katrina with new empathy, new understanding and a new respect for the force of these storms that we once thought could not happen here. Juan did not come ashore two years ago with the same fury as these girls did, but essential […]

Halifax has more sushi spots than you can shake a sheet of nori at, which makes it hard to imagine how one manages to stand out from the other. But Milamodo succeeds quite nicely, with a two-step business model: First by locating itself outside the downtown core, and then quietly going about business. The only […]

I have never entered a restaurant and wanted to like it so much as when I first set foot inside Vivo. This small bistro is absolutely lovely. Rich colours, dark woods, and gilt-rimmed mirrors and picture frames give it an opulent look without losing the casual bistro charm. Plenty of natural light floods the dining […]

While the myth about not eating oysters in the months with no “r” in their names is just that, a myth, there’s no doubt that oysters are at their best in fall and winter. This is because they spawn over the summer and, like many of us during breeding season, become unpleasantly soft and mushy. […]