Jassi Da Dhaba facebook.com/jassidadhabahfx 902-410-5272 Jasvinder Kaur and Swati Chaudhary were looking for each other before they met through a friend on a Friday night two years ago. “I cannot do this by myself,” Kaur says, “so I was looking for someone I can get in touch with, someone I can trust.” “I was looking […]
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Avondale Sky Winery gets intimate and interactive
Discover Our Vineyard Secrets Avondale Sky Winery, 80 Avondale Cross Road, Newport Landing Sat March 31, 2-7pm Winemaker for a Day Sat April 14, 2-7:30pm Late one Monday morning in the middle of March, as a few snowflakes made their way hesitantly to the earth, I left home, driving west along Highway 215, following the […]
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Turning the tables: stories from Halifax’s restaurant industry
Unwelcome advances. Belittling language. Grabbing, touching and sexual assault. The restaurant industry’s reputation for the mistreatment and harassment of its employees precedes it on both a grand scale and here at home. This week, servers, bakers and baristas share their stories. As told to Melissa Buote and Allison Saunders. Editor’s note: This piece contains details […]
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Staff of Life’s pocket full of gold
When Fran Shirazi visits a cafe, she’s both a customer and salesperson. “Everywhere I go, every corner store or coffee shop, I ask them if they want to carry our product,” she says. Shirazi moved to Halifax from Tehran in 1994. Ten years later, she bought Staff of Life Health Foods & Bakery. At the […]
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The 2018 Halifax Burger Week passport is here
This year’s passport is here! Download your copy of this year’s list of 125 burgers available from March 22 – 28, 2018! DOWNLOAD Related Stories
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There’s no place like Silong
Silong Pinoy Tambayan 16 Titus Street “Pop-pop rolls” are my earliest memory of Filipino food. When I was young, my Nanny and Pop-pop would visit my parents house from Mississauga for a couple weeks every Christmas. They would spend their days watching mass on television, shuffling around the main floor and baking. My siblings and […]
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Liu’s Formosa Gift & Tea House is closing
Liu’s Formosa Gift & Tea House 278 Wyse Road For years now, tucked in at the top of a pile of toys and trinkets, surrounded by colourful hanging lanterns, a couple of maneki-neko figurines—lucky cats—have welcomed you into Liu’s Formosa Gift & Tea House, their seesawing paws beckoning you inside with serene waves of “Hello!” […]
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Making bars safer in Halifax
International Women’s Day Craft Fair and Panel Discussion Thursday March 8, 5-9pm Timber Lounge, 2712 Agricola Street $2/PWYC Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and Ladies Beer League are teaming up to make bars safer for women. “Alcohol is the most commonly used substance to facilitate sexual assault,” says Dee Dooley, regional capacity co-ordinator at Avalon. “Bar […]
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Many hands make light work at the Mobile Food Market
“I found I was getting sick quite often, and I just wasn’t eating any fruits or vegetables. It was just rice and protein, that’s really all I was eating.” That’s how Adam Savory was eating before Halifax’s Mobile Food Market came to Spryfield. These days, he gets his veggies in by ordering one of the market’s […]
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Where I work: Fox Hill Market & Deli
Fox Hill Market & Deli 2760 Robie Street Before owning El Gallo Mexican Cuisine, Ivonne Rand was a tailor at Winchester’s (now Chester & Felicity) Bridal. She moved to Halifax in 1998, and her daughter Carolina Quintana-Kohut followed her a year later. Tucked safely in her luggage were 12 pounds of corn tortillas—a Mexican staple […]
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Nothing but good vibes
“A s a young boy people called me Mr. Food,” says Dwayne Green confidently, discussing his role as chef and owner of the newly-opened restaurant, Jamaica Vibes. “By the time I was seven I was making Sunday dinner for the family, and I don’t mean simple things, but complicated dishes like lights”—pork, goat or sheep […]
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What’s cooler than being cool? Icewine.
In the middle of winter, it’s tempting to do everything possible to escape the cold. What would it look like, though, to embrace winter’s icy grip? To find warmth and community in the deep freeze? It might look something like the Nova Scotia Icewine Festival, an annual event in the Annapolis Valley that showcases for […]