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First look: behind Bar Kismet’s classic decor

Bar Kismet 2733 Agricola Street Tue-Sun, 5pm-12am It’s 22 degrees and Jenner Cormier’s forearm is covered in goosebumps. He’s recounting the first few days of service at Bar Kismet, the seafood-focussed restaurant he and his partner Annie Brace-Lavoie (who’s also the chef) opened quietly to Agricola Street last weekend. “The last few nights we’ve had […]

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Sweet unions: four ice cream sandwiches to make at home

Grandma’s House Dee Dee’s Ice Cream’s vanilla ice cream, Helen B’s Preserves’ strawberry rhubarb jam and Smith’s Bakery ginger cookies Cocoa-loco Humani-T Cafe’s dark chocolate gelato, 24 Carrots Bakery’s chocolate-dipped shortbread and coconut flakes Sweet Enough Common Confections’ salted caramel dairy-free frozen dessert, LF Bakery’s milk bun and toasted sesame seeds Pool Party Scanway Catering […]

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That saucy Bastid

Bastid’s BBQ w/Lord Finesse, Jorun Bombay, OkayTK and more Sunday, July 30, 2pm Olympic Hall parking lot, 2304 Hunter Street $15 The DJ Skratch Bastid began throwing parking-lot barbecues as a way to mix things up, way back. “It was an early-evening concept, where I would grill up burgers and dogs in the afternoon before the […]

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Cooking in a Tall Ship is like cooking at home, until there’s a storm

Life at sea seems romantic. A Tall Ship’s foresails fraught with salty wind, and mist breaking on the bowsprit as it stabs its way through the cold, pounding waves of the Atlantic. Nimble deckhands scramble up webbed rigging to a perch high above—unfathomable waters swirling darkly below while the horizon stretches boundless and bright—to shade […]

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Ciro dreams of cheese

Roma Cheese Alderney Landing Farmers’ Market 2 Octherloney Street Saturdays “I was just six years old when I started to go up into the mountain,” says Ciro Comencini. “We were still making cheese with a copper pot and wood fire. You have to be very careful because a wood fire is not like propane that […]

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