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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Dhaba Sweets and Spice is right
Dhaba Sweets & Spice Shoppe 8 Oland Crescent facebook.com/dhaba002 Dhaba Sweets & Spice Shoppe will launch a new online service in September to cater to communities outside of Halifax who do not have access to traditional Indian sweets or spices. “Lately, we are seeing people come from Cape Breton or Lunenberg on the weekends buying […]
The Noodle Guy’s pasta present
The Noodle Guy 964 Main Street (Highway 358) Port Williams @valleynoodleguy Ross Patterson has been a noodle guy for as long as he can remember. “I grew up with a lot of Italian people in Toronto,” he says. He moved there from Montreal when he was a kid. “Because I’m Catholic, I ended up in […]
Make this: Picnic’s Signature Mussels
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All eyes on the pies at Kenny’s Pizza
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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 […]
A look inside Chives’ latest renovation
This is the fourth renovation since Chives (1537 Barrington Street) opened 16 years ago—in the last renovation they built new bathrooms and tiled the entry to the kitchen, so working with Staged for Upsell were able to focus on the dining room this time. Craig Flinn says they had five focuses: “The first was to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rolling with Way 2 Roll sushi burritos
The trend of so-called sushi burritos has hit Halifax. Way 2 Roll (1480 Brenton Street) is aimed at sushi lovers who don’t always have time to sit down with three different rolls and a bowl of miso. Sushi burritos have already been popularized in Toronto and New York, and Leanne Li thought they had the […]

