Harpreet Jagdeo has a passion for food; they’ve loved cooking since they were a kid. And they love Halifax. But after working in this city’s restaurant industry for years and barely managing to make ends meet, Jagdeo just couldn’t take it any longer. It got to the point where they were working three kitchen jobs […]
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Restaurant reviews and ratings for Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring articles about the best new downtown Halifax and Dartmouth NS restaurants, fine dining, pubs, seafood, local bars, chefs, beer, donairs, pizzas, vegetarian and organic food and more.
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The war on pizza
Monday, Oct. 3, is as per usual, a busy day at Triple A Convenience and Pizzeria. Owner John Amyoony greets his steady flow of customers by name and asks them how their day is going while drizzling donair sauce on slices of pizza bigger than a human head. Today is different though, because he’s also […]
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Eat, Drink, and Experience Nova Scotia
Trying to figure out what’s on the menu for your next getaway or staycation? Let’s take all the guessing work out of planning your next culinary outing and leave it to the experts at Taste of Nova Scotia. They’ve spent over 30 years collecting members who bring the best of Nova Scotia to our plates […]
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Oscar-winning Haligonian Ben Proudfoot releases new food-focused doc
You’d be forgiven if, due to a certain slap, you missed when Ben Proudfoot’s Breakwater Studios took home the Oscar earlier this year for best documentary short—but don’t for a second think that Halifax missed seeing their hometown boy make good in front of the entire film world. Since then, Proudfoot’s been busy on a […]
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Nova Scotia Craft Beer Festival is pouring for the first time since 2019
Over 40 Nova Scotia craft breweries will be setting up in the Salter Block Parking Lot on the Halifax waterfront this weekend for the 2022 Nova Scotia Craft Beer Festival. Event organizer Jeff Green says this year’s festival will be “bigger and better than ever,” after it was cancelled three times in a row due […]
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The Halifax Lebanese Festival returns this weekend
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the annual Halifax Lebanese Festival returns to the Olympic Community Centre this Friday through Sunday, Sep 16-18. This edition of the fest isn’t quite back to normal—watch for the full four-day version with live music and entertainment in July 2023, with any luck—but Joanne Lawen Mrakic, the […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2022 Nova Scotia Craft Beer Festival
What is the official name? Nova Scotia Craft Beer Festival. What is it also known as? NS Craft Beer Festival, NSCBF, the Craft Beer Fest. When is it? Friday and Saturday, September 16 and 17, 2022. What is it? An annual celebration that showcases a huge variety of craft beers from over 40 Nova Scotia […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2022 Halifax Lebanese Festival
Before COVID hit, the annual Halifax Lebanese Festival was known as one of the most vibrant summer events in the city. People would gather at the Olympic Community Centre to celebrate with authentic Lebanese flavours, live entertainment and tons of activities for families to enjoy. Now that provincial pandemic rules are practically all gone, the […]
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First look at Bar Sofia’s huge new patio
If you have any lingering doubts about the health of Halifax’s restaurant scene as it emerges from two years of indoor gathering limits and social distancing, a visit to Queen’s Marque on a summer evening ought to give you some hope. Here, in the shadow of the luxurious Muir hotel, Toronto-based hospitality group Oliver & […]
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Longfellow Restaurant brings elevated farm-to-table fare and classic pies to Grand Pré
“In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas/ Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pré/ Lay in the fruitful valley,” wrote Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his epic poem, Evangeline. A story set amidst the Acadian mass deportation from Nova Scotia in the 1700s, the poem’s young heroine, Evangeline, is still […]
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The internet gets salty with Pearl, the Halifax Oyster Festival mascot
We were pumped to finally see Twitter catch the fire that is Pearl, our Halifax Oyster Festival mascot. On Sunday, local Amy Langdon, @alandon17, tweeted “This is the mascot for the Halifax Oyster Festival and I’m absolutely terrified of it.” And as of the time we scheduled this post, that statement was liked more than […]
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It‘s time to throw a Halifax hot dog party
Every year around this time, I start to crave a hot dog. For me, the perfect dog is the classic all-beef frankfurter, grilled to a blistery brown and black mottle, topped with yellow mustard and relish, and served on a soft, sweet bun. Along with drinks on patios, games of bocce in the park and […]
