Gold Winner Pete’s Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine The popularity of Pete’s build-your-own salad is a sign Halifax is changing for the better. This is the town, after all, where the best option for fresh veggies at lunch used to be the tomatoes and […]
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine The Wooden Monkey is more than a delicious restaurant. It’s also a platform—and laboratory—for co-owner Lil MacPherson’s mission to fix the world. “From the start of The Monkey it’s always been about local,” MacPherson says, launching […]
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Craig Flinn to open Temple Bar, Cocktails and Kitchen on Barrington Street
Craig Flinn’s restaurant family is growing. This September he’ll welcome another bundle of food and drink joy, Temple Bar, Cocktails and Kitchen, to 1533 Barrington Street, the former home of J&R Grimsmo—which is conveniently one door down from both his other establishments, Chives Canadian Bistro and 2 Doors Down. The idea sprouted when Flinn’s landlord […]
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Best Salad
Gold Winner Pete’s, Halifax Silver Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine, Kale Caesar Bronze Winner Norbert’s Good Food Pete’s salad bar knows there’s no such thing as the perfect salad, which is exactly why it continues to reign over this category. Here, salad-eaters of Halifax can choose their toppings unapologetically, from a selection that […]
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Gold Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine Chives uses local to “showcase the best of the Maritimes,” says chef and co-owner Craig Flinn. He also believes eating local to be more ethical while offering a higher calibre of quality. The roast lamb from […]
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New restaurants 2013: 2 Doors Down Food + Wine
Andrew Farrell uses words like relaxed, rustic and nostalgic to describe the personality he, as a chef, brings to food. “I always feel a bit conflicted when asked to describe my style, because I appreciate the precious side of fine dining, but I love the practicality and sheer deliciousness of down home cooking,” he says. […]
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All the new restaurants in Halifax in 2013
2 Doors Down 1533 Barrington Street Agricola Street Brasserie 2540 Agricola Street THE AUCTION HOUSE 1726 Argyle Street Big Life Whole Foods 84 Portland Street Bite Me Urban Diner Gourmet Food Truck various locations The Board Room Game Cafe 1256 Barrington Street Boneheads BBQ, Fairview 3625 Dutch Village Road Cafe Karachi 16 Titus Street Canadian Bacon Cookhouse Queen’s Wharf […]
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The 2013 RANS award winners
Last night, the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia gathered the who’s who of foodies at Casino Nova Scotia to celebrate yet another year of greatness when it came to eating and drinking across the province. By the looks of the live tweets, it was a jolly good time. Check out 2013’s winners below, congrats to […]
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Andrew Farrell
Andrew Farrell wears a uniform. It starts with a folded bandana wrapped around his forehead, replacing the stodgy pleats of a traditional chef’s toque. He wears a black chef’s coat over a pair of faded black jeans. A Moleskine notebook is tucked into a back pocket. And he almost always has a mug of coffee […]
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Five questions with 2 Doors Down’s Andrew Farrell
We got into the kitchen at Barrington Street’s newest hangout—and Chives’ little sis— 2 Doors Down, to steal some time from its bright young chef, Andrew Farrell. He advises you try the cheeseburger, now. What’s your style in the kitchen? My style is kind of nostalgic in a sense. We all have our go to […]