Spaghetti carbonara Mappatura, 5883 Spring Garden Road, $12/$22 Carbonara is a dish that so many restaurants make, but so few seem to nail. From cream sauces that claim to be carbonara to sauces with scrambled egg to thin, watery undercooked sauce, this supposedly simple dish can also easily be botched. Mappatura chef and co-owner Terry […]
9 + Nine Chinese Cuisine
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Best Clayton Park Area Restaurant
Gold Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen Silver Winner Tako Sushi & Ramen Bronze Winner 9 + Nine Chinese Cuisine When one door closes, many more open. That’s kind of how it’s working for Mezza Lebanese Kitchen this year. The recent closure of the more formal Quinpool location (your Best Middle Eastern / Persian pick) made room […]
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Best Chinese Restaurant
Gold Winner The Great Wall Restaurant Silver Winner Jean’s Chinese Restaurant Bronze Winner 9 + Nine Chinese Cuisine Great Wall is the perennial winner of Best Chinese honours, it’s won every single year this award has existed. Whether you’re looking for battered, sweet-and-sour Canadian Chinese food or an authentic experience, these guys deliver it. Try […]
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Halifax’s Asian food golden age
Less than 10 years ago, Asian food in Halifax consisted of dishes tweaked for western palates. But in a city where Chinese food used to mean dishes drizzled with cornstarch-laden sauces, we now have places like JiXiang serving mouth-numbing Szechuan dishes such as ma po tofu or pork tongue salad. And it’s usually worth asking […]
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Nine is fine
The number seven apparently has nothing on the number nine in terms of luck and prosperity, and 9 + Nine seems to take that to the next level—a mathematical formula to tap good fortune on the shoulder. Tucked into the same Clayton Park strip as Monsoon Cafe, 9 + Nine is your typical small restaurant. […]