WHO SHE IS Jessica Best, owner of Birdies Bread Co., remembers the exact moment she fell in love with sourdough. After her culinary training, she began working at a bakery in St. John’s, Newfoundland. On her first day, Best saw the bread coming out after baking. “Making sourdough is such an intimate process,” she says. […]
Cafe Good Luck
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Best New Restaurant
Gold Winner Upstreet BBQ Brewhouse Silver Winner Real Fake Meats Bronze Winner Cafe Good Luck Open for just a year, Upstreet BBQ Brewhouse has been giving hungry people an excuse to head into the belly of Burnside for a taste of southern barbecue. “I hope it’s our customer service that sets us apart—we wanted to […]
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Emma Adamski is the leader of the pack
Emma Adamski is an animated talker. She laughs a lot, doesn’t take herself too seriously. But as laid-back and playful as she is, she’s equally intense about her job. She’s passionate about food, about co-workers. She’s a hard worker, a doer. “The way that I feel about it is that if I can do it, […]
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20 things to eat right now
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 […]
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Halifax breakfast experts on how they like their eggs
Heman Lee Robie Street Station (2394 Robie Street) “I can’t give you an answer, I just love eggs. It is the underappreciated protein. It can be so versatile. It can be a creamy sauce to a elegant dish, a simple tie to a more exotic eccentric dish or a proper appetite suppressant in the middle […]
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Third Season Food and the providence of ingredients
Dartmouth Veg Out Friday, April 19 Cafe Good Luck, 145 Portland Street 6:30pm, $55 manualco.info@gmail.com Ian Lea is hosting a dinner party in five days, but he doesn’t really know what his guests will be eating. “At the moment I’m using a lot of celeriac because that’s available and I don’t think it’s a vegetable […]
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Who’s behind the mysterious Beverley Taco Service?
Have you seen this poster? If so, between scratching your head and wiping the drool from your chin you may have wondered who Beverley is and why she wants to feed both your curiosity and your belly. Turns out mysterious masa-loving taco maker, Beverley Taco Service (which has plastered telephone poles as of Friday), comes to us […]
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Fortune favours the bold at Cafe Good Luck
Emma and Sonny Adamski started Manual Food and Drink Co. in 2013 to explore their respective creative outlets. What began as a sold-out doughnut subscription service soon became a well-loved pop-up at markets and festivals. Emma baked the sweets, Sonny brewed the coffee and together they developed a taste for owning a business. “We decided […]
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The edible art of Laura Jean Fraser
Laura Jean Fraser carefully places a crown of handmade buttercream flowers on top of a vanilla layer cake iced with strawberry buttercream. Using buttercream, and making flowers with it, used to scare her. Watching her now, you would think she has been doing it for years. Once the icing is done Fraser’s flower-adorned cake is […]