WHO SHE IS “Coffee vibes are good vibes,” Chantelle Buote says as she crafts an iced latte. Buote is the owner of The Raven Espresso Boutique, a coffee shop that operates out of a vintage 1969 trailer. She didn’t plan to open a coffee trailer, but she took what the universe placed in her lap. When […]
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Cafe Fest comes to town because, coffee
Cafe Lara is calling all coffee geeks to its launch party of Cafe Fest, a week-long celebration of all things coffee, local and independent from May 5-11. “I like bringing the community together,” says Lara Cusson. “I’ve been trying to get the coffee community together as much as possible—I think it’s important that we all […]
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Bedford’s The Jumping Bean is now The Nook Espresso Bar
This week popular Bedford cafe The Jumping Bean (936 Bedford Highway) got a new lease on life when it re-launched as The Nook Espresso Bar Bedford, a sibling location of the Halifax cafe of the same name. Nicole Myles Brook and Brian Brook—who’ve been running the Bedford location of the Newfoundland chain since summer 2016—helped […]
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Adieu Agora, hello Haligonian
After just under a year on Agricola Street, Agora Cafe & Grill Bistro (2394 Agricola Street)—the colourful little cafe, serving up a menu of Mediterranean cuisine, coffees and baked goods—closed its doors permanently yesterday. The cafe’s owner Kubilay Gonul took to Facebook for parting words, and to share the news that a new business would […]
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Joel Plaskett is opening a cafe/record store/barbershop
Joel Plaskett loves this town so much that he’s opening his own business on Portland Street. What a meta Dartmouth moment. Soon, you’ll be able to take the Dartmouth ferry into the town, and spend your pennies bumming around—at a Plaskett cafe. Last night both Halifax Retales and allNovaScotia reported that the former location of […]
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Changes at Chebucto Coffee and Macchiato by Sam
There are big changes percolating in the north end coffee shop scene. Back in early March, long-time coffee entrepreneur Sam Karam decided to hand over the reins at his Macchiato by Sam (2751 Gladstone Street), but no need for jitters (caffeine-induced or otherwise), things at the cafe will stay pretty much the same. Chebucto Coffee […]
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You could be The Nook’s next owner
The Nook (2118 Gottingen Street), a cozy, dynamic spot with delicious food and warm drinks, has had a booming first year-and-a-half. This north end joint fills its walls with work from local artists and fills its seats with regular customers and passersby. Due to personal reasons, it is now being sold by owners Mark Pavlovski […]
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The Paperchase closes next week
Pizza Corner is about to get a little less literary. Blowers Street’s Paperchase Newsstand and Café will be closing its doors, out front and the garage ones up top, as of April 21. Management confirmed the new owner plans to keep the space a cafe and will reopen a few weeks later, but as a […]
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Back in the FRED. zone
For the past few weeks, sliding and sloshing through what have become claustrophobic tunnels had slowly chipped away at my moxie, the weight of winter pressing down on my shoulders as heavily as the year’s snowfall. It reached a point where I would rather sit at home, blankly watching the fog creep up and down […]
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Welcome to The Darkside
Megan Hirons Mahon and her husband Oliver moved to Dartmouth just over a year ago and quickly noticed that in their neck of the woods there was no coffee option other than Tim Hortons—an incredibly sad reality, if you ask me. So when the former Karma Bridal space opened up, a mere few streets from […]
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Welcome to the New Dartmouth
The gleaming, stainless-steel kitchen at Dartmouth cafe Two If By Sea is a blur of activity, with a half-dozen young, black-clad employees milling about behind a panelled counter. Tattooed arms dole out espressos, dive into glass jars to retrieve gooey cookies and dig through baskets for croissants the size of footballs. Customers wait patiently in […]
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Go local in the South End
Paper pleasures Before there was the internet, there was Atlantic News (5560 Morris Street, 429-5468), full of newspapers and magazines from around the world. The legendary newsstand remains a destination for your periodical needs—often going directly to the publisher to get titles you’re looking for—and more besides. Co-owner Michele Gerard shows us the new stationery […]