Gold Winner Renée Lavallée, The Canteen Silver Winner Annie Brace Lavoie, Bar Kismet Bronze Winner Stephanie Ogilvie, Chives Canadian Bistro “I’m always flabbergasted because I don’t feel like I deserve it, there’s so much talent out there,” says your Best Chef for the third consecutive year, Renée Lavallée. She squirms a little while her husband […]
Chives Canadian Bistro
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Best Fine Dining
Gold Winner The Bicycle Thief Silver Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Bronze Winner EDNA Fine dining spots have a lot more than the food itself to take into consideration. When has anyone chowing down at a lunch counter or greasy spoon ever been concerned with lighting, music or how comfo-rtable their chair was, for instance? (Answer: […]
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Best Chef
Gold Winner Renée Lavallée, The Canteen Silver Winner Craig Flinn, Chives Canadian Bistro Bronze Winner Stephanie Ogilvie, Brooklyn Warehouse “The reality is, I’m the captain of a sports team. An amazing team,” says Renée Lavallée, quick to shout out her two assistant captains, Kyle and Josh, and number one cheerleader, her business partner and husband, […]
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Best Fine Dining
Gold Winner The Bicycle Thief Silver Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Bronze Winner EDNA “We don’t look at it as a restaurant, this is our home. Everyone who comes here, we open the doors with open arms to welcome them,” says Hakan Uluer, co-owner of your choice for Best Fine Dining. The Bicycle Thief’s standout food […]
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner The Canteen Bronze Winner Chives Canadian Bistro The Wooden Monkey is as detail-oriented as they get. The 14-year-old restaurant has always been committed to making sure what goes into its dishes is good, in all senses of the word. And its commitment to serving local, organic food […]
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A look inside Chives’ latest renovation
This is the fourth renovation since Chives (1537 Barrington Street) opened 16 years ago—in the last renovation they built new bathrooms and tiled the entry to the kitchen, so working with Staged for Upsell were able to focus on the dining room this time. Craig Flinn says they had five focuses: “The first was to […]
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Ciro dreams of cheese
Roma Cheese Alderney Landing Farmers’ Market 2 Octherloney Street Saturdays “I was just six years old when I started to go up into the mountain,” says Ciro Comencini. “We were still making cheese with a copper pot and wood fire. You have to be very careful because a wood fire is not like propane that […]
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Ciboulette is expanding, re-opening as the Bird’s Nest
After over nine years as a tucked-away upstairs gem at 1541 Barrington Street, Ciboulette Cafe & Catering is ready to sparkle a little brighter from a street-level location next-door. “We outgrew the spot many years ago, but until now I’ve been struggling to find the right venue to expand into,” says owner Brady Muller who […]
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Best Wine List
Gold Winner Obladee, A Wine Bar Silver Winner Bicycle Thief Bronze Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Heather Rankin says since her bar opened, she’s seen a major spike in people’s interest in not just wine, but what wine they’re drinking. “Six years ago people would be happy with lots of shiraz and New Zealand sauvignon blanc. […]
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Best Chef
Gold Winner Craig Flinn, Chives Canadian Bistro Silver Winner Mark Gray, Battery Park/Brooklyn Warehouse Bronze Winner Stephanie Ogilvie, Brooklyn Warehouse Craig Flinn is the proprietor of not one but three Halifax restos—Chives, Two Doors Down and Temple Bar, the youngest of the trio. The ambitious chef of 21 years has kept busy, but never lost […]
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Best Fine Dining
Gold Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Silver Winner Bicycle Thief Bronze Winner daMaurizio Fine Dining Chef proprietor Craig Flinn doesn’t exactly see Chives as a “fine dining” restaurant—the atmosphere is meant to be casual. “I call it a bistro for a reason,” says Flinn. He credits the creativity of his team, including chefs de cuisine Scott […]
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Best Server
Gold Winner Chris Haley, The Wooden Monkey, Dartmouth Silver Winner Alissa Maloney, Brooklyn Warehouse Bronze Winner Maggie Phillips, Chives Canadian Bistro “Are you kidding me?! Two years in a row? That is AMAZING!” screams Chris Haley through the phone. Last year Haley won the readers’ choice award too, but his workplace has since changed—he says […]