If the new library has a cafe, wouldn’t it be nice if it could have a bar, too? Wishful thinking, we know, but there are spots in the city where you can buy a coffee for one hand and a beer for the other. We took a sip out of the coffee-holding hand (honest) and […]
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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 […]
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Ruined Addiction
I just moved to the North End and every weekday morning there is a cloud of, what I can only determine to be, burnt coffee around North and Robie. I don’t understand why it keeps happening. Am I missing something?—no more charcoaled coffee
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Horrible Customer Service
This bitch is to the hostess at a certain coffee shop, you do sell cappachino so why tell me you dont and dont make fun of me when I tell you I have a hearing loss and if you could speak up instead of whispering and then have the nerve to serve me hot coffee […]
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They’re back….University students return
We’re all about to get hit. No, not with a hurricane, necessarily—even though we have seen a couple of tropical storms already in August. We’re talking about the storm of the student body, Hurricane Academe. Most businesses in town will be boosted by the sudden increase in the local population, either directly or indirectly. Some […]
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Coffee (Espresso-based)
You have to start with the hot beverages, really. Note Steve-O-Reno’s is a winner in the Espresso category, but also a runner-up in the Best Coffee (Regular) as well as in the Best Hot Chocolate. (Incidentally, Steve-O-Reno’s is also a runner-up for Best Smoothie, too.) Then you gotta look at the other things that make […]
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Best Cafe
You have to start with the hot beverages, really. Note Steve-O-Reno’s is a winner in the Espresso category, but also a runner-up in the Best Coffee (Regular) as well as in the Best Hot Chocolate. (Incidentally, Steve-O-Reno’s is also a runner-up for Best Smoothie, too.) Then you gotta look at the other things that make […]
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Black Cat coffee at the Smiling Goat
Coffee aficionados: Saturday morning, I want you to switch your taste buds to turbo. Go to the Smiling Goat and strap yourself in. Wear a hemet with a swizzle straw, because Goat owner Smilin’ Geoffrey Creighton tells me that starting tomorrow, he’s unleashing Chicago-based Intelligentsia coffee into the Halifax consumer market. Intelligentsia’s s Black Cat […]