Drink

Jeffrey Van Horne brings an old-school touch of class to drinking in the city through his posts at The Bicycle Thief and Untitled Eats. by Melissa Buote With his Lindberg-era under-cut and Hercule Poirot-meets-handlebar moustache, rower-turned-bartender Jeffrey Van Horne looks like he fell out of a photo of the Paris Crew and into a lithograph […]

Sage Mixology’s bottle within a bottle proves to be Dal students’ dream within a dream. by Michaela Cavanagh The enlightened student’s constant quandary: how to make alcohol consumption harder, better, faster, stronger. From shotgunning beers to alcohol enemas, it seems like young people have gone to the ends of the earth (or off the deep […]

Made With Love, a Canada-wide mixology competition, hit Halifax this month, bringing a lot of inspired drinks and thoughts on cocktail culture. by Melissa Buote As house music thumped its way around the maze of rooms at The Halifax Club last week, bartenders from around Halifax shook and stirred, muddled and mixed their way through […]

“Start with fresh ingredients and quality spirits,” says Katrina Roberts as she mixes a simple syrup infused with fire-roasted plums into one of Morris East’s signature cocktails, the Nova Libre. Roberts, wine and beverage director at Morris East, has built her reputation on the use of fresh and fragrant ingredients, like spry sprigs of rosemary […]

Transit Metro Transit deserves major kudos for its New Year’s Eve service, which is completely free after 8:30pm and has extended hours, with some buses running as late as 2:30am. The ferry continues to run every half-hour well past midnight; the last boat leaves Dartmouth at 1:30am, then departs back to Dartmouth from Halifax at […]

You’ll likely be recovering from the previous night out, but if you can manage to drag your self out of the house (and bed) by 3pm…you should probably hit the levee scene. Every host has a different take on the traditional day-after gathering for reflection, looking forward and sharing stories of the night before, but […]

Acadie Vineyards 2007 Prestige Brut A gold medal winner at the 2010 Wine Access Canadian Wine Awards, this has a classic yeasty, bready nose, complimented by floral notes from the L’Acadie grape. A serious sparkling wine, but costing less than Champagne, it has creamy mousse and strong lees (yeast) contributions owing to the 30 months […]

This year marks the sixth annual Nova Scotia Fall Wine Festival, which kicked off at Lunenburg County Winery on September 15 and runs to October 16, featuring over 45 events spread around the region’s wineries, restaurants and farmers’ markets. There are wine and food pairings, wine tours with Go North Tours, cooking classes and—of course—grape […]

In times past, every bar worthy of the name had some sort of bar artifact —a bartifact—on the premises, a conversation piece, a nod to tradition, an indication that this particular bar is a drinking establishment, a timeless place tied to its unique iconography. Alas, today’s bars have mostly lost the habit, but in hopes […]