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New restaurants 2013: EDNA

EDNA, 2053 Gottingen Street, 902-431-5683 Jenna Mooers can pinpoint the moment she fell in love with the restaurant industry. “I was in grade nine,” she says. “And it was midnight, painting the black chairs hoping they wouldn’t be tacky in the morning.” The chairs were for jane’s on the common, which her mother Jane Wright […]

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Robert Reynolds

Robert Reynolds is holding down the kitchen at EDNA on Gottingen Street, perhaps a natural progression from his work as sous-chef at jane’s on the common where he worked under one of Halifax’s most unsung talents, Chef Paolo Colbertaldo. He trained in the UK at Thames Valley University, apprenticing at the Berkeley Hotel in London […]

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Waiting on Edna

The legacy of jane’s on the common has made its way to Gottingen. Jenna Mooers—whose mother Jane Wright was behind the beloved north end eatery—is following suit, opening a similar, tapas-style restaurant next door to jane’s next door at 2053 Gottingen Street. For Mooers, the new location is what’s most exciting. “Halifax traditionally has been […]

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