Gold Winner Emma’s Eatery Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner Good Food Emporium Kim Stacey is overjoyed to get the news that her little Eastern Passage restaurant’s fish cakes have yet again taken this title. But she’s not surprised. “I just think that we really work hard to keep them consistent, now […]
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Gluten-Free Lobster Linguine with Mussels
Ingredients 250g gluten-free linguini (about half of a standard 500g package) 2 tbsp butter 3 finely chopped garlic cloves 2 finely chopped shallots ½ tsp dried chili flakes 2 cups white wine 1 cup heavy cream, 35% (optional if you are dairy-free) 1 lb locally sourced mussels 1 live lobster (1 or 1 ½ lb) […]
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Morning glory: breakfasts snacks under $7
Homemade Pop Tart Feed your nostalgic cravings with Anchored’s flaky and filled take on the Kellogg’s Pop-Tart. Sweet and savoury options have included pancetta and swiss, apricot and sweet cream, but you’re looking at a classic cherry jam. Anchored Espresso Bar and Toastery, 6451 Quinpool Road Fruit smoothie Here’s more evidence that mom always knows […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Gold Winner Emma’s Eatery Silver Winner Edible Matters Bronze Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill There’s something fishy at Emma’s Eatery—its famous cakes. Chef Kim Stacey says the fish cakes “use a lot of fish in proportion to the rest of the ingredients.” Also, the fish is all fresh and local, and Emma’s customers can […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner Henry House Bronze Winner Emma’s Eatery This year, Waverley Road’s Mic Mac Bar & Grill beats out Henry House and Emma’s Eatery, which took home the title for Best Fish Cakes for four consecutive years. So what gives their fish cakes the edge over the rest? […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Gold Winner Emma’s Eatery Silver Winner The Good Food Emporium Bronze Winner jane’s on the common Emma’s Eatery owner Kim Stacey says she wasn’t expecting her fish cakes to be such a big hit. “It was just a small addition to the menu because I wanted something to celebrate my Newfoundland heritage on my dad’s […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Kim Emma Stacey, the “Emma” in Emma’s Eatery, was not expecting to win. “Nobody was even talking about voting for us,” says the head chef/owner, who also added that in her first year of business—this is her fourth—she had been pushing to win Best Fishcakes.Stacey says her fishcakes don’t deviate away from the traditional recipe, […]
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Seven under $7
$4.99: Pulled Pork Sandwich Boneheads BBQ 1014 Barrington street, 407-4100 “Succulicious,” that’s the only way staff at Boneheads BBQ could describe their pulled pork sandwich in one word. The fresh Kaiser bun is paired with a heaping pile of slow-cooked pork. The meat, which cooks for an average of eight to 10 hours, is smothered […]
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Slow Food NS goes abroad
Happening from October 21 through 25 in Torino Italy is the fourth biennial, invitation-only Terra Madre conference, organized by the international Slow Food movement. Shoptalk has learned that 14 members of the Nova Scotia chapter have been invited. Michael Howell of Tempest in Wolfville and Chives’ Craig Flinn will lead the Nova Scotia delegation, which […]
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Emma’s fishcake heaven
I have a vested interest in fishcakes, having written a book on them a few years back; the collection of recipes required extensive testing and tasting, and I know fishcakes about as well as anybody can. So when word of an Eastern Passage eatery that starred fabulous fishcakes came wafting along, I knew I had […]