Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner enVie – A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner Ristorante a Mano Hall of fame Pete’s Frootique and Fine Foods “I love making salads, I love cold food, I love garde manger,” Renée Lavallée says emphatically when prodded about her award-winning greens, pointing out that the win might have something to […]
enVie – A Vegan Kitchen
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Best Vegetarian-friendly
Gold Winner enVie – A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner Wild Leek Food & Juice Bar Cory Urquhart eats, sleeps and breathes enVie—and is totally happy to, thanks to his dedicated staff, which he calls “a really cool family.” While offering innovative dishes that help folks explore plant-based eating is […]
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Best Gluten-free Friendly
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner enVie – A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner Heartwood, Quinpool The Wooden Monkey is friendly in a lot of ways, not just to the gluten intolerant among us. But it’s the thoughtfulness that goes into designing every dish—the focus on using local, sustainable and organic ingredients throughout its […]
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Fiends finds a home on Agricola
Fiends 5775 Charles Street, second floor Opens Thursday, October 31 F orest Eden Greenwell’s new shop, Fiends, is a one-stop shop for folks interested in leading an intentional lifestyle. Linking self care to our own unique rituals, whatever those might be, Greenwell wants to elevate the little moments we give ourselves. A poet and a […]
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Best Salad
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner The Canteen Bronze Winner enVie a vegan kitchen The Pete’s salad contains multitudes. It is a math problem: How many different combinations can you make from the 30 plus ingredients? It is a clown car, the normal-sized takeout box managing to hold an extraordinary amount […]
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Best Server
Gold Winner Marcus Manzoni, Mic Mac Bar and Grill Silver Winner Kristin Vokes, enVie a vegan kitchen Bronze Winner Leah O’Brien, Brooklyn Warehouse “I only have a few minutes total of interaction time, so for me to be able to create any kind of experience for somebody and have them come back? That’s the greatest […]
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Best Gluten-free Friendly
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner enVie a vegan kitchen Bronze Winner The Foggy Goggle When the diners speak, The Wooden Monkey listens. That’s why manager Adam Savelle says the long-loved, uber-local restaurant takes the flourless cake in this category yet again. “We started 14 years ago we had one or two gluten-free […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly
Gold Winner enVie – A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner Wild Leek Bronze Winner Heartwood, Quinpool Road “It’s our staff. I know that’s cliche but it’s just the truth,” says Cory Urquhart, explaining why the Agricola Street eatery has once again nabbed gold in the realm of meat-free eats. “A lot of them are friends outside […]
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Best Salad
Gold Winner Pete’s Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner Heartwood Salads bars haven’t got the greatest rep. Soggy lettuce, stale croutons, snotty tomatoes and Thousand Island dressing ring a bell? Where are all my veggies at? Pete’s, as it turns out. A nine-time winner in our Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice […]
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Best Gluten-free Friendly
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner Heartwood The Monkey’s passion for good ingredients is what makes the restaurant stand out from the bunch, hence why it’s a repeat winner in the Best Use Of Local Ingredients category. And that passion carries over to dietary restrictions, too. While The […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Gold Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner Heartwood “Winner winner tofu dinner!” is Cory Urquhart’s initial reaction to enVie topping this category yet again. And while it’s a perfect acceptance speech, he also takes a minute to credit the veg-centric eatery’s success to the dining experience (and the food, […]
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Best Gluten-free Friendly
Gold Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner Schoolhouse Gluten-Free Gourmet Branding your resto as vegan brings in a diverse crew—not just folks looking for meat-less and cheese-less dishes, but also those with dietary needs. “There’s the crowd who want local stuff, but we also have a very high number […]