Gold Winner Pete’s Fine Foods, Dresden Row Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Alright, alright. We get it, readers. Pete’s is a well-rounded grocery store. You don’t have to rub it in other grocers’ faces with nine consecutive Best Smoothie, nine consecutive Best Salad and four Best International Grocer awards. But […]
enVie – A Vegan Kitchen
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Gold Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner Heartwood Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax 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 of people […]
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Mighty Mint Smoothie
Ingredients 1 cup non-dairy milk ½ cup loose packed spinach 8 sprigs mint ½ frozen banana 1 small apple, cored 1 tbsp maple syrup ice cubes Method Wash produce and blend all ingredients in a high-speed blender until smooth. Drink and enjoy! Mint helps sooth the digestive tract and eliminates toxins from the body. It is […]
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Best Salad
Gold Winner Pete’s Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine The popularity of Pete’s build-your-own salad is a sign Halifax is changing for the better. This is the town, after all, where the best option for fresh veggies at lunch used to be the tomatoes and […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Gold Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner Heartwood Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Apart from convincing discerning diners that vegan food isn’t just for folks with dietary restrictions, but anyone who likes who like fresh, creative and tasty food, team enVie has had a pretty frigging major year. After two years of kicking butt […]
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Best Gluten-free Friendly
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner Heartwood Making her restaurant sensitive to gluten sensitivity is something The Wooden Monkey co-owner Lil MacPherson takes very seriously. “I could see this coming for years, that people are having a hard time digesting gluten,” MacPherson says. “People say it’s a fad, […]
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It takes a community
Dartmouth north is a food desert. There are no dedicated grocery stores between the Sobeys on Wyse Road and Chops Meat Market on Wright Avenue, from the waterfront to the Walmart in Dartmouth Crossing. To be generous—to geography, not the residents of Dartmouth north—that’s six to eight square kilometres of the HRM where corner stores […]
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Help enVie expand, and help some fellow north enders
It’s been a big two years for Diandra Phipps and Cory Urquhart‘s north end vegan eatery enVie: A Vegan Kitchen. After taking their farmers’ market based business to the next level and opening a restaurant at 5775 Charles Street, they’ve added cooking classes, juice cleanses and catering to their roster of offerings—on top of being […]
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Hop aboard the Burger Bus!
Hey, burger addicts! I have valuable information to share with you. Now that our annual Halifax Burger Week (March 19-25) has grown to supersized proportions, and will include 64 (!!!) local restaurants flipping delectable patties all week long, it might be challenging to get a good sampling of what’s out there. Unless of course you […]
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Lauren Marshall
Chef de cuisine, enVie, 5775 Charles Street You could call Lauren Marshall a Top Chef contestant. A vegan chef. A teacher. A holistic nutritional consultant. There are a lot of things that make her an incredibly creative force in Halifax’s food scene, but she’s not into labels. “What I love about what I do is […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Gold Winner enVie – A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner Heartwood This chic vegan kitchen serves up meatless and wheatless meals for the herbivore at heart. Not yet a year old, this restaurant snags the gold by keeping their menu “innovative with a modern edge.” enVie steps into the animal […]
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Best Gluten-free Friendly
Gold Winner Schoolhouse Gluten-Free Gourmet Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner enVie – A Vegan Kitchen This bakery is a hit with everyone, celiac or not. For the second year running team Schoolhouse, AKA Jennifer Laughlin and Aidan Brunn, are taking home top honours for their baked goods, which have become a hit […]