Weird Harbour Espresso Bar 1656 Barrington Street Mon-Fri 7am-5pm Sat 8am-4pm WHO HE IS From the moment you step inside this espresso bar, the sound of old blues, together with the smell of freshly ground coffee, takes you to another world. “It’s a small space to seek shelter,” says owner Dan Weir, whose travels from […]
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Weird Harbour makes waves on Barrington
Two-hundred and fifty square feet is all the space Dan Weir needs to make his small business dream a reality. After spending a decade “catching the coffee bug” working in cafes in Toronto and Montreal, the Moncton native has settled on Halifax for his very own Weird Harbour Espresso Bar, which will be cozied up […]
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Best Coffee (Espresso-based)
You have to start with the hot beverages, really. Note Steve-O-Reno’s is a winner in the Espresso category, but also a runner-up in the Best Coffee (Regular) as well as in the Best Hot Chocolate. (Incidentally, Steve-O-Reno’s is also a runner-up for Best Smoothie, too.) Then you gotta look at the other things that make […]
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Best Cafe
You have to start with the hot beverages, really. Note Steve-O-Reno’s is a winner in the Espresso category, but also a runner-up in the Best Coffee (Regular) as well as in the Best Hot Chocolate. (Incidentally, Steve-O-Reno’s is also a runner-up for Best Smoothie, too.) Then you gotta look at the other things that make […]
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Black Cat coffee at the Smiling Goat
Coffee aficionados: Saturday morning, I want you to switch your taste buds to turbo. Go to the Smiling Goat and strap yourself in. Wear a hemet with a swizzle straw, because Goat owner Smilin’ Geoffrey Creighton tells me that starting tomorrow, he’s unleashing Chicago-based Intelligentsia coffee into the Halifax consumer market. Intelligentsia’s s Black Cat […]
