It was about a year ago that Adam Otmar and Jill Mulveney had the idea to run a little coffee shop out of the back of a bus. The two veteran baristas envisioned a sustainable mobile cafe in a small school bus, but struggled to find something tall enough to accommodate their north of 5’10” […]
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Mr. Bern’s BBQ on the Run heats up on Barrington Street
“Filipinos are known for feasts,” says Mary Panaligan on a break from the lunch rush at Mr. Bern’s BBQ on the Run. “If there’s a birthday party, it’s a feast. We wanted to offer not just street foods, but a feast. You’ll feel like you’ve been to a party.” It’s been just under two weeks […]
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Where’s the beef? Not at Benny’s Burgers
Ben O’Toole and Morgan Zwicker are challenging the idea that there’s no such thing as vegan comfort food. Later this week, they’ll start slinging all sorts of tasty creations at Benny’s Burgers. “We realized there’s a lack of vegan street food in Halifax,” says O’Toole. He adds that there are some great “clean eating” and […]
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Tin Pan Alley takes it inside
This winter, beloved frite-slinging food truck Tin Pan Alley is getting a permanent address—no generators required—and opening up shop in Scotia Square Mall’s ever-expanding food court. “This past fall we started looking at a couple of bricks-and mortar-places, and it snowballed from there. We saw places all over,” says Karl Warme who will run the […]
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Food Wolf for sale
The next time you stop by the Food Wolf, someone new may be dishing out your K-dogs. Co-owners Natalie Chavarie and Virgil Muir have decided to sell the popular food truck, which first hit HRM’s streets in 2013. “It was a really personal decision to work through,” says Chavarie. For her, the incentive for selling […]
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Food Wolf adds a new truck to its pack
If you’ve been howling at the moon, hoping for the Food Wolf’s answer, here it is. After setting up a permanent, semi-retirement home at the Timber Lounge (2712 Agricola Street), serving up street eats to the bar’s axe throwers, Halifax’s food truck pioneer is welcoming a second vehicle to its pack. “We went to Taiwan […]
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A royal flush at King Street Cafe
Of the 140 characters you’ll find on King Street at any given time, Fran Hiscock is the queen, the living jewel in the crown of downtown Dartmouth’s food community. Fran Hiscock is Fran’s Fish and Chips. For nine years, Fran’s has been parked in downtown Dartmouth, between Portland and Queen, fragrant steam puffing out of […]
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Tuesday’s 7 things you need to know
1The lawyer representing disgraced Dalhousie dental student Ryan Millet claims the university advised Millet to lie about being suspended when filling out licensing applications. That’s just one of the charges in a lengthy letter to Dal president Richard Florizone that lawyer Bruce T. MacIntosh sent to media yesterday afternoon. According to the release, Millet is […]
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Have you tried the Jamaican food truck yet?
He’s a plumber by trade, but Ludlow Lee has major skills in the kitchen. “It’s in his blood,” says Michelle Lee of her husband/business partner’s Jamaican home-cooking. “Most of his recipes are from his mother.” Ludlow moved from Jamaica to Canada back in 2010 and married Michelle soon after, but it was just over a […]
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5 things you need to know Monday
1 Six months after Gloria McCluskey brought up noisy train whistles, CBC gets around to interviewing Dartmouth residents about the noise that’s keeping them up at night. The whistles only started because of the extra people and traffic crossing the tracks from the nearby King’s Wharf development. It looks like more safety measures—including two $7,000 […]
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Natalie Chavarie
Owner, The Food Wolf, @thefoodwolf Natalie Chavarie isn’t overstating when she says her role in developing food truck culture in Nova Scotia has been a pivotal one. In just over two years with The Food Wolf, Chavarie has done more than bring southeast Asian street food influences into Halifax’s culinary scene. “I see a really […]
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The Firefly Feast lights up
A shiny little red trailer is the latest addition to Halifax’s mobile food brigade, and we have Kim Burke to thank for it. The Firefly Feast will soon be serving up morning and midday eats to Gottingen, the street that made her (and her cooking) Halifamous years ago as the Marquee’s Pizza Lady. Tempting late […]