Gold Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Silver Winner Glitter Bean Cafe Bronze Winner Dilly Dally Coffee Cafe Ten years after opening Two If By Sea—a near instant classic in downtown Dartmouth—in late October, founder (and the butter-lover behind the cafe’s monstrous croissants) Tara MacDonald announced she was retiring from the coffee biz and TIBS […]
Glitter Bean Cafe
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Best New Business
Gold Winner Vandal Doughnuts Silver Winner Glitter Bean Cafe Bronze Winner Apartment 3 Espresso Bar Nicole Tufts had a dream. A dream about opening up a doughnut shop, to be exact. “I woke up and told my partner about it. Three months later, Vandal was open,” says the co-owner of the sweet little bakery you’ve […]
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Former Smiling Goat workers are opening Glitter Bean Cafe
Glitter Bean Cafe is the newest cooperative cafe to hit Halifax, started by the same baristas who worked at the Smiling Goat. “It’s a model that we think empowers workers, it’s also a model we think shares the workload and minimizes hierarchy,” says Charlie Huntley, vice-president of the cooperative and a barista. The idea to […]
