Gold Winner Wasabi House Silver Winner Sushi Nami Royale, Halifax Bronze Winner Hamachi House This tightly packed sushi joint serves up some tantalizing experiments with mango, banana, asparagus and sweet potato, but stays true to fresh fish, too. Maybe the reason that people love Wasabi House is the bold fish-fruit combinations, or maybe it’s the […]
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Hamachi House celebrates 10 years
Before the month was out we just wanted to give a tip of the hat to Hamachi House (5190 Morris Street, 425-7711), for a decade in business. They’ve been celebrating since June 4, their proper birthday, sending $10 gift certificates to their 15,000 online members and offering special features in all the Hamachi restos across […]
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Best Sushi Restaurant
Suuuuu-shi! Halifax sushi lovers take their rolls seriously. The Hamachi House is a beloved Japanese cuisine favourite that does just the same. An atmosphere that’s filled with worldly and classical music provides the soundtrack to your dining experience. This, coupled with reasonable prices ($4.50-$14), is the reason they’re a student magnet. Come in after 10pm […]
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Hamachi bring Teppanyaki to Dartmouth
It’s still the Hamachi Grill (644 Portland Street, 444-4688) but now it has a few brand new attractions. “In the summer we took an adjacent space, and expanded our restaurant with the addition of four Teppanyaki tables,” explains Hamachi master Boris Mirtchev. For those who don’t know, Teppanyaki is a stryle of Japanese cuisine where the food is cooked in an iron griddle right in front of the diners, where the skill of the chefs can be appreciated. The new extension opened last weekend so is available to be enjoyed right this minute. Don’t trample folks to get in the
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Best Sushi Restaurant
Since arriving on the scene in 2001, Hamachi has expanded to multiple locations around town—most recently Hamachi Grill and Sushi House on Portland Street in Dartmouth—with no drop in quality, if repeated and multiple wins in this category are anything to go by. Whether your pleasure is sashimi or nigiri, hirame or hotate, maguro or […]
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How to live for free all summer
It’s summertime and the spending’s easy. The temptations of big-name concerts, eating out, weekend getaways and cooling off with an ice cold beer—or more likely, beers—on a patio, are even harder to resist when the sunshiny weather has got you giddy. When you haven’t got much to work with, you’ve got to decide what’s worth […]
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Best Sushi Restaurant
Though the Hamachi empire stretches its hand across the city’s face with a variety of tastes and eateries, including Brussels and the Little Europe deli in the Hydrostone, they’re best known for their talent in the Japanese delicacies. The menus are regularly updated to keep things fresh, including recent happy hour prices and dishes. The […]
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Shoptalk-lets
A delicious incentive to gently thaw from now until the end of March at Hamachi House (5190 Morris, 425-7711) is the winter warm-up special, a complementary miso soup with the purchase of any menu item during lunch (11:30am-2:30pm). And speaking of all things Hamachi, congratulations to the Hamachi Group for winning the 2009 Gold Award […]
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Best Sushi Restaurant
Hamachi has had a lock on this category with Coast readers for years, for a wide variety of reasons, and the updating of their menu is but one of them. “We just added new fusion maki rolls and a bento box on the lunch menu, as well as some Japanese appetizers,” says Ivan Nickerson, the […]