Joining in the relief efforts for Haiti are a number of local businesses. The Hart & Thistle ( Historic Properties, 1869 Upper Water Street, 407-4278) are giving all proceeds from this Thursday’s Trivia Night (January 21, $10 per participant, with additional donations welcomed) toward Haiti relief. The Loop (1547 Barrington Street, 429-5667) is having a […]
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Tickled ivory: piano bar round up
While Halifax is a great city for weekly live music shows, sometimes it’s nice to simply sit down and have a drink with a performance that isn’t taking centre stage. Ragtime, anyone? Press Gang The Gang’s piano’s played weekly from Thursday to Saturday, 7:30-11pm, with a new time slot Thursdays and Fridays from 4:30-5:30pm. Musician […]
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News of food
Popular Italian resto Il Mercato (5650 Spring Garden Road, 422-2866) is offering a Prix Fixe menu, Mondays through Thursdays, a three course meal for $35. Also available are flights of wine, chosen to complement the meal, in 3oz and 5oz sizes. It’s worth keeping in mind that local restaurant magnates The Bertozzi Group, which own […]
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Best Buskers’ Festival hangouts
Voted Best Free Event 2008 in our Best of Halifax readers’ poll, it’s a sure bet the waterfront’s going to be packed from August 6 to 11 for this year’s Halifax International Busker Festival. There’s only one restaurant in plain view of a busker stage (Stayner’s Wharf at Chebucto Landing), and the chances of seeing […]
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Nash talks about his move to Hart & Thistle
Several dozen beer lovers gathered in the side room of the new Hart & Thistle Gastropub at 7 pm last Wednesday to taste the first brews out of the old system that returning brewer Greg Nash used when it was called Shippey’s…in the food court. Nash was on hand to chat with his acolytes about […]
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Big beer news: Master brewer Greg Nash to open Halifax micro-brewery
Updated below! Local beer circles are abuzz with news that master brewer Greg Nash—who left Garrison Brewery (1149 Marginal, 453-5343) last year in over a more or less amiable difference of opinion with Garrison owner Brian Titus and accepted an offer at Moncton’s Pump House Brewery—has teamed up with Hart and Thistle (Historic Properties, 407-4278) […]