Gold Winner Gateway Meat Market Silver Winner Getaway Farm, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Bronze Winner Getaway Farm, Hydrostone Tamara Selig cannot say enough about her staff at Gateway Meat Market. According to the co-owner of the beloved, no-frills grocery and butcher all 40 of them get just as pumped for the shop’s sales as the customers […]
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Earth Goddess Shop is moving, making room to grow
A post shared by Earth Goddess Shop (@earthgoddessshop) on Dec 10, 2017 at 5:22am PST After eight months in business, Shannon MacGregor and Sandy McInnis were told their shop’s building had been sold. While Earth Goddess Shop has been attracting customers to the little establishment in the Hydrostone (5528 Kaye Street), plans to tear the […]
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11 Street Boutique opens this weekend
Erica Cormier is inspired. The north end resident and entrepreneur is opening her first venture into small business—11 Street Boutique (5649 Hennessy Street, on the corner of Isleville)—this weekend in the Hydrostone, and she says she couldn’t have done it without her local retail muses. “I’m really into shopping local, and boutique shopping, and I […]
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Made in the Maritimes hits the Hydrostone
“People are looking for high quality, and they want to support local,” says Joel Kelly. He’s learned that in the last year, during which he’s been bringing beautiful things to Bedford via art, craft and handmade boutique Made in the Maritimes (Sunnyside Mall, 1595 Bedford Highway), which he runs with Mark Smith. Amidst a busy […]
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Bogside Gallery retires
Barbara Roberts has made one heck of a career in crafting. After running Bogside Weaving in Newfoundland for over 15 years, she moved to Halifax and opened her Hydrostone boutique the Bogside Gallery (5527 Young Street) in 1996. What was originally meant to be a Christmas pop-up, giving shoppers the chance to wrap up some […]
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It’s taco time at La Cantina
David Parks first fell for taco stand culture at 18 when his lack of a summer job and love for his Intro to Spanish class landed him in Mexico. Since then he’s been spending time there on-and-off for about 20 years, learning and enjoying the ins and outs of authentic Mexican cuisine along the way. […]
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Hue Design brings paint smarts to the Hydrostone
“I’m a paint nerd,” laughs Michele Muir owner of the brand new Hue Design Studio (5558 Sullivan Street). After 10 years working as a colour consultant, interior decorator and passionate furniture up-cycler, she decided to zero in on the science of colour, getting her Dewey Colour Certification and opening a shop. “I just realized, I’m […]
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ShopTalk visits the Hydrostone
If you judge this book by its cover, the Hydrostone Market is a page- turner. Steeped in history and soaked in style it looks good, yes—so good that when Mother’s Pizza went up, it used the original row of shops for design inspiration—but this wee shopping district feels good, too. The tight-knit strip of boutiques, […]
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Mother’s, may I?
Somethings are just worth the wait, aren’t they? It was about a year about that the first hammer swung at what is now Mother’s Pizza (5710 Young Street, 406-5050), Tyson Wachter’s Canadian iteration of a pizza restaurant he opened in Turks and Caicos five years ago. Soon open for lunch and dinner, the just over 40-seater […]
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henhouse takes flight
An empty nest is in the future for henhouse (5533 Young Street, 423-4499). The Hydrostone home and lifestyle design shop and showroom announced today it will be closing the retail portion of the business on February 28. “It’s a great showcase for the aesthetic,” says Sappho Griffin, who co-owns henhouse with Denise Coulter. “It’s been […]
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Mother’s hits the Hydrostone this fall
Mother’s is coming to the Hydrostone (5710 Young Street, the old Tanner Supply building location) this fall. With a successful Turks and Caicos location that specializes in pizza, owner Tyson Wachter thought it was time to bring its locally sourced, comfort food to Halifax. And by local, the owners really mean local. “We are […]
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Hydrostone exempted from north end business district
In the 1970s, residents and businesses around the northern stretches of what was then Gottingen Street petitioned the city to change the name of the street to Novalea Drive. The change was made to disassociate the Hydrostone area from the black business district and social housing project on the more southerly reaches of Gottingen Street, […]