Who he is Before he spent his days making ice cream, the frozen dessert was a rare treat for Samer Aljokhadar. “I loved ice cream as a child, but we were from a poor family,” he says. “We couldn’t have it all the time.” As a young adult, Aljokhadar worked for an ice cream factory […]
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Play it cool with these six ice cream spots
Dairy Bar The brilliant food minds behind Manual Food & Drink Co. and Dartmouth’s Cafe Good Luck also know how to make magic with a soft-serve machine. Swing by Stillwell Beergarden’s roomie for creative flavour combos (blueberry lavender) and sundaes heaping with next-level toppings like lemon curd, cookie chunks and cereal. See ya, DQ. 5688 Spring […]
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Dripping in finesse: 4 new ice creams to hunt down
Rainbow Sprinkle Unicorn Love bubble waffle Portland Street Creperie, 55 Portland Street The Jaw-Dropper with matcha ice cream Taiyaki 52, 2009 Brunswick Street Nutella peanut brittle waffle cone Ol’ School Ice Cream, streetfoodapp.com/halifax Chocolate dipped vanilla cone with maple flakesRousseau Chocolatier, 5151 South Street Related Stories
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Nova Scotia offers $1.8-million rebate for innovative ice cream
Nova Scotia Business Inc. is giving Quebec dairy giant Agropur a $1,843,776 rebate to create an “innovative production line, novel to the national ice cream market in Canada.” The presumably bold and world-class ice cream will be produced at the former Scotsburn plant in Truro. Agropur purchased the Nova Scotian company two years ago to expand […]
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Sweet unions: four ice cream sandwiches to make at home
Grandma’s House Dee Dee’s Ice Cream’s vanilla ice cream, Helen B’s Preserves’ strawberry rhubarb jam and Smith’s Bakery ginger cookies Cocoa-loco Humani-T Cafe’s dark chocolate gelato, 24 Carrots Bakery’s chocolate-dipped shortbread and coconut flakes Sweet Enough Common Confections’ salted caramel dairy-free frozen dessert, LF Bakery’s milk bun and toasted sesame seeds Pool Party Scanway Catering […]
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Cream of the crop
Roll on Two A hollow pastry is basically wasted if it’s not filled with ice cream. When Andrei and Orit Paunescu opened their little Hungarian chimney cake bakery in the early spring, they had a soft serve machine on their shopping list—and lucky for us it happened in time for summer. The puffy, perfectly golden […]
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Why you need to eat a bubble waffle sundae
As people stand in long lineups in the hot sun at Bang Bang Ice Cream in Toronto and Hong Kong waffles become one of the season’s most Instagrammable desserts, Halifax, of course, quietly lets a rare moment where we are in step with the times go completely unnoticed. In a basement on Spring Garden Road, […]
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Stillwell Beergarden set for Spring Garden Road
After a successful inaugural summer on the Halifax Waterfront, and a surprisingly trying search for a new location, Stillwell has was scored a new spot for its open air beer garden on the corner of Spring Garden Road and South Park Street. Come early June, the Stillwell Beergarden will be slinging local craft beers from […]
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Cool story, bro
Black Bear Ice Cream Q: In a battle of waterfront ice cream, who’d win, a Bear or a Cow? A: Whomever wields Moon Mist as a weapon. Queens Wharf, Halifax waterfront Cherry Berry Self-Serve Yogurt Bar It’s on you to dress your frozen yogurt swirl to the nines with sauces, cookies, fruit chunks and boba, […]
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Where to find the best ice cream
As days get colder and shorter, what better way to savour the last weeks of summer than by slamming copious amounts of ice cream down your throat? But even the simplest pleasures can lead to confusion in today’s consumer culture—we have a slew of frozen treats to choose from and all are not created equal. […]
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Best Ice Cream / Gelato / Frozen Yogurt
Dio Mio is practically a Halifax institution now, having started in Walter Forsyth’s kitchen in 1990 and moved into its current location on Brenton just off Spring Garden in 1996, now managed by Jay Roche. With a new location in Dartmouth Crossing open a year, more people are getting to try the insane variety of […]