Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner Mid-East Food Centre Bronze Winner Indian Groceries, Robie Street Alright, alright. We get it, readers. Pete’s is a well-rounded grocery store. You don’t have to rub it in other grocers’ faces with nine consecutive Best Smoothie, nine consecutive Best Salad and four Best International Grocer […]
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Super markets
The European Pantry Cheese, bread, olive oil, chocolate, deli meats—y’know, the things they do better in Europe—plus loads of other groceries, and prepared take-away foods. 6516 Chebucto Road Ca-Hoa Grocery For 40-plus years this huge, family-run Asian grocery has been providing dishes, fresh veg and hard-to-find packaged goods and sauces. 5483 Victoria Road The Carrot […]
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Take the Shop Talk Guided Tour: The north end
The meat of the issue We love it when something old is unearthed for us to experience for the first time. One year ago, Frédéric Tandy opened Charcuterie Ratinaud (2082 Gottingen Street, 446-8222), bringing home the European practice of curing meats and making pâtés and sausages. “It’s something that people have been doing for hundreds […]
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Shoptalk product: heavenly Indian sweets
Now that you’re saving so much on cheap eats, you’ll have enough cash left in your pocket for dessert. Forget the Oreos, tucked away in a fridge at Indian Groceries (2585 Robie Street, 423-6339), are trays filled with nuggets of sweet, homemade heaven. Sticky, sticky gulab jamun, how I long to bathe in your syrup. […]