Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner Italian Market Bronze Winner Indochine Banh Mi When The Canteen moved from its little sandwich counter on Ochterloney to a sunny, sit-down family restaurant on Portland in 2017, people were pumped. But something was missing. “It was one of those situations, we weren’t delivering on the takeout side of […]
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Best Sandwich
Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner Indochine Banh Mi Bronze Winner Pete’s Fine Foods, Dresden Row When Renée Lavallée thinks lunch, she thinks sandwiches, hence why she made the classic item her restaurant’s bread and butter (and meat and cheese). From fried chicken to fried green tomato, crobster rolls to BLT bagels—the lineups (and votes) […]
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A little piece of heaven
Sushi Ko Doraku 5640 Spring Garden Road, 1949 Upper Water Street $2.50/2.75 (nigiri), $4.50 (maki) Beef patties Stella’s Antiguan Cuisine Seaport Farmers’ Market, 1209 Marginal Road $3 each or 2/$5 Korean taco Indochine Banh Mi 1551 South Park Street / 1701 Barrington Street $4 California sandwich Izzy’s Bagel 1180 Bedford Highway $3.99 Onion bhaji […]
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Best Sandwich
Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner Indochine Banh Mi, South Park Bronze Winner Italian Market The best thing since sliced bread are the things that chef Renée Lavallée is putting in between The Canteen’s house-baked loaves of it. The wee sandwich-centric restaurant shines down on Dartmouth from above Two If By Sea, serving seasonally-inspired sammies […]
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What do you think needs to be fixed?
[Image-1] We reached out to public figures, community leaders and business owners to find out how they would fix the city. Some edited responses were printed in this week’s issue, but below are the full replies we received. “More use of our wonderful harbour. We should have extended hours on our downtown ferry, with more […]
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Best Sandwich
Gold Winner Indochine Banh Mi Silver Winner Pete’s, Halifax Bronze Winner Italian Market We’re a far cry from the baloney and cheese-slice sandwiches you grew up with. Think more along the lines of citrus mayo, pickled carrots, fresh cilantro and chili, those just a few of the reasons Indochine’s sandwich scores big. A serious love […]
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A second Indochine set for Barrington Street
Liz Smith fell so in love with banh mi sandwiches while living in Calgary, when she decided to move to Halifax her coworkers joked that she should open a Vietnamese sandwich shop when she arrived. She did eventually, her Indochine Banh Mi (1551 South Park Street) debuted its banh mis, Korean tacos, bubble tea and […]
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Best Sandwich
Gold Winner Pete’s, Halifax Silver Winner The Italian Market Bronze Winner Indochine There’s a reason Pete’s has won this title for the last four years in a row. These are not just sandwiches, they’re next level experiences. None of the garden-variety, cold cut combos here, we’re talking hot sandwiches, like leg of lamb, roast pork […]
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Best Sandwich
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique Silver Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Bronze Winner Indochine Banh Mi Pete’s ToGoGo is an eat-in or take-away eatery perfect for people on the go (go). You can choose from a delicious selection of hot, roasted meat sandwiches, classic deli selections or veggie toppings. New this spring is the Gluten-Free Eatery & CoffeeBar, […]
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Best Smoothie
Gold Winner Pete’s Power Juice Bar Silver Winner Humani-T Cafe Bronze Winner Indochine Banh Mi Halifax loves Pete’s smoothies because they’re the only place in town that uses all fresh ingredients. For a sure thing, try favourites Mango Tango or Jackie’s Love Potion—a blend of strawberries, passion fruit, orange juice, honey and yogurt. What’s new? […]
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Korean Tacos?! You bet your fusion-loving butt
Indochine Banh Mi (1551 South Park Street, 407-1222) is starting a new Halifax fusion food trend: Korean Tacos. The international mix of traditions was made popular by the California food truck craze, include Korean-style Bulgogi marinated beef, chicken or tofu, wrapped in a warm tortilla and topped with spiced Asian coleslaw, pickled daikon, cucumber, bean […]
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Sub genius
Sitting at Whet Cafe, chatting about meals we’d recently eaten, recipes we’d tried and our latest market excursions, my friend Simon stopped mid-sentence and mid-cupcake and dropped a delicious bomb. Suddenly, breathlessly, he said, “Youarenotgonnabelievethis!” Barely missing a beat, he finished, “There is banh mi at the Dartmouth flea market.” This was in April, when […]