Today’s the day: As of Friday June 5, the Nova Scotia government says COVID-closed industries like bars, restaurant dining rooms and hairdressers are permitted to reopen. Premier Stephen McNeil said this past Wednesday that it’s time to “get our economy moving again.” But for many restaurants across Nova Scotia, June 5 isn’t an instantaneous reopening day. Some […]
jane’s next door
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EDNA and jane’s next door have sold to Andy’s East Coast Kitchen
After seven years and thousands of brunch-time sweet & saltys, EDNA has been sold. Owner Jenna Mooers announced today the sale of the much-beloved Gottingen Street eatery and its building, as well as jane’s catering and events, the next-door catering business and storefront take-away owned by her mother, Jane Wright. But don’t fret—everything is […]
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Hidden Haligonians: Audrey Duggan
Audrey Duggan is currently on staff at jane’s on Gottingen Street, but her history in the catering industry involves dishing out food for the likes of Martha Stewart and NHL hall-of-famers. Between semesters of studying art in Maine, Duggan decided to apply for a position at a ranch in Colorado at the encouragement of her […]
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Gottingen Street scores The Foggy Goggle
After eight years hanging its oversized pair of goggles at 1667 Argyle Street, deep-fryer-free pub, The Foggy Goggle, has announced it will be pouring beers from Gottingen Street come early 2017. The Goggle’s owners Natalie Dugie and Julie Streight shared via social media today that their downtown location will sign off on December 20 to […]
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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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Jenna Mooers and Jane Wright
Owner, EDNA, 2053 Gottingen Street Owner, jane’s next door, 2053 Gottingen Street Jane Wright got her first job at 13, in grade nine, at Ernie’s Truck Stop on Highway 31. “In a polyester, two-piece, blue waitress outfit with white shoes. It was $1.45 an hour,” she says. Her daughter, Jenna Mooers, also started out in […]
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Waiting on Edna
The legacy of jane’s on the common has made its way to Gottingen. Jenna Mooers—whose mother Jane Wright was behind the beloved north end eatery—is following suit, opening a similar, tapas-style restaurant next door to jane’s next door at 2053 Gottingen Street. For Mooers, the new location is what’s most exciting. “Halifax traditionally has been […]