jane’s on the common (2394 Robie Street, 431-5683), destination for great dinners, lunches and weekend brunches, will now be open for breakfast Tuesday through Friday from 7:30am to 11am. “It is my favourite meal,” says proprietor Jane Wright, who says when she first opened her popular restaurant they were open for breakfast, but space in […]
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Best Chowder
A genuine upset this year, with perennial runner-up for Best Chowder, Jane Wright’s joint at the corner of Cunard and Robie, taking the prize from the longtime chowderheads on the Bedford Highway, even though the Esquire was recognized in Saveur magazine recently for its chowder. Nice job, jane’s! The other winning category it’s well-known for […]
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Best Brunch
A genuine upset this year, with perennial runner-up for Best Chowder, Jane Wright’s joint at the corner of Cunard and Robie, taking the prize from the longtime chowderheads on the Bedford Highway, even though the Esquire was recognized in Saveur magazine recently for its chowder. Nice job, jane’s! The other winning category it’s well-known for […]
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Live like Common people
“The consultation process is a joke,” says Katie, a 24-year-old student, lips quivering, eyes on the brink of tears. She announces that she is going to leave Halifax because the city doesn’t care about the desires of its populace. Halifax Regional Municipality makes her feel agentless. Peter Bigelow, manager of real property planning for HRM […]
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How to bribe Santa with cookies
Now that it’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, shifty-eyed tots around the world are breaking into a nervous sweat whenever the words “naughty or nice” come up. But before they take that long Christmas Eve walk down the red and green mile to their rooms, think about giving the naughtier children in your […]
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Breakhouse breaks out
Shoptalk has learned that local design company Breakhouse (1096 Marginal Road, 431-3102) has landed a deal to create a chain of retail outlets for Wind Mobile, a new brand of wireless to be introduced in 2010—including in Atlantic Canada—by Toronto-based Globalive. In operation since 1999, Breakhouse is run by Glen McMinn and Peter Wuensch and […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]
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My summer: Mat Dunlap, designer, radio host
Operating out of an office above Long & McQuade, Dunlap does design, web stuff and photography for local musicians. With Brent Randall and Dave Ewenson, he started the Just Friends collective/label in 2003. “We don’t run it as a strict business, it’s more just helping everybody out with whatever services we can,” says Dunlap. The […]
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My summer: Paolo Colbertaldo, chef
Colbertaldo started cooking early. “My father wouldn’t teach me how to do carpentry because I was left handed, so my mother took me to the bakery.” In Halifax he worked at the Soho, for the US Consul General as well as doing catering for the film industry. He’s spent almost four years at jane’s on […]
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Best Brunch
Owner Jane Wright has remarked that jane’s doesn’t need any more readers’ poll kudos, that they’re almost too busy. Can Coast readers help it if they love you, Jane? Can they help it if they find your your weekend brunches irresistable, irreplaceable and incomparable? We know we can’t. 1st Runner-up Coastal Cafe 2nd Runner-up Brooklyn […]
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Best Restaurant
At jane’s, which has had a lock on this category in the Best of Food poll for years, it’s creativity and passion that are the special of the day. Of every day, really. With both a clientele and a staff that is loyal, owner Jane Wright has found the winning set of ingredients for a […]
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Best Brunch
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