For decades Java Blend has been bringing us the best coffees from around the world, with an evolved consciousness for the environment, a keen eye for organic blends and a strong sense of community responsibility and involvement. Those of us unable to globetrot at a moment’s notice can still get a taste of cultures far […]
Java Blend Coffee Roasters
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Best Coffee (Regular)
For decades Java Blend has been bringing us the best coffees from around the world, with an evolved consciousness for the environment, a keen eye for organic blends and a strong sense of community responsibility and involvement. Those of us unable to globetrot at a moment’s notice can still get a taste of cultures far […]
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Ruined Addiction
I just moved to the North End and every weekday morning there is a cloud of, what I can only determine to be, burnt coffee around North and Robie. I don’t understand why it keeps happening. Am I missing something?—no more charcoaled coffee
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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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Best Coffee (Regular)
Believe it or not, Java Blend has been bringing us locally roasted, top-quality coffee for more than 70 years. Their commitment to fair trade and the environment is key to their philosophy, which they talk about on their website: “We participate in programs that encourage practices such as shade growing, biodiversification and organic farming.” Individual […]
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Halifax’s cappuccino undergrounds
What do off-duty baristas do? With good-natured sadism, they train picky customers to pull espresso shots and make them compete against one another. That’s the premise of the 2008 non-barista championship, in the year coffee culture percolated in Halifax. At one end of barista Zane Kelsall’s kitchen is Steve-O-Reno’s first ever espresso machine, a small […]
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Espresso yourself
High-end coffee-machine giant KRUPScaught the steam coming off our bustling coffee culture. This year, Halifax became the fifth city to join the KRUPS Kup of Excellence, an annual contest to find the best espresso in independent coffee houses. The competition works like this: Coffee fans select their top five cafes in an online vote, then […]
