Gold Winner Vandal Doughnuts Silver Winner Layers Cakes Bronze Winner Fortune Doughnut No matter if it’s the sweet-and-simple pink frosting and sprinkles of The Homer or a more intricate offering like the Skor bar cheesecake doughnut, the hoodlums at Vandal are always frying up something delicious to satisfy the sweetest of teeth. The pink boxes […]
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Best Cookie / Cupcake / Doughnut
Gold Winner Vandal Doughnuts Silver Winner Layers Cakes Bronze Winner Ol’ School Donuts Homer’s odyssey. Purple rain. Vegan Boston cream. Oscar the grouch. Footy loops. Sensual seduction. These greasy little numbers, and lots more, make up the roster of creations coming out of the fryer at winner-supreme, Vandal Doughnuts (also your Best Bakery and Best […]
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Best Cookie / Cupcake / Doughnut
Gold Winner Layers Cakes Silver Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Bronze Winner Ol’ School Donuts When Jen Harrison, owner of the petite, pastel cupcake shop Layers, gets word her bakery has once again won Best Cookie/Cupcake/Doughnut gold, her excitement tumbles though the phone call. “This is our third year winning, and it’s almost like […]
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Attica is 20 years young
This weekend marks two decades in business for downtown’s furniture and lifestyle mainstay Attica Furnishings (1566 Barrington Street), which NSCAD grads Suzanne Saul and Christopher Joyce opened to Halifax shoppers in ’95. The now four-storey home style store has seen a lot of changes—not just on Barrington Street but in the way people shop—and despite […]
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One Kitchen Door closes
More Barrington Street news! And it brings us the end of the Halifax location of Patty Howard’s Kitchen Door Catering. The Bedford-based caterer and take-out food shop opened its downtown location in 2012, pairing up with fellow wedding and event favourite, Layers Cakes at 1276 Barrington Street, offering frozen takeaway meals, and grab and go […]
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Best Cookie / Cupcake / Doughnut
Gold Winner Susie’s Shortbreads, downtown Silver Winner Layers Cakes Bronze Winner Little Red Kitsch’n, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Coconut, sprinkles, sparkles, icing and gumdrops equal a cupcake overload. Locally owned Susie’s Shortbreads is a vision of everything a sweet shop should be, from the striped pink awning to its checkerboard floor. Your sweet tooth will […]