Spaghetti carbonara Mappatura, 5883 Spring Garden Road, $12/$22 Carbonara is a dish that so many restaurants make, but so few seem to nail. From cream sauces that claim to be carbonara to sauces with scrambled egg to thin, watery undercooked sauce, this supposedly simple dish can also easily be botched. Mappatura chef and co-owner Terry […]
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Drink this: North Brewing’s Twinkle Pony cookie stout
If Cookie Monster drank beer, this would probably be his favourite. North Brewing Company’s latest release is adorably titled Twinkle Pony. It’s a cookie stout which includes flavours you’d find in a bakery, brewed with macarons from Le French Fix Pâtisserie. “Pastry stouts are a fun style you see lots of breweries experimenting with these […]
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Mille Feuille
Le French Fix Pâtisserie, 5233 Prince Street Not all of us can be Geoffroy Chevallier, but we can sure as hell try. The French pastry chef took his talents around the world before landing on Prince Street five years ago, where he brings desserts, confections and pastries fit for royalty to his wee cafe daily. […]
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One year of Le French Fix
Halifax’s “tiny taste of Paris”, Le French Fix Pâtisserie (5233 Prince Street, 497-5308), is turning the big one next week and everyone is invited to celebrate its first year in business. The bakery-cafe hybrid started off with French pastry chef Geoffroy Chevallier in a booth at the Farmer’s Market and has since grown to be […]
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Le French Fix’s killer combo
Le French Fix Patisserie (5233 Prince Street, 497-5308) now offers massage therapy, this is knot a joke—health, balance, awareness and french pastries. Alison Capstick has been a massage therapist for 10 years in Halifax. “I specialize in sports massage, rehabilitation, pre-natal, and stress reduction,” she says. Capstick’s recently joined forces with Le French Fix to […]