Gold Winner Local Jo Cafe & Market Silver Winner True North Diner Bronze Winner Cora’s This family joint boasts some of the cafe world’s youngest patrons. Dining on cubes of apple slices, cubes of cheese, raisins and organic bread served in a boat-shaped dish, kid customers are king at Local Jo Cafe & Market. “They […]
Local Jo Cafe & Market
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Best Kid-friendly Spot
Local Jo continues to be Best of Food’s Best Kid-Friendly Spot, winning three times in a row now. This quaint little neighbourhood cafe serves up fair trade and organic coffee, local teas and a menu comprised of farmers’ market goodies. The kids’ section always has a revolving assortment of toys, so let them play a […]
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Best Kid-friendly Spot
Grabbing a second victory in this category, the Oxford Street cafe solidifies its standing as a family friendly community hub, with great coffee and tea, plus fresh baked goods to go along with the toys, kids’ play area and kids’ specials on the menu. Drop by, congratulate them on the five candles stuck in their […]
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Five years of Local Jo
From the window of her office at the architectural firm Solterre Design, Local Jo Café & Market (2959 Oxford Street, 455-6225) co-owner Jennifer Corson can look down to her café. From another window she can see the roof of her home, and just down the street on Almon is another business she’s involved in, Renovators Resource, which is operated by her sister Alison Philbey. Corson is truly a supporter of her neighbourhood. “It was very self-serving,” she explains, outlining how five years ago last week she, with her husband Keith Robertson and backyard neighbours David Black and Heather Scott, opened
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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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Local poetry: For letter or for verse
When it comes to poetry, Halifax slams. And poetry is cool. Really. Don’t think so? Got the structured verse of a long dead white guy rattling your cranium? Been rejected by a now out-of-print literary journal? Whatever might have scared you off poetry, you’re in Halifax now. Halifax is one poetic town. Poetry rings through […]
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Best Kid-friendly Spot
The neighbourhood to find Local Jo is where Oxford runs through the north end, a great place for kids of all ages to hang out. (That means you, too.) The play area upstairs is a favourite, with a padded floor—for the more acrobatic rugrat—and lots of toys, and if the kids build up an appetite […]