Big breakfast pizza Morris East, 5212 Morris Street and 620 Nine Mile Drive, $16 The allure of a couple of sunny-side up eggs makes it easy to put the emphasis on the br in brunch, but if you want to focus on the unch, nothing does a better job than pizza. So why not do […]
Lot Six
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Pirate’s Tonic
Ingredients 2 oz Mount Gay Eclipse Rum 1 ½ oz Don’s Mix (2 parts grapefruit,1 part cinnamon syrup) ½ oz lime juice tonic water Method Add all ingredients except tonic water to a set of shaker tins and shake until chilled and diluted. Strain into a chilled Collins glass and garnish with lime and shaved […]
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Best New Bar
Gold Winner Stillwell Beergarden Silver Winner Gahan House Bronze Winner Lot Six Long live the Stillwell Beergarden! Summer 2015 was made all the better by the arrival of the innovative new waterfront drinkery—basically an outdoor location for Best Bar, Stillwell, which doesn’t get much summer sun in its Barrington Street location. “It was a very […]
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Best Bartender
Gold Winner Shane Beehan, Lot Six Silver Winner Jeff Van Horne, Lot Six Bronze Winner Lorne Caborn, Morris East “As bartenders, we’ve chosen our role as people who serve the public. We do what we do for the people, so to be recognized by the people—it’s satisfying,” says Shane Beehan, who left his post at […]
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Orderly conduct
It happens more than you’d like to admit—you’re trying to make a good impression when you’re handed the wine list and the anxiety begins. What do I order? How do I say it? Can I pick something without looking like a total idiot? Thankfully Heather Rankin, sommelier and co-owner of Obladee, A Wine Bar, is […]
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Just try me: local wines to drink this fall
Domaine de Grand Pré, Haskap Sparking Wine $23.75 Haskap, a berry native to our province, gives this wine just a hint of body and sweetness. Made in the traditional Champagne method, this is a wine versatile enough to span whatever fall feast you have up your sleeve. “This wine is about as Nova Scotian as […]
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Monday’s 9 things you need to know
[Image-1] 1 Everyone still hates the Liberals’ budget. Three months after introducing unwelcome austerity cuts, the Nova Scotian budget is still being criticized by local non-profit groups. The Deafness Advocacy Association Nova Scotia will cease to exist within a year, says the group’s executive director—all because of losing a $34,200 annual grant from the province. […]
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Tending topic
“My first job ever working in the industry was as a dishwasher at The Bitter End,” Shane Beehan says, a breathless storyteller let loose inside him. “I was, like, 21 years old and going to university and I would walk to work or bike to work each day and I’d go by Mosaic, by that […]
