“Mark is an inspiration, I’ve wanted to work with [him] ever since I was in culinary school,” says Janie Bogardus, about her current boss and owner of The Watch That Ends the Night, Mark Gray. The Dartmouth restaurant and bar opened in November 2017 and Gray, who was the opening chef, recently bought it from […]
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First Look: inside The Watch That Ends The Night’s cool Canadiana
“Happiness annihilates time,” wrote Hugh MacLennan in his 1958 novel The Watch That Ends The Night, the namesake of Bethany and Joe Gurba’s new 80-seater restaurant and cocktail bar on the second floor of King’s Wharf in Dartmouth. “It’s the idea time can be cruel and arbitrary, but it feels amazing when it dissolves,” says […]
Battery Park, recharged
It turns out George and Leo Christakos had an ace in the hole. Or, rather, they put an Ace in the hole that chef Mark Gray left in their restaurant concept when, last month, he announced he was going to be leaving Battery Park (62 Ochterloney Street). The food at Battery Park has been defined […]

