Gold Winner Ardmore Tea Room Silver Winner The Coastal Bronze Winner Mary’s Place What makes a good breakfast? Salty or sweet? Should pancakes come served with syrups or meats? Do you like your eggs scrambled, poached, fried or over-easy? Is it gonna be bacon, ham or bologna? These waffles and omelettes are anything but routine. […]
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Give me all the bacon and eggs you have
Starfresh Modern Diner 20 Wright Avenue Dish: Plate Breakfast Served: Monday-Friday, 6:30-11am Price: $5.95 Medium coffee: $1.50 After years catering for TV and film, Lisa Barry knows how to keep people well-fuelled. Her little Burnside diner arrived on the scene just before Christmas, offering home-cooked eats and in-house baked goods to the hardworking business park […]
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Best Breakfast
Gold Winner The Coastal Cafe Silver Winner Mary’s Place Cafe Bronze Winner Cora, Halifax When it comes to breakfast, it’s tough to compete with The Coastal’s inspired, standout menu. Winners of this category for four years running, these folks definitely have a corner on the breakfast market. Owner and chef Mark Giffen thinks the restaurant’s […]
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Light it up at Mary’s Place Café II
Mary’s Place Café II (5982 Spring Garden Road) is smoking! Well, hookah, that is. The downtown Middle Eastern restaurant now offers hookah from 7pm until midnight every night and there’s a new menu for hookah hours, which includes falafel wraps, chicken shawarma and dips like hummus, baba ghanoush and more. To smoke a hookah, it’s […]
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Best Bargain
Gold Winner Westcliff Restaurant & Convenience Silver Winner Mary’s Place Bronze Winner Brewdebaker’s Tap & Grill Beverley Griswold pulls the phone away from her ear and yells to her customers, “Why do you come here?” A few cheery, muffled replies echo in the background in between bites of diner deliciousness. “An at-home atmosphere,” she translates. […]
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Pretty in punk
A graveyard may not be the typical backdrop for wedding photos, but for Chelle Wootten and Adam Bowes it was picture-perfect. The pair started as best friends, who later became partners in both life and business, running Chelle Wootten Photography (yes, Chelle even helped to shoot her own wedding). Busy capturing other people’s weddings, Chelle […]
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There’s Something About Mary’s 2
“The same menu exactly,” promises Mary’s Place Cafe (2752 Robie Street, 454-2558) owner Ray Khouri about the second location of his popular joint. It will be found in the spot on Spring Garden formerly occupied by Brick Oven Pizzeria (5982 Spring Garden), which has closed. Khouri is in there now renovating, and plans to open the new location of his all-day-breakfast-vegan-vegetarian-middle-eastern palace before the students return, so in August, likely. It’s gonna be called Mary’s Place Cafe 2, in the style of all great sequels.
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Mary’s Place Renovates
Fans of Mary’s Place Cafe (2752 Robie Street, 454-2558) will be surprised at the changes to the place when you walk through the door. “We did some renovation,” says a jovial Roy Khouri on the phone. “New walls, new tables, new floor.” Khouri’s actually reduced the number of booths and added tables to better accommodate […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]
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Five vegetarian places where Paul McCartney should eat
1) Heartwood (6250 Quinpool, 425-2808) Probably the top fresh and local paradise for vegetarians and vegans in Halifax. Plus, it’s full of musicians working behind the counter. Heartwood specials for the week-end include the Lonely Hearts Club Sandwich, with soyanaise and smoked tofu, the Macca-roni, vegan-style with tahini, nutritional yeast, garlic and broccoli and some […]
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My summer: Mat Dunlap, designer, radio host
Operating out of an office above Long & McQuade, Dunlap does design, web stuff and photography for local musicians. With Brent Randall and Dave Ewenson, he started the Just Friends collective/label in 2003. “We don’t run it as a strict business, it’s more just helping everybody out with whatever services we can,” says Dunlap. The […]