Mid-East Food Centre 2595 Agricola Street If you’re hungry and walking down Agricola Street, it’s hard not to stop in your tracks outside the Mid East Food Centre. The air outside, no matter how chilly, is always warm with rich spices that seem to hang there, enveloping the building and anybody who walks by it […]
Mid-East Food Centre & Cafe
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Best International Grocer
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner Mid-East Food Centre Bronze Winner Indian Groceries, Robie Street Alright, alright. We get it, readers. Pete’s is a well-rounded grocery store. You don’t have to rub it in other grocers’ faces with nine consecutive Best Smoothie, nine consecutive Best Salad and four Best International Grocer […]
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Best International Grocer
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner Mid-East Food Centre & Cafe Bronze Winner Tian Phat Before Pete’s became the latest jewel in the Sobeys empire. Before the confident rebranding that turned Pete’s Frootique into straight-up Pete’s. Before the flagship Bedford Frootique expanded (and ended up losing some of its thunder to) […]
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Super markets
The European Pantry Cheese, bread, olive oil, chocolate, deli meats—y’know, the things they do better in Europe—plus loads of other groceries, and prepared take-away foods. 6516 Chebucto Road Ca-Hoa Grocery For 40-plus years this huge, family-run Asian grocery has been providing dishes, fresh veg and hard-to-find packaged goods and sauces. 5483 Victoria Road The Carrot […]
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Best International Grocer
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner Ratinaud French Cuisine Bronze Winner Mid-East Food Centre & Cafe There’s nothing better than a freshly stocked fridge of groceries—except maybe a fridge of groceries from Pete’s. Something about the artisan, gourmet or just plain awesome food at Pete’s makes it almost too good to […]
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Best International Grocer
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner Mid-East Food Centre & Cafe Bronze Winner Tian Phat For Halifax, it seems Pete’s is the place to go to find your overseas goods. With its wide range of international foods and products, you can pick up your kimchi and chutney at the same time. […]
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Take the Shop Talk Guided Tour: The north end
The meat of the issue We love it when something old is unearthed for us to experience for the first time. One year ago, Frédéric Tandy opened Charcuterie Ratinaud (2082 Gottingen Street, 446-8222), bringing home the European practice of curing meats and making pâtés and sausages. “It’s something that people have been doing for hundreds […]
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Gold Winner Mid-East Food Centre & Cafe Silver Winner Tian Phat Bronze Winner The Italian Market Sitting at the corner of North and Agricola Streets, the Mid-East Food Centre is a hub of the north end, carrying a little bit of everything from Greece and Bulgaria down to India. It’s no wonder readers think it’s […]
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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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Go local on Agricola Street
Stretching down from the north end, Agricola Street is a series of pauses, movements and environments. North of Young is the largely residential energy of the Hydrostone, but points south you’ll encounter the dominating presence of the Oland Brewery (3055 Agricola, 453-1867), then the distinguished formality of the antiques district just around Almon. Further south […]