Gold Winner Salvatore’s Pizzaiolo Trattoria Silver Winner Morris East Bronze Winner Bramoso Gourmet Pizza If you’re sitting and home contemplating where to order a delicious, cheesy, authentic Italian-style pizza, ponder no further—Salvatore’s is your answer. Winner of this category for 11 years straight, the dynasty of great pizza holds strong. Salvatore’s knows how to turn […]
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Morris East turns five years old
Morris East (5212 Morris Street, 444-7663) turns five years old this month, and in celebration owner Jennie Dobbs is including ice cream cake—“layers of housemade seasonal ice cream and a fudgy centre”—on a three-course $30 prix-fixe birthday menu through the rest of July. Dobbs’ resto is a remarkable success story. She set out to create […]
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Best Pizza Pie
Gold Winner Salvatore’s Pizzaiolo Trattoria Silver Winner Morris East Bronze Winner Bramoso Pizza Good news over here: Salvatore’s is getting a new stone oven. In fact, by the time you read this, they might already have it. So why should you care about their new appliances? Because they’ll be able to make that killer pizza […]
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Take-and-bake now available from Morris East
The Feed has learned that Morris East (5212 Morris Street, 444-7663) is now offering a Take-and-Bake service, where you can take away their delish multi-topping pizzas and bake them at home, for maximum heat and freshness. And they’re now available tax-free. Also available for take-out are their many other pizzas, with toppings including blue cheese, […]
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Morris East offer prix-fixe lunch, running and wine club
Starting Friday, Morris East (5212 Morris Street, 444-7663) is introducing a new Lunch prix-fixe menu—two courses for $14, reports owner and pizza expert Jennie Dobbs. This includes a half-pizza with a local organic green salad and a salted caramel tartlette for dessert. You can add a mocktail, such as the Cherry Thyme Bomb—housemade black cherry and thyme cordial shaken with pineapple juice—for $3, or a real cocktail for $6, which can be substituted for a glass of house red or white. Also starting up in June is a running club. “Actually, it’s a wine club with a running problem,” explains
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Nova Scotia Icewine Festival
Running from today, February 3 until February 13, the Nova Scotia Icewine Festival aims to celebrate and educate on the subject of icewine, and a number of local businesses are participating. For example, Bishop’s Cellar (1477 Lower Water Street, 490-2675) is hosting an event tomorrow, Friday February 4, from 5pm-7pm. For $20 you can join […]
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Go Local: South End
From fashion boutiques to Asian groceries to international restos to bookstores to florists, you’ll find more shopping variety than you can shake a stylish fedora at. On one unseasonably warm Friday afternoon, Shoptalk took a stroll through the tony southern portion of downtown and we liked what we found. 50 Hats 1086 Queen Street, 482-4287 […]
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Morris East update
Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with all the cool stuff going on down at gourmet pizza joint Morris East (5212 Morris Street, 444-7663). Where to start? How about catering and office parties? Yes, they do that and are booking now for the holidays. How about the continually changing items on the menu, such as […]
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On the Fringe
The Fringe Festival descends this week, and while the plays you choose to see can be a coin’s toss away from confusing or brilliant there’s no need to take chances with your meal and drink choices. Keep yourself well-fed by checking out one of these four places, all surrounding the festival’s venues. –Holly Gordon The […]
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Morris East offers new cocktails
Morris East (5212 Morris Street, 444-7663) has a wine and beverage director. Yeah, we didn’t know either! Well, it’s true, her name is Katrina Roberts and through the artistic science of mixology she’s created The Rio, a frozen martini whose ingredients include mango, cardamom syrup and the Brazilian spirit cachaça. Too late for the Brazilian World Cup fans, but for those enjoying the bossa nova sounds at the Halifax Jazz Festival, this may be the perfect refresher. And on the subject of the HJF, Morris East is also giving customers with tickets to Spontaneous Combustion a free organic martini with
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On tap with apps
Best of Food results are in, which got us to thinking—where are good spots to go for budget-friendly happy hours when you want to both eat and drink? The four spots below boast decent deals, but if you know of any more, put your typing where your mouth is and let us know at thecoast.ca. […]
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Granola bars
Every day should be Earth Day, but if you can put in some time on April 22, the planet would greatly appreciate it (and you could also consider expanding to Earth Month, or Earth Life). Help celebrate the 40th anniversary of this movement with a globe-friendly cocktail at these local establishments. Morris East The downtown […]