It’s 9am when Annie Brace-Lavoie starts her day. The coffee maker is trickling as she begins to pull containers and produce from refrigerators. A tray of nest-like wheels made of praline-flavoured choux pastry make its way into the oven. After baking they’ll be cut horizontally and piped full of hazelnut creme. Desserts are always done […]
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Sourwood Cider’s north end plans
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sourwood Cider (@sourwoodcider) on Oct 2, 2018 at 2:16pm PDT After a successful summer of piquing interest and tastebuds, the founders of Sourwood Cider are levelling up. The sometimes hard-to-track-down, funky-ass unfermented cider will have a place to hang out come early 2019 when it opens […]
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DRINK THIS: Chain Yard’s Drunken Cherry cider
Jay Hildybrant isn’t afraid to play around with ingredients, but the head cidermaker at Chain Yard Urban Cidery never wants to bury the best parts of cider under too much sugar. “For the longest time there’s been a stigmatic idea cider needs to be sweet and needs to taste like apples. To me, it’s time […]
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Mark Giffin’s breakfast, brunch, whatever
WHO HE IS Mark Giffin, owner and chef at The Coastal Cafe, swore off making breakfast food. After he sold his bed and breakfast on the west coast, he moved to Halifax to pursue six years of fine dining at Bish World Cuisine. “I thought I would never cook another egg,’” he says. But one […]
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Gentrifying Blackness in Halifax’s inner city
Agricola, North, Barrington and Cogswell Streets were my old boundaries—my safe place, my sanctuary, my community, my hood. Now it seems as though it belongs to someone else. Its gradual transformation from a historic Black community to a trendy place to live and be entertained has rendered unfamiliar, uncomfortable and unaffordable spaces for many of […]
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Where I work: Fancy Lebanese Bakery
Fancy Lebanese Bakery 2573 Agricola Street Who she is Mary Laba, owner of the Fancy Lebanese Bakery, couldn’t fry an egg when she moved to Canada from Lebanon. Now, she can quickly troubleshoot the bakery’s pita dough. Less salt. More yeast. “She could tell me if there wasn’t enough water just by the sound the […]
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Drinks reportedly spiked at three different north end bars
Three different women have now come forward suspecting someone put rape drugs in their drinks while at popular north end bars. All three incidents occurred in the past two months. The Coast has agreed not to use the women’s real names for their privacy. On Sunday, January 14, 25-year-old Michelle and her friends and coworkers […]
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Find your Caribbean Bliss
Caribbean Bliss 3619 Novalea Drive Elias Fathallah hates cooking. “But I love to clean,” he says with a laugh. Luckily Caribbean Bliss has Rickey Smith, a chef who has been in the kitchen since before Fathallah bought the business in September of last year. Only a few minutes later he’s putting rice on the stove […]
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Province passes on Bloomfield Centre
For the second time, the province of Nova Scotia won’t be buying Halifax’s Bloomfield Centre. The deteriorating former school and community centre is once again facing an uncertain future according to an update heading to Regional Council on Tuesday. Council voted last August to sell a portion of the 3.3-acre site to the provincial government […]
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Easy excess at Rinaldo’s
Rinaldo’s 2186 Windsor Street Tue-Thu 11:30am-10pm, Fri 11:30am-1am, Sat 10am-3pm and 5pm-1am, Sun 10am-3pm and 5pm-10pm As I walk down Cunard Street towards the bus stop, two little boxes sitting as heavily in my bag as the slowly digesting carbs sit in my stomach, I make a promise to myself: I will never go back […]
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Church’s Barbershop opens on Agricola
After two years of lowering ears from their west end joint, Scallywags Barbershop (6513 Chebucto Road), Dylan MacEachern and Brad MacDonald are expanding their fleet. Last week the pair quietly opened Church’s Barbershop in the former Makenew location (2468 Agricola Street), a spin off location that offers the same service with a slightly sleeker different […]
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Adieu Agora, hello Haligonian
After just under a year on Agricola Street, Agora Cafe & Grill Bistro (2394 Agricola Street)—the colourful little cafe, serving up a menu of Mediterranean cuisine, coffees and baked goods—closed its doors permanently yesterday. The cafe’s owner Kubilay Gonul took to Facebook for parting words, and to share the news that a new business would […]
