Brittany Dawn Connors has been making unique clothing in Halifax for 10 years, from alternative styles with her former line Defective Stitching to her current vintage and pin-up inspired Vivacious Vixen. With a dream of opening her own shop, she mostly sold her styles online and to friends until last summer she went for it, […]
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A look at The Nook
A peek behind the papered windows at 2116 Gottingen Street reveals reclaimed wood, walls slathered in clay-based paint, letterpress table tops and curtained-off floor seating with bright jewel-toned cushions. They’re just a few of the details that’ll make the rustic-looking The Nook on Gottingen a cozy place to chill out. Mark Pavlovski and Katie Roux […]
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No doubt a-Bout-ique
Amy Donovan has always been a self-starter. Entrepreneur by day, raging derby girl by night, she started her first business—Sweeping Sweeties, a cleaning company—at just 19. Seven years and many derby bouts later she was ready for a change and started brainstorming her next venture. Cocoon Bout-ique (2179 Gottingen Street, which was once the Good […]
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Je T’aime hits the Hydrostone
If home is where the heart is, Alice Patterson’s brainchild, Je T’aime Eco-Artistic Family Space and Cafe, really could have moved in anywhere and been just fine. But she found her dream space instead, on the corner of Gottingen and Kaye streets (in the former Caribbean Twist location). “I live in the area and my […]
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Flip for Field Guide
Meld Ceilidh Sutherland and Dan Vorstermans’ entrepreneurial spirit, food and drink chops and love for nature and you’ll get Field Guide Restaurant and Bar, their casual restaurant with quality food, opening this fall at 2082 Gottingen Street. Like the field guides to birds and flowers, this one will be a “guide to everything edible in […]
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Good news, it’s Agricola Street Brasserie
“It’s pretty simple,” says chef Ludovic Eveno. “We went through so many different names and Agricola just ended up making sense.” He’s talking about his new bar and restaurant, Agricola Street Brasserie (2540 Agricola Street, next door to the also brand new enVie) a project he and partners Mike Hase and Rachel Knox have been […]
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A Caribbean Twist of fate
Back in May Caribbean Twist (3081 Gottingen Street) posted a ‘Closed for Renovations’ sign in its window. With the promise of re-opening within a week-and-a-half lovers of its Jamaican flavours didn’t make much fuss. The renos—which were being done by Caribbean Twists’ landlord—were a belated follow-up to some zoning issues you may recall, which made […]
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Home Grown Organic’s grand re-opening
It took three years of “harder than usual work” to turn 2310 Gottingen Street into the new home for Home Grown Organic Foods, and finally, it’s time to celebrate. The grocery store/food delivery biz officially switched its operation from its old stomping grounds on Allan Street to Gottingen in April, and it’s been an exciting […]
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Eager for enVie
Diandra Phipps and Cory Urquhart have finally found a home for their vegan vision, right in the north end. With an expected opening for July, the couple is taking their knowledge of vegan cuisine and using it to serve up delicious food via their new restaurant enVie – A Vegan Kitchen, at the corner of […]
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ALTEREDegos
Welcome to Extreme Makeover: Cafe Edition, in which inspiring entrepreneur Michelle Strum’s cafe and hostel Alteregos (2193 Gottingen Street, 431-3170) gets a serious facelift. Thanks to some hard work (by an entirely north end crew) the already homey-feeling hangout has become ever more inviting, with a bright and expanded space, a new chef and summer-ready […]
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Cheers to Bridge Brewing Company
Great news! It looks like that tomorrow there’ll be two new beers in town to wet your whistle with. The highly anticipated Bridge Brewing Company (2576 Agricola Street) is ready at last to quench the thirsts of curious beer lovers in town. If all things go according to plan Peter Burbridge‘s north end “nanobrewery” will […]
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Introducing Cempoal de la Calavera Negra
With visions of character-filled Agricola Street hangouts like Salvation, the And Cafe and One World dancing in his head—and the opportunity to rent some prime real estate—Chris Cookson made a proposition to his good friend and Zulkamoon bandmate Inti Gonzalez this summer. And a little enthusiasm in return was all it took for the mysterious […]
