Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner Italian Market Bronze Winner Tian Phat Let’s just say, hypothetically, your child has recently become obsessed with Wallace and Gromit and talks about Wensleydale and Stilton non-stop. There’s one place you can go that will have the cheese, cream crackers and Branston pickle required for […]
Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax
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Best International Grocer
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner Italian Market Bronze Winner Tian Phat Shopping at Pete’s Frootique doesn’t offer the same depth of products, shockingly low prices and small-business support that comes from patronizing Tian Phat, the Italian Market or any number of the tiny storefront grocers popping up (to our delight) […]
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Best Salad
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner The Canteen Bronze Winner enVie a vegan kitchen The Pete’s salad contains multitudes. It is a math problem: How many different combinations can you make from the 30 plus ingredients? It is a clown car, the normal-sized takeout box managing to hold an extraordinary amount […]
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Best Smoothie
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods Silver Winner Mr. Smooth Bronze Winner Wild Leek Let’s be honest—if you have a blender, it’s not hard to make a passable smoothie. But a great smoothie? The stuff of legend, consistently popular day in and day out, year after year, winning gold awards for a decade? That’s […]
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Best International Grocer
Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner The Italian Market Bronze Winner Tian Phat Yes, without a doubt, Pete’s has some fine food. You can get a world of groceries there, but underlying that amazing selection, the best reason to visit it to treat yourself. This writer highly recommends swinging by the […]
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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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Sobeys to take over Pete’s
After over 40 years of building his brand, Pete Luckett is ready to say toodlee-doo to Pete’s Fine Foods. This evening, via a post on Pete’s website, the European grocer—known for its Sunnyside Mall, Dresden Row and the recently closed Wolfville locations—announced that it will be swallowed up by grocery giant Sobeys come November 2. […]
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EAT THIS: Made With Local’s Loaded Oats
It’s time to break up with the Quaker. Fans of his one-minute oatmeal packets should direct their attention, and their kettle, to Made with Local’s Loaded Oats—they’ve got the same convenience factor going for them (you can make them by stovetop, microwave, or with boiling water), but we can thank east coast ingredients for the […]
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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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Got the Urban Blues
After retiring from spending many years abroad working as a protection officer with the UNHCR Refugee Agency, Lyndell Findlay had a craving to work at home in Halifax. She also had a craving to get into cheesemaking. Now, just two years later, after learning the ins and outs of the craft, taking all the technical […]
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Crowbar flies
“While it may seem like an unorthodox decision to phase out our flagship product, it wasn’t a decision that I made lightly or without a lot of thought,” says Breighan Hunsley, the brains and hands behind Crowbar Real Foods about discontinuing it’s namesake Crowbar. Hunsley says while the artisan energy bars—which are made with homemade […]