Spaghetti carbonara Mappatura, 5883 Spring Garden Road, $12/$22 Carbonara is a dish that so many restaurants make, but so few seem to nail. From cream sauces that claim to be carbonara to sauces with scrambled egg to thin, watery undercooked sauce, this supposedly simple dish can also easily be botched. Mappatura chef and co-owner Terry […]
Qiu Brothers Dumplings
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Qiu Brothers Dumplings feels like home
Qiu Brothers Dumplings 1335 Barrington Street 11am-9pm daily My favourite restaurants are the ones that feel personal, the ones that combine not just a point of view, but a point of reference. Think of the needlepoint on a compass: That steady leg rooted into the very core of what defines a person, the hinge stretching […]
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Pumped on dumplings
Leon Qiu wants to share dumplings, one of the most popular traditional Chinese dishes, with people from different cultures. “I found that in Halifax there is no restaurant that just focuses on making dumplings, which is a traditional Chinese food that all Chinese people know,” says Qiu, who opened Qiu Brothers Dumplings in September, after […]