As a plant-based butchery, Gottingen Street’s Real Fake Meats is far from a typical butcher shop. But if there’s one tradition co-founder Lauren Marshall believes is worth preserving, it’s wrapping her products in old-fashioned butcher-shop paper, not plastic. It hasn’t always been that way: when the shop opened one year ago this month, most […]
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Best Donair
Gold Winner Tony’s Famous Donairs & Pizza Silver Winner Johnny K’s Authentic Donairs Bronze Winner Real Fake Meats Hall of fame King of Donair Leo Salloum, manager at Tony’s Pizza & Donair, says a perfect donair has to have “the juicy meat. The pita has to be grilled to perfection, and the way it’s wrapped, […]
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Best New Restaurant
Gold Winner Upstreet BBQ Brewhouse Silver Winner Real Fake Meats Bronze Winner Cafe Good Luck Open for just a year, Upstreet BBQ Brewhouse has been giving hungry people an excuse to head into the belly of Burnside for a taste of southern barbecue. “I hope it’s our customer service that sets us apart—we wanted to […]
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Best New Business
Gold Winner The Tare Shop Silver Winner Real Fake Meats Bronze Winner Purple Cow Internet In January 2018, when Kate Pepler announced to the world that The Tare Shop—a package-free bulk store—was on its way, she felt like she was the only person in the city trying to live that way. “Then I started getting […]
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Grills gone wild: Burger Week’s most unconventional meats
Halifax Burger Week March 28-April 3 burgerweek.co Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, on a social media cleanse or avoiding this newspaper, you probably know its officially Burger Week. The annual event (presented by your pals here at The Coast) is back for its seventh year and once again its lineup of burgers (there […]
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Real friends, fake meats
It’s mid-morning on a Monday when Brandon Levesque and Lauren Marshall, co-founders of Real Fake Meats, Halifax’s first plant-based butcher, answer the phone for this interview, sitting down to a cup of coffee with almond milk creamer. The duo—friends for about a year—are both food-obsessed vegans: Marshall having helmed the kitchen at EnVie for two […]
