Foods that are finger-lickin’ good might not be a first choice these H1N1 days, but the ever-popular wing strip on Spring Garden Road shows no sign of slowing its pace. Bring your friends (and hand sanitizer) to one of these joints for cheap eats. Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar Bubba Ray’s is the king of wings […]
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How to respond to criticism
Thecoast.ca‘s restaurant and bar listings provide a wealth of useful information about everywhere to go out to eat and drink in greater Halifax. As a business owner, your restaurant or bar location page on our site is a valuable tool to promote your business on the internet. If managed well, it will bring Coast readers […]
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Enough with the perfumey soap already!!!
Why the hell is that restaurants always buy the smelliest, most perfumey soap possible for their washrooms?! I don’t want my hands stinking like some old lady’s perfume when I eat my meal. Every time I put my hand close to my face in order to take a bite, all I can smell is the […]
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Fucking punks!
This is to the two teenaged guys who decided to leave without paying for their meal: You think that was funny or something? You know what though, I remember faces and if you come back again your asses are gone, unless you’re coming back to pay for your meals! Oh how clever, take off while […]
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Customers of Fast Food Restaraunts
A few rules for all of you when at a fast food restaraunt. 1) We are people too. This does not give you the right to treat us as anything less. fast food is one of the hardest jobs around, and if you think you can do better than us, I challenge you to get […]
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Lessons for Diners.
Here are a few tips for people dining out. 1. We, as servers, don’t expect you to be flowing with exuberance, but don’t be in a pissy mood – if you’re here to eat good food and paying for it, BE NICE. 2. Acknowledge your server. Thank-you’s would be nice. 3. When I collect your […]
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New tastes at Brooklyn Warehouse
The fine folks at The Brooklyn Warehouse (2795 Windsor, 446-8181) have expanded their menu, from a single page to a four-panel menu, offering the same simple, in-house specialties and adding items such as arctic char with arugula salad and a lunchtime lamb gyro. In a plan to attract a younger crowd in the evenings, from […]
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Pipa opens on Argyle
Shoptalk recently announced the opening of a new eatery on Argyle, and now we have the lowdown. Pipa Restaurant and Bar (1685 Argyle, 407-7472) brings a multitude of Brazilian and Portuguese dishes to Halifax, including caipirinhas and batidas made from Brazilian cachaca, available only at the restaurant. You may want to try their broad selection […]
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Best Buskers’ Festival hangouts
Voted Best Free Event 2008 in our Best of Halifax readers’ poll, it’s a sure bet the waterfront’s going to be packed from August 6 to 11 for this year’s Halifax International Busker Festival. There’s only one restaurant in plain view of a busker stage (Stayner’s Wharf at Chebucto Landing), and the chances of seeing […]
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DIY eating: how to build an appetite
A plume of smoke rises above a huge box store. No, it’s not the apocalypse, I decide, when the sweet smell of flaming ground intestines in a semi-edible casing enters my flaring nostrils. I’ve found the staple of DIYers everywhere: the barbecue-on-wheels that lives outside building supply warehouses. My assignment: Find the best of Halifax’s […]
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Estia, new Greek resto on Spring Garden
For the past two weeks you may have noticed a new restaurant in the Spring Garden firmament, next to The Running Room. It’s a new Greek place called Estia (5518 Spring Garden, 429-8331) in the former Deco space, with an interior decor in dark shades of blue with lighter accents reminiscent of that belated eatery. […]
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Restaurant news: openings and moves around town
“The inspiration was to have a choice for quick and healthy food,” says Burrito Jax (5215 Blowers, 406-0088) owner Gordon Delano. The cozy burrito place, open since July 8, offers burritos done simply with, as Delano puts it, “conventional North American flavours” and basmati rice instead of Mexican, meaning if you don’t like hot spices, […]