Gold Winner Gio, The Prince George Hotel Silver Winner Tempo Food + Drink Bronze Winner Redwood Grill Gio is the Best Hotel Restaurant perhaps because it doesn’t think of itself as a hotel restaurant. Partners-in-crime with Best Hotel, the Gio/Prince George duo puts in work to make sure celebs and citizens feel like stars. “From […]
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Best Hotel Restaurant
Gold Winner Gio, The Prince George Hotel Silver Winner TEMPO Food + Drink, Delta Barrington Bronze Winner Redwood Grill, Future Inns Halifax Unlike Montreal or New York, hotel dining can be a daunting choice for Halifax’s young urbanites—especially given the boom in this city’s restaurant scene over the past few years. Gio perseveres. After over […]
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Best Hotel Restaurant
Gold Winner Gio, The Prince George Hotel Silver Winner Tempo Food + Drink, Delta Barrington Bronze Winner Redwood Gril, Future Inns Halifax Every single year that we’ve had this category in the Best of Halifax readers’ poll, The Prince George Hotel’s beautiful Gio has taken home the gold. Striving to be anything but a standard […]
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Two local chefs face off at BattleApps
Tonight, BattleApps invites to taste what your Haligonian chefs are made of—in twenty minutes. The Toronto-based chef battle (put on by Underground Chef Company and McCain) is coming to the east coast to serve up some quick dishes at Tempo Food +Drink. Halifax is one stop on an eight-city chef battle tour. Chefs in the battle […]
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Best Hotel Restaurant
Gold Winner Gio Silver Winner Tempo Food + Drink Bronze Winner elements on hollis The elegant Prince George has a lot to offer not just visitors but locals too, and you’ve rewarded it with gold. “It’s absolutely awesome. We pride ourselves on being part of the city,” says general manager Scott Travis. “You typically won’t […]
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After Eight Egg Nog Martini
Ingredients 1 scoop of ice ¾ Kahlua ¾ oz Creme de Menthe ½ oz Bailey’s 3 oz egg nog chocolate shavings Method Pour all ingredients into a cobbler shaker and stir with a bar spoon. Strain into a martini glass, rimmed with chocolate shavings, and serve. Tempo Food + Drink 1875 Barrington Street 902-428-3676
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Best Hotel Restaurant
Gold Winner Gio Silver Winner Tempo Food + Drink Bronze Winner Seasons by Atlantica
 Since opening in 2006, Gio has been a hell of a lot more than a “hotel restaurant”. Between its stunning, modern decor—which couldn’t feel less like a hotel lobby—its global influence and local ingredients, it remains among the city’s top dining […]
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Best Hotel Restaurant
Gold Winner Gio Silver Winner Tempo Food + Drink Bronze Winner Redwood Grill Gio at The Prince George wins gold again. Despite being part of a hotel, food and beverage manager Shawn Lewis says that 60 to 70 percent of its customers are locals. “We’ve always maintained a standalone restaurant feel,” says Lewis. Chefs incorporate […]
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Tempo moderato
Just over a year ago, I went to lunch at O&B Canteen—an Oliver & Bonacini restaurant—in Toronto. On Thursday I basically went there again: I went to Tempo. Tempo has to have been built in Canteen’s image. The dining room seems to have used the exact same template—casual chic with urbane whimsy in the form […]
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The Watchlist
NOMAD GOURMET Rolling into downtown Halifax in late August, Nick Horne and his colourful restaurant on wheels shook up the public’s perception of what street food is, and can be. Pulled pork and brisket and the Three Little Pigs burger (pork patty, pulled pork and bacon jam, TOGETHER) are just a tease from this tasty […]