Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner Pete’s Frootique & Fine Foods, Halifax Bronze Winner Italian Market Beef brisket. Tandoori chicken. The hangover. Meatball sub. A classic tuna melt. The Canteen and its take-out sibling, Little C, are known for the sandwiches and Reneé Lavallée says its the house-made bread that makes the difference. With a […]
The Canteen
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Best Dartmouth Restaurant
Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar and Grill Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey “It’s been a big a year on the darkside, particularly on Portland Street, it’s amazing to see the changes since we’ve moved to Portland Street,” says Canteen co-owner Doug Townsend, who’s also chef Reneé Lavallée’s husband. “The quality and […]
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Best Chef
Gold Winner Renée Lavallée, The Canteen Silver Winner Annie Brace-Lavoie, Bar Kismet Bronze Winner Andy Hay, Andy’s East Coast Kitchen It was a pretty incredible nominees list for this year’s Best Chef category, with six of seven standouts being women—an unfortunate rarity in this readers’ survey—and five first-time noms. It’s a repeat win for Reneé […]
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Best Breakfast Sandwich
Gold Winner The Coastal Cafe Silver Winner The Canteen Bronze Winner The Ardmore Tea Room We added this new category to the roster in 2018, but it’s an old favourite who takes home the honours. After 11 years of serving “breakfast, brunch, whatever” the itty-bitty Coastal Cafe—known for its eternal packedness and incredible, creative brunch […]
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Best Chowder
Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner Esquire Restaurant Bronze Winner Fredie’s Fantastic Fish House Lovers of The Canteen’s chowder, rest easy—this dish and all of its smoked haddock and smoked bacon can not, will not, ever go away. “There are three things that will never leave the menu and it’s one of them. It’s the […]
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Lake City Cider blossoms this summer
Lake City Cider 35 Portland Street Opens in June Poet Comeau had a realization just over a year ago, when the company she worked for dissolved. “I was lucky. The company that took on our company gave me a job,” she explains. Comeau worked in alcohol retail, education and sales—mostly imports—for 12 years. “But I […]
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Wake me up before you go-go: 7 brunch dishes to try
Breakfast bowl Wild Leek, 2148 Windsor Street A brunch that’ll keep you pleasantly full instead of I-need-to-go-back-to-sleep full, this egg-free, meat-free, vegan-loving option piles up potatoes, sauteed and steamed veggies and tops them with seitan bacon, sesame seeds and a very addictive dragon sauce. Chilaquiles Fox Hill Market and Deli, 2760 Robie Street A traditional […]
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A taste of 2017
DARTMOUTH We all know the moment Dartmouth started flirting with becoming cool: It was when Two if By Sea opened its doors in November 2009. But, frankly, it turned colder and there’s where it ended. For awhile, anyway. (Let’s be honest: One great cafe does not a cool downtown make.) The last couple have years […]
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25 all right: a round-up of dishes you have to eat right now
We’ve rounded up 25 meals from across the city that blow our minds, stand the test of time and keep our cravings constant. These are the things you should absolutely have eaten, should be eating right now or should plan to eat in the near future. In the words of Thrush Hermit, which celebrates 25 […]
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Best Sandwich
Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner Pete’s Fine Foods, Halifax Bronze Winner The Italian Market The Canteen’s original iteration above Two If By Sea was all about the sandwich. And its sandwiches—the crobster roll, the hangover, the turkey club—were a thing of beauty, hence why it this year marks its third gold win in this […]
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Best Dartmouth Restaurant
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner The Canteen Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Woodside “All of our valiant efforts pay off! I’m not responsible for any of it, but I have a team of 90-plus people who hustle day-in and day-out,” says Joël Chiasson of the news that the […]
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Best New Restaurant
Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner Rinaldo’s Bronze Winner Riot Snack Bar So The Canteen technically opened in 2014, but The Canteen that re-launched last year on Portland Street is a different beast entirely. “This Canteen, as it is now, isn’t anything I ever planned on doing,” says chef Renée Lavallée, who runs the buzzing […]