If the new library has a cafe, wouldn’t it be nice if it could have a bar, too? Wishful thinking, we know, but there are spots in the city where you can buy a coffee for one hand and a beer for the other. We took a sip out of the coffee-holding hand (honest) and […]
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Cheap Eats – Seven Dishes under Seven Dollars
$6.50 – McCoastal breakfast sandwich Coastal Coffee The description of the McCoastal, Coastal’s breakfast sandwich, comes across as tasty but innocuous: two fried eggs, havarti cheese, maple sausage on an English muffin. But the actual physical presence of this delicacy is something else altogether. It is roughly the size of a small human baby. The […]
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Northern lights
King-in-exile of the local music scene, Sloan was the highest-profile band to come out of the mid-’90s Halifax music explosion. Though they’re longtime Toronto scenesters—it even says as much on their website—Sloan often sang of its hometown experience, as on a few key tracks from the 1999 release Between the Bridges. The bridges in question […]
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My summer: Paolo Colbertaldo, chef
Colbertaldo started cooking early. “My father wouldn’t teach me how to do carpentry because I was left handed, so my mother took me to the bakery.” In Halifax he worked at the Soho, for the US Consul General as well as doing catering for the film industry. He’s spent almost four years at jane’s on […]
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Best Breakfast
For the more discerning diner who appreciates effort, thought, and time put into what they are eating…the Coastal welcomes you, announces the website. The more discerning diner will also appreciate The Elvis: a buttermilk waffle sandwich, filled with peanut butter, bananas and bacon, covered in maple syrup. 1st Runner-up Ardmore Tea Room 2nd Runner-up Cora’s
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Best Lunch Specials
Owner/chef Mark Giffin is surprised to hear that the Coastal is even in the running for the Best Lunch category. “I thought it would be breakfast,” says the former head chef at Bish World Cuisine. “That’s my stock and trade.” But it does make sense, as the breakfast is served until two on the weekdays […]