“We don’t mind working hard,” says Ryan Wolfe of he and his business partner, chef Lawry Deneau. They’re the pair behind Chain Yard Urban Cidery’s in-house restaurant, Unchained Kitchen (2606 Agricola Street)—which has been doing big things out of an eight-by-eight kitchen since 2017—and they’ve got some plans for spring 2019. That’s when Julep Kitchen […]
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Fairview’s The Anchor closes
View this post on Instagram Dear Valued Customers, The purpose of this letter is to reluctantly inform you that The Anchor will be closing our doors after our last service, Thursday November 8, 2018. We have proudly served the Fairview area for the last 2 years, and strived to bring something new and exciting to […]
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All aboard Maritime Express Cider
A new cider joint has its wheels turning in Kentville. Maritime Express Cider (325 Main Street) quietly opened last month, with co-owners Jimi Doidge and Scott Hearn running the show. Doidge hails from Hamilton, Ontario, and made his way to Nova Scotia back in June 2016. He’s been crafting wine and cider from home for […]
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DRINK THIS: Blomidon Estate Winery’s 2014 Blanc de Noirs
A Nova Scotian bubbly goes great with food. No surprise, then, that contestant chefs at Canada’s Great Kitchen Party in Halifax—the rebranded Gold Medal Plates national culinary competition—choose overwhelmingly to pair their competition dishes with local sparkling wine. This makes for an especially good opportunity to size up some of the top sparkling wines in […]
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DRINK THIS: North Brewing Company’s Breakwater pineapple lime sour
The word flurries has resurfaced in our collective lexicon, but North Brewing Company (2576 Agricola Street and 62 Ochterloney Street) is still dreaming of summer barbecues and sours. And we’re here for it. While the north end/Dartmouth brewer is re-releasing its crisp-weather appropriate, hefty treat Twinkle Pony tiramisu stout this week, it’s also celebrating the […]
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Sourwood Cider’s north end plans
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Sourwood Cider (@sourwoodcider) on Oct 2, 2018 at 2:16pm PDT After a successful summer of piquing interest and tastebuds, the founders of Sourwood Cider are levelling up. The sometimes hard-to-track-down, funky-ass unfermented cider will have a place to hang out come early 2019 when it opens […]
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DRINK THIS: Meander River’s Blueberry Cider
It’s been nearly a year since Ashdale’s little gem, Meander River Farm, expanded its brewhouse to make room for more cider and you can raise a glass of its latest one-off release—a tasty 5.5% blueberry cider—to celebrate. “With our expansion last year we were able to do more small lots with fresh ingredients from our […]
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The Rinaldo brothers bring tacos to Gus’ Pub
The powdered sugar has barely settled on the departure of Vandal Doughnuts from Gus’ Pub & Grill (don’t start crying just yet, it’s re-opening at 2300 Gottingen Street, in the Velo Apartments building) and the buzz of a new tenant has already begun. With flour tortillas on the brain Sam and Tony Rinaldo (of T-Dogs and […]
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“Beer is supposed to bring us together”
Guided beer tastings with Stephen Beaumont Sunday, September 30 Stillwell, 1672 Barrington Street 12-2pm $46, eventbrite.ca It’s the middle of winter in Finland, and Stephen Beaumont steps out from a sauna room a few hundred kilometres north of Helsinki. He sits down to try some fresh sahti beer, a traditional brew indigenous to the country. […]
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DRINK THIS: Luckett Vineyards’ Ortega
Sometimes, while everyone else is flocking to the newest wine creations, a classic is quietly released to those waiting in the wings for something like Luckett Vineyards’s 2017 Ortega ($24). Ortega, an aromatic white grape of the vitis vinifera species, native to Europe, is also moderately hardy, surviving to about -25° C. Winemaker Mike Mainguy […]
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Um, QUESTLOVE is coming to Devour
Today Devour! A Food Film Festival announced that it’ll be bringing Questlove—you know, The Roots’ co-founder, Grammy-winner, Tonight Show musical director, James Beard Award-nominated author, overall cool human—to the glorious Annapolis Valley as part of this year’s event. If you didn’t know, he’s very into food and food politics. The eighth annual Devour! will sit […]
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DRINK OF THE WEEK: Dilly Dally’s Carrot Spice Latte
“There’s just this biological thing, you feel a little crispness overnight and it’s like, ‘I need something a little soothing, a warm hug. It’s like our version of hygge or something,” says Laura Draeger of the tendency to usher in autumn (sometimes prematurely) with a little bit of nutmeg. Or, you know, pumpkin spice season. […]