Warm up that food-fighting arm for Feed Nova Scotia today: A coast-to-coast food fight starts at 6pm, where Halifax competes against both Regina and Victoria to see which city can collect and weigh the most food in 48 hours. It’s Halifax’s first year participating—Regina and Victoria did a day-long challenge last year, and Regina won […]
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Slow Food NS goes abroad
Happening from October 21 through 25 in Torino Italy is the fourth biennial, invitation-only Terra Madre conference, organized by the international Slow Food movement. Shoptalk has learned that 14 members of the Nova Scotia chapter have been invited. Michael Howell of Tempest in Wolfville and Chives’ Craig Flinn will lead the Nova Scotia delegation, which […]
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The Hunt Club opens
A new business concept opened this week, just adjacent from the coming-soon new side of Bubba Ray’s upstairs in Spring Garden Place—but with its own entrance off Dresden Row—called The Hunt Club (5640 Spring Garden Road). It’s a lounge, bar and clothing store. The theory is that guys don’t tend to go out shopping for clothes much, so this is something they can do while they’re having a drink or a bite to eat. The clothes run in denim styles, casuals and boots. Plus, you’ll find clothes and accessories for women, too, since, as manager Krissy Schofield explains, “men like
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Moda brings new tastes to the table
The still-new global fusion eatery Moda Urban Dining (1518 Dresden Row, 405-3480) has launched their fall menus. Expect new daily soups, including butternut squash with maple cream and candied pecans, warm spinach and basil salad with a honey balsamic dressing and quark cheese on a baguette round and rib eye with a sauce of crushed […]
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Off The Hook CSF is back on the hook
Starting September 30th, Off the Hook CSF—Atlantic Canada’s first Community Supported Fishery—will deliver a weekly catch of fresh, sustainably caught haddock, hake and pollock to subscribing customers in and around the HRM, following up on last year’s successful inaugural season. The central concept for Off the Hook is subscribers knowing where and how their seafood is caught, to renew the direct connections with local fishing communities and the ocean, as well as giving consumers the chance to get to know the fishers who catch their supper, while the fishers get a fair price for their catch. CSFs are modeled on
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Sushi Shige reborn
Popular sushi restaurant moves from Spring Garden to Granville Shoptalk mistakenly indicated last week in the story about the Turkish Delight expansion that Sushi Shige was gone and not to return. It turns out we missed the facts of the case, and we’re not too big to admit when we were wrong. Sushi Shige, owned and operated by Aya Otara and Shige Fukuyama will be the newest tenant of 1532 Granville Street near the corner of Salter—depending on the speed of renovations—in late October/early November.
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Fid Resto parties with the AFF
Yes, we know the Atlantic Film Festival is almost done, and we’re plenty sad about it. But when you come out of the Park Lane screening rooms in the next few days, consider our friends at Fid Resto (1569 Dresden Row, 422-9162) who are open until 10pm, offering some amazing meals right through to the […]
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Organic food and more
Behind the Quinpool Centre, located in an original barn behind the houses on Allan Street, Home Grown Organic Foods (6188 Allan Street, 492-1412) is a produce-lover’s treasure trove. Fresh organic foods, much of it sourced locally (the bananas come from away, of course) are the star here, including free range chicken, grass fed beef, cookies, […]
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Hami’s Cafe & Catering Open now
Shoptalk has learned there is a new place to eat in Dartmouth. Thanks to its helpful new website, Hami’s Cafe & Catering (79 Alderney Drive, 406-1777), we discovered that it’s a “labour of love” for owner Dan Hamilton, the Hami in the title. “Picture an old fashioned New York pizzeria with Dean Martin playing lightly […]
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Brooklyn Warehouse is Three!
Got no plans for Sunday? Why not stop in at the Brooklyn Warehouse (2795 Windsor Street, 446-8181) to help them salute their third year in business? They’re promising Surf and Turf, tasty treats and delicious McAuslan Draught. The event happens from 7pm-11pm.
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BC Winemaker at Bishop’s Cellar
Join winemaker Grant Stanley of British Columbia vineyards Quail’s Gate tomorrow (Thursday, September 16) from 6-8pm at Bishop’s Cellar (1477 Lower Water Street, 490-2675) to taste and discuss a number of his wines. A free tasting, you can enjoy Stanley’s Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and a few other special wines not currently available in […]
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Club Soda pops
If you’ve been downtown the past few weeks you’ll have noticed that the new Club Soda (5287 Prince Street, 407-8994) has become very popular in a very short time. Though they only opened August 12, manager Mike Hawkins, who runs the place with Mike Conforti, says the weekend crowds have filled the place. It’s quite […]