Some bad news for fans of The Good Food Emporium’s dinner menu: The kitchen’s closed. About six months ago the 2179 Gottingen Street eatery decided to expand beyond its always-popular lunch hours to serve dinner Wednesday through Friday. The menu featured several Korean dishes, as well as Jamaican jerk tofu and Thai green curry—in all, […]
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Pete’s has a new location
Uncommon Grounds has closed down on Hollis, but going in there is a new venture from eternally cheery food entrepreneur Pete Luckett. Pete’s To Go Go (1801 Hollis Street) will open “mid-summer,” they say. Here’s the lowdown, from the helpful email Shoptalk received, on what the shop will offer, aside from the Pete’s sandwiches and […]
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Our Thyme Café Grand Opening
Over in Dartrmouth, Our Thyme Café (98 Portland Street, 406-7467) is having everyone come by for a celebration May 6, from 8am to 5pm, to enjoy the grand opening of their newly renovated addition. Expect local celebs behind the counter serving lunch, samples of the sweet treats, organic coffee and more.
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Moda Urban Dining opens
They were hoping to be up and running this week, with all the inspections and menu complete, they’re just waiting for the liquor licence to come through, so be sure to drop by Moda Urban Dining (1518 Dresden Row, 405-3480) in the old Anatolia space in the next little while to see if the doors […]
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It was Seven, it is G Lounge
As Shoptalk reported last recently, in the former Seven Wine Bar spot a new lounge is opening from the same owners. It is now officially named: G Lounge (1579 Grafton Street, 444-7774) will open May 6, with hours of operation being Tuesdays, Thursday-Saturday 5pm-2am, and the grand opening weekend May 13-15.
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Five Fishermen up in the grill
The legendary seafood restaurant Five Fishermen (1740 Argyle Street, 422-4421) is now undergoing changes. Their downstairs section, once known as Little Fish Restaurant & Oyster Bar, has closed and will soon to be replaced by something called Five Fishermen Bar & Grill, to open in June following renovations.
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Sunwich Cafe opens
Now open is the Sunwich Cafe (136 McClure Close, Dartmouth Crossing, 481-6609), in the freestanding box located in the middle of the parking lot just across from Le Chateau, former home of the Java Factory. They offer sandwiches, soup and salads, all freshly made in front of you. Currently open for lunch and dinner, with […]
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Return of the Grafton Seven
Well, not exactly. Yes, there will soon be a lounge once again at the location of Seven Wine Bar (1579 Grafton Street), co-owned by local restaurateur Costa Elles who was in charge at Seven. Right now it doesn’t have an official name— though the Facebook Group identifies it as The New Lounge on Grafton and […]
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The new Palaces
In the BLIP it’s known as the Indian Buffet Palace (8 Oland Crescent, 405-8909), but the second location in Dartmouth is simply India Palace and can be found at 972 Cole Harbour Road (444-8252). As with the Bayers Lake location it offers a daily all-you-can-eat buffet for lunch (11:30am-3pm, $11.99) and dinner (5pm-9pm, $13.99). Open […]
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Spartan Closes, Louly’s opens
A fixture on Quinpool for over four decades, the Spartan Restaurant (6403 Quinpool Road, 429-6858) will close on Monday, April 12. “Right now we’re going to take it easy,” says co-owner Maria Kyreakakos about her and her husband Nick’s retirement plans. With help from their son Peter, they’ve run the popular eatery on the corner […]
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Carlito’s changes hands
Last week Shoptalk reported that Carlitos Café (6220 Quinpool Road, 444-7555) is closing, but good news for fans of their excellent coffee: the business has been sold to a gentleman named Noel Gallagher who intends on reopening the café April 12. His intent is to keep the café pretty much as is, though perhaps add […]
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Easter Weekend Openings
Did you know it was only two years ago that you couldn’t buy a drink in a bar on Good Friday? If you ordered food you could have a drink with a meal, but if you wanted to exercise your right to get loaded on a holy day in the Christian calendar, it was a […]