Voted Best Free Event 2008 in our Best of Halifax readers’ poll, it’s a sure bet the waterfront’s going to be packed from August 6 to 11 for this year’s Halifax International Busker Festival. There’s only one restaurant in plain view of a busker stage (Stayner’s Wharf at Chebucto Landing), and the chances of seeing […]
The Hart & Thistle
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Nash talks about his move to Hart & Thistle
Several dozen beer lovers gathered in the side room of the new Hart & Thistle Gastropub at 7 pm last Wednesday to taste the first brews out of the old system that returning brewer Greg Nash used when it was called Shippey’s…in the food court. Nash was on hand to chat with his acolytes about […]
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Big beer news: Master brewer Greg Nash to open Halifax micro-brewery
Updated below! Local beer circles are abuzz with news that master brewer Greg Nash—who left Garrison Brewery (1149 Marginal, 453-5343) last year in over a more or less amiable difference of opinion with Garrison owner Brian Titus and accepted an offer at Moncton’s Pump House Brewery—has teamed up with Hart and Thistle (Historic Properties, 407-4278) […]
