Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey Business and life partners Renée Lavallée and Doug Townsend may not be from Dartmouth, but they’ve certainly made it home over the last 15 years. While The Canteen takes home nine (yes, nine) Best of Halifax awards this year, […]
The Wooden Monkey, Dartmouth
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Best Server
Gold Winner Chris Haley, The Wooden Monkey, Dartmouth Silver Winner Alissa Maloney, Brooklyn Warehouse Bronze Winner Maggie Phillips, Chives Canadian Bistro “Are you kidding me?! Two years in a row? That is AMAZING!” screams Chris Haley through the phone. Last year Haley won the readers’ choice award too, but his workplace has since changed—he says […]
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The EAC’s perfect plates
It’s going to be a Perfect World on Sunday. No, Kevin Costner hasn’t escaped from prison. On Sunday, the Ecology Action Centre is hosting its signature annual fundraiser. “As environmentalists, we are idealists,” says Joanna Bull, the EAC’s volunteer and events coordinator. “We’re trying to make the world better; we’re trying to create a more […]
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Best Dartmouth Restaurant
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner The Canteen Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey Uh, HELLO DARTMOUTH. Way to cover all the bases with this trio of winners. Breakfast (total Dartmouth legend, the Mic Mac), lunch (The Canteen) and dinner (The Wooden Monkey). Meat (heavenly ribs at Mic Mac), bread (so fresh and […]
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Nova Scotia’s feeling very blueberry
Wild Blueberry Harvest Festival August 14-29, central Nova Scotia wildblueberryfest.com Lil MacPherson loves blueberries. “It’s mostly because they’re Nova Scotian,” says the restaurateur. “They are us.” In fact, they are so “us” that there is a Wild Blueberry Harvest Festival taking place from August 14-29. Watch for blueberry socials, breakfasts, suppers and picnics happening all […]
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Hop aboard the Burger Bus!
Hey, burger addicts! I have valuable information to share with you. Now that our annual Halifax Burger Week (March 19-25) has grown to supersized proportions, and will include 64 (!!!) local restaurants flipping delectable patties all week long, it might be challenging to get a good sampling of what’s out there. Unless of course you […]
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Lil MacPherson
Owner The Wooden Monkey, 1707 Grafton Street and 40 Alderney Drive “It was an a-ha moment,” Lil MacPherson says. When Hurricane Juan struck Nova Scotia, a storm of concerns about food security hit her hard. “To me the very foundation of business, life, a province, a country is to make sure you have enough food […]
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Ladies’ Beer League turns one
Last June, Tracy Phillippi, a marketing coordinator at Garrison Brewing Company, decided to approach a few female craft beer lovers/makers with an idea: to promote women’s involvement and interest in craft brewing. That was the beginning of the Ladies Beer League, and one of its founding members was Pam Crouse, now chairman of the board […]
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Best Dartmouth Restaurant
Gold Winner Nectar Restaurant & Wine Bar Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey, Dartmouth Owner Ian Hurst says Nectar is constantly reviewing its food offerings, and the menu is in evolution every six months. “Our servers and our kitchen under chef David Clarke are all true professionals and […]
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Sprucing things up
Born and brewed in Cape Breton, Big Spruce Brewing has been concocting its two varieties of craft beer since the beginning of March. After selling it’s first beer in house on April 1, the company has been spreading the love throughout Cape Breton ever since. Now, this brewery newbie is kicking things up a notch […]
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The haskap berry gets juiced
The itty-bitty haskap berry has been making a lot of noise lately, thanks to the agricultural innovators behind LaHave Forests. The super-nutritious, anti-oxidizing member of the honeysuckle family may have originated in Japan, but look out North America, Nova Scotia’s quickly becoming the home of the haskap on this side of the world. As a […]
