Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner enVie – A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner Heartwood, Quinpool The Wooden Monkey is friendly in a lot of ways, not just to the gluten intolerant among us. But it’s the thoughtfulness that goes into designing every dish—the focus on using local, sustainable and organic ingredients throughout its […]
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner EDNA Renée Lavallée loves to cook with lemons and olive oil, but not as much as she loves her Saturday farmers’ market run. The Canteen’s chef and owner shouts out local producers like Ted Hutten, Tap Root Farms, Oulton’s and Noggins for helping […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly
Gold Winner enVie – A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner Wild Leek Food & Juice Bar Cory Urquhart eats, sleeps and breathes enVie—and is totally happy to, thanks to his dedicated staff, which he calls “a really cool family.” While offering innovative dishes that help folks explore plant-based eating is […]
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Best Gluten-free Friendly
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner Heartwood The Monkey’s passion for good ingredients is what makes the restaurant stand out from the bunch, hence why it’s a repeat winner in the Best Use Of Local Ingredients category. And that passion carries over to dietary restrictions, too. While The […]
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner The Canteen Bronze Winner Chives Canadian Bistro The Wooden Monkey is as detail-oriented as they get. The 14-year-old restaurant has always been committed to making sure what goes into its dishes is good, in all senses of the word. And its commitment to serving local, organic food […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Gold Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner Heartwood “Winner winner tofu dinner!” is Cory Urquhart’s initial reaction to enVie topping this category yet again. And while it’s a perfect acceptance speech, he also takes a minute to credit the veg-centric eatery’s success to the dining experience (and the food, […]
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Best Gluten-free Friendly
Gold Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner Schoolhouse Gluten-Free Gourmet Branding your resto as vegan brings in a diverse crew—not just folks looking for meat-less and cheese-less dishes, but also those with dietary needs. “There’s the crowd who want local stuff, but we also have a very high number […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Gold Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner Heartwood Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Branding your resto as vegan brings in a diverse crew—not just folks looking for meat-less and cheese-less dishes, but also those with dietary needs. “There’s the crowd who want local stuff, but we also have a very high number of people […]
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Gold Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner EDNA Walking into Chives, you never know what you might read on their board of “specials.” Seasonal veggies come from the farmers’ market and valley-based companies, while cheese and fish are important local staples as well. “I think that the best cooking […]
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine The Wooden Monkey is more than a delicious restaurant. It’s also a platform—and laboratory—for co-owner Lil MacPherson’s mission to fix the world. “From the start of The Monkey it’s always been about local,” MacPherson says, launching […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Gold Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Silver Winner Heartwood Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Apart from convincing discerning diners that vegan food isn’t just for folks with dietary restrictions, but anyone who likes who like fresh, creative and tasty food, team enVie has had a pretty frigging major year. After two years of kicking butt […]
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Best Gluten-free Friendly
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner Heartwood Making her restaurant sensitive to gluten sensitivity is something The Wooden Monkey co-owner Lil MacPherson takes very seriously. “I could see this coming for years, that people are having a hard time digesting gluten,” MacPherson says. “People say it’s a fad, […]