Gold Winner Pete’s Frootique Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey Bronze Winner Brooklyn Warehouse Also the winner of Best Sandwich and Best Smoothie, Pete’s ToGoGo will make salads just the way you like ‘em (even if you like fresh roasted meat dripping with juices atop your lettuce heap). With so many healthy ingredients and dressings to […]
The Wooden Monkey
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Gold Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey Bronze Winner Fid Resto Also this year’s winner of Best Fine Dining and Best Chef (Craig Flinn) Chives offers a complete dining experience that few establishments can match. Fresh. Local. Seasonal. Sustainable. Ambrosial. These are criteria the conscious diner will check off the list upon […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Gold Winner The Wooden Monkey Silver Winner Heartwood Bronze Winner The Good Food Emporium With favourites like the roasted chickpea or sweet apple salads, the lentil burger, the rice bowl, the vegetable curry and the spicy vegetarian stirfry, The Wooden Monkey offers an array of creative choices for produce-loving patrons. While it’s won this distinction […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Vegetarians and vegans can participate in the donair craze, too! A seitan donair is one of the entrees in the light fare section of this innovative menu. Winner of multiple Best Vegetarian-Friendlies (and the 2010 award for Best Use of Local Ingredients), the Wooden Monkey has long been a favourite of animal-conscious eaters. Try the […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Lil MacPherson and Chrtistine Bower’s restaurant rocking the corner of Grafton and Prince offers dishes with organic and locally grown ingredients as part of their culinary manifesto. As they explain on their website: “By using locally grown organic produce we not only ensure the quality of the food we serve so far as this is […]
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Lil MacPherson and Chrtistine Bower’s restaurant rocking the corner of Grafton and Prince offers dishes with organic and locally grown ingredients as part of their culinary manifesto. As they explain on their website: “By using locally grown organic produce we not only ensure the quality of the food we serve so far as this is […]
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Granola bars
Every day should be Earth Day, but if you can put in some time on April 22, the planet would greatly appreciate it (and you could also consider expanding to Earth Month, or Earth Life). Help celebrate the 40th anniversary of this movement with a globe-friendly cocktail at these local establishments. Morris East The downtown […]
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Wining and gazing
Here are three venues known to be star haunts—ones where you may still get a glimpse of the lovely Jessica Paré (pictured above), if you hurry. Economy Shoe Shop “The Diamond was the rock ‘n’ roll schmooze room,” says Dave Page, the Shoe Shop’s manager. While the dynamics of the Shop and connecting spaces have […]
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Food for thinking
With an absurd amount of places to dine out in Halifax, the best spot of all to eat is actually right in your kitchen. But with assignments, social life and dating, it’s all too easy to get fast or processed foods instead. It isn’t easy balancing a student’s hectic lifestyle with their body’s needs and […]
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Five vegetarian places where Paul McCartney should eat
1) Heartwood (6250 Quinpool, 425-2808) Probably the top fresh and local paradise for vegetarians and vegans in Halifax. Plus, it’s full of musicians working behind the counter. Heartwood specials for the week-end include the Lonely Hearts Club Sandwich, with soyanaise and smoked tofu, the Macca-roni, vegan-style with tahini, nutritional yeast, garlic and broccoli and some […]
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Granite Brewery Beer Store opens
Because summer feels like it’s here already this news ought to make you happy: the new Granite Brewery Beer Store is now officially open! Located at 6054 Stairs Street in the north end (between Kempt and Massachusetts), the new Granite Brewery, is open for business even if it looks, according to manager Joe Keefe, “not […]
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Best Vegetarian-friendly Restaurant
Owner Lil MacPherson likes the moniker friendly rather than full-on vegetarian. “Dad can have his pizza and beer and the vegetarian kids can have what they like,” she says. It’s family-friendly. The menu is not just friendly to vegetarians, vegetables are creatively involved in this well-considered menu. Vegan tofu pie (chocolate and maple syrup swallow […]
