Gold Winner Java Blend Coffee Roasters Silver Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Bronze Winner Weird Harbour Espresso Bar “I think a lot of our focus has been good value for money: We’re not charging eight dollars a latte and we’ve always been committed to quality,” says Jim Dikaios of Java Blend’s gold win. The […]
Two If By Sea Cafe
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Best Cafe
Gold Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Silver Winner Glitter Bean Cafe Bronze Winner Dilly Dally Coffee Cafe Ten years after opening Two If By Sea—a near instant classic in downtown Dartmouth—in late October, founder (and the butter-lover behind the cafe’s monstrous croissants) Tara MacDonald announced she was retiring from the coffee biz and TIBS […]
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Best Cafe
Gold Winner Two If By Sea Silver Winner Dilly Dally Coffee Cafe Bronze Winner The Nook on Gottingen “This has been a year of growth and reflection for the TIBS crew,” says Tara MacDonald upon hearing of the downtown Dartmouth institution’s repeat gold win for Best Cafe. After allegations of sexual misconduct, Two If By […]
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Best Coffee
Gold Winner Java Blend Coffee Roasters Silver Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Bronze Winner Weird Harbour Espresso Bar If you had to pour a mug of Halifax it would be a piping hot cup of coffee from Java Blend. It’s been 80 years since the idea behind the North Street roastery and cafe was […]
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Best Specialty Coffee
Gold Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Silver Winner Java Blend Coffee Roasters Bronze Winner Weird Harbour Espresso Bar “Eat butter, drink drip” is a sort of slogan for downtown Dartmouth cafe Two If By Sea, but this award is shouting out the espresso-based delights. (Sorry, drip.) Using transparently sourced beans from roastery-next-door’s Anchored Coffee, […]
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Best Cafe
Gold Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Silver Winner Humani-T Cafe, downtown Bronze Winner Java Blend Coffee Roasters Two If By Sea has gone through some changes in the last year, including saying two if bye to its Halifax waterfront location in Historic Properties. “It was definitely an emotional and hard decision to say, ‘OK, […]
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Best Coffee
Gold Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Silver Winner Java Blend Coffee Roasters Bronze Winner Just Us! Coffeehouse, Spring Garden Two If By Sea co-owner Zane Kelsall also co-owns Anchored Coffee, which is of course served by the steaming cupful at the cafe. While voters already think it’s the best, Kelsall’s goal is to make […]
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Best Specialty Coffee
Gold Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Silver Winner Java Blend Coffee Roasters Bronze Winner Humani-T Cafe, downtown You can’t have good specialty coffee if you don’t have good coffee in the first place. It makes sense, then, that TIBS (which also won Best Coffee honours) takes the gold here. “Basically, we’re looking at really […]
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Best Cookie / Cupcake / Doughnut
Gold Winner Layers Cakes Silver Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Bronze Winner Ol’ School Donuts When Jen Harrison, owner of the petite, pastel cupcake shop Layers, gets word her bakery has once again won Best Cookie/Cupcake/Doughnut gold, her excitement tumbles though the phone call. “This is our third year winning, and it’s almost like […]
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Divine secrets of the Yeah Yeahs brotherhood
Yeah Yeahs 66 Ochterloney Street Opening in May It’s a little bit smoky in the prep kitchen at Yeah Yeahs. Josh Nordin and Dean Petty are testing out dough with their head dough maker, Sal Mosca. He stretches and tosses one of the half dozen dough balls he has with him and then tops it […]
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Two If By Sea closing Halifax location
After April 29, folks on the side Halifax side of the harbour will have to travel to get their Two If By Sea fix. The cafe’s Waterfront Historic Properties location is set to close as its five-year lease comes to an end. Owner Zane Kelsall says it’s not going out of business, and he has […]
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Best Cafe
Gold Winner Two if By Sea Cafe Silver Winner Java Blend Coffee Bronze Winner Lion & Bright Cafe Wine Bar There’s something magic about Two If By Sea. Something more than mugs of Anchored Coffee and five-pound buttery croissants. The cafe’s co-owner and baker, Tara MacDonald, credits TLC for the loyal following at TIBS. “Zane […]