The Uncommon Group is dousing the Black Friday spirit in red and white. In celebration of buying local it’s announced that tomorrow, the day of Black Friday bargain bonanza in the US, all Uncommon shops will have a whole whack of deals. They’re call it Red, White and Local Friday. Uncommon Kids offers 75 percent […]
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Best Cafe
Gold Winner Two If By Sea Cafe Silver Winner Java Blend Coffee Roasters Bronze Winner Uncommon Grounds Cast your mind back to Dartmouth before November 2009, before the arrival of Two If By Sea. The impact of this quality cafe with its small-but-excellent menu of coffee and spectacular baked goods run by Zane Kelsall (also […]
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Best Wifi Spot
Gold Winner The Wired Monk Silver Winner Uncommon Grounds Bronze Winner Second Cup (Spring Garden Road) The Wired Monk is a great little spot to hang for a few hours…the tasty treats, the art on the walls, the little metal tables that ought be impossibly rocky but are surprisingly sturdy and, of course, the wireless. […]
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Hello deer
Though there are no reports of popular coffee house Uncommon Grounds (1030 South Park Street, 404-3124) adding venison burgers to their menu, they’ve still had deer on their tables. Everyone was talking about it on Monday, when a young buck crashed through the plate glass window of the cafe just before 9am, frightening the customers […]
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Go Local: South End
From fashion boutiques to Asian groceries to international restos to bookstores to florists, you’ll find more shopping variety than you can shake a stylish fedora at. On one unseasonably warm Friday afternoon, Shoptalk took a stroll through the tony southern portion of downtown and we liked what we found. 50 Hats 1086 Queen Street, 482-4287 […]
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Barrington Street shuffle
[image-1] There’s a retail shuffle going on on South Barrington Street. Cafe Chianti has moved into the former Bear space in the YWCA building (1241 Barrington Street). Then, Uncommon Grounds, having closed its Upper Water Street cafe, has moved all the furnishings and equipment to the former Cargo and James space in the same building. A couple of blocks up, renovations on the Freemasons Hall building (Barrington & Salter) continue, and a sign on the window announces a new Korean restro in the works.
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Go local in the South End
Paper pleasures Before there was the internet, there was Atlantic News (5560 Morris Street, 429-5468), full of newspapers and magazines from around the world. The legendary newsstand remains a destination for your periodical needs—often going directly to the publisher to get titles you’re looking for—and more besides. Co-owner Michele Gerard shows us the new stationery […]
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Go local on Spring Garden Road
Strolling down the most popular shopping district in Atlantic Canada, from Robie down to Brunswick—including side-streets bristling with boutiques—the sheer number of vital businesses provides an embarrassment of riches for Shoptalk. More than anywhere else in our fine city, we slam up against the limitation of space on this page. A street that provides a […]