Gold Winner The Bicycle Thief Silver Winner La Frasca Cibi + Vini Bronze Winner Vinnie’s Pasta Bar (now closed) “It’s like coming into our living room.” That’s how John Michael Brewer describes the vibe of The Bicycle Thief, a multi-winner (four to be exact) in this year’s readers’ survey. “It’s funny that the award is […]
Vinnie’s Pasta Bar
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Best Pasta
Gold Winner Vinnie’s Pasta Bar Silver Winner Ristorante a Mano Bronze Winner il Mercato Trattoria Vinnie’s has been the underground pasta favourite for a long time, and this year it finally unseated the competition. Hidden in a residential area of the south end, you have to already know about Vinnie’s in order not to miss […]
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Best Pasta
Gold Winner il Mercato Trattoria, Halifax Silver Winner Vinnie’s Pasta Bar Bronze Winner Ristorante a Mano Collecting its second gold of 2013, downtown’s recently departed il Mercato wins for Best Pasta. Its true-Italian-inspired dishes included handmade ravioli, seafood linguine with garlic in white wine cream sauce, pesto penne with sundried tomatoes and arugula…yep, our mouths […]
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Best Pasta
Gold Winner il Mercato Trattoria Silver Winner Vinnie’s Pasta Bar Bronze Winner The Vines We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, they’re doing something right. Manager Sean Neil says at il Mercato they’ve got their pasta-making down to a science—and clearly you guys agree. “It’s about how they boil the pasta,” he explains, […]
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Vinnie’s loves food
A row of stools lines each of the large windows at the front of Vinnie’s Pasta Bar. From the outside, it looks like just another take-away joint. Inside it’s warm, the air tinged with the scent of tomato. It’s dim, almost dark inside. It’s an easy atmosphere. Chocolate and caramel tones give an intimate-date-restaurant feel […]