Gold Winner Laura Arsenault, Java Blend Coffee Roasters Silver Winner Dan Weir, Weird Harbour Espresso Bar Bronze Winner Federico Pasquinelli, Espresso 46 Is it just us, or does it seem like Halifax has a disproportionate number of truly wonderful coffee shops? And because of that, also a disproportionate number of truly wonderful baristas? This (extra) […]
Weird Harbour Espresso Bar
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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 “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 […]
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Best Barista
Gold Winner Jeremy Waterman, Low Point Coffee Silver Winner Dan Weir, Weird Harbour Espresso Bar Bronze Winner Laura Arsenault, Java Blend Coffee Roasters It’s been eight years since Jeremy Waterman started his career in coffee at Starbucks, and he’s come a long way, baby. When he’s not pulling drinks at Dilly Dally, the winning barista […]
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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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Six Haligonians plan their perfect summer days
Oshé Orifa blogger, @osheorifa “My perfect summer day starts with a typical ‘me’ breakfast: Avocado toast and an egg on the side. In the afternoon, I hangout with friends on an Instagram-worthy brunch date at Taiyaki 52. Around the early evening hours, I enjoy what makes Halifax so great in the summer: sun and beer—so […]
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Best Barista
Gold Winner Laura Arsenault, Java Blend Coffee Roasters Silver Winner Dan Weir, Weird Harbour Espresso Bar Bronze Winner Jeremy Waterman, Dilly Dally Coffee Cafe After working at Java Blend for “many a year,” Laura Arsenault has finally struck gold. “We are exceptionally fortunate that we do have an amazing, consistent clientele year after year,” she […]
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Best New Business
Gold Winner Chain Yard Urban Cidery Silver Winner Lucky Penny Coffee Bronze Winner Weird Harbour Espresso Bar Chain Yard Urban Cidery is the apple of readers’ eyes this year, taking home not just Best New Business, but Best New Bar, too. Since opening on the corner of Agricola and North streets last spring, it’s been […]
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Where I work: Weird Harbour Espresso Bar
Weird Harbour Espresso Bar 1656 Barrington Street Mon-Fri 7am-5pm Sat 8am-4pm WHO HE IS From the moment you step inside this espresso bar, the sound of old blues, together with the smell of freshly ground coffee, takes you to another world. “It’s a small space to seek shelter,” says owner Dan Weir, whose travels from […]
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Weird Harbour makes waves on Barrington
Two-hundred and fifty square feet is all the space Dan Weir needs to make his small business dream a reality. After spending a decade “catching the coffee bug” working in cafes in Toronto and Montreal, the Moncton native has settled on Halifax for his very own Weird Harbour Espresso Bar, which will be cozied up […]