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The Ardmore Tea Room is a busy place on weekends, packed with hungover bleary-eyed twenty-somethings as I once used to be. Insert sigh here. But on a weekday, it’s kinda peaceful, sipping my coffee and watching the sun stream in the front window. The paper placemats outline the history of the Ardmore, which first opened [...]
Growing up, whenever someone mentioned the Maritimes, I pictured in my head colourful wooden buildings along a coastline. I’m sure that was because of postcards I had seen as a kid. Kind of like how you think of the Eiffel Tower for Paris or the pyramids for Egypt. Turns out my iconic image is Lunenburg, [...] Author Douglas Coupland (Generation X) was bashing Calgary’s food scene, so the Calgary Herald took that to task in an article today. I got a quick mention before critic-about-town John Gilchrist! But everyone responded the same way. Coupland obviously hasn’t spent enough time in Calgary to know where the great grocery stores and restaurants are. Anyway, I [...] I know Halifax has scores of excellent restaurants downtown and on the waterfront but I wanted to try a laid-back gem that only locals know about. My friend and Haligonian Tom M. directed us to Jane’s on the Common and boy, was it a perfect recommendation. Jane’s faces the Common, a huge park with soccer fields, [...]
This is Pizza Corner, the infamous intersection of Grafton and Blowers Street that features three different pizza outlets on three corners. It’s a magnet for people spilling out of nearby downtown bars. The fourth corner is a church. Like all pizza places in the Maritimes, they also serve donairs — and donair burgers, donair subs [...] Halifax is a city full of great pubs so you can’t go wrong. I kept insisting on trying to find this pub I went to once that had dark wood and servers dressed up like wenches and um, buccaneers or whatever you call guys serving beer in frilly shirts. But I could only remember it was [...]
Several potato stands line the highway from the Confederation Bridge into Charlottetown. They are not manned. They are run on the honour system. Imagine that happening on the 401. You can pick up 10 ($3.00) and 50 pound ($8.00) bags of P.E.I. potatoes on your way home or back to the mainland, I suppose. “In you [...]
Everyone has a favourite food at the Fredericton Farmer’s Market every Saturday. Mine always come from Kurt’s. Today, it was schnitzel (the unbreaded kind) with German mustard and sauerkraut. Others like the garlicky chicken donairs or Patel’s samosas. Ah, the infamous samosas. As I’ve written before, the samosas are so popular people are willing [...] |
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