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Long a downtown favourite, Tomasino’s is back in business and returning to its root

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Restaurateur Brian Vallis reaches across the Atlantic and back through the centuries to offer pizza lovers something different.

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As I sit in a big leather chair in the library of the Halliburton hotel, my fingers are twitching to manhandle the wide selection of beautiful, worn, tattered looking books lining the bookcases.  As the complete works of Charles Dickens taunts me, I take in my surroundings. Hotel guests are wandering in and out, helping themselves to coffee and tea, …

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As we sit on the sunny pub patio, I slowly sip my Diet Coke while ogling Lorne Caborn’s icy beer.  It’s hot out as we trade war stories about the bar industry and discuss our favourite drinks (neither of us could decide on just one). An eighteen-year native of the service industry, Caborn is a veteran bartender and mixologist. Because …

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Update: Shortly after this post went live, I heard from Vince Hall. The story now ends with an update based on my conversation with Hall. —Trevor J. Adams, editor Before Wednesday morning, I knew virtually nothing of Vince Hall. But for this discussion, there are only three details necessary to summarize Hall’s political presence: he was a Cape Breton Regional …

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