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Crazy about Korean cuisine

By | Jan 17, 2012 l

Guest blogger Ben Boudreau is the local community manager for Yelp.com, a website featuring restaurant reviews by ordinary diners. Once a week, he shares Halifax’s highlights. Over the past few years, Halifax has really kicked it up a notch when it comes to world cuisine! Getting a great sushi roll isn’t as hard as it used to be, Vietnamese noodles are never far …

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Hot Halifax restaurants with new locations

By | Jan 12, 2012 Two If By Sea. Photo: Ben Boudreau

Guest blogger Ben Boudreau is the local community manager for Yelp.com, a website featuring restaurant reviews by ordinary diners. Once a week, he shares Halifax’s highlights. If you still need some inspiration to shake off those post-holiday cobwebs, you’ve come to the right place. This week, we’re catching up with local restaurateurs who swapped downtime for global domination while the rest of us …

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Daring to dine differently

By | Jan 3, 2012 bachs

Guest blogger Ben Boudreau is the local community manager for Yelp.com, a website featuring restaurant reviews by ordinary diners. Once a week, he shares Halifax’s highlights. Doing something really well takes a careful concoction of trained skill, natural talent, and persistent passion–a combination that has been mastered by so many of the city’s finest restaurants and cafés. Doing a whole lot of things …

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2011′s hot new restaurants

By | Dec 22, 2011 Sweet Hereafter. Photo: Ben Boudreau

Guest blogger Ben Boudreau is the local community manager for Yelp.com, a website featuring restaurant reviews by ordinary diners. Once a week, he shares Halifax’s highlights. Is it already that time? Have we really come to our final blog post of the year? Wow, time sure flies when you’re eating your way through the city! It was one heck of a year for …

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All you grapes just chill out

By | Dec 21, 2011 Photo: WANS

An unseasonably warm autumn, which appears to be giving way to a mild winter, is likely to delay Nova Scotia’s icewine-grape harvest. Industry insiders expect the harvest to happen around January 4, according to a press release from the Winery Association of Nova Scotia. “Over the past 15 years of harvests, no two years have been alike,”  John Warner of …

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Special season, special drinks

By | Dec 15, 2011 fred

Guest blogger Ben Boudreau is the local community manager for Yelp.com, a website featuring restaurant reviews by ordinary diners. Once a week, he shares Halifax’s highlights. There are so many things to love about the holiday season but if I had to choose just one, my favourite would be shop-hopping my way through downtown Halifax with a limited-time-only drink in hand! I speak, …

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Crêpe culture

By | Dec 12, 2011 Chez Tess. Photo: Ben Boudreau

Guest blogger Ben Boudreau is the local community manager for Yelp.com, a website featuring restaurant reviews by ordinary diners. Once a week, he shares Halifax’s highlights. Forget flapjacks and put pancakes on hold–it’s time to uncover the city’s finest French crêpes! With creative concoctions available to please any palate, and dining options ranging from paper plates to white linens, the only tough decision …

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Cooking for the halibut

By | Dec 2, 2011 Photo: Lezlie Lowe

I burned my halibut, but who cares

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The brunch bunch

By | Dec 2, 2011 Fid. Photo: Ben Boudreau

Guest blogger Ben Boudreau is the local community manager for Yelp.com, a website featuring restaurant reviews by ordinary diners. Once a week, he shares Halifax’s highlights. Anyone who knows me understands that brunch is one of my most sacred rituals. In my books, there’s nothing a good mid-morning cup of Hollandaise sauce can’t solve.  But brunch is not without its challenges: long line-ups, …

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Baby it’s cold outside

By | Nov 24, 2011 The Drawing Room. Photo: Ben Boudreau

Guest blogger Ben Boudreau is the local community manager for Yelp.com, a website featuring restaurant reviews by ordinary diners. Once a week, he shares Halifax’s highlights. So it looks like winter has finally arrived, hey? Now, if you’re lucky, you don’t have any reason to come out from under that pile of Snuggies and space-heaters for the foreseeable future, but for those of …

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