Crepes, Another Froyo Closes
Farmers are the first out of the gate to start downsizing packaging, some creams are already down...
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Tag: Eats
The 101 Best Things Put In your Mouth in HRM
HRM is a delight when it comes to food we have great restaurants, great stores and great products. I am often asked what should I try or what’s new and good to eat? I have curated a list of The 101 Best Things to Put in...
Read MoreYour Resto Your Food Safety!
The province of NS has a food safety website where you can look to see how your favourite restaurant, (or the restaurant that you are about to try for the first time) measures up to their food safety inspections. All the...
Read Morea Sneak Peek at Cantina Mexicana
I got an invite to Halifax’s newest Mexican resto for a sneak peek, cantinamexicana.ca which opens this weekend. The restaurant is bright with a fun mural and design. Designed for takeout but there are ~16 stools at which...
Read MoreOpinion: Open City, this was something special!
Open City is behind us, and what a fabulous weekend it was the weather was extremely kind to us and we found out that Halifax really wants to love itself. From an idea and conversation Gordon Stevens took the idea and with the...
Read MorePorland Valley: Baker Dr & Mt. Hope
Last installment of Portland Valley Baker Dr. On the corner of Portland and what was to become Baker Dr was once Bonanza Bingo Hall and Forbes Chev Olds, the Bingo was long gone replaced by McDonalds and a strip mall that once...
Read MoreShopping Pockets: Portland Valley
Portland Valley the Retail area of Portland Street that crosses the 111 (exit 7w) in Dartmouth I have separated into 5 sub areas Penhorn – where Penhorn Mall once stood Woodlawn – Woodlawn Mall in it’s many...
Read MoreGourmet Food Trucks in HRM?
Originally Posted on haligonia.ca Wed March 21 Well not quite yet. There is the encouraging Soups on the Move in the Parking lot of Dartmouth Surplus in Burnside, but that is part of the issue with food trucks there is...
Read MoreRetro Sunday: March 1960 Quinpool
Her’s 2 hold ons from 1960 the KFC seems to have changed quite a bit but still there and the address has been readjusted to the 4 digits but still the same spot and the Oxford Theatre
Read MoreSeahorse Tavern @theseahorse
I always had a soft spot for the grungy no nonsense simpleness of the dark decor and history in table carvings was a great place to hang out and just shoot the breeze with friends , then they went a little upscale with the wood...
Read MoreExit 5: Highway 103
25km from downtown Halifax via Highway 103 is Tantallon, a bedroom community of suburbs and suburbs and nestle right by St. Margarets Bay. Right at Exit 5 is all the retail services one could hope for. A big box in a...
Read MoreClayton Park Rockingham Part 2
We looked at Area’s A,B&C in Part 1 if you missed it yesterday https://halifax.retales.ca/?p=179 Now we will look at some of the older sections Click to image to enlarge Starting with Area D the corner of Lacewood and...
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