Atlantic Provinces

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Featured Restaurants

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2 Doors Down, Halifax

Leave it to Craig Flinn, the popular former Chef/Owner of Chives Canadian Bistro to deal with a problem by opening another restaurant.   2 Doors Down is Craig’s response.“We don’t want the slightest pretence in the space,” Flinn said. “It’s to be a come-as-you-are neighbourhood restaurant with no reservations.” Ian Clarke took over as CDC […]

Black Rabbit on St. Georges, Moncton, New Brunswick

A late entry into this year’s roster, the Black Rabbit’s Chef Luc Doucet is well known to the Acadian region of New Brunswick.  His restaurant in downtown Moncton, opened this spring. Although this is lobster country, it’s also becoming renowned for its superb Acadian caviar which appears on the menu as an ‘add on’ in […]

Bogside Brewing, Montague, Prince Edward Island

On Canada’s Food Island, Chef Dave Mottershall has come ‘home’ and is cooking up a storm at Bogside Brewing in Montague, Prince Edward Island.

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BOOMburger, Charlottetown and Halifax

It’s not often that a quick service restaurant is so utterly dedicated to such locally produced in ingredients.  But who else could do it, if not the creative Scott Linkletter, the entrepreneur behind Raspberry Point Oysters, Prince Edward Islands best ice cream, COW’S,  and the multi-award winning Avonlea Cheddar.  His team even makes COWS butter. […]

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Bridie Molloy’s, St. John’s, Newfoundland

Brian Piercey is one of St. John’s most active chefs.  He’s involved and engaged in the food life of the city.  He writes: “I started my culinary career in the culinary arts program at The College of the North Atlantic in St. John’s, Newfoundland. After completing the program, I started my apprenticeship at the Fairmont […]

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Charlotte Lane Café, Shelburne, Nova Scotia

Chef Roland Glauser hails originally from Switzerland but has spent his adult life perfecting his culinary artistry in Canada, from Jasper to Halifax where he and his wife, Kathleen, settled for many years. Twenty one years ago they moved to the absolutely beautiful, some say ‘quintessential’, sea side town of Shelburne. Rich in Loyalist history, Shelburne’s […]

Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers & Poutinerie, Dartmouth, N.S.

There’s only one Bill Pratt! He battled it out on Iron Chef America as one of two sous chefs to Chef Michael Smith, the other one being Rouge’s Paul Rogalski.  In doing so, Bill became the very first Canadian Forces Cook to take on the Iron Chef challenge.  He was Executive Chef of Whistler’s Athletes Village at […]

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Chinched Restaurant & Deli, St. John’s, Newfoundland

“To chinch: to caulk or fill the seams in a boat; to stow stuff or pack tightly. ”  Dictionary of Newfoundland English, University of Toronto Press, 1982. Chinched Bistro is real jewel of a place with some cocktails that even urban Vancouver restaurants would envy. The tag line is that it “specializes in contemporary Newfoundland […]

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Ducks aren’t Real, Sackville, New Brunswick

Sackville’s a thriving university city, home of massive wetlands and “Ducks aren’t Real“. Finding a restaurant of this calibre in relatively rural New Brunswick is an utter joy.  Chef Alan Barbour is at the stoves. Sarah Evans, his wife and partner, is one of the most dedicated foragers I’ve met. It’s an ultimately seasonal dining […]

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East Coast Bistro, Saint John, New Brunswick

Sometimes I just marvel at how small the culinary world is here in Canada.   Landing last year from Vancouver in the great coastal city of Saint John, N.B. Chef Tim Muehlbauer and Chef Kimberley Steele bring not only impressive credentials but a solid connection to many of British Columbia’s top chefs, including Jefferson Alvarez […]

Euston Park Social Beer Garden, Moncton, New Brunswick

“The best journey you take is home.”  And home they came.  New Brunswickers Chef Gene and Susan Cormier decided to plant a shipping container in an area 0f Moncton that needed a neat beer garden with great food.  “After years of travelling our journey has brought us back to what we love the most, gourmet […]

FireWorks, Inn at Bay Fortune, Fortune, Prince Edward Island

Rooted on the coast near Souris, P.E.I., The Inn at Bay Fortune’s gracious gardens and talented kitchen are embedded in island food culture.  It is the home of Chef Michael Smith’s dream restaurant.  Any one who has watched him in action knows that he casts a large presence and his newly renovated restaurant kitchen reflects […]