Theme: Restaurants

Brussels Restaurant & Brasserie

Brussels Restaurant BrasserieBrussels Restaurant and Brasserie! Experience the Heart of Europe in the Heart of Halifax! Atlantic Canada’s only restaurant specializing in Belgian inspired cuisine. The menu consists of traditional recipes from different regions in Belgium as well as modern international influences on Belgian cuisine.

Located in the historic Granville Square in downtown Halifax, Brussels Restaurant & Brasserie is nestled in a building that is rich in historic architecture. The cobblestone street is closed to traffic, which is very similar to the streetscape and buildings in Brussels. The central location makes for very peaceful and enjoyable dining al fresco on the patio in the summer months.

Specializing in fresh seafood and choice cut meats, prepared a number of different ways, the use of Belgian beer is a staple in the preparation of most fresh sauces and menu items. Authentic fresh Belgian waffles are made to order with a Belgian waffle iron. Mussels are offered in 19 different styles, cooked with various ingredients or served as platters.

Café 101, Holiday Inn Halifax Harbourview

Cafe 101Café 101 has emerged as the best casual dining experience in Dartmouth. Offering a unique taste, Café 101 offers “Contemporary Local Inspired Cuisine” with a blend of international flair. Seasonal menus, immaculate presentation and simple yet passionate artistry defines your next dining experience at Café 101.

 

Chanterelle Country Inn & Cottages

Chanterelle Country InnSince 2000, the Restaurant at the Chanterelle has served cuisine created from organically and locally produced foodstuffs, according to the “Slow Food” tradition.  Specializing in dishes made with fresh, wild chanterelles, the menu changes daily. It offers vegetarian, non-vegetarian and seafood entrées, house-made soups, salads and desserts. Fully licensed, we serve local wines, beers and a variety of single-malt scotches. In 2006, the Chanterelle was named to the prestigious restaurant guide Where to Eat in Canada. Our chef was selected to represent Canada at Slow Food’s Terra Madre in Turin, Italy in 2006 and 2008.

About the Chowder

Chanterelle’s chowder consists of house made fish stock, a variety of local seafood, Yukon gold potatoes, tomatoes and Nova Scotia dulse.

 

Charlotte Lane

Charlotte LaneNamed BEST SMALL RESTAURANT for 2010 by the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia, and nestled in historic Shelburne, Swiss chef Roland Glauser and his wife Kathleen serve up delicious world cuisine blended with down home hospitality to locals, summer residents and tourists. Menu features splendid, local seafood and meat dishes, inventive pastas, seasonal salads, delectable Swiss specialties and mouth watering desserts plus a full selection of local and imported wines. This gem of a Café is worth the drive.

About the Chowder

Our wildly popular Seafood Chowder is freshly made, full of tenderly poached large size scallops, North Atlantic pink shrimp, locally caught haddock, sweet onions and just the right amount of locally grown potatoes.  Chef Roland starts with fish stock, and finishes with a generous splash of Nova Scotia’s own Jost Vinyards white wine and Cooks Dairy fresh cream.  This chowder is just one of the many reasons that locals and visitors find coming to Charlotte Lane is worth the drive!

Chives Canadian Bistro

Chives Canadian BistroCuisine of the Year 2009 Taste of Nova Scotia Prestige Awards. Chives Canadian Bistro has become a name trusted for quality in Halifax’s dining community. Our desire to create an extraordinary casual dining experience has set new standards for restaurants in our community. Guests have come to expect an ever-changing menu at Chives. We focus on using fresh, in-season and local product. Chef Craig Flinn looks first to Nova Scotia for our ingredient base, then to the rest of the Maritimes to create our “Canadian Bistro” menus. Chives now operates a café next door called Ciboulette Café and Catering.

About the Chowder

Chives SMOKED YUKON GOLD POTATO “CHOWDAH” includes lobster, scallops, mussels, and haddock in creamy smoked potato and leek soup…our classic recipe and part of the Nova Scotia “Chowder Trail”…

 

 

Churchill’s Restaurant & Lounge at Digby Pines Resort

Digby PinesEvery now and then it’s good to reinvent yourself …
Hold on to what works and alter what’s left
For as they say, “Change is as good as a rest.”

Formerly The Annapolis Dining Room, Churchill’s offers a menu as creative and eclectic as it’s always been. Try a new twist on an old favourite, featuring local ingredients and prepared when ordered. Everyone is welcome – come and rediscover us!

Always a specialty are world-famous Digby scallops, prepared by award-winning Chef Dale Nichols. A complete selection of Nova Scotian and imported wines is available.

About the Chowder

After arriving to the Pine’s from the Keltic in 2009, Chef Dale Nichols discovered that smoked haddock was being fresh smoked 30 minutes from Digby by the Bay of Fundy Fisheries and thought this would be perfect for Smoked Haddock Chowder.  They brine the fish for 4 hours and smoke it in a cozy smokehouse at night when the temperature is cooler so it doesn’t heat the fish.  Chef Nichols features exclusively the Smoked Haddock Chowder with Bacon, Onions, Potatoes, Fresh Thyme from the garden and a touch of cream.

Cocoa Pesto at The Woodshire Inn

Cocoa Pesto BistroSet amidst a lush courtyard garden, the Woodshire Inn is home to Cocoa Pesto Bistro. The Bistro reflects the seasonal abundance of this agricultural area, with three licensed dining rooms offering local and international wines, lunch and dinner service, as well as off-site catering for special events. An applewood-fired smoker provides diners with the opportunity to enjoy such favourites as dry-rub pork ribs, smoky pulled pork on a bun and signature sauces such as house-made smoked sweet pepper compote.

Dauphinee Inn

Dauphinee Inn2000 Taste of Nova Scotia Restaurant of the Year

Location! Location! Splash! The Dauphinee Inn is ideally nestled on the shores of Hubbards Cove. With a waterside deck and a panoramic dining room, our restaurant serves the freshest in local seafood, from creamy chowder, haddock and salmon to juicy lobsters, jumbo scallops and succulent shrimp. Be sure to check out our famous Hot Rock dining, where you cook your own meal on a slab of granite right at the table!  We complement our meals with fine wines and fresh herbs and vegetables from our own garden.

About the Chowder

Sadie's Famous Seafood ChowderSadie’s Famous Seafood Chowder. Back in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s we used to host a Craft and Chowder Festival, and Sadie Dorey was our cook at the time.  For the Chowder Festival Sadie and her crew would arrive at 6:00am and start to prepare all the ingredients for the chowder. She used all the freshest of ingredients which included haddock, scallops, shrimp, salmon and lobster in a creamy broth that was choke full of flavour. We still use the same recipe, although Sadie passed away this year at the age of 102. She will be missed, but her chowder will live on forever.

DesBarres Manor Inn

DesBarres ManorFrom our spectacular open kitchen, our culinary team uses fresh ingredients from the Manor garden along with an extensive network of local farmers and fishers to create contemporary Canadian cuisine with an East Coast flair. The Manor’s seasonally inspired menus, romantic fireside and grand deck dining, and gourmet getaway packages with luxury accomodations make it a truly unique clulinary experience. Combined with our attentive service, the DesBarres Manor dining room creates a culinary experience as warm as our people.

DesBarres Manor Inn is open for gourmet dining from mid-May to mid-October.

About the Chowder

DesBarres Manor Inn’s Chedabucto Bay Lobster Bisque is a creamy seafood soup distinguished by the full flavour of Chedabucto Bay lobster. The largest bay on the Nova Scotia Atlantic coast, Chedabucto Bay’s cold, clear waters and beach rock bottom create the perfect feeding grounds for Atlantic lobster. The result is a sweet, juicy lobster meat with a distinctive lobster flavour unique to Chedabucto Bay and the best in Nova Scotia.

 

Emma’s Eatery

Emmas-Eatery

With award-winning fishcakes during all-day breakfast, lunch and dinner service, Emma’s menu is made from scratch using all natural and fresh ingredients as well as local, farm fresh eggs and meats.  Located in Eastern Passage just 15mins outside of Halifax, fish and seafood is supplied fresh daily from Fisherman’s Cove, a local operating fishing village right next door.

Traditional Maritime chowder and housemade meals from scratch at Emma’s are like a hug from inside out!

About the Chowder

Emma’s gluten-free, all natural seafood chowder is made with natural fish stock made in-house from scratch.  You will enjoy local scallops, lobster and haddock, in a creamy broth, all fresh from our local fishermen, right next door at Fisherman’s Cove.  Fresh, traditional and delicious.