Food & Culinary

Why Cold Water Makes Better Seafood The first cold morning on a working wharf in Nova Scotia tends to prompt the same thought in visitors: how does anything live in that. The water is grey, it is roughly four degrees for much of the year, and standing next to it in October is genuinely unpleasant. […]

Nova Scotia Has a Wine Trail — And It’s Exceptional Tell someone you’re going wine tasting in Nova Scotia and you’ll usually get a pause. The province is known for lobster, fog, and coastline; grapes don’t come up. That reaction is fair enough given how young the industry is, and it’s also increasingly out of

Eating Like a Fisherman: The Dockside Meals Most Tourists Never Find There’s a particular kind of seafood meal in Nova Scotia that never makes it onto a curated list. It happens standing up, usually near a wharf, often out of a cardboard container, occasionally within sight of the boat that landed whatever you’re eating a

The Best Farm-to-Table Experiences in Atlantic Canada “Farm-to-table” gets printed on enough menus that it’s started to lose its meaning — a phrase more than a promise. But in Nova Scotia and the wider Maritimes, the distance between farm and plate is often short enough to measure in kilometres rather than food miles on a

Lobster Season in Nova Scotia: A Guide for Visitors There is a version of eating lobster in Nova Scotia that involves a white tablecloth, a printed menu, and a small silver pick for extracting the claw meat. It’s perfectly fine. The lobster is fresh, the setting is pleasant, and you’ll leave satisfied. And then there’s