Adam Todd

How to Turn $30 into $65 Worth of Food in Halifax

This post will also be appearing on the Moneyhugger Blog on Haligonia.ca

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Greetings Moneyhuggers! If you’re reading Moneyhugger on Haligonia, or you follow @moneyhugger on Twitter, or have downloaded the Moneyhugger iPhone App, then it’s probably safe to assume you like saving money or hearing about great deals. Or both. Who doesn’t like to save some money?

My name is Adam Todd, I’m an apprentice Chef working in Halifax, and I’m launching a new website  tomorrow, Tuesday, July 27^th called Halifax Restaurant Deals. 

That’s why I’m very happy to be posting here on Moneyhugger – because our site is focused on bringing you amazing deals from your favourite Halifax area restaurants, and saving you money.

Deals for Halifax restaurants will be priced at 40% off and up – so the savings will be real and significant.

For example, our first deal is a 3 course dinner for 2 at Victor’s Bar & Grill – for $30. You get a choice of any two appetizers, any two main courses and any two desserts. Depending on your selections, this could be a savings of almost 60% off regular menu pricing! Put another way, you can turn $30 in to $65 worth of food at Victor’s with this Halifax Restaurant Deal.

If you’re already a fan of Victor’s, this could be a great savings on your next meal. And if you’ve been waiting to try Victor’s – now's the time, with more than half price off! When was the last time you had a 3 course dinner for 2 at a restaurant for $30?

In the coming weeks we’ll have more great deals from places like Brooklyn Warehouse (@BrooklynHalifax) and the new Chef Ray Bear restaurant, MIX Fresh Kitchen (@MIXfreshkitchen). We'll offer one new deal every week, from Tuesday to Thursday.

Each deal is only available for a limited time, and in limited quantities – and once they sell out, the deal is gone. So don’t wait too long or the savings will disappear.

Every week, our Halifax Restaurant Deals will be featured here on Moneyhugger – and there’ll be opportunities to win a free deal every week as well. Plus we’ll be doing a lot of giveaways on our site and the HRD Facebook page and through Twitter (@HaliRestoDeals) – so be sure to connect with us online.

And if you have a favourite restaurant in Halifax that you'd love to see offer a featured deal on our site - post your suggestions on our Facebook Wall or here in the comments.

Where you love to eat in Haligonia?

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2010 CATCH Nova Scotia Seafood Festival - A Great Success!

Its been just over a month since the second annual CATCH Nova Scotia Seafood Festival put on by the NS Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture. This year was just like the last… a great success! This year was even bigger, with more exhibitors, and so much great Nova Scotia Seafood!

Last year, I was working at Bear Restaurant when the festival was going on, and Chef Ray Bear was the Host of the Great Chef Challenge, so myself and a few other staff were enlisted to be the chefs assistants in the 8 Chef battle royal. (here's a post from the 2009 CATCH Festival).

This year was a little more hectic. On top of being in four chef battles, I competed in the oyster shucking contest, as well as trying to promote my new business venture Halifax Restaurant Deals.

I represented HRD in the Oyster Shucking Challenge and placed third with the least amount of time penalties. In other words, I took a little more time, but I had the nicest oysters.. and for me that’s what counts. It was at a seafood festival after all… I wanted to make sure the final product was the best oyster possible. Next year, I'll be more practiced and will be back to again to compete.

The Chef's Battle was hosted again this year by Chef Ray Bear, and 3 of my 4 battles were assisting Chef Peter Dewer, a culinary arts instructor at (NSCC Kingstec campus) and currently a key member of the Canadian Culinary Olympic Team. It was an honour to work with him. He was very relaxed, organized, focused… and prepared. He was a lot of things in a short space of time, and that’s probably why he was crowned the champion. 

His food was beautiful, and he used the black box seafood items in a unique way (he glued mussels together to make a flat sheet of meat), and everything was very tasty…the carrot caramel sauce was amazing. He was a very gracious winner even though he had every right to gloat… in the final he faced Chef Louis Clavel of the Holiday Inn Harbourview's "Cafe 101", a great friend and colleague, and bragging rights were also at sake on top of the grand prizes of worth over $10000. 

I was honored when he presented me with a hand crafted Japanese knife he had made during his travels overseas and gave a very nice Thank You for assisting him in the competition. He actually insisted on me for the final, and for a moment, I felt like one of the boys up there with all of the accomplished Chefs, and it was a great reassurance of all the hard work that I have been and still have to put in to be an official member of the club. But it felt great.

On top of all of that, I was also trying to promote HRD. We ran a Sweepstakes contest on Facebook called Taste, Dine & Cook like a Chef. We gave away tickets for the event with tasting tokens, dinners at MIX Fresh Kitchen, Chef Ray Bears new restaurant that I will be working at (more on that later) and some of Chef Bears Q Gourmet BBQ sauces. I got a chance to present the Grand Prize winner with her prizes and got a chance to tell the crowd about HRD.

It was a busy weekend… but I love the pressure… it brings out the best in me. One thing about being a chef is that it’s ok to sweat… but not to drip!

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Halifax Restaurant Deals Delivered to Your Inbox

We're in the final days before we launch Halifax Restaurant Deals, and to celebrate - we're giving away Free Deals starting on Monday! 

via blog.halifaxrestaurantdeals.com