So this week is your chance to get a great meal at Saege Bistro on Spring Garden Road for %50 off. For only $30, you get $60 dollars worth of food of their dinner or dessert menu! I can’t wait to try some of the food there. I’ll make sure the video from Saege Bistro gets on the blog!
~ 2
Brooklyn Burgers
~ Choice of 2 Soups or 2 Salads
Save up to 50% - Redeem Until November 30,
2010
When you purchase this Deal, you might
think you're seeing double. It's your choice of 2 Soups or 2 Salads (or 1 of
each)... and 2 Brooklyn Burgers, for only $25! This deal is only available for
a limited time, and in limited quantities.
Brooklyn Warehouse, located at 2795 Windsor
Street (corner of Windsor & Almon St) takes its cue from simple, honest
food and strives to bring you an affordable indulgence in a laid-back bistro
atmosphere. With this Halifax Restaurant Deal, you can treat yourself to that
indulgence for half of the price! Buy one for yourself, and they make great
gifts for family, friends and co-workers. If you've been waiting to try
Brooklyn Warehouse - or you know someone that needs to try Brooklyn - now is
the time.
Brooklyn Warehouse features a daily
selection of soups and salads made with locally sourced ingredients with
flavourful twists. The Brooklyn Burgers that come with deal are nothing short
of amazing! In 2009, Chatelaine Magazine declared them one of Canada's top 5
burgers - and you'll know why after having one. Featuring 7oz of fresh organic
Nova Scotia beef, Quebec raw cheddar, Brother's smoked back bacon, red pepper
mayo, tomato, onion and pickles - all on a ciabatta bun, and served with
oven-roasted potato wedges. Believe what you've heard about it!
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 27th 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?
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.
Win a Tasting Menu for Two at Chef Ray Bear's new casual restaurant (opening soon), a sampler of his gourmet cooking sauces, or tickets to the CATCH Nova Scotia Seafood Festival - along with CATCH Tasting Tickets.
Enter Here - winners will be announced on June 15th. Good Luck!
This
morning, I had the opportunity to be a guest on the Haligonia.ca morning web
show Halifix. I’d seen several of their webisodes before, but today, I got to
be on their side of the camera.
Wow, it happens so fast. Maybe it just seemed
like that to me because the hosts Heidi Petracek and Ashley King are so
seasoned in front of a camera.
They
were great to have me in to their studio to give me the chance to speak with
their audience about Halifax Restaurant Deals and the TASTE, DINE and COOK like
a CHEF Sweepstakes. They did a quick piece on the show with me, and then did a
full interview after. The video for today's Haligonia Halifix is below:
During
the show today, they launched the Haligonia.ca iPhone App.I had a chance to download it from the iTunes
App store (it’s free!) right before the show.It’s a great addition to any iPhone’s users
device to keep current with what’s going on in our city, and includes tabs that
pull in Haligonia news headlines, photos, their twitter feed, and the latest
videos like my interview. It looks great, has some pretty cool features, and
I’m sure there are more to come.
Today
was a totally unique experience for me. I’m more of a behind the scenes guy.
That’s why I love working in a kitchen. But I have to admit that once my nerves
had settled and I got a little more comfortable being in front of the camera, I
had a pretty good time. Heidi and Ashley truly helped me through the interview
with their lightheartedness. Thanks again to everyone at Haligonia.ca. I hope
to be able to stop by again!
For me
personally, with oysters, I could take em’ or leave em’. However, Halifax is
full of oyster lovers, and any restaurant that I've worked at in the city that
has had oysters on the menu has sold more than a few orders every night.
Many cooks find
them to be a nuisance, having to deal with a raw product that can be quite
messy to handle. But after shucking countless oysters over the years,
I have a method. Every oyster is different, unique and ready to be cracked
open… you just have to find the sweet spot.
That's why I’m
very excited to be entering the CATCH Nova Scotia Seafood Festival Oyster Shucking Challenge. It looks like there are some strict rules
to adhere by… but that’s just to make sure our beautiful East Coast oysters
are showcased properly. The winner of this contest will get to represent the province in at the national oyster shucking contest in August held during the Tyne Valley Oyster Festival.
I'm going to
try to get in a few practice shucks before the competition takes place on
June 20th at the Cunard Centre. I’m a little rusty, and
oyster shucking (and sometimes the shuckers themselves) can be quite dangerous. Hence the rule about disqualification for "physical interference during the shucking competition." But I have tough hands, they're ready to shuck, and I'd love to visit PEI in August...
I like new things. More accurately, I like
being a part of new things. It invigorates me. Since I've been
working in the restaurant business, I've been involved in opening three restaurants
and started my own catering business, Relax Dinner Parties. I love the excitement, energy, and enthusiasm that goes into a new project or venture.
Over the last few weeks, I've gotten
involved in a startup project with my brother and a business partner of his.
It's called HalifaxRestaurantDeals.com
What I bring to the table for this new
venture is my industry knowledge and restaurant contacts. After working in this industry for over eight years,
I have met many amazing people from the back of the house to the front, as well as many managers and owner/operators of Halifax area restaurants of all shapes and sizes. But what I've realized in the
last few weeks while working on Halifax Restaurant Deals is that it's just the tip of the
iceberg!
Halifax Restaurant Deals is going to be featuring one amazing deal from a Halifax area restaurant every week - a deal you won't be able to find anywhere else. Besides being exclusive, deals will be in short supply and offered for a limited time only.
To be the first to hear about the new deals when we launch, please add yourself to receive a notification email on our home page: www.HalifaxRestaurantDeals.com
I'll have more info on the new site in the weeks to come, and on June 4th (tomorrow) we're launching a cool contest with some great prizes. Check back here, or on the Halifax Restaurant Deals Facebook page for news on the "Taste, Dine & Cook Like a Chef Sweepstakes!" You could win tickets to the CATCH Nova Scotia Seafood Festival or a Tasting Menu for Two at Chef Ray Bear's New Casual Restaurant... opening soon!
I started working at the Wooden Monkey about a year ago. While I was working at Bear Restaurant, I had mornings off and a friend of mine from NSCC, Chef Rhonda Starkey, now at the Sea Rover Inn, needed some help with her prep crew at the Monkey. I was very excited to be working in two of Halifax’s best restaurants. It marked the start of a very busy summer for me.
Back when I was in cooking school, I joined the Jr. Chefs Association. One of our meetings was held at the Wooden Monkey and hosted by Lil MacPherson, co-owner and creator of the WM. She was full of information, had great food philosophy, and very passionate about being environmentally conscious. I knew then that some day I would spend some time working at the Monkey.
In early October, 2009, I started working full-time at the Wooden Monkey and moved up from prepping to cooking on the line. After some kitchen management changes, I was given the position of Chef de partie. Essentially, my job was to run lunch and dinner service. After a few busy months, one of the sous chefs left to go on maternity leave and the other one came back from finishing her red seal certification.
It was great being exposed to the extensive range of local products that the WM uses. I can confidently say that I know where to find the best of the best that Nova Scotia has to offer. I also got the chance to cook for guests with a wide variety of allergies and intolerances, as well as vegan and vegetarians.It was a completely different realm of cooking for me. Having that exposure will always affect the way I think about and prepare food for any of my guests in the future.
After a year at the Wooden Monkey, and with the end of my apprenticeship nearing, it felt like the right time to step back from my position. I will soon be back working with Chef Ray Bear to finish my training at his new restaurant (opening soon!). And as always, I’m trying to grow my catering business Relax Dinner Parties, and have recently started doing gigs with my first mentor, Chef David Whalen.
I’m also working on a new project that will allow me to connect with all the great Halifax area restaurants which I’m sure will keep all of my free time unfree... J That’s the nature of this business, and it’s a reality that everyone in this industry must come to terms with… you need to be cooking with all your burners…and make sure nothing burns!!!
Thanks to everyone at the Monkey for the great times and wonderful experiences, all the loyal guests that came to eat and always supported the restaurant - and especially to Lil and Christine.
