The NONO Pizza Quest marks the final chapter of the Halifax Pizza Quest… well, as far as the peninsula is concerned. The next stage in this ongoing quest will be to hold the Peninsular Pizza Finals! The #1 candidate from each neighbourhood will proceed to a battle royale to determine who makes the best pizza on the Halifax Peninsula! But […]
Welcome to the 4th Edition of the Halifax Pizza Quest! If you are just tuning in now, you can see all my pizza-related posts by clicking this link. My team and I have been moving across every Halifax neighbourhood and examining the state of delivery pizza in each one. We hope to conquer the entirety of the Halifax Peninsula by […]
For those just tuning in, this is the third installment of the Halifax Pizza Quest! Make sure to check out the rigorous accounts of South End Halifax and the Battle of Quinpool Road. Our methodology involves ordering a medium pizza with pepperoni and green pepper at each pizza joint and consuming them as simultaneously and thoughtfully as possible (something we’re still […]
Saturday, April 26 marked the first ever Pictou County Pizza Competition, a Rotary Club fundraiser held in New Glasgow to determine who makes the best Pictou County Pizza. $25 was good for pizza samples from 8 different restaurants and 2 beers from Uncle Leo’s Brewery, as well as the chance to win door prizes, trivia, and a 50/50 draw. What […]
Round 2 of the Halifax Pizza quest proved to be just as thrilling and surprising as the last. For those of you just tuning in, my food team and I are doing monthly Pizza Quests in Halifax neighbourhoods. Basically we get a medium pizza with pepperoni and green pepper delivered from each pizza shop, and critique them all in one […]
Greetings! I am happy to say that I have completed the first round of my Halifax Pizza Quest! … which you know nothing about because I haven’t told you yet. Here’s the scoop: I am dividing Halifax into “pizza neighbourhoods” and conducting a pizza quest for each area. Ideally, this takes the form of a “pizza party” where my food […]
Recently, I have become attuned to the chorus of transplanted Capers declaring that pizza is much better in Cape Breton than it is in Halifax. There is, apparently, a style of Cape Breton pizza. There are a couple problems with this sentiment. First, it requires Halifax to have a homogeneous pizza style. Second, it requires Cape Breton to have a […]
I lumbered into Calgary on a Greyhound bus one summer morning in 2009. I would end up living there for 3 years, but my first moments were filled with disorientation and culture shock, as I stumbled through the wasteland of strip malls, box stores, and chain restaurants grasping for something familiar, before discovering and understanding the real Calgary culinary scene. This […]
When I lived in Calgary, I worked with several individuals from the small city of Windsor, Ontario. Relying largely on Detroit’s automotive industry, or lack thereof, Windsor folks are represented amongst the work-hungry migrants who find themselves in Calgary. These friends of mine taught me things I didn’t know – many things! Such as: Windsor is the southernmost city in […]
