Enjoy a Halifax urban foodie experience focused on sustainably conscious places to eat and drink in the iconic, diverse, colourful and trendy North End neighbourhood. Pack your walking shoes, and bring your appetite and sense of adventure, because this Halifax Urban Foodie Tour delivers an abundance of delights.

Clare, Nova Scotia is a sweet little southwestern Nova Scotia community that is big on Acadian culture & heritage, and home-style hospitality. It is also a fishing community privileged to have year-round access to fresh seafood. Add in a few top-notch Chefs with innovative ideas to create flavourful dishes & special events, a cidery, a brewery, a distillery, and a couple wineries, and a culinary destination is born that is putting Clare, Nova Scotia on the map.

Musique de la Baie kitchen parties, Le Festival Acadien de Clare, Les Beaux Vendredis Seafood Suppers, and the Gran Fondo Baie Sainte-Marie cycling experience have caught the attention of many and soon everyone will know Clare. In 2024, the Congrès Mondial Acadien is coming. This international gathering of Acadian culture is held every five years and its mission is to fortify the ties among Acadian communities around the globe. This southwestern Nova Scotian community will be on the world map then, but now is your chance to get a sneak peek, so you can plan your visit before the rest of the world learns about this hidden gem. Meet Clare Nova Scotia.

Pull up a chair at a beautiful table set on the ocean floor to experience the ultimate culinary adventure at the site of the world’s highest tides. Savour the best of Nova Scotia food, beer & wine. Chef Domenic Padula of Food Fantastique orchestrates it all oceanside at Burntcoat Head Park on the Bay of Fundy, declared one of the Seven Natural Wonders of North America! Dining on the Ocean Floor was recently named One of the 13 Most Spectacular Dining Destinations in the World. This is a bucket list experience you do not want to miss.

Crawl aboard the Nova Scotia Lobster Crawl Festival, along the beautiful south shore of Nova Scotia - from Barrington to Peggy’s Cove - the whole month of February. Indulge and experience lobster by sipping & savouring, staying & playing, shopping & hopping, touring & participating in all things lobster. Seas the Day and Shellebrate! It is all for lobster and lobster for ALL! 

Pictou Lodge Beach Resort on the Northumberland Shore of Nova Scotia is the perfect maritime vacation destination. Families, groups of friends, and couples will all find what they are looking for here. This resort has something for everyone with more options, and choices than you will ever have time for.

Oh, if the walls could talk at Birchdale... It has hosted some notable guests over this past century like: Greta Garbo, Babe Ruth, Teddy Roosevelt, Danny Kaye, Ted Williams & Disney Illustrator Milt Neil to name a few. You can feel the illustrious history here ~ it is almost palpable. I recently went off-the-grid and attended a Writers Retreat at this rustic beauty and do I have a tale to tell.

Mabel Murple’s Book Shoppe & Dreamery is what children’s dreams are made of. Nestled on River John on the Sunrise Trail on the Northumberland Shore of Nova Scotia, Canadian Children’s Author, Poet & Educator Sheree Fitch opened up her personal hobby farm, and created a purplicious place where books come alive through imagination, creativity and old fashioned family fun.

Dine Around is heating up Halifax in February. Innovative chefs use locally sourced ingredients to prepare special curated menus with fixed discounted prices. Dine & Stay hotels also offer great deals this month too. Start the car… It’s Winner, Winner, Gourmet Dinner!!

Wander tree-lined streets & poke around the sweet artisan shops, grab a tasty lunch at a cute café or dine in a seafood restaurant, see a show at the playhouse or sit back & bask in the harbour front ocean views as sailboats dance on the waves. Treasure your time in Chester and find plenty of treasure, too!

Sweet Mahone Bay transforms into a merriment of characters for their annual Scarecrow Festival and Antique Fair. The whole town is brimming with life-size imaginative scarecrows from the traditional to the absurd, all to tickle your funny bone, and offer a fabulous family activity ladened weekend coupled with the largest antique show in the Maritimes. This unique joyful autumn extravaganza delivers!

Blue Rocks is a quaint wee fishing village just a stone’s throw from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It is a dreamscape of shoreline, and a treasure of coves and inlets all highlighted by the amazing blue slate rock it sits on. You will be in awe at every turn. No wonder this is a haven for filmmakers, and a muse for artists, and photographers.

Sweet Mahone Bay will have you searching the real estate listings before you leave. It holds the title of being one of ‘The 10 Most Beautiful Towns in Canada’ and the three historic churches in Mahone Bay are the most photographed in all of Canada. Come alone with me and fall in love with the town that is pretty as a picture.

Lovely Lunenburg is Home of the Bluenose II, and vibrantly painted colonial homes and buildings in every colour of the rainbow. Designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site, Lunenburg greets its visitors with the best example of preserved wooden British colonial architecture in North America. Enjoy the vibrantly painted 18th & 19th century homes, restaurants, stores, museums, and galleries that brightly light up the town like a brand new box of crayons.

Enjoy this peek into the Little Painted House of Canadian Folk Artist Maud Lewis. She decorated this one-bedroom wee home with her very soul and it is on display at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Her whimsical art will make you smile and know all is right in this world.