The Five Fishermen Restaurant in downtown Halifax

There was a nervous sense of anticipation in the air in downtown Halifax the night we ate at the Five Fishermen. I’m tempted to say the famous Five Fishermen, because anyone who has visited Nova Scotia’s boisterous port and capital city seems to ask, “did you eat there?”.

The anticipation, though, was not just about the promise of fine food. This was the eve of the predicted landfall of Hurricane, an interloper from the Caribbean that had raged up North America’s eastern seaboard for a week.

Yet right now the evening air was warm and still More >