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Food & Drink: Seafood features strongly on most menus; popular local dishes include scallops, fried, baked or grilled and usually served with tartar sauce. Fish and clam chowders and solomon gundy (a herring dish) are also popular and, of course, lobster and salmon. Lunenburg sausage exemplifies the German influence, as do hugger in buff, fish and scrunchions, Dutch mess and house bunkin, all names for tasty combinations of fish and potatoes covered in cream sauce with onions and salt pork. Desserts make use of plentiful fruit and berries and include a stewed fruit and dumplings dish called grunt, and baked apple dumplings wrapped in pastry and served with cream, sugar or lemon sauce. Beer and alcoholic beverages are sold by the glass in licenced restaurants (food must also be ordered) and in licensed lounges (opening hours generally 1100-1400). Beer by the bottle and draught beer is sold by the glass in taverns, pubs and beverage rooms, which offer great snacks and light meals, opening hours are normally from 1000 until early morning the next day. The Pub District in Halifax is said to be one of the best in North America, with over 55 establishments; the minimum drinking age is 19 years old.
Nightlife: Nightclubs are mostly centred in Halifax. Scottish bagpipe music and Gaelic songs can be heard all over the territory in concerts, bars, hotels and restaurants. Professional and amateur theatre is very popular; details of forthcoming attractions are available from Tourism Nova Scotia.
Special Events: For full information on special events, contact Tourism Nova Scotia (see Contact Addresses section). The following is a selection of special events and festivals held in Nova Scotia in 2003:
Feb 13-16 East Coast Music Awards, Halifax. May 22-25 The Lights Along the Shore Lighthouse Festival, Lighthouse Route May 25-Jun 8 Scotia Festival of Music, Halifax. Jun 20-22 Nova Scotia Multicultural Festival, Dartmouth. Jun 26-29 Privateer Days, Liverpool. Jun 29-Jul 7 Nova Scotia International Tattoo, Halifax. Jul 5 Halifax Highland Games. Jul 10-13 Pictou Lobster Carnival. Jul 13-19 World Theatre Congress and Festival, Halifax. Jul 16-20 Yarmouth Seafest; Festival of the Tartans, New Glasgow. Jul 18-27 Atlantic Jazz Festival, Halifax. Aug 1-2 Louisbourg Crab Festival. Aug 1-3 Mahone Bay Wooden Boat Festival. Aug 6-10 Digby Scallop Days. Aug 28-31 Yarmouth Cup Ocean Races. Aug 28-Sep 7 Atlantic Fringe Festival, Halifax. Sep 6-7 Nova Scotia International Air Show, Eastern Passage. Sep 12-20 Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax. Sep 26-27 Oktoberfest, Tatamagouche. Oct 3-5 Great Scarecrow Festival & Antique Fair, Mahone Bay. Oct 4-26 Pumpkin People Festival, Kentville. Oct 10-18 Celtic Colours International Festival, Cape Breton. Oct 12 Windsor Pumpkin Regatta.
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