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DARTMOUTH, N.S. -- It's 3:30 on a Friday afternoon afterwards a active cafeteria blitz that abounding a 60-seat restaurant in city Dartmouth.

Standing abaft The Canteen's bar, chef and co-owner Renee Lavallee fills her bottle with article from a bounded alternative of ability beer and cider on tap.

"There were a few hawkeye nights afterwards we absitively to accessible a restaurant here," says Canteen co-owner Doug Townsend, Lavallee's husband, as he sidles up to the bar.

"The absoluteness is this block of Portland Street for years was array of a extraordinary breadth at assertive times of day for the boilerplate person."

Not anymore. The Canteen is amid an access of retail and restaurant start-ups that accept adapted city Dartmouth into article affiliated to Halifax's Brooklyn: some of the hottest eateries, trendiest shops and coolest hipster hangouts appear on the abrasive streets beyond the harbour from city Halifax.

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Dartmouth has become a aliment lovers', craft-beer-drinking paradise, with the Portland Street Creperie, Yeah Yeahs Pizza, and Battery Park Beer Bar & Eatery.

Local bedrock brilliant Joel Plaskett opened the New Scotland Yard Emporium two years ago, a barbershop, almanac boutique and bistro absorbed to his recording studio.

And King's Wharf, a ample retail and residential development at the above Dartmouth abyssal slips, is home to Il Trullo Ristorante and a new cocktail and wine bar The Watch that Ends the Night and an arrival of association in chase of flush condos overlooking the harbour.

Now, cartage on cruise ships docked in Halifax allotment out $2.50 to booty the pleasant, 12-minute bear ride to Dartmouth.

"You can use the big G-word. It's gentrifying," says Arthur Gaudreau, who writes about the city's retail and restaurant scene. "In the aftermost few years, one of the things I've absolutely noticed is a lot of adolescent families are affective to city Dartmouth."

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For years, Dartmouth stood in the caliginosity of Nova Scotia's capital, its appellation the darkside, its acceptability affectionately summed up as a little "rough about the edges" by locals.

"We still accept a little bit of that 'Oh don't go bottomward that aphotic alley' atmosphere but now we additionally accept acceptable aliment and new restaurants and shops," says Katy Jean, a bounded citizen and artist who writes amusing haiku about Dartmouth.

"About a decade ago, demography a bus bottomward Portland Street to bolt the bear to Halifax was a apparition town. I can't anamnesis annihilation added than boom and pizza shops," she says. "Now you can get annihilation from award bleu accomplished dining to gourmet coffee."

Local councillor Sam Austin calls it a resurgence.

"In the past, bodies came to city Dartmouth to shop," he says. "This is breadth your bounded accouterments abundance and your administration abundance was. This is breadth you would go to buy stuff."

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But the already alive capital streets were anointed out by post-war suburbanization, the auto and a arch to Halifax. Malls and automated parks thrived as bounded shops shuttered, with a baby scattering of assurance shops, boom parlours and confined surviving.

The renaissance was kick-started eight years ago with the aperture of Two If By Sea, a angrily appreciative Dartmouth bistro on Ochterloney Street that serves locally broiled coffee and croissants big abundant to bore a baby ship.

"TIBS was a catalyst," says Gaudreau, a self-proclaimed "Dartmouth boy," apropos to the bistro by its acronym. "Then a few years ago, there was a quick little blast of awesomeness."

A cardinal of apart endemic businesses circumscribed up in the city area, including Bodega Boutique, Kept allowance shop, the Dart Gallery, Picnic, Room 152 Clothing Boutique, The Bike Pedaler, KoKo Mod Floral Design, and Hazelnut & Rose Nursing and Maternity Boutique.

For those in chase of an accurate flavour, the mainstays of Portland Street remain, such as Whiskey's Lounge, Revana Pizza, Staggers Pub and Grub and Best Kept Secret Bar and Entertainment.

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"When I was a teenager, Portland Street was accepted for band clubs and bars," says Neil Cook, buyer of the Portland Street Creperie. "There is still a little bit of an bend but it's a acceptable thing."

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