Crepe Shop Will Replace Mic Mac Mall Starbucks
HALIFAX — A new food service business is taking over the former home of Starbucks inside the Mic Mac Mall.
Crepe Delicious Urban Café will set up in the ground-floor space once occupied by the Seattle coffee chain.
Renovations are already underway on a new kiosk for the space. According to Halifax’s Planning and Development department, the new kiosk will feature cooking equipment, a food preparation area, a sales area, and display space.
Crepe Delicious is a Toronto-based franchise that serves both sweet and savoury crepes in a quick-service style. Its franchises are found mostly in major shopping centres.
With more than 7o locations across the world, the chain claims to be “Canada’s largest mall-based creperie.”
Melanie Nguon is Crepe Delicious’ general manager. She says she expects to open the Dartmouth location at the end of August and hold a grand opening in September. She says the kiosk will employ approximately six people to start.
Founded by chef Oded Yefet in 2004, Crepe Delicious aims to combine “North America’s love for street food with the delights of a fresh crepe.”
The menu includes options like ham and cheese, falafel, and chocolate-strawberry crepes — as well as a selection of frozen treats and gelato.
Nguon says the chain focuses on using premium ingredients and that everything is made fresh every day, including gelato.
She says the franchise also focuses on the health of its products, using water as part of its traditinal crepe batter insteaad of oil.
Its move into the former home of Starbucks appears to be one more strike against the possibility of that coffee shop returning to Mic Mac Mall.
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, there were Starbucks locations both inside the mall itself and attached to the Chapters bookstore. Both locations closed in 2020. There has been no indication if or when Starbucks might return to Chapters.
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