{"id":104747,"date":"2022-07-07T16:13:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=104747"},"modified":"2022-07-07T16:13:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T20:13:24","slug":"the-latest-offering-from-the-black-duck-team-oysterhead-tavern-opens-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-latest-offering-from-the-black-duck-team-oysterhead-tavern-opens-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest offering from the Black Duck team, Oyst\u00ebrhead Tavern, opens today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Black Duck on Bridge Street in Sackville has gone through a number of changes over the course of the pandemic, as co-owners Al Barbour and Sarah Evans tried to adapt to the steady stream of changes in public health rules and people\u2019s habits. And today, the popular eatery reopens anew again, this time as Oyst\u00ebrhead Tavern.<\/p>\n

CHMA dropped by the restaurant this week to find out what\u2019s in store from Barbour himself:<\/p>\n\n

Barbour says that Oyst\u00ebrhead is run by \u201cthe same Black Duck team, working out of the same building,\u201d just under a new name. With asthetic changes inside the restaurant, the name Oyst\u00ebrhead\u2014part homage to English heavy metal band M\u00f6torhead, and part nod to the fresh oysters on the menu\u2014seemed more fitting that the Black Duck, says Barbour.<\/p>\n

There won\u2019t be significant menu changes since the cafe moved to lunch and evening service earlier this year. \u201cIt\u2019ll be a similar menu to what we\u2019ve been running,\u201d says Barbour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been operating for 10 years and the pandemic has made us rethink some of the things that we were doing,\u201d says Barbour. \u201cWe decided to concentrate more on bespoke food, as opposed to things like sandwiches and fast grab and go sort of stuff.\u201d
\nBarbour says the restaurant will still use food from the Black Duck garden and other local suppliers. Meals will be more elaborate than what was on offer at the old cafe, but also \u201capproachable and not particularly expensive,\u201d says Barbour.<\/p>\n

Barbour says that changes along Bridge Street over the course of the pandemic have reduced the number of people he sees downtown, especially noting the loss of Thunder and Lightning, and more recently the Hounds of Vintage clothing store, both of which added to the drawing power of downtown.<\/p>\n

Issues finding workers is also at play in the newly launched restaurant\u2019s hours, just four days a week on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11am to 9pm, and Sundays from 11am to 3pm.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the reasons we changed what we\u2019re doing is because operating a cafe seven days a week, from 7am until 7pm takes too many staff for what we\u2019re able to hire in Sackville,\u201d says Barbour. \u201cSo we\u2019re four days a week, and that directly has to do with the labour shortage.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for those four days Barbour has a simple pitch for Sackvillians: \u201cJust come and try it out. It\u2019s the same great food as always, and it\u2019s really good value.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Black Duck on Bridge Street in Sackville has gone through a number of changes over the course of the pandemic, as co-owners Al Barbour and Sarah Evans tried to adapt to the steady stream of changes in public health rules and people\u2019s habits. And today, the popular eatery reopens anew again, this time as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":104749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57],"tags":[9622,16532,14190,3949,3619],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104753,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104747\/revisions\/104753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104747"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=104747"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=104747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}