Food map
Food map for Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia
Every licensed commercial kitchen, incubator, shared-use facility and farmers market across the municipality — verified and updated weekly.
- Food entities
- 118
- Hourly rate range
- $18–32
- Last verified
- Sep 1
- Bookable kitchens
- 4
The short answer
Halifax has licensed commercial kitchens available to rent across the peninsula and Dartmouth, with rates that run $18–$32/hour. Several hold dairy or meat processing approvals.
What’s on this map
- Commercial kitchens
- 47
- Licensed and renting time to third parties.
- Incubators
- 3
- Programs with kitchen access bundled in.
- Farmers markets
- 12
- Seasonal and year-round, with vendor intake.
- Producers & processors
- 56
- Mapped for context; not rentable space.
Kitchens you can book in Halifax
Questions about food business in Halifax
- Do I need a Halifax business licence to sell food?
- For most prepared-food businesses, yes — plus a Nova Scotia Environment inspection of your process. Renting an already-licensed kitchen satisfies the facility side.
- How often is this map updated?
- Weekly. Every entity is re-verified against permit records quarterly, and delisted immediately if a permit lapses.
What is on this map
We verify every entity by permit record before it goes on a Food Web map. For HRM that means cross-referencing Nova Scotia Environment inspection records against the municipal business registry, then calling each facility to confirm it actually rents time.