Home is where the heart, and the best grilled cheese, is. You like to butter your own bread, use your own special cheese and grill it up to your own unique taste. No one does it quite like you. Or, really, nobody does it quite like me. If I opened a grilled cheese-only restaurant, you’d […]
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Best Meteorologist
atv’s Peter Coade is the meteorologist you trust when it comes to predicting the weather. When he says it’s going to rain, you take an umbrella. If he calls for snow, you don your winter boots. And the day he predicts sunshine, you call in sick. Runner-up: Cindy Day
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Best Veterinarian
It is fully staffed six days a week, with rates that are on par with other vets. But that’s not what’s so great about Woodbury. Whenever my Sparky starts acting weird—this does not include the middle of the night let-me-out-let-me-back-in shenanigans he’s pulling lately, mind you, though I wish it did—I haul him up to […]
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Best Restaurant (Established)
When you’re ready to put on the dog, you head to Halifax’s swankest room to do so. You don’t care if it takes half a paycheque, damn it. 1496 Lower Water Street, 423-0859 Runner-up: Il Mercato Ristorante 5475 Spring Garden Road, 422-2866
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Best Street
Whether you’re summer strolling to feed the ducks at the Public Gardens, putting in time on one of the many patios, grabbing some fries from Bud’s on your lunch hour, or hustling through the Christmas Eve crowds, Spring Garden has a charm all of its own—unless you’re a panhandler. But that’s another story. Runner-up: Argyle […]
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Best Fish & Chips
Joe’s is new to the Halifax food scene but it’s made quite an impression on you since opening. The golden-hued, lightly battered fish and tasty fries are out of this world. And Joe’s takes the humble cole slaw to a new level with the addition of peppercorns. 1520 Queen Street, 423-8435 Runner-up: John’s Lunch 352 […]
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Best Weekend Brunch
This small, cosy dining room seats 40 people and on weekend mornings every one of those chairs is taken. You may be able to find a cheaper brunch in this town but Libertine’s food is worth the extra expense. 1463 Brenton Street, 429-3499 Runner-up: Athens Restaurant 6303 Quinpool Road, 422-1595
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Best Dentist
Apparently, not even the fact that Dr. Legallais has his office in MicMac Mall can deter you from loving him. Well, I guess once you get past the fact that he’s a dentist, anything’s possible, huh? He’ll happily fill your cavities, scrape your plaque and fill your mouth with cotton—and when the freezing wears off, […]
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Best Massage Therapist
If you want the knots in your neck kneaded out, call Judith Arisz and set her magic fingers to work. After one hour in her care, you will never have felt better. Inglis Street, 423-1628 Runner-up: Stacey Opalka 455-4300
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Best Late-night Food
When you’re hungry late at night, you like your food fast and the portions HUGE. Potato skins, chicken burgers, poutine. You name they’ve got it. The Apple Barrel stuffs a Best Of prize into its pockets for the second time in a row. 1726 Grafton Street, 425-0500 Runner-up: La Cave 5244 Blowers Street, 429-3551
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Best Movie Theatre
You know what it is? It’s the fact that you get to go there really, really late at night sometimes and check out a flick that a more mainstream theatre would rather burn than show. It’s the fact that you get to stand in a line-up outside, just like in the good ol’ days, and […]
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Best Yoga Instructor
It’s no stretch for Maxine Munro to be named Best Yoga Instructor. Along with her husband, she owns and runs Coburg Therapeutic Approach. Not only does she teach yoga there three days a week, but you can also find her gentle yoga guidance at other SuperCity locations. 6090 Coburg Road, 429-3303 Runners-up: Silver Firth, David […]