The 31st annual Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice Awards are officially in the voting stage until November 30! From your favourite coffee shop and sushi spot to the city’s best tattoo artist, dog groomer, or band—these finalists earned their place thanks to reader nominations. Now you get to crown the gold, silver, and bronze winners. […]
Best of Halifax
Best of Halifax, Best of Food, Best of Music – Coast City Guides 2023 2024 – winners and awards based on readers vote on the best Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, Sackville HRM, Nova Scotia restaurants, bars, bands, albums, arts, media, stores and more.
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2026 Best of Halifax Nominations Open
NOMINATIONS CLOSED. Nominations just opened for the 31st annual Best of Halifax Readers’ Choice Awards, meaning you—and other Coast readers like you—get to pick the people, places and businesses that go for BOH gold, silver and bronze. Think your favourite coffee shop or sushi spot is one of Halifax’s best? Nominate it! We’ve got loads […]
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Best Beer Garden
GOLD WINNER 🥇 Stillwell Beergarden website SILVER WINNER 🥈 Good Robot Brewing Co. Commons website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery website HONOURABLE MENTIONS The BG Evan’s Fresh Seafoods The Maxwell’s Plum The Oxford Taproom Picture this: It’s a summer afternoon and you’ve wandered off Spring Garden Road into Stillwell Beergarden. The sun […]
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Best Chocolatier
GOLD WINNER 🥇 Peace By Chocolate website SILVER WINNER 🥈 Rousseau Chocolatier website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 Pane e Circo website HONOURABLE MENTIONS Gourmandises Avenue Chocolaterie King & North Chocolate Michelle Ashley’s Bakery Whim Chocolate By now, you’ve heard the Hadhad family’s inspiring story: Refugees from Syria, the Hadhads arrived in Antigonish in 2015, three years […]
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Best Gluten-free Options
GOLD WINNER 🥇 The Wooden Monkey website SILVER WINNER 🥈 Easy Street Diner website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 Schoolhouse Gluten-Free Gourmet website HONOURABLE MENTIONS 2 Doors Down Food + Wine The Bicycle Thief Black Sheep Restaurant Studio East
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Best Salad
GOLD WINNER 🥇 HARVEST Clean Eats website SILVER WINNER 🥈 The Canteen website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 The Wooden Monkey website HALL OF FAME 🏆 Pete’s Frootique and Fine Foods website Inducted to the Hall in 2018 HONOURABLE MENTIONS Fawn Restaurant il Mercato Trattoria The Mercantile Social Stillwell Freehouse
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Best Esthetician
GOLD WINNER 🥇 Alanna Byrne at Blair Beauty Bar website SILVER WINNER 🥈 Jill Stephenson at Jill Stephenson Makeup Artistry + Esthetics website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 Claire Crawford at The Wine Spa website HONOURABLE MENTIONS Alexis Clark at Urban Hair Clarissa Legalley at YOLOve Beauty Van at Fancy Nails Emma Zinck at The Ten Spot […]
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Best Independent Bookstore
GOLD WINNER 🥇 Bookmark website SILVER WINNER 🥈 Agricola Street Books website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 Woozles website HONOURABLE MENTIONS Dartmouth Book Exchange King’s Co-op Bookstore Otis and Clementine’s Venus Envy
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Best Pet Supply Store
GOLD WINNER 🥇 Ren’s Pets website SILVER WINNER 🥈 Jollytails website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 East Coast Dog website HONOURABLE MENTIONS Best Friends Pet Supplies Chews Raw Planet Paws Portland St. Pets
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Best Film / TV Actor
GOLD WINNER 🥇 Elliot Page website SILVER WINNER 🥈 Jonathan Torrens website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 Mark Critch website HONOURABLE MENTIONS Brian George Kristyn Green Anna Mona-Pia Jordan Poole
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Best Theatre Company
GOLD WINNER 🥇 Neptune Theatre website SILVER WINNER 🥈 Shakespeare By The Sea website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 The Villains Theatre website HONOURABLE MENTIONS 2b Theatre Company Eastern Front Theatre Theatre Arts Guild Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Make that seven Gold Awards in the Best Theatre Company category for Neptune Theatre. The 61-year-old theatre […]
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Best Electronic Artist / Band
GOLD WINNER 🥇 Neon Dreams website SILVER WINNER 🥈 KittyBass website BRONZE WINNER 🥉 ENOGEN website HONOURABLE MENTIONS Aftertouch Chasing Luma Maqām Omnirock
