If you’ve ever wanted to own a bar, now’s your chance: The Brewery by Quinns is on the market. The Quinpool Road brewpub—right across from Preston Street—is listed for $400,000, boasting a “turn key operation” with a “huge kitchen,” a 750-hectolitre brewery and an “amazing outdoor patio.” The Brewery opened in 2022, a year after […]
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Restaurant reviews and ratings for Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring articles about the best new downtown Halifax and Dartmouth NS restaurants, fine dining, pubs, seafood, local bars, chefs, beer, donairs, pizzas, vegetarian and organic food and more.
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UPDATED: Lake City Cider eyes new brewery in spring 2025
Things are afoot at Dartmouth’s Lake City Cider. The cidery and perennial Best of Halifax favourite is in the midst of renovations to its Portland Street taproom, where it formerly shared a space with Brightwood Brewery. The latter closed its taproom in late March, citing “personal circumstances” and a need to restructure the business after […]
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First female-led beverage events company reimagining wine fair
Finding a gap in the market and being sharp enough to fill it with your product or service is every entrepreneur’s dream, and the smartest way to identify that gap is by solving your own problems. That’s exactly what Shevaghn Darcy is doing with Cellar Events—her self-proclaimed “business baby”—and the event company that is bringing […]
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Woman on Top (Chef)
Any good misogynist will tell you that a woman’s place is in the kitchen. But that exact same misogynist will tell you that a professional kitchen is no place for a woman. It’s one of the more perplexing sexist paradoxes. Moira Murray is proving that a woman’s place is actually wherever the hell she wants […]
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Five Nova Scotian wines you need to try this summer
The Lieutenant-Governor’s office honoured five wines with Awards of Excellence earlier this month. Given out by Taste of Nova Scotia and Wine Growers Nova Scotia, in partnership with the Lieutenant-Governor’s office, wineries across the province were able to submit up to three commercially available wines. Awards were given out at the Government House on […]
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Halifax’s best cheap eats that are actually cheap—and tasty, too
This economy… it damn sure ain’t easy. With Canada’s inflation rate up 2.9% in March from the same time last year, a good number of Haligonians are finding it harder to scrounge up extra cash of any kind these days—let alone for a meal out. Bars and restaurants are feeling the pinch of higher costs, […]
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From Broadway to Benedict
Mother’s Day is fast approaching, and we know you want to spoil the women and mother figures in your life who mean the most to you. Here are some offerings curated just for Mother’s Day that are as unique and special as she is. Salt + Ash Beach House Choose one of their Momma’s Smorgasbord […]
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These three Halifax beer gardens are re-opening soon
With a flight’s worth of double-digit temperature days on the horizon, Halifax is finally turning a corner from “holy frig it’s cold” to “ah, yes, that’s what it feels like when the sun hits your face.” (Answer: It feels damn good.) And with the city warming up and May knocking at the door, it’s about […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2024 Halifax Burger Bash
Alittle more than week ago, we wrote that April in Halifax is marked by three things: Cruise ships, potholes and Haligonians emerging from hibernation. But there’s a fourth thing that really signals spring has sprung in our wind-blasted city. And that, of course, is Burger Bash. For 12 years running, The Coast has teamed up […]
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3 new buzzworthy restaurants teased for Halifax’s waterfront
Colin Bebbington has a full plate. Three years since returning to his hometown of Halifax with a slew of Michelin-starred stints on his resume, the 34-year-old chef known lately for his popular pop-up kitchens is about to do something entirely new: Open a permanent fine dining location. And in prime harbourfront real estate, to boot. […]
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First look at Hardisty Brewing Co., Cole Harbour’s newest taproom and charcuterie spot
The first word that comes to mind when you walk through the front doors of Hardisty Brewing Co.’s new Cole Harbour Road space is “cozy.” The lights are dimmed above the sprinkling of tables and high-tops, all clean lines and polished wood grain. The mood is bright as the rainbow-coloured drink menu behind the bar. […]
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7 new Halifax restaurants to get you excited for 2024
If last year’s haul of industry awards is anything to go by, Halifax’s food and drink scene continues to put our coastal city on the map. That doesn’t show any signs of slowing in 2024, even as the region reels from the loss of several beloved haunts in 2023. The good news? More palate-pleasing options […]
