Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner The Bicycle Thief Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine Renée Lavallée and Doug Townsend’s minds are blown. “We try to eat out on a regular basis—we know the amazing restaurants, the Bar Kismets, the EDNAs,” says Lavallée via speakerphone. She lovingly calls The Canteen “just a little […]
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Best Server
Gold Winner Chris Haley Silver Winner Cora Tudor, EDNA Bronze Winner Amy Faulkner, 2 Doors Down Food + Wine Chris Haley’s third consecutive win marks a new chapter in his career and his run as Halifax’s Best Server, as he leaves his post at The Wooden Monkey to bring Grade A service to fellow Dartmouthian, […]
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Best Restaurant
Gold Winner The Bicycle Thief Silver Winner EDNA Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine “Everything is made by hand, everything is from scratch and that’s the key,” says The Bicycle Thief’s co-owner Hakan Uluer, of the commitment to serving quality food. “We have a formula in our restaurants: we don’t have tons of […]
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Ciboulette is expanding, re-opening as the Bird’s Nest
After over nine years as a tucked-away upstairs gem at 1541 Barrington Street, Ciboulette Cafe & Catering is ready to sparkle a little brighter from a street-level location next-door. “We outgrew the spot many years ago, but until now I’ve been struggling to find the right venue to expand into,” says owner Brady Muller who […]
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Where we work: Tidehouse Brewing Co.
Tidehouse Brewing 2-5187 Salter Street 902-407-2550 WHO THEY ARE Shean Higgins’ and Peter Lionais’ charming rapport and past homebrew experience become more obvious the longer you talk with them about Tidehouse Brewing, their small-batch brewery, which opened last Saturday. “We started working at Noble Grape, and we worked there for three years and started getting […]
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Steven Cross: called to the bar
“I started downtown,” says Steven Cross, bartender at 2 Doors Down. “I’m one of the old guys. I started in 1993 at the Misty Moon; I was a doorman first. I could list off all the bars: I was at Rogues’, the Palace, The Old Triangle. It’s a lot.” Anybody who regularly went to a […]
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Best Bartender
Gold Winner Shane Beehan, Lot Six Silver Winner Steve Cross, 2 Doors Down and Temple Bar Bronze Winner Roy Clorey, Roy’s Lounge It’s a hat trick for Shane Beehan, thrice voted the city’s best drink slinger—and he couldn’t be more honoured. “For me to do anything, I have to be inspired,” he says. “There are […]
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Best Chowder
Gold Winner Esquire Restaurant Silver Winner Gahan House Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down “Well, it’s the best!” says Gerard Avery, laughing when he’s asked what makes the Esquire’s creamy bowls of seafood chowder the best around. For the Bedford Highway diner, the best means making it fresh, daily and keeping its quality consistent—simple as that. […]
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Best Restaurant
Gold Winner EDNA Silver Winner Brooklyn Warehouse Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down “That’s a huge one for me because so many of the new restaurants have opened in the last couple of years, and there’s been a real emphasis on design,” says EDNA’s visionary Jenna Mooers of her Best Atmosphere accolade. Working with Breakhouse, taking […]
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Best Salad
Gold Winner Pete’s Fine Foods, Dresden Row Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Alright, alright. We get it, readers. Pete’s is a well-rounded grocery store. You don’t have to rub it in other grocers’ faces with nine consecutive Best Smoothie, nine consecutive Best Salad and four Best International Grocer awards. But […]
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Tidehouse Brewing Company moves in downtown
Opening a brewery in their old North Street apartment used to be a running joke for Shean Higgins and Peter Lionais. Now, a decade later, the pair of friends (and homebrewers) are bringing their beer to Halifax via Tidehouse Brewing Company, a small-batch brewery slated to start pouring downtown this fall. “It’s been years of […]
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Best Salad
Gold Winner Pete’s Fine Foods, Halifax Silver Winner enVie—A Vegan Kitchen Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine The popularity of Pete’s build-your-own salad is a sign Halifax is changing for the better. This is the town, after all, where the best option for fresh veggies at lunch used to be the tomatoes and […]