1. Mojito Kettle Sour Roof Hound Brewing Co. (4.3% ABV, 17 IBU) Available now “We have made it before, but it has been reinvented with a new souring technique and a warm fermenting Norwegian yeast strain that creates citrus characters,” Roof Hound owner Les Barr explains via email. This beer is kettle soured, dry-hopped […]
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Emily Orr’s fresh take
Emily Orr moved to Halifax five years ago with no real plan. “I just packed a bag for a week, hopped on a train and wasn’t sure if I was going to move here or not. I was just checking things out,” she says. “I stayed at the hostel for a little bit, fell in […]
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Best Pick-up Bar
Gold Winner The Dome Silver Winner Reflections Cabaret Bronze Winner The Palace Nightclub Some things never change. The Dome turned 30 this year, and it’s aging as gracefully as can be. Expansive dance floor, stripper poles, the best top 40 selections in the city—all the stars have aligned at our beloved downtown destination to ensure […]
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Best Pick-up Bar
Gold Winner The Dome Silver Winner Reflections Cabaret Bronze Winner The Pogue Fado They don’t call it The Do-Me for nothing, kids. Come on, you can’t honestly think people *won’t* get frisky at a bar with poles incorporated into its dance space? But seriously, there’s a reason people are lined up outside this nightlife hotspot […]
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Best Place To Drink Alone
Gold Winner Tom’s Little Havana Cafe Silver Winner The T-Room Bronze Winner Obladee, A Wine Bar There’s a shared theme with these three prime locales for lone wolves: dim lighting. It’s all about staying incognito when you’re hitting the bottle alone, not that we judge, but drinking for one should be done mysterious places with […]
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Best Pick-up Bar
The Dome takes back an award from Reflections, which took this one in the last Best of Halifax. Apparently Haligonians in the know now prefer to go to the labyrinthine caverns of The Dome to get lucky. Is it the ambiance of the Sky Bar, the bar shot specials, the close quarters, the stellar light […]
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Best Place To Drink Alone
It’s not a big place, so even if you’re drinking alone, there’s often other folks around, hanging around with friends or also drinking on their own at the bar. For those who don’t know (and you should, no doubt), Tom’s is full of comfy chairs, a great selection of scotch, a dynamite menu (drinking alone […]
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Best Place To Drink Alone
Why does Tom’s regularly take this category? Maybe because it feels like a neighbourhood bar smack in the middle of the city, and if you are in the middle of a blues-fueled binge no one will bother you if you perch on one of those chairs by the window or in a booth at the […]
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Best Pick-up Bar
The continuous popularity of this establishment over time is astonishing—not because it’s not deserving, but because there is so much competition for dancing, socializing and picking-up across the city. Still, Reflections reigns supreme over the scene, winning three categories last year and four in 2009. Maybe it’s the inclusive nature of the place, the kind […]
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Best Student Hang Out
Loren Caborn, who this year went from manager of the Gorsebrook to being liquor services manager for all of Saint Mary’s, says that the philosophy at the ever-popular Gorsebrook is if it ain’t broken don’t fix it. Wednesday night’s open mic continues to draw the big crowds, as well as regular theme nights (“Western Night!”) […]
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Best Place to Drink Alone
There is something about the high-ceilinged, former cigar bar that gives it a cozy, neighbourhood-bar vibe right downtown. It’s a safe retreat, whether in a group or on your own. You wouldn’t feel weird reading a book while cradling your shot of whiskey. A lot of the appeal is in the great selection of tunes […]
