Gold Winner Durty Nelly’s Authentic Irish Pub Silver Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. Bronze Winner Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery If you haven’t rolled into Durty Nelly’s well after the hour you thought you’d be home by, do you really live in Halifax? The free-live-music-every-night-of-the-week bar doubles as an authentic Irish pub. Being Halifax’s best […]
Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery
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Best Beer Selection
Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery Bronze Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. Stillwell’s Laura MacDonald says curating an award-winning selection of both local and international beers to fill your pints is certainly a labour of love, but it’s also a little bit self-serving.“We want to drink cool stuff and […]
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Best Burger
Gold Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Woodside Bronze Winner Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery There are plenty of burgers in Halifax with peanut butter on them, but there’s only one Peanut Butter Burger. “It’s my little hero, I don’t know what else to say. I never thought the burger […]
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Best Beer Selection
Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery Bronze Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. It’s been nearly five years since this Barrington Street beer bar opened its doors and wowed beer nerds and curious drinkers alike with their wide array of options. And co-owner Chris Reynolds says thanks to that maturity, […]
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Best Brew Pub
Gold Winner Good Robot Brewing Co. Silver Winner Chain Yard Cider Bronze Winner Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery In the last year, Good Robot’s beer has become more accessible outside its location on Robie Street—craft-lovers can find cans of a few Good Robot fixtures at other storefronts. But folks continue to flock to Good Robot […]
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Best Burger
Gold Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Silver Winner Ace Burger Co. at Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers and Poutinerie This year, Dan Joseph and his staff at Darrell’s conducted a sort of experiment: They didn’t ask their customers and loved ones to vote for them. “Normally, we really put a push […]
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Drink this: North Brewing’s Twinkle Pony cookie stout
If Cookie Monster drank beer, this would probably be his favourite. North Brewing Company’s latest release is adorably titled Twinkle Pony. It’s a cookie stout which includes flavours you’d find in a bakery, brewed with macarons from Le French Fix Pâtisserie. “Pastry stouts are a fun style you see lots of breweries experimenting with these […]
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Best Beer Selection
Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner Battery Park Beer Bar & Eatery Bronze Winner The Maxwell’s Plum How very thoughtful of you, Halifax, to bestow some gold upon Stillwell just in time for its fourth birthday. Now that the beer bar’s spunky sister location (the one you voted as the Best Patio winner) has […]
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Best Brew Pub
Gold Winner Good Robot Brewing Company Silver Winner Battery Park Beer Bar & Eatery Bronze Winner Gahan House Good Robot Brewing Company is where some great beer is made and poured (see Best Craft Brewery), but it’s also a great spot to hang out. “Our followers love Just Vorlafs comedy show,” says co-owner Josh Counsil, […]
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Best Burger
Gold Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Silver Winner Ace Burger Co. (now part of Battery Park Beerbar & Eatery) Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Woodside “What’s the big deal? Can’t you just make a hamburger at home and spread peanut butter on the bun?” asks your unenlightened friend. “No! It’s not the same,” you […]
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Sober Island Brewing and ShipBuilders Cider launch collaboration
Sober Island Brewing Co. has teamed up with ShipBuilders Cider to collaborate on a medley of beer and cider, launching this weekend. Sober Island Brewing owner Rebecca Atkinson connected with Sean Sears of ShipBuilders through a Mashup Lab program, and Atkinson says Sears has since become a mentor of sorts. Now, they’re finally launching a […]
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Ace Burger is closing its Gus’ Pub location
“It was always meant to be burgers and beer,” says Ace Burger Co.’s Leo Christakos. “Really what we wanted to do was something simple and really different from what we were doing at Brooklyn Warehouse. And it all worked.” It’s true. Wednesday, September 27 will be the last day you can get an Ace burger […]