Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Pleasant Street Bronze Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie While it’s hard to mess up a poutine, it’s also not easy to master one. Unless you’re Willy’s. Staffer Jean-Michel Beaudoin says that’s because his boss is all about food quality and top […]
Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie
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Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Woodside Bronze Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie, Blowers Street Five times is the charm for Willy’s Fresh Cut, the fry-cutting, gravy-slathering, curd-crumbling Pizza Corner resident that continues to lure in hungry folks in droves. Whether night-time, lunchtime or any old Tuesday, […]
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Truck-side keeps on trucking
Since opening Cheese Curds in 2012, Bill Pratt has proven himself talented at creating trendy fast-casual concepts with broad appeal. After opening Habaneros, which has flavours inspired by Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, last year Pratt opened Truck-side, a food court that features Lil Eatily Italian Pasta Bar, U-Pick-Fish Seafood Shack and Gweilo Asian Noodle Bar. […]
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Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers, Pleasant Street The city’s best poutine several years running, Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers offers mouth-watering, waist-line expanding, outright orgasmic poutine, from the classic curds and gravy to the donair, pulled-pork and stuffing additions. There is […]
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Best Dartmouth Restaurant
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Dartmouth Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Dartmouth digs its comfort food. The Mic Mac Bar & Grill has been a Dartmouth staple since 1963, grilling up killer breakfasts and great steaks seasoned with their secret spice. If you love mozza […]
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Best Burger
Gold Winner Ace Burger Company, Gus’ Pub Silver Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie All hail Ace Burger. And hail Halifax did, giving Ace Best Burger for the second year in a row. Co-owner George Christakos attributes Ace’s juicy success to what he calls “guilt-free fast food”—but no one’s counting […]
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Best Fries
Gold Winner Ace Burger Company, Gus’ Pub Silver Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie There’s nothing special about the fries at Ace—that’s what makes them so damn tasty. A good fry comes down to the freshness, and at Ace potatoes are punched twice a day (or as many times […]
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Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Bronze Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie Nothing beats a mountain of French fries, tangled up in cheese curds and smothered in hot gravy. If you’re feeling fancy you can get donair poutine, or steak poutine, or cheeseburger poutine, or pulled pork […]
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Best New Restaurant
Gold Winner Ace Burger Company Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Bronze Winner Piatto Pizzeria + Enoteca Almost one year old, Ace Burger has been a success from the start. The burger haven premiered as a pop-up last May, when Brooklyn Warehouse owner George Christakos decided to take a chance at the simple […]
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Best Dartmouth Restaurant
Gold Winner Nectar Restaurant & Wine Bar Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey, Dartmouth Owner Ian Hurst says Nectar is constantly reviewing its food offerings, and the menu is in evolution every six months. “Our servers and our kitchen under chef David Clarke are all true professionals and […]
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Best Burger
Gold Winner Ace Burger Company Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Bronze Winner Darrell’s Peanut Butter Burger The year’s most interesting category saw burger-loving voters divided between more choices then ever. After years of Brooklyn Warehouse playing second fiddle to the unstoppable Darrell’s, its powerhouse little sister Ace has finally dethroned the Peanut […]
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Best Fries
Gold Winner Ace Burger Company Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Bronze Winner Darrell’s Restaurant There’s a lot more to making the perfect fry than meets the eye—they can’t be too big or too small, they have to have the perfect texture of crispiness on the outside and softness on the inside and, […]