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 […]
Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie and Habaneros Modern Taco Bar, Woodside
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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, Pizza Corner Sometimes with poutine, it’s the toppings that save the day. The fries can be meh and no one will notice if they’re coated in the right amount of squeaky curds and salted-to-perfection […]
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Best Poutine
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 […]
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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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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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Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Woodside When you start with a fry this good, there’s really no where to go but up. Six-time Best Poutine winner, and champ in the Best Late-night Food category too, Willy’s has the potato part […]
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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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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 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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7 under $7
Passage to the Caribbean Am I the only one who finds Caribbean food overpriced? I love it, but how can a plate of curried stew made with cheap cuts of meat often run me up to 14 bucks? Passage to the Caribbean, in the old Starlite Cuisine location on Cornwallis Street, bucks the trend. The […]
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Gourmet Burgers arrive in Halifax (even sooner than we expected)
Just as we were crowing about the coming of a new eatery on Quinpool serving gourmet burgers exclusively, we’ve now heard that Cheese Curds Gourmet Burger & Poutinery (380 Pleasant Street) will be opening this week in Dartmouth. We don’t have a lot of information on the establishment right now beyond the name and location, […]
