Gold Winner Cows Silver Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Bronze Winner Humani-T Cafe, north end Best ice cream, sure. It’s a tasty scoop. Cowconut Cream Pie? Wowie Cowie? Nanaimoo Bar? Come on. If this survey had a best branded t-shirt category, there’s no DOUBT Cows would crush it. Someone in the t-shirt-making factory is working […]
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Best Ice Cream / Gelato / Frozen Yogurt
Gold Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Silver Winner Cows Bronze Winner Dairy Bar Hark! The north end’s pint-sized place for cones lands gold status after last year’s tumble into silver. The return is as welcome as a waffle cone of spicy Mexican chocolate ice cream, the frozen dessert spot’s specialty flavour. With an ever-changing rotation […]
Best Ice Cream / Gelato / Frozen Yogurt
Gold Winner Cows Silver Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Bronze Winner Humani-T Cafe, downtown Its snaking queue and wafting scent of fresh-baked waffle cones are a sure sign summer—and tourist season—has reached its peak, but this waterfront scoop spot is equally beloved by locals, taking home the gold for its decadent ice cream. “The friendly […]
Best Ice Cream / Gelato / Frozen Yogurt
Gold Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Silver Winner Humani-T Cafe, South Park Street Bronze Winner Cows Ice Cream Sure, the perfect location (near the Common) and an old-fashioned school house look (right down to the stained glass and wooden shingles) help underscore Dee Dee’s Ice Cream’s charm, but really, what makes it the best scoop […]
Cool story, bro
Black Bear Ice Cream Q: In a battle of waterfront ice cream, who’d win, a Bear or a Cow? A: Whomever wields Moon Mist as a weapon. Queens Wharf, Halifax waterfront Cherry Berry Self-Serve Yogurt Bar It’s on you to dress your frozen yogurt swirl to the nines with sauces, cookies, fruit chunks and boba, […]
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Gold Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Silver Winner Cows Bronze Winner Humani-T Cafe, north end There’s no doubt about it, Halifax loves its ice cream. And the go-to place for this cold treat is Dee Dee’s, which earns its Best Ice Cream/Gelato for the second year running. With 20-plus flavours of ice cream and sorbet, […]
Best Ice Cream / Gelato / Frozen Yogurt
Gold Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Silver Winner Cows Bronze Winner Humani-T Cafe I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Specifically, we’re all screaming for Dee Dee’s Ice Cream. Last year’s runner-up has stolen the show. Dee Dee’s Ice Cream takes the cake with their high quality frozen treats. “I think the ice […]
Best Ice Cream / Gelato / Frozen Yogurt
Open only from May to October, people will have to form their own opinions with this PEI-turned-nationwide-chain’s style of humour and merchandise (the cow toque is pretty cute), but the ice cream has been spoken for. And it’s not just people in Halifax who think it’s the best—Cows was named Canada’s best ice cream by […]
Milking it
Cows are simple. There’s no other way to put it. They stare. And right now there’s a good two dozen staring at farmer Rick Rand. Staring, chewing, staring, chewing. It’s not love. At least not on the Holsteins’ part. Cows respond to being fed and being milked, which takes Rand, for his herd of about […]

