Gold Winner Stillwell Beergarden Silver Winner Stubborn Goat Beer Garden Bronze Winner Gahan House Hall of fame Your Father’s Moustache “The beer garden is for everybody,” says Stillwell co-owner Chris Reynolds, “everybody and their dog.” Spring Garden Road’s cool factor went way up when Stillwell Beergarden, the outdoor craft beer heaven, opened there in 2016. […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner Evan’s Fresh Seafoods Bronze Winner Gahan House The story behind these generously sized fishcakes is a winner in itself. They come courtesy of the late-wife of Mic Mac owner Terry Legoffic, Marilyn, and the restaurant’s kitchen staff busts ass to make sure they do them justice […]
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Best Patio
Gold Winner Stillwell Beergarden Silver Winner Stubborn Goat Beer Garden Bronze Winner Gahan House Hall of Fame Your Father’s Moustache Patio means a lot of different things in this town, and Stillwell’s Spring Garden beer garden redefines most of them. “I kind of like that it’s this forgotten lot and we’re allowing it to be […]
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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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Can’t stop, won’t stop: a map of Nova Scotia’s breweries
HALIFAX 1. 2 Crows Brewing 1932 Brunswick Street 2. The Auction House 1726 Argyle Street 3. Gahan House 1877 Upper Water Street 4. Garrison Brewing Company 1149 Marginal Road 5. Good Robot Brewing Company 2736 Robie Street 6. Granite Brewery 6054 Stairs Street 7. North Brewing Company 2576 Agricola Street 8. Propeller Brewing Company 2015 […]
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Best Brew Pub
Gold Winner Good Robot Brewing Company Silver Winner Gahan House Bronze Winner Rockbottom Brew Pub “We wanted to be a place like Tom’s Little Havana, which has this weird reverence, a warmth that was hard to put into words—but you felt it,” says one-third of the Good Robot co-owner/best-bud triad, Josh Counsil. With that, not-so-distant […]
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Best Chowder
Gold Winner Esquire Restaurant Silver Winner Gahan House Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down “Well, it’s the best!” says Gerard Avery, laughing when he’s asked what makes the Esquire’s creamy bowls of seafood chowder the best around. For the Bedford Highway diner, the best means making it fresh, daily and keeping its quality consistent—simple as that. […]
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Best Patio
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame Inductee Your Father’s Moustache Silver Winner Gahan House Bronze Winner Stillwell Beergarden Editor’s note: With its latest Best Patio win in 2016, YFM was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Look up. Wayyyyy up above Spring Garden Road and you’ll find the patio pinnacle that’s ruled […]
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Stout Maple Pork Ribs
Ingredients Ribs Yields 4 servings 4 sides, pork back ribs 750 ml apple juice 1 cinnamon stick 1 bay leaf 2 cloves garlic 1 tsp salt 3 tbsp canola oil BBQ sauce Yields 1 litre 250 ml Sydney Street stout 150 ml maple syrup 1 tsp garlic 250 ml apple cider vinegar 400 ml Heinz […]
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Get on the bus
The smoky flavour of Good Robot’s Samsquamptch!, the hoppiness of Garrison’s India Pale Ale and the malty aroma of Sea Level Brewing’s Rojo Mojo Red may be more familiar to some Haligonians than others. Now, with the advent of Taste Halifax Tours’ Beer Bus, curious connoisseurs (and generally thirsty people) can discover the flavours of […]
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99 bottles (and cans) on the wall
If you’re going to take one down, and pass it around, you might as well make it something brewed locally. We rounded up some (yup, there’s way more) of the most-loved locals you can take home and enjoy. Find them at their respective breweries, private liquor stores or the little ol’ NSLC. (left to right) […]
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Best New Bar
Gold Winner Stillwell Beergarden Silver Winner Gahan House Bronze Winner Lot Six Long live the Stillwell Beergarden! Summer 2015 was made all the better by the arrival of the innovative new waterfront drinkery—basically an outdoor location for Best Bar, Stillwell, which doesn’t get much summer sun in its Barrington Street location. “It was a very […]