Gold Winner Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar Too Silver Winner Your Father’s Moustache Bronze Winner Halifax Alehouse Finger-food fans are spoiled for choice at this multi-time winner winner chicken (wing) dinner. An entire menu of sauce and dry-rub options offers a little something for every tastebud on your tongue: From classics (mild, hot, honey garlic) to […]
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Halifax drink specials friendly to student budgets
$4 drinks and half-price apps after 8pm East Side Mario’s, 5287 Prince Street Go for the free bread and salad, stay for the cheap drinks and appetizers. You’ll never leave. Craft beer Sundays Your Father’s Moustache, 5686 Spring Garden Road Take a break from slugging Vitamin O (Oland’s) and Keith’s on Sundays and taste your […]
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Best Chicken Wings
Gold Winner Your Father’s Moustache Silver Winner Halifax Alehouse Bronze Winner Lion’s Head Tavern When it comes to the pub food Haligonians love, it ain’t no thing but a chicken wing (or 12). Back in 2011 when Your Father’s Moustache took silver in this category, the Halifax Wingman wrote on his blog: “I would have […]
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Eat like the Wingman
SHAPE A question for the ages: Flats or drumsticks? It’s a no-brainer for Shayne Chapman AKA The Wingman, a sucker for the daintier, flat wing. “It’s like, rip off, push in, done. Very easy to eat.” He says boneless wings are just chicken nuggets in disguise: “The experience of eating a chicken wing is gone […]
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Best Chicken Wings
Gold Winner Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar, Spring Garden Silver Winner Oasis Bronze Winner Halifax Alehouse Bubba Ray’s is certainly not wingin’ it when it comes to pub food. The ever-growing family of bars knows exactly how to satiate beer-slugging sports fans. Case in point—the chicken wings. If you can manage to choose from six styles, […]
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Best Chicken Wings
Gold Winner Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar, Spring Garden Silver Winner Oasis Pub & Eatery Bronze Winner Halifax Alehouse Variety is the spice of life, and spicy are the variety of flavour options at Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar. Seriously, over 40 different wing sauces (ranging from buffalo and maple hot, to peanut satay and hot honey […]
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Heeeere’s Johnny K’s
When paper went up in the windows of European Food Shop (5246 Blowers Street) back in April, people prematurely mourned the death of our greasy friend Pizza Corner. Change is hard, it’s true, but we’ve said it before, pizza is forever. Just when everyone was busy losing their shit over the end of an era—@NBDHFX […]
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Best Chicken Wings
Gold Winner Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar Silver Winner Halifax Alehouse Bronze Winner Your Father’s Moustache At Bubba Ray’s you can go coated or naked—not in the streaking-after-the-game way, we’re talking about chicken wings here. In this sports bar the wings are so fresh they basically fly off the plates. With a 60-wing sauce selection, and […]
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Best Chicken Wings
Gold Winner Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar Silver Winner Oasis Pub & Eatery Bronze Winner Halifax Alehouse Bubba Ray’s wings can’t be beat, literally. Winning its fifth gold in a row, the Spring Garden sports bar offers six styles of wings and 58 (!!!) different sauces. Whether you’re looking for something simple, like original wings topped […]
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Halifax’s top beer bars
The Henry House There’s no need to turn to Europe for a seriously tar-black brew on St. Patrick’s Day. Choose from The Henry House’s selection of darker beers, priced at $6.25 a pint: Indulge in the Montreal-based McAuslan’s St. Ambroise oatmeal stout, brewed from dark malts and roasted barley and packing a distinct mocha flavour. […]
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Festival hijinx
The red carpet rolls out on top of Citadel Hill tonight for the Atlantic Film Festival’s opening gala, which seems like a safe place to party until it’s time to figure out how to get tipsily home—and off the Hill. Tuck and roll to one of these spots, or you can even follow the road […]
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Fruit flavoured beers: Brews with bite
Halifax Alehouse The Alehouse has plenty to choose from when it comes to pleasing your beer belly. But for those less enthusiastic about traditional flavours, the bar’s Pump House Blueberry Ale is sure to satisfy all tastes. It’s light, refreshing and flavourful—a yummy treat for anyone who prefers a fruitier drink. 1717 Brunswick Street, 423-6113 […]