Gold Winner Lot Six Bar & Restaurant Silver Winner The Bicycle Thief Bronze Winner Antojo Tacos + Tequila There’s no award for Most Instagrammable Restaurant in Halifax, but if there were, it’d make sense that the city’s favourite atmosphere, found at Lot Six, would be in the running. “There’s the building, the nice wood and […]
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Best Bartender
Gold Winner Nicki Brown, Good Robot Brewing Co. Silver Winner Sabrina Cooke, Freeman’s Little New York Bronze Winner Cyle Crothers, Lot Six Bar & Restaurant Nicki Brown thinks it’s pretty cool to win Best Bartender as a beer bartender. “It shows that not all bartenders have to make cocktails,” says Brown. What makes her the […]
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Best Cocktails
Gold Winner Lot Six Bar & Restaurant Silver Winner The Middle Spoon Desserterie & Bar, Halifax Bronze Winner Bar Kismet The people behind the bar are what make the cocktails at Lot Six work so well, says manager David Lynds. “They are so serious about perfecting their craft,” he says, “it’s impressive.” Most menus take […]
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In this together
Women in Hospitality: The Evolution of Hospitality As Told by Women Sun Sep 8 and November 17 Lot Six, 1685 Argyle Street, 3pm, $25 eventbrite.ca Jessica Babin is at it again. The 28-year-old wine connoisseur who conceived Mermaids and Merlot—a pretension-free wine club for women—to is pressing pause on that particular project to start something […]
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Best Bartender
Gold Winner Lindsay Jones, The Middle Spoon Desserterie & Bar Silver Winner Shane Beehan, Lot Six Bar & Restaurant Bronze Winner Nicki Brown, Good Robot Brewing Co. After a year of slinging creative cocktails on the drink competition scene, Lindsay Jones knows a thing or two about what it takes to win over a panel […]
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Best Cocktails
Gold Winner Lot Six Bar & Restaurant Silver Winner The Watch That Ends the Night Bronze Winner Antojo Tacos + Tequila The theory at Lot Six is that if the staff is excited about the drinks they’re making, the customers will probably be excited too, which is why Sarah Amyotte says the interactive component of […]
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Best Atmosphere
Gold Winner Lot Six Bar & Restaurant Silver Winner The Bicycle Thief Bronze Winner EDNA When people think of the vibe at Lot Six, it’s always all about the atrium says manager Sarah Amyotte. “When we first opened everyone was in awe of the glass roof, but as we grew out of the terrible twos […]
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Deep-dive into Halifax’s stories
The Deep Magazine Launch Party Tuesday Sept. 12, 7-10pm Lot Six, 1685 Argyle Street $14.29 w/ fees and taxes tickethalifax.com Thank you, Halifax, for your love and patience—The Deep has launched. ICYMI, you can find its first story right here. Tickets for the launch party are going fast, but there are still a few left […]
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Best Bar
Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner Durty Nelly’s Authentic Irish Pub Bronze Winner Lot Six “Twenty sixteen was a lot of work, and was really, really rewarding,” says Stillwell’s Chris Reynolds. Between losing the tender for its waterfront beer garden, rebuilding a new, somehow better version of it on Spring Garden Road and keeping […]
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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 […]
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Orderly conduct
It happens more than you’d like to admit—you’re trying to make a good impression when you’re handed the wine list and the anxiety begins. What do I order? How do I say it? Can I pick something without looking like a total idiot? Thankfully Heather Rankin, sommelier and co-owner of Obladee, A Wine Bar, is […]
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Just try me: local wines to drink this fall
Domaine de Grand Pré, Haskap Sparking Wine $23.75 Haskap, a berry native to our province, gives this wine just a hint of body and sweetness. Made in the traditional Champagne method, this is a wine versatile enough to span whatever fall feast you have up your sleeve. “This wine is about as Nova Scotian as […]