Gold Winner Athens Restaurant Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner Jim’s Family Restaurant This Quinpool Road anchor is as reliable as a sturdy pair of walking shoes. A go-to spot for students, families and everyone in between, Athens’ enormous menu offers a little bit of Greek for any palate. Going 35 years […]
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Best Ribs
Gold Winner Boneheads BBQ Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner Baton Rouge Seven years in business plus seven Best Ribs awards equals pretty flawless, by our math. The Boneheads finger-licking, bone-in ribs win with a slow and steady cook time of anywhere from five to eight hours, says Cindy Wheatley of the […]
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Best Ribs
Gold Winner Boneheads BBQ Silver Winner Baton Rouge Bronze Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Those afraid of getting their hands a little dirty in the name of dinner should avoid Boneheads. The south end’s southern barbecue smokehouse maintains its finger-licking good status for the fifth year running, but the messy goodness doesn’t stop with […]
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Best Dartmouth Restaurant
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner The Canteen Bronze Winner The Wooden Monkey Uh, HELLO DARTMOUTH. Way to cover all the bases with this trio of winners. Breakfast (total Dartmouth legend, the Mic Mac), lunch (The Canteen) and dinner (The Wooden Monkey). Meat (heavenly ribs at Mic Mac), bread (so fresh and […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Gold Winner Emma’s Eatery Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner Good Food Emporium Kim Stacey is overjoyed to get the news that her little Eastern Passage restaurant’s fish cakes have yet again taken this title. But she’s not surprised. “I just think that we really work hard to keep them consistent, now […]
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Nine Locks Brewery to open in Dartmouth
The surge of Nova Scotian craft beer continues with Nine Locks Brewery; the joint venture between Shaun O’Hearn (owner of Rockbottom Brewpub and Your Father’s Moustache) and business partner Danny O’Hearn aims to be brewing at 219 Waverley Road (same building as the beloved Mic Mac Bar & Grill) by late November. The microbrewery, named […]
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Best Dartmouth Restaurant
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Dartmouth Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Dartmouth digs its comfort food. The Mic Mac Bar & Grill has been a Dartmouth staple since 1963, grilling up killer breakfasts and great steaks seasoned with their secret spice. If you love mozza […]
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Best Brunch
Gold Winner The Coastal Cafe Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner EDNA What makes brunch here special is the zany cultural mergers happening in your plate. The Coastal takes morning classics and reinvents them using (among others) Mexican, Indian and French cuisines. Take the Naan-Cheros, featuring fried eggs, butter chicken and onion […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Gold Winner Emma’s Eatery Silver Winner Edible Matters Bronze Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill There’s something fishy at Emma’s Eatery—its famous cakes. Chef Kim Stacey says the fish cakes “use a lot of fish in proportion to the rest of the ingredients.” Also, the fish is all fresh and local, and Emma’s customers can […]
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Best Ribs
Gold Winner Boneheads BBQ Silver Winner Bearly’s House of Blues, Burgers and Ribs Bronze Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Southern comfort lives in the heart of Halifax. Boneheads BBQ dishes out mouthwatering, meaty magic in the form of ribs, fit for any carnivore. You can order a full slab of these baby-back beauties, or […]
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Best Fish Cakes
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner Henry House Bronze Winner Emma’s Eatery This year, Waverley Road’s Mic Mac Bar & Grill beats out Henry House and Emma’s Eatery, which took home the title for Best Fish Cakes for four consecutive years. So what gives their fish cakes the edge over the rest? […]
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Best Pub Food
Gold Winner Henry House Silver Winner The Old Triangle Irish Ale House Bronze Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill In a city filled with amazing pubs serving Maritime classics, Henry House is the one that stands out—and collects this award for the third year in a row. Nestled inside a historic 1834 building that once […]