Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Woodside Bronze Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie, Pizza Corner Sometimes with poutine, it’s the toppings that save the day. The fries can be meh and no one will notice if they’re coated in the right amount of squeaky curds and salted-to-perfection […]
Smoke’s Poutinerie
Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Pleasant Street Bronze Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie While it’s hard to mess up a poutine, it’s also not easy to master one. Unless you’re Willy’s. Staffer Jean-Michel Beaudoin says that’s because his boss is all about food quality and top […]
Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Woodside When you start with a fry this good, there’s really no where to go but up. Six-time Best Poutine winner, and champ in the Best Late-night Food category too, Willy’s has the potato part […]
Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Woodside Bronze Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie, Blowers Street Five times is the charm for Willy’s Fresh Cut, the fry-cutting, gravy-slathering, curd-crumbling Pizza Corner resident that continues to lure in hungry folks in droves. Whether night-time, lunchtime or any old Tuesday, […]
Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers, Pleasant Street The city’s best poutine several years running, Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers offers mouth-watering, waist-line expanding, outright orgasmic poutine, from the classic curds and gravy to the donair, pulled-pork and stuffing additions. There is […]
Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Bronze Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie Nothing beats a mountain of French fries, tangled up in cheese curds and smothered in hot gravy. If you’re feeling fancy you can get donair poutine, or steak poutine, or cheeseburger poutine, or pulled pork […]
Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Wouldn’t we love to be at a party catered by these three restaurants? No doubt it’d involve a kiddie pool full of gravy. Despite long lists of delectable poutine variations from the competition, Willy’s yet […]
Best Late-night Food
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie Bronze Winner Freeman’s Little New York, Quinpool There is nary a place in Halifax closer to a bar-hopper’s heart than the legendary Pizza Corner, and Willy’s is the sign that shines brightest of all. Mentioning Willy’s to just about anyone will illicit a […]
Best Poutine
Gold Winner Willy’s Silver Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie Even with Smoke’s Poutinerie setting up shop directly across the street, Willy’s has still snagged the win for Best Poutine. And that’s the unified title, incorporating the separate Best Poutine (Original) and Best Poutine (Extreme or Gourmet) categories from previous […]
Early gravy
It’s almost 2am. People are winding their way around one another, waving for taxis, giggling and wrapping scarves tight. Cold Warps have just finished a set in the balmy Khyber and a steamy stream of people plumes out of the door like breath into the chilly air. A half dozen of us wander around the […]

