Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner The Maxwell’s Plum Bronze Winner Stubborn Goat Gastropub “One thing for us is beer styles,” says Stillwell’s Christopher Reynolds. “It’s about having a broad selection but keeping it focussed and small.” With a strong taste for local craft creations and no shortage of one-offs and cask brews, there’s […]
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Best Fries
Gold Winner Ace Burger Company, Gus’ Pub Silver Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie There’s nothing special about the fries at Ace—that’s what makes them so damn tasty. A good fry comes down to the freshness, and at Ace potatoes are punched twice a day (or as many times […]
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Best Chef
Gold Winner Craig Flinn, Chives Canadian Bistro Silver Winner Mark Gray, Brooklyn Warehouse Bronze Winner Graeme Ruppel, Stillwell Beer Bar The king of cooking, Craig Flinn seizes the title once again. When the beloved Halifax chef isn’t dreaming up ideas for one of his restaurants, Chives or 2 Doors Down, he can be found scavenging […]
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Best Atmosphere
Gold Winner Agricola Street Brasserie Silver Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Bronze Winner EDNA The north end’s newest addition welcomes you with an understated exterior and a shockingly vibrant interior that is as warm as it is modern. “We surprise people,” says Peter Goneau. “There’s just a ‘wow’ when people walk in and see the size […]
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Brew looks like a lady
“For most of recorded human history, women have been responsible for supplying the world’s beer.” That’s the Oxford Companion to Beer talking, so you know it’s legit. Known as brewsters, female brewers of the English Anglo-Saxon period often brewed beer between baking bread and servicing their husbands, while women who brewed in commercial breweries were […]
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Stillwell’s raising the bar
If someone had told me this time last year that a beer bar would open where I’d want to spend nearly every waking moment, I would have cry-laughed into my tiny bottle of Duchesse De Bourgogne, daydreaming of a place where Lambics and Saisons, smoked porters and cask ales all lived in perfect harmony. Last […]
