Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner Stubborn Goat Gastropub Bronze Winner Bud the Spud “Twenty sixteen was a lot of work, and was really, really rewarding,” says Stilwell’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 the […]
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Stubborn Goat wins waterfront tender
Remember the MVP (most valuable place) of last summer, Stillwell Beergarden? The downtown beer bar dreamed up the idea to open a second, outdoor location to make up for the fact that it couldn’t have a patio on Barrington Street, submitting an unsolicited proposal to the Waterfront Development Corporation to do so on the harbourfront. […]
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Best Beer Selection
Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner Maxwell’s Plum Bronze Winner The Stubborn Goat “I think we actually became the number one account for a bunch of local breweries and that makes me hugely proud,” says Chris Reynolds, who along with Laura MacDonald and Andrew Connell owns the perpetually packed beer bar Stillwell. “We dreamed […]
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Best Caesar
Gold Winner Durty Nelly’s Authentic Irish Pub Silver Winner The Stubborn Goat Bronze Winner Morris East What’s the best way to wash down the city’s Best Pub Food? A Caesar of epic proportions. Whether you’re ordering off menu on any old day (that’d be the Durty Ol’ Caesar, with Jamieson, worcestershire, HP sauce, horseradish, sriracha, […]
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Best Fries
Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner Ace Burger Co. Bronze Winner The Stubborn Goat “I think we actually became the number one account for a bunch of local breweries and that makes me hugely proud,” says Chris Reynolds, who along with Laura MacDonald and Andrew Connell owns the perpetually packed beer bar Stillwell. “We […]
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Hop aboard the Burger Bus!
Hey, burger addicts! I have valuable information to share with you. Now that our annual Halifax Burger Week (March 19-25) has grown to supersized proportions, and will include 64 (!!!) local restaurants flipping delectable patties all week long, it might be challenging to get a good sampling of what’s out there. Unless of course you […]
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Scanway’s coming at ya, Grafton Street
You miss pressing your face against Scanway Catering & Pastry’s Quinpool Road storefront to get a closer look, don’t you? This summer marks the return of Scanway to the food and retail scenes, it’ll be taking over 1567 Grafton Street right next door to its new sibling the Stubborn Goat Gastropub (1579 Grafton Street). “I’m […]
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Best New Bar
Gold Winner Stillwell Beer Bar Silver Winner Stubborn Goat Gastropub Bronze Winner Lion & Bright Cafe Wine Bar Spend one evening at a packed-to-the-rafters Stillwell, sipping on the very best in local beer, chowing down on a bowl of duck-fat popcorn and some Atari fries while the buzz of conversation competes with whatever record’s spinning […]
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Best Beer Selection
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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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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Got the Urban Blues
After retiring from spending many years abroad working as a protection officer with the UNHCR Refugee Agency, Lyndell Findlay had a craving to work at home in Halifax. She also had a craving to get into cheesemaking. Now, just two years later, after learning the ins and outs of the craft, taking all the technical […]
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Stubborn Goat time
The Stubborn Goat is an almost perfect blend of the styles found at the owners’ other popular establishments, Durty Nelly’s and Saege. It’s a restaurant that seems built around the idea of appealing to as many people as possible—there’s a thoughtful beer menu, a simple wine menu and the food focuses on trendy comfort food […]