Gold Winner and Hall of Fame Inductee Darrell’s Restaurant Silver Winner The Chickenburger Bronze Winner Ardmore Tea Room There are a lot of milkshakes coming out of the Darrell’s kitchen—we’re talking upwards of 35,000 a year, on average. So, while owner Dan Joseph was tickled to hear of yet another gold win—and this Hall of […]
The Chickenburger
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Best Bedford Restaurant
Gold Winner il Mercato Trattoria Silver Winner The Chickenburger Bronze Winner Finbar’s Irish Pub First date, birthday supper, family meal, girls’ night out—it’s all happening under il Mercato’s roof any night of the week. This multi-time Best of Halifax winner captures authentic Italian flavour in its sprawling menu of pastas, pizzas and antipasti, but the […]
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Best Milkshake
Gold Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Silver Winner The Chickenburger Bronze Winner Ardmore Tea Room Your love is better than ice cream, according to Darrell’s boss man Dan Joseph, who’s been perfecting those thicker-than-all-get-out shakes for a quarter century and change. He says hearing positive feedback from customers is what he works for even 26 years in. […]
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Best Bedford Restaurant
Gold Winner il Mercato Trattoria Silver Winner The Chickenburger Bronze Winner Finbar’s Irish Pub The Bedford iteration of il Mercato has been treating local lovers of Italian cuisine to big-ass pasta dishes, full-bodied glasses of wine and towering desserts for 15 years, putting mall restaurants around the municipality to shame with its very un-mall atmosphere. […]
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Best Milkshake
Gold Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Silver Winner The Chickenburger Bronze Winner Ardmore Tea Room Darrell’s milkshake brings all the gold to the yard, and it’s easy to see why. They’re great with a burger, but since they’re so thick the straw stands up in the glass, they’re basically a meal on their own. That’s acceptable, right? […]
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Best Onion Rings
Gold Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers + Poutinerie, Woodside Silver Winner The Chickenburger Bronze Winner Krave Burger There is literally no such thing as a bad onion ring, so competition couldn’t be any stiffer than the race for the city’s BEST one. But as it turns out Cheese Curds, purveyor of award winning hamburgers and […]
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Best Bedford Restaurant
Gold Winner il Mercato Trattoria Silver Winner The Chickenburger Bronze Winner Finbar’s Irish Pub Clanging cutlery, moody lighting and jaunty Italian music—it’s all these little things that contribute to the unwaveringly warm atmosphere at il Mercato. A sparkling jewel in the Sunnyside Mall’s crown, the Bertossi Group restaurant upped the ante big time since its […]
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Best Milkshake
Gold Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Silver Winner The Chickenburger Bronze Winner The Armview Restaurant & Lounge Rich, quality ingredients make Darrell’s milkshakes the best. Best of Food readers haven’t stopped voting for Darrell’s yet, and why would they? These milkshakes come in classic strawberry, chocolate and vanilla, as well as popular chocolate peanut butter and Creamsicle […]
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Best Bedford Restaurant
Gold Winner The Chickenburger Silver Winner Il Mercato Trattoria Bronze Winner The Cellar Bar & Grill With some staff working there for 30 or 40 years, it’s not surprising that the Chickenburger feels like home for so many of its customers. The Bedford staple has been doling out its notorious titular burgers for 72 years […]
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Go Local: Bedford
For peninsula residents who only travel through, Bedford can seem like nothing more than the traffic-clogged Highway. But while it’s true that most of the retail in Bedford straddles the highway, there are real gems of shops to be found, which bring character and depth to the town. Bicycles Plus Ten Mile House, 1519 Bedford […]
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Best Bedford Restaurant
Plans for expanding The Chickenburger empire continue, according to operations manager Colin MacDonald. Not one, but two new locations are in the cards, out at the airport—tentatively set for September—and another downtown, in the parking lot behind Starbucks at Queen and Spring Garden. “We’re working on getting that ready for the fall,” says MacDonald, who’s […]
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Go local in Bedford
For people confined to peninsular Halifax, the myth of Bedford is one of a strange suburban village in the sky—a commuterville with lovely Basin views. But Bedford is fairly easily accessed—by buses numbered 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, 89 and 185—and, of course, by car, the most direct way to reach the businesses strung along […]