Gold Winner Brooklyn Warehouse Silver Winner Tom’s Little Havana Bronze Winner Bitter End Even Brutus and the murderous Roman senate would each enjoy a sip of the Brooklyn Warehouse’s famous wasabi Caesar. A fusion cocktail where east diplomatically meets west, you’ll find in this a perfect mixture of vodka, shochu, Clamato, snow peas and of […]
Tom’s Little Havana
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Best Place To Drink Alone
Gold Winner Tom’s Little Havana Cafe Silver Winner The T-Room Bronze Winner Obladee, A Wine Bar There’s a shared theme with these three prime locales for lone wolves: dim lighting. It’s all about staying incognito when you’re hitting the bottle alone, not that we judge, but drinking for one should be done mysterious places with […]
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The Shop talk guided tour: Spring Garden Road
Without question, the Spring Garden Road area is the healthiest retail district in Atlantic Canada, forever recreating and transforming itself in interesting and positive ways. And right now, there’s more construction going on than ever before: Framed on the north by the pricey Trillium condo building, which will be a sure incentive for even more […]
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Day-after anecdotes
Generally on New Year’s Eve, the ol’ “everything in moderation” advice your mama gave you goes out the window, and you’ll likely be spending the first day of 2011 paying for it. But you know what they say: The best for a hangover cure is to keep on drinking. If you’re going to power through […]
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Best Place To Drink Alone
It’s not a big place, so even if you’re drinking alone, there’s often other folks around, hanging around with friends or also drinking on their own at the bar. For those who don’t know (and you should, no doubt), Tom’s is full of comfy chairs, a great selection of scotch, a dynamite menu (drinking alone […]
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Royal treatment
Victoria Day weekend may not be hugely celebrated for its royal-birthday beginnings any longer—Halifax doesn’t even have fireworks!—but there is one thing Canadians do well over the three days: drink. And whether it’s Prince Harry’s $670 cocktail or the queen mum’s daily gin and Dubonnet, we’re pretty sure the royal family’s into it, too. So […]
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Retro in the resto
As everyone gets ready to dip a foot into the Hot Tub Time Machine we searched for the perfect cocktail to sip while hanging out back when. Classic cocktails are getting tougher to find, but you can get one mixed if you ask the right bartender. Tom’s Little Havana Tom’s serves the standard classic martinis, […]
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Best Place To Drink Alone
Why does Tom’s regularly take this category? Maybe because it feels like a neighbourhood bar smack in the middle of the city, and if you are in the middle of a blues-fueled binge no one will bother you if you perch on one of those chairs by the window or in a booth at the […]
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Best Place For A First Date
Hey honey, did you see John and Joanie down at the ‘Shoe last Saturday night? You didn’t? That’s because the place is a labyrinth of nooks and crooks, designed and lit in such a way that maintains a certain kind of intimacy and privacy. The stellar menu (the nachos have been elevated to the Best […]
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How to keep Summer going a little longer
Your summer spirit is not always what makes you shotgun that extra Wildcat, or stay out an hour later when you’re working at 7am (though they are related). Your summer spirit is really the fire in you, the guts of that beast that loves fun more than food and sun more than sleep. Considering Haligonians […]
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Best Crew Of Regular Customers
It doesn’t take long to become a regular at Tom’s. You stop in for a sandwich or maybe their excellent Pad Thai on a Monday, then you meet a friend downtown on a Wednesday and it’s the obvious choice. On a rainy Sunday afternoon you don’t feel like staying in, so you wander by and […]
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Best Place to Drink Alone
There is something about the high-ceilinged, former cigar bar that gives it a cozy, neighbourhood-bar vibe right downtown. It’s a safe retreat, whether in a group or on your own. You wouldn’t feel weird reading a book while cradling your shot of whiskey. A lot of the appeal is in the great selection of tunes […]