Gold Winner Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar Too Silver Winner Your Father’s Moustache Bronze Winner Halifax Alehouse Finger-food fans are spoiled for choice at this multi-time winner winner chicken (wing) dinner. An entire menu of sauce and dry-rub options offers a little something for every tastebud on your tongue: From classics (mild, hot, honey garlic) to […]
Your Father’s Moustache
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Halifax drink specials friendly to student budgets
$4 drinks and half-price apps after 8pm East Side Mario’s, 5287 Prince Street Go for the free bread and salad, stay for the cheap drinks and appetizers. You’ll never leave. Craft beer Sundays Your Father’s Moustache, 5686 Spring Garden Road Take a break from slugging Vitamin O (Oland’s) and Keith’s on Sundays and taste your […]
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The best place to be in Halifax, each night of the week
A fun thing you’ll learn in your mandatory Psychology 101 course is that in your early 20s, your brain is super-soft—as impressionable as a Memory Foam mattress. You want to drink up as many experiences as life can give you—the same way a Memory Foam mattress will drink up any beer you spill on your […]
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Best Pub Food
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner Henry House Bronze Winner Your Father’s Moustache Mic Mac Bar & Grill’s GM Joël Chiasson spits honesty when asked about what makes the institution a fan favourite: “We’re not about doing fancy dishes or crazy culinary design. We skip to the basics, meat and potatoes.” And like […]
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Best Chicken Wings
Gold Winner Bubba Ray’s Sports Bar Too Silver Winner Your Fathers Moustache Bronze Winner Boneheads BBQ Nick Vadeboncoeur evokes Bubba Rays’ plethora of sauces with his sugary response to the news about winning Best Chicken Wings in Halifax. “Sweet!” exclaims the managing bartender. “That’s awesome.” The secret to award-winning wings? Well, those sauces help. Bubba […]
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Best Patio
Gold Winner Stillwell Beergarden Silver Winner Stubborn Goat Beer Garden Bronze Winner Gahan House Hall of Fame Your Father’s Moustache Patio means a lot of different things in this town, and Stillwell’s Spring Garden beer garden redefines most of them. “I kind of like that it’s this forgotten lot and we’re allowing it to be […]
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Best Chicken Wings
Gold Winner Your Father’s Moustache Silver Winner Halifax Alehouse Bronze Winner Lion’s Head Tavern When it comes to the pub food Haligonians love, it ain’t no thing but a chicken wing (or 12). Back in 2011 when Your Father’s Moustache took silver in this category, the Halifax Wingman wrote on his blog: “I would have […]
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Best Patio
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame Inductee Your Father’s Moustache Silver Winner Gahan House Bronze Winner Stillwell Beergarden Editor’s note: With its latest Best Patio win in 2016, YFM was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Look up. Wayyyyy up above Spring Garden Road and you’ll find the patio pinnacle that’s ruled […]
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Best Pub Food
Gold Winner Durty Nelly’s Authentic Irish Pub Silver Winner Henry House Bronze Winner Your Father’s Moustache Another heaping portion of fried gold for the winning Durty Nelly’s Authentic Irish Pub, which once again takes home Best Pub Food. I mean, have you seen this menu? Jumbo pretzel with jalapeño beer cheese sauce, big effin’ nachos, […]
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Apple Pecan French Toast
Ingredients 3 Granny Smith apples 1 tbsp of cinnamon 1 tsp of white sugar 3 whole eggs ¼ cup whole milk 1 tsp vanilla thick-cut French bread ¼ cup whole pecans 1/8 cup brown sugar caramel sauce Method Preheat oven to 350°F. Start with the Granny Smith apples. They have the best tart flavour, which […]
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Come celebrate Joe Murphy’s big blues anniversary
“People are saying it’s the longest-running blues matinee in the world,” says Joe Murphy. “I’m not making that claim, it’s kind of a joke, but it has been over 25 years and it is an achievement.” On Saturday afternoon, just like every Saturday afternoon for the last two-and-a-half decades, Joe Murphy & The Water […]
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Best Patio
Gold Winner Your Father’s Moustache Silver Winner Gahan House Bronze Winner Stillwell Beergarden We’re already mourning the passing of another patio season, and Your Father’s Moustache’s rooftop oasis is a big part of that sadness. “We always try to go the extra mile on the patio,” says owner Shaun O’Hearn. “We dress it up and […]