“We started joking about having a podcast,” Shaw says, speaking with The Coast.

For three years running, The Coast’s readers have voted The Canteen as the gold winner for Best Lobster Roll. Here’s a little secret: It’s technically a “crobster” roll. An invention by seven-time ...

Welcome to the 30th annual Best of Halifax Readers' Choice Awards. Yes, 30 years of The Coast's awesome readers voting for their favourite people, places and things about our great city. To mark this ...

Quinpool’s Naan N Curry opened its doors right before the pandemic in 2019. Since then, it has become a two-time BOH gold winner for Best Indian Restaurant—and deservedly so. This year, it reclaimed ...

Make that seven Gold Awards in the Best Theatre Company category for Neptune Theatre. The 61-year-old theatre company—the largest in all of Atlantic Canada—has been a staple of Halifax’s downtown ...

After a particularly wild night out, Ardmore Tea Room is always there to revive you. This comforting classic diner has been an institution on Quinpool Road for more than 60 years, and has taken home ...

Darrell’s Restaurant has taken home the gold for Best Burger so many times, it deserves to be immortalized—which is why, with this year’s win, they’re joining the BOH Hall of Fame. (More on that in ...

There are a lot of things that make this French bakery an absolute Gottingen Street gem: The traditional croissants, the decades-old sourdough starter brought over from France that was owner Laurent ...

"There's a lot of new high-end restaurants in town," says Sketti & Ball Co co-owner Geir Simensen. "That's the opposite of what Sketti is. We make all of our pasta upstairs, we make our meatballs, we ...

Since 2011, Evan’s Fresh Seafoods has been serving scallops, clams, fish burgers, seafood chowder, lobster poutine and lobster sandwiches out of Alderney Market, but nothing sells faster than Evan’s ...

The Bertossi Group’s literal golden child, The Bicycle Thief, scores the top spot for Best Restaurant for the fourth time since its opening in 2011. This resto is just as much a staple in our readers' ...