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BARS+CLUBS
Dr. Sharp's Route 2 Roadhouse
One of the few spots in Bedford that offers live entertainment. Check our events section.
Dr. Sharp's Route 2 Roadhouse offers a bar menu with snacks and nightly specials:
Monday and Saturday: Dinner and a movie (not available band nights).
Tuesday: Wi...
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Boomerang's Bar
Boomerang's Bar is an ideal spot for those looking for a quaint, relaxing atmosphere to drink and socialize in.
Generally attracting an older crowd, Boomerang's is certainly not a dance bar. It is warmly and brightly lit, with plush booths and adequate sea...
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Bubbles Mansion
Fans of the popular Showcase series 'The Trailer Park Boys' will instantly recognize the name Bubble's Mansion as a reference to everyone's favorite cat-loving, googly eyed vagrant.
The second you walk into Bubbles Mansion, you're immediately submerged in w...
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The Tribeca
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights spent at the Tribeca have become a weekly ritual for many a Haligonian hipster. The sleek metal decor gives the inside that neuvo T-dot look, and the pretty young bar staffers seem to fit right in with their surroundings.
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Niche Lounge Superclub
In what's become one the busier spots in downtown Halifax, Niche Lounge Superclub serves an ever widening clientele of people. During the daytime and early evening, the older, professional crowd take up most of the business.
However, in the later evening, ...
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Monte's Bar And Grill
Sunday and Thursday nights at Monte's is definitely a viable option when searching for a lounge type atmosphere and cheap drinks at the bar. On these days from 6:30 pm till close, well shots, mixed drinks and draught beer are all on for only $2.75 apiece.
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Dartmouth's Neighborhood Pub
While it's considered more of a family restaurant than anything else, when night-time arrives, Dartmouth's Neighborhood Pub becomes an ideal spot for casual drinking with friends.
Every Tuesday from 5 pm until close happy hour specials are on, meaning all d...
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Mic Mac Beverage Room And Grill
Sometimes its better not to be surrounded by noise when you're drinking with friends. This is one issue you certainly won't have any trouble with if you come to the Mic Mac Beverage Room and Grill.
Not that they don't get any business, they do. It's just t...
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Mexicali Rosa's
The best part about Mexicali Rosa's is the staff, without a doubt. The waitresses are beautiful, polite, and they always provide quick, prompt service. The inside is very Mexican in flavour, as you might have guessed. The brightly painted walls and mood lighti...
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Mercury Lounge
The Mercury Lounge is by all accounts, a decent nightclub/sports bar. Their drinks are cheap, especially on the weekends and the DJ's play good music. However, The Mercury does have a number of shortcomings. For one, the only night really worth going is on a F...
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Menz Bar
Located atop Mollyz Diner, Menz Bar is a quaint, colorful place that has many drink specials throughout the week. Some of the regular specials include 'Wing Night' every Wednesday which has combos of wings and beer on special all evening long.
Happy Hour is...
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Mersey House
Liverpool, as quiet as it is, offers at least one place for people to get their kicks. That place is the Mersey House. Known locally as a friendly, neighborhood style pub, the Mersey House brings in people of all ages and is well suited to providing a casual d...
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Maxwell's Plum English Pub
One of the few, true sports bars in town, Maxwell's Plum English Pub are well known for their almost ridiculously wide selection of draught and bottled beer (60 flavours of draught and 100 bottled beers in all).
Another well known trait of Maxwell's is the...
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Henry House
Formerly known as the Granite Brewery, the Henry House is a place that favours the professional crowd, many of whom are local doctors, lawyers, and professors at the surrounding universities.
The bar has strictly microbrewed draught beer on tap, as well as ...
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Granite Brewery
With a huge, peering window that overlooks bustling Barrington Street, the Granite Brewery makes for a casual lounging experience that puts you right in the center of downtown Halifax.
Since moving from its original post near the Westin Hotel, The Granite i...
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Lower Deck Beer Market
If you're old and white, there's at least one place in town where you can dance your socks off and not feel embarrased. Where is this magical place you ask? Why, the Lower Deck of course.
For years, the Lower Deck has consistently been one of the more rauc...
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Terry's Place
Offering a casual, neighborhood type atmosphere, Terry's Place is one of the rare venues in Lower Sackville daily live entertainment. Terry's has happy hour drink specials from 7 pm until 10 pm Thursday to Saturday of each week.
Terry's brings in a crowds t...
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Lions Head Tavern And Grill
The Lions Head Tavern and Grill is a down-home neighborhood type bar and lounge that serves many faitful customers within the Haliax community. There is not much in the way of drink specials, but every Tuesday evening beginning at 6 pm, They offer wings for ju...
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Kokomo's Dining Room & Lounge
One of the better places in town to host a party, Kokomo's Dining Room and Lounge offers affordable drinks as well as a spacious, fun atmosphere that's well suited to handle big crowds.
Happy hour drink specials are offered everyday from 4 to 7 pm which in...
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Key Largo's Margaritaville
When hosting a group of business clients, friends or family, Key Largo's Margaritaville Dining Room and Lounge offers an ideal setting for such an event.
What makes it ideal? For one, Key Largo's is the only licensed restaurant and bar that I'm aware of wh...
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Jolly Mug Pub And Grill
Neigborhood bars in Halifax are always a safe bet when seeking out a place to drink comfortably with friends and the Jolly Mug is no exception. Providing a casual, social atmosphere, the Jolly Mug Pub has a bar filled with a lengthy list of draughts, commercia...
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Jamieson's Irish House And Grill
A neighborhood bar with a friendly and very Irish atmosphere, Jamieson's Irish House and Grill has one of the most diverse adult beverage menus in town.
In all, Jamieson's has 44 scotch whiskeys, 16 rums, 9 liquers, 10 flavours of draft including Jamieson'...
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Gus' Pub and Grill
I like to describe Gus' Pub as the "little bar that could." With its small, cramped interior and ugly surroundings you wouldn't, upon first glance, believe this is the best rock venue in town, and you'd be dead wrong.
For the past few years Gus' Pub has be...
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Gorsebrook Lounge
The students of Saint Mary's University have their own bar to call home, The Gorsebrook Lounge. Since 1974, the Gorsebrook has been providing students and the surrounding community with full bar and food service, live entertainment including DJ's, bands, games...
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GTO Restaurant And Lounge
GTO's Restaurant and Lounge is another of the many casual, lounge style bars in Dartmouth. GTO's brings in many people from the professional, middle-class demographic but is known for its casual style.
Happy hour drink specials frun from 10 am to 6 pm daily...
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Dutchie's Restaurant And Lounge
A true neighborhood style pub, Dutchie's Restaurant and Lounge is very casual in both appearance and atmosphere. Attracting regular customers from around town, Dutchie's is certainly an ideal destination for casual, social drinking.
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Ginger's Tavern
These days, one of the best places to see live acoustic folk-rock is without a doubt Ginger's Tavern on Barrington Street. The bar is a small, upstairs type of joint with British style decor and furniture.
As I mentioned, fans of the Maritime folk scene sho...
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Finbar's Irish Pub
Upon entering Finbar's, one thing you'll notice very quickly is just how Irish this little pub is. Everything from the walls, the ceiling, and the bar is decked out in traditional Irish style.
Finbar's brings in a predominately older crowd, but younger pe...
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Freeman's Little New York
Having been a staple on the Quinpool road strip for 44 years running, Freeman's Little New York is the neighborhood bar of choice for many South Enders.
The inside is a full-on tribute to the Big Apple, with stained glass lights, street signs, photographs, ...
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Copper Penny
The Copper Penny, with its affordable drinks and modern decor, brings in a steady group of casual/professional people from all across the board. This bar/restaurant has officially opened a new dining section which offers a large variety of martinis, shooters, ...
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Diamond's Dining Room And Lounge
In what has become THE urban nightspot in town, Diamond's Dining Room and Lounge has a cool, old-school flavour that's hard to find in Halifax.
This distinct, soul flavour shows in everything from the dim, neon lights to the motown soul flowing out the spe...
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Darrell's Sports Cafe
People looking for a place where they can sit down and take in one of the major sporting events of the year should consider Darrell's Sports Cafe as a venue of choice.
While not only serving a large variety of traditional bar favorites and creative entrees...
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Colby Ale House
Known more as a restaurant, the Colby Ale House nevertheless offers a friendly, bar atmosphere that brings in a lot of casual drinkers aged 25+.
There is a daily happy hour held every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 4:30 pm till close and that includes ...
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Coach's Pub And Grill
Coach's Pub and Grill is a spacious lounge-style pub that offers food, occasional live music, as well as assortment of alcoholic beverages. Speaking of live entertaainment, Coach's has brought in a number of folk-roots artists and has also showcased several ja...
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Club Car Lounge
The Club Car Lounge is a smallish, cozy style bar that provides a relaxed atmosphere for casual drinkers. Usually, the Lounge brings in blue-collar working class people.
Being the quaint, unassuming place that it is, the Club Car Lounge is not a fertile sp...
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Celtic Corner Pub
Providing one of the premiere places in all of Dartmouth to catch Celtic music, the Celtic Corner Pub attracts all walks of life to its relatively quaint surroundings.
The bar offers all the familiar brands of commercial and import draught beer and well sh...
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Michael's Pub
Michael's Pub (formerly Captain Eli's) is a friendly, neighborhood type lounge that brings in folks mainly from the West End of Halifax. Inside, there are two billiard tables and twelve video slot machines. Michael's also offers a number of weekly drink specia...
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Bud's Pub
Like many in a long list of watering holes around town, Bud's Pub offers a quiet, relaxed atmosphere where people can sit down for a meal or a few rounds of beer.
Bub's has vlt slot machines in the back as well as billiards for people to take part in. The b...
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Boomer's Lounge
Looking for a nightspot to dance with people who're well, not so young? Boomer's Lounge tailors mostly to those in their 30's and 40's. People who want to dance and have a good time without having to see college kids wherever they look.
Boomer's has drink s...
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Bearly's House Of Blues
Sure, some may call it an "old-man's" bar, but those who choose to overlook Bearly's as a dreary watering hole are sadly mistaken. Bearly's House of Blues not only brings in top blues talent from across the Maritimes, it also offers a diverse and tasty menu (t...
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The Bitter End
Women love martinis. This is fact. We all know it, and thankfully the ownership at the Bitter End understands this as well. That's why their Sunday and Monday martini nights are among the busiest in town.
Thats right, every Sunday and Monday, the Bitter End...
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Armview Restaurant
While speeding through the downtown rotary, you're likely to drive past the Armview Restaurant and Grill. This quaint, resepectable little venue has been in operation since 1951, and continues to offer both a diverse menu and an ideal place to hold a small soc...
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Halifax Alehouse
One of the busiest bars in downtown Halifax, the Alehouse attracts a bevy of college aged men and women. The interior is unlike any bar in town, with old-fashioned wooden tables, lanterns, and beer mugs.
In accordance with the indoor settings, all the staf...
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Onyx
With it's neon signboard shining brightly, the Onyx stands out nicely among the other bars and stores on Spring Garden Road. The inside is much like the outside in that it doesn't look like any other bar in town.
The dark mood lighting and sparkled, see thr...
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Soho Kitchen
The Soho Kitchen offers a very relaxed atmosphere where people can sit down to drink together in a quiet space. The Soho's look is upscale bohemian, with unique, folk art hanging from the walls along with several pieces of antique tables and furniture spread t...
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Cheers Bar And Grill
One of downtown Halifax's most popular night spots, Cheers Bar and Grill goes from being a casual dining venue during the day, to jam-packed dance fever madness at night.
Cheers generally brings in a mixed crowd of young and old, but for the most part, the...
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Cellar Bar And Grill
Ideal for a first date, the Cellar Bar and Grill is a cozy, modest-sized venue that attracts mostly couples as well as a steady group of regular customers who enjoy the quiet atmosphere.
The bar offers a list of wines and commercial beers to choose from. Bu...
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The Fireside
Comfortable, casual spot with fireplaces throughout. The menu ranges from traditional dishes to eclectic and unique creations. Cocktail lovers shouldn't miss Martini Monday. Open daily.
It is without a doubt that Maritini Monday at the Fireside is the numbe...
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The Dome
When it comes to dance clubs in Halifax, the first name that invariably comes to mind is the Dome. This late night bar becomes home for hundreds of college age students from Wednesday to Sunday of every week.
The spacious, checkerboard dance floor is locate...
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Economy Shoe Shop
A fixture on Halifax's nightlife landscape, the Economy Shoe Shop offers
an elegant, slightly "artsy" atmosphere, where people can go to have a few drinks without having to talk over each other the whole time.
The Shoe Shop's bar is fully stocked with wi...
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Locas Bar And Billiards
Locas Bar and Billiards is a restaurant/bar/billiards club that's housed in a renovated 1940s-era grand ballroom with seven-metre ceilings, local art, plants and accent lighting.
The inside is very casual, attracting a diverse crowd of mostly billiard play...
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Rogues Roost
The Rogues Roost is a small scale wine bar and lounge that's scrunched between the Second Cup and the Bank of Montreal. The inside is uncomfortably dark, and littered with tables.
The bar, stocked with house beers including IPA, pale ale, brown ale, imperia...
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Dooly's Bar And Billiards
Underneath Your Father's Moustache on Spring Garden Road, huddled away in the downstairs area is a Dooly's Bar and Billiards.
Dimly lit, with a pretty waitress or two always working the bar, Dooly's is a surprise find for anyone looking drink cheap in a lig...
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Your Father's Moustache
Your Father's Moustache is a casual dining/bar establishment that brings in a mostly college age crowd from across Metro.
It's a place that's more of a restaurant than anything else. But its large, spacious decor makes the Moustache an ideal spot for work ...
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Thirsty Duck
Newly renovated and with new ownership, the Thirsty Duck provides a classy but casual lounge for both the after dinner crowd and those looking to blow off steam after a long day at work.
The Thirsty duck has a diverse menu complete with traditional pub syte...
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Peel Pub
The Peel Pub on Spring Garden Road offers a comfortable, sports bar type atmosphere that caters mostly to the college age crowd. In fact, the Peel is the #1 chosen pub for students in all the major cities on the East Coast, and now in Halifax.
There are bot...
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Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club
Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club is Halifax's only club devoted entirely to stand-up comedy. From Wednesday to Sunday, Yuk Yuk's showcases a variety of comedic talent from across Canada.
Wednesday nights feature local amateurs as well as some guest acts from the loc...
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Maxwell's Plum
Yes, peanuts are a plenty at Maxwell's Plum, one of several English style pubs in Halifax.
Maxwell's has a fun, easy-going atmosphere with a selection of rare draft and import beer for the young to middle aged crowd.
The projection big-screen is perfect ...
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Gus' Pub
One of Halifax's main live music venues, Gus' Pub has a wide stage space allowing for the crowds to get up close and personal with the live performers.
Offering a loud, raucous nightime atmosphere that's perfect for live music fans. Many up-and-coming local...
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Granite Brewery
Offers a English-themed good time pub atmosphere with real, authentic British ales on tap.
Other than English imports, The Granite Brewery offers their own brand of brewed beer on tap, and at a considerably cheaper price than most home-brewed draft ales.
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Cheer's Grill
Serving lunch and dinner seven days a week. At nightime, when the kitchen closes, Cheers becomes a bar/lounge for a young to middle-aged crowd.
Cheers is also known for it's live music which includes rock and folk rock groups from all over Canada.
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Celtic Corner Pub
Enjoy great pub food and listen to traditional maritime music with origins from Ireland, Scotland, England, Newfoundland, PEI, as well as our own Nova Scotia.
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Club NRG
Techno ravers and dance lovers pack this afterhours night club night after night.
Catering to an audience of mostly gays and lesbians, Club NRG is known for it's open, friendly atmosphere, and high charged techno music.
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The Argyle
By day, the Argyle Bar and Grill is a popular dining establishment. Serving a variety of pub foods and delicious appetizers.
But by night, the bottom floor of the Argyle becomes a hotspot nightclub with their resident DJ spinning dance records for the young...
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Lower Deck Beer Market
The Lower Deck Good Time Pub is located on the 1st level of the Privateers' Warehouse.
Offering an authentic maritime atmosphere with the best East Coast talent coming through to perform daily.
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Jungle Beat
Jungle Beat covers the bar scene in downtown Halifax. This column is written by Jon Careless, Infomonkey's Wildlife Correspondent. He writes about everything from nightclub atmospheres to local musicians, as well as delivering reviews of shows taking place aro...
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