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  1. Dear Friend

    Cocktail Bar

    Drink 86
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    Bentwood bar stools and the general feeling of a European café that got off the ferry in Dartmouth and decided to stay. Dear Friend is a cocktail and oyster bar that helped put this side of the harbour on the map, and the drinks have a culinary lean that earns the comparison: dashi, spruce, sea buckthorn. Beers and ciders run local; wines run funky. Ranked among Canada's 100 Best Bars in 2026.

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    The dishes from the writeups

    • Just a Dashi

      “like the umami-driven Just a Dashi, made with Suntory Toki, shiitake dashi, amaro and spruce”

      Canada's 100 Best, 2026

    • Sparkling Cosmopolitan

      “A sparkling Cosmopolitan calls for turmeric-infused vodka and sea buckthorn”

      Canada's 100 Best, 2026
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    Address
    67 Portland St, Dartmouth NS · Dartmouth
    Hours

    Open now, until 11 PM

    • Monday 4 PM to 11 PM
    • Tuesday Today 4 PM to 11 PM
    • Wednesday 4 PM to 11 PM
    • Thursday 4 PM to Midnight next day
    • Friday 4 PM to Midnight next day
    • Saturday 4 PM to Midnight next day
    • Sunday 4 PM to 10 PM
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The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Stay Score

      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.