A&W Halifax: Locations, Hours and 24-Hour Options

A&W Halifax has three restaurants in the city itself: 215 Chain Lake Drive in Bayers Lake (7 a.m.–10 p.m. daily), 309 Herring Cove Road in Spryfield (7 a.m.–midnight daily) and the food court of Halifax Shopping Centre at 7001 Mumford Road. A fourth counter at Halifax Stanfield International Airport is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Three A&Ws in the region stay open 24 hours: 240 Victoria Road in Dartmouth, 68 Hogan Court in Bedford and 16 Marketway Lane in Timberlea. The downtown counters at Scotia Square (5201 Duke Street) and Spring Garden Road are gone from A&W’s official list. I checked every address, phone number and set of hours against A&W’s official location data on November 6, 2026.

Map of the A&W locations in Halifax Regional Municipality: Chain Lake Drive, Spryfield and Halifax Shopping Centre in Halifax; Halifax Stanfield airport in Enfield; Victoria Road and Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth; Hogan Court and Gary Martin Drive in Bedford; Timberlea; and Lower Sackville. Victoria Road, Hogan Court and Timberlea are open 24 hours. The former Scotia Square and Spring Garden Road counters downtown are closed. (Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)

A&W Halifax locations, hours and services at a glance

This guide covers ten A&W restaurants: three in Halifax, one at the airport in Enfield and six in Dartmouth, Bedford, Timberlea and Lower Sackville. Hours, drive-thru and brewbar details come from A&W’s location list, checked on November 6, 2026. “Not listed” means A&W publishes nothing on that point.

One caution about the two mall food courts. A&W’s data does not label its days, and I read the shorter shift as Sunday because that is when malls close early. Before a Sunday visit to Halifax Shopping Centre or Mic Mac Mall, call the restaurant to confirm the hours.

Chart of daily opening hours at the A&W restaurants in Halifax and the region, from A&W’s official list on November 6, 2026. Victoria Road, Hogan Court and Timberlea are open 24 hours. Spryfield and the airport are open 17 hours a day, Chain Lake Drive and Lower Sackville 15. The two mall food courts are open about 12 hours, Monday to Saturday. Gary Martin Drive is left out because A&W publishes no hours for it. (Chart: Burger Breton, CC BY 4.0, data from A&W Canada official location list (https://web.aw.ca/api/locations/), checked November 6, 2026)

Which A&W in Halifax should you choose?

The right A&W depends on when you are hungry and how you are getting there. My shortlist:

• Late at night in Halifax: Spryfield, open until midnight every day, with a drive-thru.
• After midnight: Victoria Road in Dartmouth (24-hour dining room), or Hogan Court in Bedford and Marketway Lane in Timberlea (both open 24 hours with a drive-thru).
• By car on the west side: Chain Lake Drive in Bayers Lake, which has a drive-thru and a brewbar.
• By bus: Halifax Shopping Centre, next to the Mumford bus terminal.
• Before a flight: the counter at Halifax Stanfield, open from 6 a.m.

If I could keep only one, it would be Spryfield. No other A&W in the city has all three: a drive-thru, a root beer brewbar and a kitchen still serving at 11 p.m. Chain Lake Drive has the first two but closes two hours earlier.

A&W Chain Lake Drive (Bayers Lake)

Bayers Lake’s A&W is at 215 Chain Lake Drive, in the Bayers Lake Centre on the west side of Halifax, and serves from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. Drive-thru, root beer brewbar, phone (902) 450-0107. Those hours come from A&W’s location list, and the circulaire-en-ligne.ca directory confirmed them on November 6, 2026.

Watch the street number if you search for this one. The bayerslakepark.com directory lists it as 220 Chain Lake Dr #210, but A&W’s official address is 215. Other directories put closing time anywhere between 10 and 11 p.m. I go with A&W’s own figure: 10 p.m.

A&W Spryfield (Herring Cove Road)

A&W Spryfield, at 309 Herring Cove Road (Halifax, NS B3P 1M3), closes later than any other A&W in the city: midnight, every day. It opens at 7 a.m., has a drive-thru and a brewbar, and answers at (902) 454-3410. MapQuest confirms the address. Oddly, the directories that rank first for “A&W Halifax” skip this restaurant entirely, so A&W’s own list is the place to check it.

A&W Halifax Shopping Centre (Mumford Road)

The A&W at Halifax Shopping Centre is a food court counter at 7001 Mumford Road, Halifax, NS B3L 2H8, with no drive-thru and no brewbar. A&W lists it as open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday to Saturday and from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. One unofficial listing says the mall doors open later, at 9:30 a.m. (noon on Sundays), so call (902) 455-1790 before an early visit.

The food court at Halifax Shopping Centre, 7001 Mumford Road, where the mall’s A&W counter is located. The photo is from 2016, and the A&W counter is not in view: the visible signs are Tim Hortons and DQ. (Photo: Ben MacLeod, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halifax\_Shopping\_Centre\_food\_court\_2016.jpg)

How to get to A&W Halifax Shopping Centre by bus

Halifax Shopping Centre is the easiest A&W in the city to reach without a car. Halifax Transit’s Mumford terminal sits across Mumford Road, in the mall’s Annex. According to the Halifax Regional Municipality and Wikipedia, it is the third-busiest terminal in the municipality, with about 9,300 bus trips a day. Routes 1, 2, 3 and 28 all stop there.

A&W at Halifax Stanfield airport (YHZ)

Yes, there is an A&W at Halifax Stanfield International Airport. It is at 1 Bell Boulevard, Enfield, NS B2T 1K2, and it is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day, according to A&W’s airport page. The phone number is (902) 873-2491. The Halifax International Airport Authority announced the restaurant on January 23, 2017, for a spring 2017 opening in the airport food court, with Rob Ogden as operator (press release).

The check-in hall at Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ) in Enfield. The airport’s A&W, in the food court, is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. The A&W is not visible in this 2016 photo. (Photo: Ben MacLeod, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halifax\_Stanfield\_International\_Airport\_check-in\_hall.jpg)

24-hour A&W in Halifax, Dartmouth and Bedford

None of the three A&Ws in Halifax itself is open 24 hours. The all-night options are just outside the city:

• 240 Victoria Road, Dartmouth: dining room open 24 hours, brewbar, no drive-thru. Phone (902) 422-2491.
• 68 Hogan Court, Bedford: dining room and drive-thru open 24 hours, brewbar. Phone (902) 443-1528.
• 16 Marketway Lane, Timberlea: open 24 hours with a drive-thru, brewbar. Phone (902) 423-0472.

If you are driving at 2 a.m., Hogan Court is my pick: its drive-thru runs all night and A&W says so explicitly, while Victoria Road has no drive-thru at all.

The region also has Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth (21 Micmac Boulevard, food court), Gary Martin Drive in Bedford (drive-thru) and 774 Sackville Drive in Lower Sackville (7 a.m.–10 p.m., drive-thru).

Closed: A&W Scotia Square and Spring Garden Road

The downtown A&W counters at Scotia Square (5201 Duke Street) and on Spring Garden Road (5657 Spring Garden Road) no longer appear on A&W’s official list, and neither does Barrington Place. I checked on November 6, 2026. Yelp also marks the Spring Garden Road restaurant as closed. Several of the directories that rank first in search still show both as open. I could not confirm when either one closed, so I give no date. The upshot: there is no A&W downtown anymore, and from the waterfront the nearest one in the city is Halifax Shopping Centre.

A&W Halifax menu: what to order

The A&W menu in Halifax is the national Canadian menu. I found no item exclusive to Nova Scotia: no lobster burger, no donair. The core lineup is the Teen Burger, Mozza Burger, Papa Burger, Uncle Burger and the Beyond Meat burger, plus breakfast and the root beer the chain is known for.

The Teen Burger and the burger family

The Teen Burger is A&W Canada’s signature burger, and it is what I would order on a first visit: it is the burger the chain built its name on, not a rotating promotion. If you want to make it at home, my colleague Clara tested an A&W Teen Burger copycat recipe.

The A&W Smash Burger (limited time)

The Smash Burger launched across Canada on May 25, 2026, as A&W’s first smash burger. It comes as a single or a double: grass-fed beef patties, melted cheddar, pickles, sliced onions and a secret sauce on a toasted brioche bun, according to A&W’s announcement. It is a limited-time offer, and A&W never published a price for it. Check the A&W app to see whether your Halifax restaurant still has it in November 2026.

Value Deals under CA$4

The Value Deals menu, announced on January 5, 2026, prices every item under CA$4: the Buddy Cheeseburger, Chicken Buddy Burger, Spicy Piri-Piri Potato Buddy Burger, Spicy Chipotle Chicken Wrap and Bacon Chicken Wrap. You can order it in restaurants and in the A&W app (A&W). For how this menu stacks up against other chains’ deals, see our 2026 burger value wars analysis.

Root beer, beef and chicken

A&W makes its root beer in the restaurant with cane sugar. Five Halifax-area A&Ws have the brewbar where it is made: Chain Lake Drive, Spryfield, Victoria Road, Hogan Court and Timberlea. A&W says its beef is grass-fed and raised without added hormones or steroids, and its chicken is raised without antibiotics (A&W).

Vegetarian options at A&W Halifax

The national menu has two meatless burgers: the Beyond Meat burger and the Spicy Piri-Piri Potato Buddy Burger from the Value Deals menu. Availability can vary, so check your restaurant’s menu in the app.

A&W Halifax prices and tax

I could not verify any current menu price at a Halifax A&W, so I publish none. The one official reference is the Value Deals menu, with every item under CA$4. In Nova Scotia, 14% HST is added to the menu price, and delivery apps such as Uber Eats can charge more than the counter. To see the price at your restaurant, select it in the A&W app before you order.

A&W Halifax reviews

Verified ratings are scarce for the Halifax A&Ws, so I don’t give a score to any of them. For Chain Lake Drive, the Sluurpy aggregator summarizes the recurring comments. On the plus side: a full breakfast at about CA$12 that reviewers find good value, friendly staff and food served hot. On the minus side: ice in the frosted root beer mug, lunch prices that feel high and the look of the chicken strips. Sluurpy is a secondary source, and I did not check these ratings on Google Maps myself.

Tripadvisor still lists an “A&W Restaurant, 7071 Bayers Rd” with negative 2026 reviews. That address is not on A&W’s official list, and the Malls Wiki directory says that restaurant closed in the early 2000s. Those reviews are probably about a different restaurant, so I don’t credit them to any location in this guide.

A&W Canada: a short history

A&W Canada is the country’s second-largest burger chain, and it is a separate company from A&W in the United States. It was founded in Winnipeg in 1956, became independent of the American chain when Unilever bought it in 1972, and was bought by its management in 1995. It had 1,113 restaurants in Canada on September 6, 2026, and system sales of CA$1.92 billion in 2025 (Wikipedia, A&W Q3 2026 results). The full story is in our A&W Canada brand profile.

Beyond A&W: burgers in Halifax

A&W is the reliable fallback, not the reason to eat burgers in Halifax. The donair has been the city’s official food since 2015, and the 2026 Halifax Burger Bash, run by the local paper The Coast from April 16 to 26, sold 79,053 burgers. Our Halifax burger guide covers the local scene. For A&W in other Canadian cities, see our guides to A&W in Montreal, A&W in Ottawa and A&W in Calgary.

How I checked this guide

Every address, phone number, set of hours and service in this guide comes from A&W Canada’s official location data, checked on November 6, 2026. Where I could, I cross-checked against a second source (circulaire-en-ligne.ca, MapQuest, the airport page, Yelp). I left out anything I could not confirm, including opening and closing dates, local prices, payment methods, accessibility and parking. I don’t rate any restaurant in this guide.

A&W Halifax FAQ

How many A&W restaurants are there in Halifax? There are three in the city of Halifax: Chain Lake Drive, Spryfield and Halifax Shopping Centre. The airport in Enfield has a fourth, and Dartmouth, Bedford, Timberlea and Lower Sackville have six more.

Which A&W in Halifax is open 24 hours? None in the city of Halifax. In the region, Victoria Road in Dartmouth (dining room), Hogan Court in Bedford and Marketway Lane in Timberlea are open 24 hours. In Halifax itself, Spryfield is open until midnight.

Is the A&W at Scotia Square or Spring Garden Road still open? No. Neither is on A&W’s official list as of November 6, 2026, and Yelp marks Spring Garden Road as closed.

Which A&W restaurants in Halifax have a drive-thru? In Halifax, Chain Lake Drive and Spryfield. In the region, Hogan Court and Gary Martin Drive in Bedford, Timberlea and Lower Sackville. Halifax Shopping Centre, the airport and Victoria Road have no drive-thru.

Does A&W Halifax deliver? A&W does not say which Halifax restaurants deliver. Open Uber Eats or the A&W app and enter your address to see what is available.

Does A&W in Halifax serve breakfast? Yes. Chain Lake Drive and Spryfield open at 7 a.m. and the airport at 6 a.m. Reviews of Chain Lake mention a full breakfast at about CA$12. A&W does not say whether breakfast is served all day.

Are A&W Canada and A&W in the United States the same company? No. A&W Canada has been independent of the American chain since 1972 and has been owned by its management since 1995.

Is tax included in A&W prices in Halifax? No. Nova Scotia’s 14% HST is added to the menu price.