Best Burgers in Halifax: Burger Bash City Guide

The best burgers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are found downtown around Argyle Street and Spring Garden Road, in the North End along Gottingen and Agricola streets, on Quinpool Road and across the harbour in downtown Dartmouth. The city’s burger calendar peaks in April, during The Coast’s Halifax Burger Bash.

Burger Bash is the best measure of how seriously Haligonians take a burger. Run by the local paper The Coast, it lasted from 16 to 26 April in 2026: more than 150 restaurants took part, diners bought 79,053 burgers and the event raised $125,066 for Feed Nova Scotia. The rest of the year, the burger shares late nights with the donair, the spiced beef wrap with sweet garlic sauce that Halifax named its official food in 2015.

Burgers in Halifax: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: downtown and Argyle Street, Spring Garden Road, the North End, Quinpool Road and downtown Dartmouth.
• Local event: The Coast’s Halifax Burger Bash, every spring, with part of each sale going to Feed Nova Scotia.
• Local rival: the donair, Halifax’s official food since 2015.
• Currency: Canadian dollar (CAD). Nova Scotia adds 14% HST to menu prices, and the tip is extra.
• Getting around: the Halifax Transit ferry crosses the harbour between downtown Halifax and Dartmouth.

Every guide we publish on Halifax is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. To compare the East Coast with other cities, browse our burger restaurant guides by city.