We were visiting Halifax for a few days and this seemed like a cool place to chill. We paid $7 for…read moreunlimited pool. The tables were full size and nicely lit. Pitchers were cheap. The bartender was really friendly and described the area for the rest of our trip. Overall we had a great time. (Additional, the ceiling really adds to the vibe, a patchwork of gilded squares---just a cool side note.)

The best pool hall in Halifax. it's a membership club but ring the bell and they'll welcome you in…read moreto try it out as a guest. Memberships are so cheap you won't have to think twice, the felts are high quality, they usually have a table open, and deals most nights of the week. even without a deal the prices are affordable for pool, food, and drinks. But why you should really come to Locas is the staff. The ladies that run Locas are the friendliest people I've met in Halifax, the service is great and fast, if you have a minute they'll get to know you, come in there once and they'll remember your face for years. come once for pool, Nachos or beer, but you'll come back again and again for service from a friendly face.

Great place to go if you want to have a game of pool or grab a bite to eat. I love the atmosphere,…read moreit's calming and modern. The staff is very friendly, the food is great (just finger food) and the pool isn't overly expensive. They also have a virtual golf course where you can bring your own clubs and shoot balls as if you were on a real golf course. It is quite expensive, but it's a great alternative when it's raining outside or during the winter and you having a craving for golf! We played pool for 2 hours and had 2 beer and it was less than $60.00.

Looking for a way to fight the winter blah, we decided to check out Eastside Billiards for their…read moreindoor golf simulators. We booked 2 hours from 8-10pm. The price was very reasonable for the 2 hours and in retrospect, I should have tipped much better than I had. When we arrived 15 minutes early and the previous patrons were still in their game, the bartender was very friendly, clearly wanted to be helpful and ensure we had a positive experience. It was nice to have plenty of room and a couch/sitting area behind the 3 game simulators, while we waited, stretched and warmed up. Once we were ready to begin, being a bit rusty on how to set our game settings, the bartender was helpful, gave explanations with out being too much or assumptive. Seeing that he might have been the only staff on hand for the entire facility, I was impressed with how well he took care of everyone and seemed very positive. Many people must be regulars as they knew him by name and made sure to acknowledge him before leaving. We had a few drinks. The bottled Coors Light was satisfactory . The Chocolate Monkey and Grasshopper I ordered were mixed well and enjoyed. They disappeared quickly... I did find that the furniture was mostly dated - typical of most billiard rooms. The course selection was pretty good. We played Banff Springs Overall, we had a good time and would go back again - maybe with a couple of friends for a round at a warm southern golf course.

Charlie's is a pretty chill place to go hang out and have a few beers…read more The crowd can be a little rough around the edges but I guess the university throngs have pretty much pushed the average drinking man out of every other bar in Halifax. Pool tables are a nice addition... I wasn't really sure what the $2 cover was going towards besides upkeep? A grungy/funky spot in the North End that's for sure!

This is not a tourist bar, unless you are a linoleum architecture tourist, or a $2.75 tequila shot…read moretourist, or a tourist of watching tight knit groups of locals sit around in circular formation. Charlie's is where you go when you want to go to Cheers. (Not the Cheers on Grafton St., the Cheers on TV according to your 6 y/o mind, which is really just the the theme song, fuzzy visuals, and conflating real life people with Cliff and/or Rhea Pearlman.) In short, it's where you go when you come home nostalgic and want to see all your old friends, enthusiastically buy each other drinks like it's a genuine gift, dance to one of those weird new electric blue jukeboxes, shout and pontificate around a pool table, and generally have a back slappin, squeezey hugging, chortling little time. The decor is like any affordable house, only the door has a key code and a woman sits at a table with a guest book when you come in. This does not make you feel cool, but it does make you feel like life is funny. The bartender is so used to over-friendly drunk patrons that nothing can melt him. I imagine that deep in his core is something more kind than anything I have ever known, but it is too precious to be shared. The last time I came here, someone apologized for asking me to dance when I turned him down. Apologized. For my rejecting him. A dark little mineshaft to the salt of the earth this place is, lemme tell ya.

The T Room is a fun college bar with pool, shuffleboard, and cheap drinks. And the best part is,…read moreit's right in my neighborhood. I often hit up the Friday night trivia, which is really fun. I'd prefer a third round of trivia to the frequent "Guess what candy bar/bag of chips is in my backpack" noise, but it's still a fun time. I love that it's on a Friday so I don't have to worry about leaving before trivia is over, and the questions are great. Overall, a fun bar with a relaxed, dive-y atmosphere.

Ahh, The T Room. The location of my first legally purchased alcoholic beverage…read more The Sexton Campus bar actually manages to be a pretty funky spot, despite its status as a student bar. With pool tables, shuffleboard, live bands, Thursday night trivia and movie nights, 'T-Room' retains a pretty steady stream of current Dalhousie students as well as recent alumni. Be sure to check out the pitchers of rum and coke!

What can I say about Rockingham doolys. The staff is absolutely amazing literally can't ask for…read morebetter.. the new over head lights on the pool tables are amazing it's a very clean establishment theres a door code to get in I feel pretty boss when going in and having to use the door code very warm atmosphere. And the iced coffee is the cheapest in the city and probably one of the best tasting I don't know where I would be with out this doolys location.. everyone that works there are so accepting and not judgy if there was a billiard bar TV show this should be the place I give this a 4 star only because they have machines would be a 5 star if it was just pool tables

Fun times practicing 8-ball at Dooly's. They also have a snooker table.read more

Resolutes Club is not only the best kept secret of the South end, but also one of the oldest…read moreamateur athletics clubs in Canada. 'Resolutes' is a members only club, but for a few dollars you can join and enjoy live music, pool, shuffle board and some of the cheapest drinks in the city. The 'social membership' at Resolutes will run you $10/annually and gets you in the door. (there is a pass code) If you want to be a voting member of the Resolutes Amateur Athletic Club then you need to shell out a whooping $32/annually. Membership dues go towards supporting various athletic organizations in the HRM such as: Metro Mens Soccer League, TARS Rugby, St. Mary's Football team as well as the Resolutes Pool league. Resolutes also offers some pretty great pub grub!

Cheap drink and great people the Resolute Club has been in the South End of Halifax form many…read moreyears. Yes it is a private club that is for members only it is almost like an old boys club house. Walking in you have bar located at the front with is a full bar equipped with everything. Happy hours still rings at the Resolutes Club making the drink even cheaper. Pool table and dart boards location at the back of the bar make sometimes very competitive. Large screen TVs are location always displaying some form of sports for the boys. I have attend many functions and parties at this club and always had a great time at each event. Drop on by and ring the bell maybe they will let you in.

I mean if you got nothing else to do yah go but their tables were nit even opened when we walked…read morein. Never in my life have I walked into a casino and the tables were not opened. It's right on the Pier which was interesting and neat.

For those seeking great quality food for the reasonable buffet price think again. Good news - the…read morebuffet listed here is a mere $30 per person. Bad news - the buffet listed here is a mere $30 per person. I went in with both eyes wide open and a cynical mindset in lieu of the way too reasonable $30 all-you-can-eat charge, but Casino Nova Scotia still exceeded my disappointment by serving one of the WORST meals I've ever eaten. Meaning I've had a meal at the horrible Hometown Buffet down in the neighborhood of Van Nuys, CA that was dirty as dirt - Casino Nova Scotia makes that now closed hellhole look like Cafe Sierra at Citywalk in LA. (Which serves a glorious seafood buffet for $150 a person!) First off the sides are seriously lagging. Meaning there are two sides tables to this "buffet" - but both have the exact same sides which means very little selection. Some meager and odd salad options, (cold mac and cheese...as a salad?!) plain mashed potatoes, crappy barely sauced pasta, overdone fried pickles, dry cornbread and overcooked Salmon. (The ONLY minor edible was the Alfredo sauced chicken - my guest didn't dig the garlic flavor - but when cheap as dirt chicken is your TOP meat at a Prime Rib feast you got problems!) So get to the nitty gritty - the main feature in the prime rib dinner - the prime rib. The one that drew me to this experience on a Saturday evening. (I've included a pic of what was online so you can see what I was expecting - yeah right!) Was it good? Was it sliced with picturesque medium rare glistening goodness like in the promised photo? What in fact...was there? A new roast was brought out right in front of me and it took them 5 minutes to lift it from the metal serving tray to the so called carving space dead center as it was falling apart in dripping chunks. Wet, overcooked and stringy as a yarn ball, this was the absolute worst meat I've ever had in my life. I cannot in good conscience call it prime rib - think roast beef, overdone and almost inedible. (The pic attached shows no such string stuff in it's advertising!) Finally to the desserts which were overly sweet and the only saving grace being the cobbler with fresh cream - again my guest was not a fan of the blueberries filling - but even then found what looked to be a pastry bag plastic topper in the cream on my cobbler. (Put it aside and kept eating - was starving and didn't care at that point!) So the moral here - you get what you pay for. They are using the sub-par kitchen and chefs to create a grotesque meal in a sneaky effort to get you in...to play casino games. This is not Gordon Ramsey's adjoining restaurant to compliment the ambience - this is a food that he would spit out and then close the place down. But even at mere $30 (or lesser if you are a casino gambling member) a starving hobo would feel ripped off, unsatisfied and mighty mad. Splurge on something better and avoid the con - here endeth the lesson.