Stories - Casual Fine Dining - Halifax
For reservations for 5 guests or more, please call us directly.
Rated 2 of 3 stars in 2019 Where to Eat in Canada.
Each and every facet of a dining experience has a story. From the pedigree of our food products, our partnerships with indigenous farmers, foragers and fishermen, to our guests who choose to celebrate their “continuing story” with us.
Private dining room available.
Safety precautions
- Surfaces sanitized between seatings
- Common areas deep cleaned daily
- Digital, disposable or sanitized menu provided
- Sanitizer or wipes provided for customers
- Limited number of seated diners
- Distancing maintained in common areas
- Extra space between tables
- Waitstaff wear masks
- Diners must wear masks unless eating or drinking
- Sick staff prohibited in the workplace
Popular dishes
Roast Barbarie Duck Breast
bourbon mashed sweet potato, black cherry and ancho
3 reviews
Sautéed Queen Crab Cakes
micro greens, smoked jalapeño crema
1 reviews
Yellowfin Tuna Grilled Rare
olive, tomato, red pepper basil vinaigrette
1 reviews
The food was amazing and interesting. The ambiance was great and felt very safe. The service was top notch. A great combo of tending to our needs without interrupting our party's conversation. I LOVED this place and cannot wait to return.
Excellent service and food. Favourite dining experience.
What a wonderful experience! Very few restaurants are able to maintain this level of consistently high quality service year, over year, over year. I would absolutely rate Stories as my number one dining experience in Halifax.
Wonderful atmosphere and excellent food and service. House wine is excellent.
A wonderful culinary delight ....a delicious retreat in a sea of the normal dining experiences.
We had a lovely dinner. Our food was delicious and we appreciated the attentive service and the quiet atmosphere.
Thank you for your kind review, Carol! We look forward to hosting you again!
Great service. Delicious food. Will be returning!
Absolutely amazing food and service. Wonderful atmosphere and ambience. I would highly recommend
Thank you very much for taking the time to review Stories, and for supporting small businesses during this time!
Grest food and great service! Not inexpensive, but well worth the price.
Thank you so much for taking the time to review Stories! We are very grateful for guests like you, for continuing to support local. Wishing you all the best, The Stories Team
Cannot fault them on anything. Food was all delicious and well presented. My wife had the Guinea hen, I the duck breast. We shared the scallops which came recommended by our server. Prices are more than reasonable for the food quality. A lovely dining experience.
Thank you for taking the time to review our restaurant with so much thought and care, and for joining us at Stories - it means so much, especially during these times. We are looking forward to hosting your friends in the future! All our best, The Stories Team
Amazing and the server was fantastic! Every bite was delicious! Highly recommend this wonderful dining experience!
Thank you for taking the time to write this thoughtful review of our restaurant! All our best, The Stories Team
Wonderful atmosphere, great food, really great service!
Thank you for taking the time to review our restaurant! We're so glad that you enjoyed your dinner with us. We hope to see you again another time! All my best, Kelsey Bishop Dining Room Manager
Great dinner there with my spouse and the food was excellent, the service impeccable and the ambiance quiet and perfect for our anniversary dinner. Menu is limited but everything on the menu looked like something we would want. Loved the scallops wraped in rice paper - cooked and served perfectly. Highly recommended.
Terrific! Food was spectacular & our waitress was excellent :-)
Stories was a wonderful birthday treat for my husband and me. The cocktails were beautiful, the staff were friendly and helpful and the food was delicious.
Great food. Great atmosphere. Great service. We really enjoyed the experience.
Just an outstanding food experience. Anna was a very knowledgeable server and her personality just took the experience up a notch.
As always we started with a drink in the sitting room—so relaxing— before moving over to the restaurant. An intimate, peaceful ambiance with exceptional food and unobtrusively warm service. A hidden gem here in Halifax.
Great food, from a small menu in and intimate space with wonderful staff - highly recommended
So good! Excellent food, and the service Is amicable and warm. Attentive servers. Worth of a special occassion.
quiet place, perfect for a romantic dinner or celebration. Exceptional service and presentation. Nice wine list, small but varied menu. Thank you Katherine for your service and making our night into something truly special.
Our server was amazing so friendly and kind, beautiful inside and out....I have been serving for 20 years and the server you have working for you is one of kind and you are very lucky to have her working for you
fantastic food, service, and ambiance! Our fourth time eating here on our annual visit to Celtic Colours! Will keep coming back.
Excellent meal with my wife to celebrate our anniversary. We both enjoyed all three courses with wine and were particularly impressed with the service.
Very sweet venue with a romantic table next to the window which we enjoyed on our last night in Halifax. The location is easy to get to in downtown and we felt very comfortable walking there from our lodging at the Marriot Harborview. Our meal was superb!
Our favorite of the three top shelf restaurants we dined at in Halifax. Located in a small boutique hotel, Stories is a treat for the eyes and the stomach. We shared Duck Three Ways for an app: sliced duck prosciutto, smoked duck, and duck rillettes. Absolutely one of the most beautiful presentations ever. The duck was so good we both had Duck Magret for entrees: again, beautiful presentation, delicious, and ample. Limited selection of wines by the glass, but I was happy with the selection I made. We recommend this restaurant without any reservation, although reservations are recommended. A real treat.
The restaurant has such a lovely atmosphere. Very quiet and romantic. The food is just so good. Appetizer was crab cakes. It had huge chunks of crab plus the base included great shrimp. Mains were tuna and duck. The tuna was so tender and tasty. It has been quite a while since I had such fabulous tuna and it was cooked perfectly. The duck was very rich and flavourful. Great wine to go with both meals. All the prices of food and wine are so reasonable for the high quality. Our server, Kelsey, added so much to the evening. She is extremely personable and delivers outstanding service. Kelsey is a real asset to the restaurant and certainly makes you want to return.
Very enjoyable, romantic dinner. The way fine dining should be. Wonderful staff, intimate atmosphere, and fine food.
Staff were friendly enough, but Stories is entirely overrated. The food was antiquated, underwhelming and overpriced. To be clear: this review is purposefully critical, not negative.
Perfect place for a quiet romantic dinner. Can’t say enough about the food and service. My only regret is not returning sooner.
Easily one of the best and most sophisticated restaurants in Halifax and Atlantic Canada. Impeccable dining and service.
It was a lovely and intimate dining experience with my family. Katrine, our server, was caring and attentive.
The service, the ambiance, the drink in the library beforehand, the balance and fantastic tastes of every single bite we took, the location, etc. Everything was perfect.
Food and service were both fantastic
It was everything and more than I anticipated! The food, Ambiance and service was simply amazing.
Cyprian
Everything was super fresh and delicious. Wait staff was attentive but not intrusive. Beautiful room in restored older building.
An exceptional service and food, a very pleasant and friendly waitresses, nice and pleasant atmosphere over all. We hope to visit you again during our next trip to Halifax.
Perfect from beginning to end. Incredible service; water and bread promptly served, never had to ask for refills of wine or water. Food was delicious (salmon and steak), with flourless chocolate cake with coconut ice cream to finish the feast
Nice wine selection
Great food and service
Food was delicious although I found crab cake a wee bit bland
Salmon and Duck Magret perfect
Scallops perfect
Desserts perfect
FAQs
Stories - Casual Fine Dining - Halifax is rated 5 stars by 116 OpenTable diners.
Yes, you can generally book this restaurant by choosing the date, time and party size on OpenTable. Due to local restrictions, this restaurant may not be accepting reservations at the moment.