Island Greek
2150 Gottingen Street, 422-8888
The donair pogo (two for $3.50) is utterly pornographic, but strangely, um, magentic. Plus, it’s locally made.
Caribbean Twist
3081 Gottingen Street, 404-3855
Their Jamaican patty ($2), a meat pie, is a Caribbean wonder.
Ciboulette
1541 Barrington Street, 423-JAVA
Some say the cinammon bun ($2) is the tastiest, gooiest breakfast bun in town, but I can’t tawk wif my mouf full.
Hot dog cart at Piercey’s
2854 Robie Street
Open up your meat valve for the hot Italian sausage ($3.75), some hard hat all-dressed street meat.
Pizza Corner
Drunken stumble, Blowers & Grafton
Don’t forget about The European Food Shop, Sicilian and KoD. We’ve all huddled around one of those monster slices ($3.95 and up) to stay warm on a cold winter’s walk home, haven’t we?
Little Fish
1740 Argyle Street 425-4025
Oyster happy hour, 4-6pm daily ($1.50 each for all Maritime varieties), makes business deals go down with a slurp.
Steve-O-Reno’s
1536 Brunswick Street, 429-3034
These muffins ($2.50) are huge, with an amazing whole wheat texture that gives the illusion of health. —Andy Murdoch
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I walk/bus by Caribbean Twist every day to get to school, thanks for the heads up it’s good. Might stop in sometime that I’m craving a Jamaican patty, which seems more and more since SuperStore doesn’t seem to carry them anymore.
What’s the next food article going to be titled, Andy? The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly? 😉
Yes! Or Hang ’em high: my look at the phenom of NS pepperoni. The Gauntlet: where I test every donair in Halifax and rate them. Etc…The Eastwood collection is perfectly suited to food reviewing.
Email this article to Premier Dexter, he gets $84 a day for food.
A civil servant get a max of $38 when out of town.
Sam’s Macchiato downtown on Granville is another option, sandwiches made fresh daily are in the cooler for only $4 and made while you wait are under 8. His coffee is some of the best in the city, and the largest size is under 2 dollars.