Gold Winner Willy's Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers
Silver Winner Smoke’s Poutinerie
Bronze Winner Cheese Curds Gourmet Burgers, Pleasant Street
The city’s best poutine several years running, Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers offers mouth-watering, waist-line expanding, outright orgasmic poutine, from the classic curds and gravy to the donair, pulled-pork and stuffing additions. There is nothing like a good poutine and this city knows it. Sometimes you’ll see a line-up around the block for Willy’s, and everyone is happy to wait, no matter if it’s lunchtime or four in the morning. Halifax’s Geoff Williams, a SMU business graduate, founded Willy’s on Blowers Street over seven years ago, and he says the take-out restaurant’s continued success is owed to his business principles. “Our strengths are preparing almost everything from scratch, keeping it simple and having great-looking employees.”