Gold Winner Ela! Greek Taverna, Bayers Lake Silver Winner Athens Restaurant Bronze Winner Lemon Tree Restaurant, Halifax It’s the second consecutive win for this veteran Greek god, shining bright like a diamond amongst the chain restaurants of Bayer’s Lake. Fine-tuning its traditional menu under the same ownership for 15-plus years, Ela! gets mad love for […]
Athens Restaurant
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Best Greek Restaurant
Gold Winner Ela! Greek Taverna, Bayers Lake Silver Winner Athens Restaurant Bronze Winner The Blue Olive Greek Taverna “Doesn’t Athens always win?” asks manager Tanya Wilkinson. Depends on how well you know your history. While Quinpool Road’s Athens Restaurant has dominated the highly contested category of Best Greek Restaurant for the past five years, Ela! […]
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Best Family Restaurant
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner The Armview Restaurant & Lounge Bronze Winner Athens Restaurant Large portions, reasonable prices, spot-on service and room to spare make the Mic Mac a reliable spot to push together a couple of tables and invite the whole fam jam out for dinner. Chances are your grannie […]
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Best Greek Restaurant
Gold Winner Athens Restaurant Silver Winner ela! Greek Taverna, Bayers Lake Bronze Winner Blue Olive Greek Taverna Four consecutive golds are a drop in bucket for Athens Restaurant, which has been serving up food fit for the Greek gods for over 35 years. The Quinpool institution continues to stand out thanks to the pride the […]
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Best Family Restaurant
Gold Winner Athens Restaurant Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner Jim’s Family Restaurant This Quinpool Road anchor is as reliable as a sturdy pair of walking shoes. A go-to spot for students, families and everyone in between, Athens’ enormous menu offers a little bit of Greek for any palate. Going 35 years […]
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Best Greek Restaurant
Gold Winner Athens Restaurant Silver Winner The Blue Olive Bronze Winner Ela!, Bayers Lake This Quinpool Road anchor is as reliable as a sturdy pair of walking shoes. A go-to spot for students, families and everyone in between, Athens’ enormous menu offers a little bit of Greek for any palate. Going 35 years strong, the […]
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Best Family Restaurant
Gold Winner Athens Restaurant Silver Winner Jim’s Pizza House Bronze Winner Tom’s Family Restaurant Take a look around Athens at any given meal time and you’ll see a little bit of everything: sweatpant-wearing students, business casual lunch meetings, lengthy family feasts and cure-all hangover breakfasts. “We’re simple, we don’t try to be anything that we’re […]
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Best Greek Restaurant
Gold Winner Athens Restaurant Silver Winner ela! Greek Taverna, Bayers Lake Bronze Winner The Blue Olive Greek Taverna Take a look around Athens at any given meal time and you’ll see a little bit of everything: sweatpant-wearing students, business casual lunch meetings, lengthy family feasts and cure-all hangover breakfasts. “We’re simple, we don’t try to […]
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Give me all the bacon and eggs you have
Starfresh Modern Diner 20 Wright Avenue Dish: Plate Breakfast Served: Monday-Friday, 6:30-11am Price: $5.95 Medium coffee: $1.50 After years catering for TV and film, Lisa Barry knows how to keep people well-fuelled. Her little Burnside diner arrived on the scene just before Christmas, offering home-cooked eats and in-house baked goods to the hardworking business park […]
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30 things to do on Quinpool Road
1. Celebrate Quinfest The annual street wide, family friendly festivities honouring the one of Halifax’s busiest streets, returns this Saturday, September 20 from 11am-3pm. “It is important for the [Quinpool Road Mainstreet District] Association and its members to host Quinfest every year because it gives us a chance to show appreciation to our many customers […]
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Best Family Restaurant
Gold Winner Athens Restaurant Silver Winner Palladium Family Restaurant Bronze Winner Tom’s Family Restaurant Athens knows how to keep it in the family. The restaurant has been run by the Panopalis family since 1982 and plans to keep passing the tradition on. From their famjam to your plate, Athens prides themselves on creating a tight-knit […]
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Best Greek Restaurant
Gold Winner Athens Restaurant Silver Winner Estia Restaurant Bronze Winner ela! Greek Taverna, Bayers Lake “We were the pioneers of Greek food in Halifax,” says owner Evangelos Panopalis. Athens serves up authentic offerings, so you can enjoy a hefty taste of Greece, a hop and a skip away, for a fair price. Panopalis says he […]