Gold Winner Tom’s Family Restaurant Silver Winner Athens Restaurant Bronze Winner The Armview Restaurant & Lounge Tom’s owner Dimitri Panopalis emphasizes home-style, made-from-scratch cooking on his family-friendly menus that run the gamut of hearty food: from seafood to steaks to ribs, wraps, burgers, pizza, salads, kiddie specials and made-in-house deserts, Tom’s has it all—for all […]
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Best Greek Restaurant
Gold Winner ela! Greek Taverna, Bayers Lake Silver Winner Athens Restaurant Bronze Winner Estia Ela! (which we used to know and love as Opa!) is a go-to classic when it comes to Greek food in Halifax. After last year’s closure of its Argyle Street location—which brought home the gold year after year—it’s Bayers Lake’s time […]
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The ShopTalk Guided Tour: Quinpool Road
It’s time for Quinfest! The celebration of all things Quinpool Road is this Saturday, September 15, 11am-3pm. The fun includes a reptile zoo, clowns, carnival games, face-painting, kite-flying and science booths. Most of the street’s restaurants are offering free samples from noon to 2pm. And at 1pm there’s a free concert, with Razzmatazz For Kids […]
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Best Greek Restaurant
Gold Winner Ela! Greek Taverna Silver Winner Athens Restaurant Bronze Winner It’s All Greek to Me Ela! may have a different name than it used to, but this beloved Greek restaurant is still dominating this category. An Albertan company snatched up the name Opa! in 1998, about two years before our local favourites did. As […]
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Best Family Restaurant
In our inaugural Best Family Restaurant category, it should be no surprise that longtime Greek and Canadian food resto on Quinpool Road took home the gold. For 15 years on Quinpool (in two locations) and another 14 before that on Barrington Street, the Panopalis family has plenty of experience pleasing Haligonian bellies. Whether it’s desserts […]
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Go Local: Quinpool
One of the city’s main links between downtown and the suburbs, complete with gas stations and a McD’s drive-thru, it’s very commuter. But it’s a whole lot of community, too, serving as the west end’s Main Street. You can find all kinds of local restaurants—anchored by mainstays Athens and Freeman’s Little New York—and happening boutiques […]
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Central Grill closes
“Burn-out,” says Evangelos Panopalis, giving a reason for the closure of The Central Grill (6303 Quinpool Road), a steakhouse the restaurateur started last summer when he moved his other business, Greek eatery Athens (6273 Quinpool Road) into the former Quincy’s space up the block. “I was working 15 hours a day,” says Panopalis. “It wasn’t […]