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! […]
Blue Olive Greek Taverna
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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 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 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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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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Zelios family makes another go of it on Quinpool
From the ashes of It’s All Greek To Me comes Blue Olive Greek Taverna (6196 Quinpool Road, 407-3000). In style—the same Greek national colours blue and white—menu and disposition it seems very much like its predecessor, which closed in early 2012 to stories in the daily press of litigious suppliers and staffers owed paycheques. Janet […]