Gold Winner Burrito Jax, downtown Silver Winner Habaneros Modern Taco Bar, Pleasant Street Bronze Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Since this category was born, back in 2011, this burrito heavyweight (literally, these stuffed-full wraps don’t skimp) has been holding down the top spot. The original location of the now franchised, spreading like wildfire, Burrito Jax […]
Burrito Jax
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Best Late-night Food
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Halifax Bronze Winner Burrito Jax, Blowers 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 […]
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Best Burrito
Gold Winner Burrito Jax, Blowers Street Silver Winner Habaneros Modern Taco Bar, Pleasant Street
 Bronze Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream This city went ages without a dedicated burrito joint, but as soon as Burrito Jax came to town, it started racking up The Coast’s Best of Halifax awards, and this year is no exception. Roll […]
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Best Burrito
Gold Winner Burrito Jax, Blowers Street Silver Winner Habaneros Modern Taco Bar Bronze Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Ah, the burrito—a savory escape from the Pizza Corner slice on a Saturday night. Taking the gold again this year, Burrito Jax packs in all your favourite fixings and their house made sauces and salsas. With four […]
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Best Ice Cream / Gelato / Frozen Yogurt
Gold Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Silver Winner Humani-T Cafe, north end Bronze Winner Cherry Berry Yogurt Bar, Halifax Haligonians scream for Dee Dee’s Ice Cream. This north end shop started as a simple shack in Peggys Cove. Thankfully now you can get their creamy scoops of heaven all year round. Co-manager Jessie Wright says […]
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Best Late-night Food
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Freeman’s Little New York, Quinpool Bronze Winner Burrito Jax, Blowers Street After a night of drinking and shenanigans all bar-hoppers and party-goers retire to their respectful homes for a good (mediocre?) night’s sleep—but not before hitting up good ol’ Pizza Corner. The aroma of fries, […]
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Best Burrito
Gold Winner Burrito Jax, Halifax Silver Winner Habaneros Modern Taco Bar Bronze Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream The main difference between a normal burrito and a Burrito Jax burrito is that the latter is grilled to perfection, according to co-owner Eleanor Delano, who keeps the focus on chopping, dicing and cooking with local ingredients whenever […]
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Best Burrito
Gold Winner Burrito Jax Silver Winner Dee Dee’s Ice Cream Bronze Winner Mexico Lindo Burrito Jax has snagged the best burrito spot for the second year in a row, and there’s a simple reason why their burritos are so darn good. “It’s natural, freshly prepared, good quality, great tasting food,” says owner Gordon Delano. “No […]
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Best Late-night Food
Gold Winner Freeman’s Little New York Silver Winner Willy’s Bronze Winner Burrito Jax Best Late-Night Food? More like 24/7 food. Freeman’s Little New York opens at 10am and keeps churning out choices from their extensive menu until five in the morning. Owner Laurel Harrington says their hours appeal to bartenders, paramedics and dockworkers—anyone getting off […]
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Best Burrito
We figured it was time to inaugurate this menu item. Even though Halifax doesn’t have too many Mexican places, burritos have been popping up all over the place. Makes sense that the joint that specializes in them would get the vote, a hearty (and tasty) addition to the Halifax food scene just down Blowers from […]
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Bordering Mexico
Last week my best friends took a springtime vacation in Puebla, Mexico. While they wandered the sunny, earthy streets of Puebla, I took refuge from Halifax’s gray, rainy days in their Facebook picture albums. Every day I was treated to photos of chalupas, cemitas, tacos arabes and deep-fried quesadillas. So I was excited when, suddenly, […]
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Cheap Eats – Seven Dishes under Seven Dollars
$6.50 – McCoastal breakfast sandwich Coastal Coffee The description of the McCoastal, Coastal’s breakfast sandwich, comes across as tasty but innocuous: two fried eggs, havarti cheese, maple sausage on an English muffin. But the actual physical presence of this delicacy is something else altogether. It is roughly the size of a small human baby. The […]