Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner EDNA Bronze Winner Ardmore Tea Room One hundred percent pure love is the secret to the champion fish cakes (AKA Marilyn’s Fish Cakes) at the Mic Mac, simple as that. And while many of the restaurant’s wins this year can be credited to its entire team, […]
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Best Brunch
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner EDNA Bronze Winner The Coastal Cafe Hit the Mic Mac Bar & Grill on a Saturday or Sunday and you’ll find a packed parking lot, and likely some hungry people patiently waiting for bottomless coffee and a bacony cure. It’s nothing fancy—no garnishes or foamed milk […]
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Best Fine Dining
Gold Winner The Bicycle Thief Silver Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Bronze Winner EDNA “We don’t look at it as a restaurant, this is our home. Everyone who comes here, we open the doors with open arms to welcome them,” says Hakan Uluer, co-owner of your choice for Best Fine Dining. The Bicycle Thief’s standout food […]
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Best Restaurant
Gold Winner The Bicycle Thief Silver Winner EDNA Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down Food + Wine “Everything is made by hand, everything is from scratch and that’s the key,” says The Bicycle Thief’s co-owner Hakan Uluer, of the commitment to serving quality food. “We have a formula in our restaurants: we don’t have tons of […]
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Best Caesar
Gold Winner Stubborn Goat Gastropub Silver Winner Durty Nelly’s Authentic Irish Pub Bronze Winner EDNA Once upon a time, my father ordered a Caesar in the United States. The server said, “Are you from up north? Like, far north?” You won’t get that sort of response at the Stubborn Goat Gastropub. Its Caesar means business […]
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Ciro dreams of cheese
Roma Cheese Alderney Landing Farmers’ Market 2 Octherloney Street Saturdays “I was just six years old when I started to go up into the mountain,” says Ciro Comencini. “We were still making cheese with a copper pot and wood fire. You have to be very careful because a wood fire is not like propane that […]
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Rotisserie chicken heats up on North Street this summer
When Robin’s flew the coop, Jenna Mooers and Andrew Flood quickly took flight and locked down the North Street location for a new restaurant. “We jumped on the space before we even had a business plan because in place just because we wanted the space so badly,” says Mooers. Her partner, Flood, helped build the […]
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Best Atmosphere
Gold Winner EDNA Silver Winner Lot Six Bronze Winner Agricola Street Brasserie “That’s a huge one for me because so many of the new restaurants have opened in the last couple of years, and there’s been a real emphasis on design,” says EDNA’s visionary Jenna Mooers of her Best Atmosphere accolade. Working with Breakhouse, taking […]
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Best Brunch
Gold Winner EDNA Silver Winner The Coastal Cafe Bronze Winner Robie Street Station “That’s a huge one for me because so many of the new restaurants have opened in the last couple of years, and there’s been a real emphasis on design,” says EDNA’s visionary Jenna Mooers of her Best Atmosphere accolade. Working with Breakhouse, […]
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Best Restaurant
Gold Winner EDNA Silver Winner Brooklyn Warehouse Bronze Winner 2 Doors Down “That’s a huge one for me because so many of the new restaurants have opened in the last couple of years, and there’s been a real emphasis on design,” says EDNA’s visionary Jenna Mooers of her Best Atmosphere accolade. Working with Breakhouse, taking […]
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Best Use Of Local Ingredients
Gold Winner Chives Canadian Bistro Silver Winner The Wooden Monkey, Halifax Bronze Winner EDNA Walking into Chives, you never know what you might read on their board of “specials.” Seasonal veggies come from the farmers’ market and valley-based companies, while cheese and fish are important local staples as well. “I think that the best cooking […]
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Gottingen Street scores The Foggy Goggle
After eight years hanging its oversized pair of goggles at 1667 Argyle Street, deep-fryer-free pub, The Foggy Goggle, has announced it will be pouring beers from Gottingen Street come early 2017. The Goggle’s owners Natalie Dugie and Julie Streight shared via social media today that their downtown location will sign off on December 20 to […]
