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Best Greek / Mediterranean Restaurant

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 […]

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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 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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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 […]

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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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Opa! is now Ela!

The Feed has learned that Opa Greek Taverna (1565 Argyle Street, 492-7999, Bayers Lake, 215 Chain Lake Drive, 876-8899, Dartmouth Crossing, 150 Hector Gate, 481-7999) is changing its name to Ela Greek Taverna as a result of a trademark infringement case with a Greek franchise out of Alberta looking to move east. So look to […]

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