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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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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his Mediterranean haven is treading in familiar, winning waters for a reason, fixing traditional Greek grub in fine form daily has kept it at the top. A dispute with an Albertan Greek eatery means the former Opa is now known as Ela Greek Taverna, but its classic mousaka entree—an oven-baked dish layered with lamb, eggplant […]
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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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How to order for value
Everybody wants a “good buy,” whether it’s based on issues that are important to you, pinching a penny or two or just avoiding buyer’s remorse. “Value should be based on a number of factors, not just how cheaply someone can fill up,” says Taste of Nova Scotia’s Doug Townsend. “In the end, dining out is […]
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Best Greek Restaurant
The undisputed King of Greece, Opa rules this category yet again, offering the best in mezethes, saganaki, spanakopita, briam, mousaka, souvlaki, lamb, chicken, halibut and more, presented in a bustling, warm dining environment that’ll make you feel like you’ve been transported to the shores of the Aegean. While the downtown location is still a gem […]
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Costa Elles gets new liquor license for old Seven space
Shoptalk has learned that Opa Greek Taverna kings Costa Elles and Chris Tzaneteas have been granted a new liquor licence, for a new establishment to go into the location of their late, lamented wine bar Seven (1579 Grafton Street). The former licence for Seven has been transferred a new Dartmouth Crossing location of Opa, to […]
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Decline of fine dining
Although Halifax has been dubbed “recession-proof,” many downtown restaurateurs admit their fine dining establishments have felt the pinch of the current climate. The recession, which came into public consciousness in October of 2008, only began hitting the high-end restaurant market after the turn of the year. “Winters are always quiet, but usually it starts to […]
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There are those who will stop in just to enjoy the mezethes, or the appetizers, both hot and cold, including the popular spanakopita, house-made sausage loukaniko (pork and beef marinated in wine and flavoured with exotic Mediterranean spices). But the starters are only part of the story, as co-owner and restaurateur Costa Elles takes pride […]
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“It may be a cliché, but we try to give a little bit of Greece in every dish,” says manager Jeff Mitchell. (We can handle the occasional cliché, especially if it’s true.) He says the lamb dishes are the most popular, and Halifax’s international community regularly turns out for them. “We get a lot of […]