Gold Winner Tony’s Famous Donairs & Pizza Silver Winner Johnny K’s Authentic Donairs Bronze Winner Alexandra’s Pizza Hall of fame King of Donair, Quinpool Road “There are so many great options but to be chosen number one is definitely humbling, it shows you you’re doing something right,” says Leo Salloum, whose family has been running […]
King Of Donair
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NRA’s recipe for moose donair meat takes a shot at Maritimers
The National Rifle Association’s ongoing efforts to make guns a totally normal lifestyle choice in the USA have now taken aim at Halifax’s official totally normal lifestyle choice, the donair. An NRA magazine called American Hunter published a recipe for Wild Game Donair on its website this weekend. Apparently meat from moose, deer and elk […]
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Best Donair
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame Inductee King of Donair, Halifax Silver Winner Johnny K’s Authentic Donair Bronze Winner Tony’s Donair & Pizza, Robie Street Editor’s note: With its latest Best Donair win in 2016, King of Donair was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. If there was ever a Year of […]
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Best Donair
Gold Winner King of Donair, Quinpool Road Silver Winner Tony’s Pizza & Donair, Robie Street Bronze Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Halifax Norman Nahas will never reveal the secret to his amazing donairs. “We’ve been keeping that one for decades.” The Quinpool Road pizza and donair shop has been in business since 1973, “It’s the grandfather […]
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Best Donair
Gold Winner King of Donair, Halifax Silver Winner Tony’s Donair & Pizza Bronze Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Halifax Bow down, Halifax. The King of Donair is taking home Best Donair—again. Beneath the tinfoil and pita, the King has found the holy grail of meat-to-sauce ratio. It’s had a lot of time to get it right, […]
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Best Donair
Gold Winner King of Donair, Halifax Silver Winner Tony’s Donair & Pizza Bronze Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Halifax It’s good to be king. Actually it’s good to be eating at the King, specifically at the King of Donair. Our voters know what they like and that’s proven year after year—when it comes to donairs, the […]
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Best Donair
For this 10th anniversary edition of the Best of food survey, we are taking a look back at some restaurants that won in 2002 and are still winning awards today. King of Donair is in this exclusive group, so we went back to the 2002 print archives (since older issues of The Coast aren’t currently […]
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Best Donair
As many know, the Pizza Corner location of King of Donair shut down in the spring. Hopefully it’s not for good—a sign out front says “under renovation.” But even a temporary closure will have many a nocturnal Haligonian crying into their beers, knowing that an essential part of their night—the all important booze-blotting donair—will need […]
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Meeting people is easy
The student population in this city is more than half the size of the entire population on the peninsula, making casual run-ins a way of life. So whether you’re crushing on that cute boy in your Dinosaurs and Their World class or swooning over the server at a nearby cafe, the following hotspots will help […]
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Best Donair
It’ss right there in the name, and multiple locations around town tend to make it a lock in this category. That isn’t to suggest their product is anything less than regal, but their prime Pizza Corner site gives them an insurmountable edge in the minds of those who know the only thing that will soak […]
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Best Donair
When people from away ask a local about the appeal of donairs—we won’t say *every* time, but very, very often—the response will be related to the middle eastern-originated pita, sweet sauce and meat combo’s ability to satisfy the kind of hunger that comes after a night out on the town; dancing your ass off or […]