Gold Winner and Hall of Fame Inductee Ocean Optometry Silver Winner Gaudet Optical Bronze Winner Lang Optometry Editor’s note: With its latest Best Optical Store win in 2015, Ocean was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. “They should complement someone, be part of the personality not a dominating feature,” says Dr. Euan […]
Lang Optometry & Eyewear
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Best Optical Store
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame Inductee Gaudet Optical Silver Winner Ocean Optometry Bronze Winner Lang Optometry & Eyewear Here’s one glasses streak nobody’s complaining about: Gaudet is once more a spectacular hit for Coast readers as Best Optical Store. Owner Douglas Gaudet says the reasons for such high customer appreciation are crystal clear: “The […]
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Best Optical Store
Gold Winner Gaudet Optical Silver Winner Ocean Optometry Bronze Winner Lang Optometry & Eyewear Doug Gaudet owns about 50 frames at any given time, which probably explains why you don’t often see him wearing the same pair. It sounds a little excessive but can you blame him? When you’re constantly surrounded by one-of-a-kind, gorgeous, weird, […]
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ShopTalk visits the Hydrostone
If you judge this book by its cover, the Hydrostone Market is a page- turner. Steeped in history and soaked in style it looks good, yes—so good that when Mother’s Pizza went up, it used the original row of shops for design inspiration—but this wee shopping district feels good, too. The tight-knit strip of boutiques, […]
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Best Optical Store
Gold Winner Gaudet Optical Silver Winner Lang Optometry & Eyewear Bronze Winner Eyeware Studio by Insight Haligonians have a clear vision of what they want, voting Gaudet Optical—the bright mainstay on Quinpool Road—the best optical store in Halifax for the 10th year running. Known for its practice of ordering in unique frames for customers, if […]
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Best Optical Store
Gold Winner Gaudet Optical Silver Winner Vogue Optical, Barrington Street Bronze Winner Lang Optometry & Eyewear Gaudet Optical continues to be well-loved by four-eyeses across the city for the boutique’s stylin’ frames and, of course, the whole “granting the gift of sight” thing. “FUN FUNKY FABULOUS” one voter caps-sclaimed. “Doug Gaudet makes shopping a pleasure. […]
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Lang Optometry & Eyewear opens
After 17 years—and a number of The Coast’s Best of Halifax readers’ poll awards—Gaétan Lang is moving his Bayers Road Optometry Clinic to the new building at the corner of Kaye Street and Isleville, across from the Hydrostone Market and right next door to the new Starbucks. The Market is “one of my favorite places […]