Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Freeman’s Little New York Bronze Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Barrington Street Potatoes. Hot fat. Cheese. Meat. This simple, winning combo doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it absolutely hits the spot after a night out with your crew. Willy’s cuts its fries by hand, makes its […]
Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Barrington Street
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Best Middle Eastern / Persian Restaurant
Gold Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Barrington Street Silver Winner Tarek’s Cafe Bronze Winner Saj House Mid East Eats The always-expanding Mezza empire does not, and will not, rest on its laurels. With a consistently great Best of Halifax Hall of Fame-worthy shawarma among the delicious items on its menu, the takeout/eat-in Lebanese joint could easily […]
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Where to stuff your face after midnight
1 GARLIC FINGERS, FREEMAN’S LITTLE NEW YORK You’re going to want to add this word to your ever-growing Haligonian vocabulary: Garlies. Dough, cheese, maybe bacon (if you’re like that) and definitely donair sauce work together for this ultimate comfort, a perfect carb-load for a big night or finisher to fuel your walk home. Freeman’s is […]
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Best Late-night Food
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Freeman’s Little New York, Quinpool Bronze Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, downtown According to a lot of Haligonians—Jean Michel Beaudoin included—a stop at Willy’s is an integral part of the nightlife experience.”It’s a fun part of when you go out, and the lineup’s long so you […]
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Best Middle Eastern / Persian Restaurant
Gold Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, downtown Silver Winner Tarek’s Cafe Bronze Winner Ray’s Lebanese, Bayers Lake Tony and Peter Nahas’ growing chain of quick and healthy Middle Eastern eats encourages diners to “eat like you’re family”, and if this is how the Nahas family eats—we want in. Mezza gets its crown back after a slight […]
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Best Donair
Gold Winner Tony’s Donair & Pizza Silver Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Barrington Street Bronze Winner Johnny K’s Authentic Donairs Hall of Fame King of Donair, Quinpool Road After over 40 years in business it’s no surprise Tony’s has its donair recipe dialled. The popular family restaurant is known for its takeout business: hot pizzas, poutines […]
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Best Late-night Food
Gold Winner Freeman’s Little New York, Quinpool Silver Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Bronze Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Barrington There aren’t many people you can count on after 3am. We know, we know—sleep is important, but so are late-night snacks. Imperative, even. Lucky for you, Freeman’s is a total nighthawk. Its ringer won’t […]
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Mezza to close its Quinpool location
The ever-growing Mezza Lebanese Kitchen restaurant chain announced this morning that after 10 years in business, its fine dining, eat-in location on Quinpool Road will close its doors on August 1. Get your Mediterranean fixes while you can! The closure of Mezza (6386 Quinpool Road) marks an even tighter focus on the brand’s mega popular […]
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Best Late-night Food
Gold Winner Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers Silver Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Halifax Bronze Winner Burrito Jax, Blowers Street The city’s best poutine several years running, Willy’s Fresh Cut Fries & Burgers offers mouth-watering, waist-line expanding, outright orgasmic poutine, from the classic curds and gravy to the donair, pulled-pork and stuffing additions. There is […]
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Heeeere’s Johnny K’s
When paper went up in the windows of European Food Shop (5246 Blowers Street) back in April, people prematurely mourned the death of our greasy friend Pizza Corner. Change is hard, it’s true, but we’ve said it before, pizza is forever. Just when everyone was busy losing their shit over the end of an era—@NBDHFX […]
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Best Shawarma
Gold Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Halifax Silver Winner Tarek’s Cafe, north end Bronze Winner Kababji Lebanese Cuisine, Dartmouth Seven years of blowing the competition out of the water proves whether it’s served by Venus or Mezza, the shawarma here is an unmatched delicacy fit for our Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. Click here for […]
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Reno time at Venus Pizza/Mezza Kitchen
The corner of Blowers and Barrington is going to be making a racket for the next couple of weeks, but not in the same late-night, shawarma-eating, table-dancing ways you’re used to. Beloved Venus Pizza (1558 Barrington Street) is finally making its transition to become Mezza Lebanese Kitchen and there’s currently a crazy gut-job on the […]