Gold Winner Alexandra’s Pizza, Queen Street Silver Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen Bronze Winner Jean’s Chinese Conveying cheese-enrobed foodstuffs from a hot, hot, hot oven to your greedy mouths and shameless bellies is the 21st century’s truest art form. It’s late. You? Drunk. Cupboards are bare. Money’s tight. Morning’s pressing down. A cardboard pizza box is […]
Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Halifax
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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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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 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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Shawarma feelings
It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon and a small group sits in the dining room of Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, where a guide from Local Tasting Tours regales them with the sweet and spicy story of the Halifax donair. Moments later they are given samples of something a little more savoury, and the “oooh”s (“ewws”?) over the […]
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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 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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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 Shawarma
Gold Winner Mezza Lebanese Kitchen, Halifax Silver Winner Tarek’s Cafe, north end Bronze Winner Kababji Lebanese Cuisine, Dartmouth Mezza, the downtown mecca for hungry lunchers and the late-night post-bar crowd, combines pickled beets and turnip, lettuce, tomato, pickles, chicken and garlic sauce (and fries, if you’re wise) in a shawarma to die for. “They’ve had great […]
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Best Shawarma
Gold Winner Venus Pizza Silver Winner Tarek’s Cafe Bronze Winner Kababji Authentic Lebanese Cuisine This year’s win for best shawarma comes as no surprise for Venus Pizza, which has secured the title several years in a row. In fact, it even says “Best Shawarma, The Coast” on Venus’ counter menu. Their shawarmas come in big […]
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Best Shawarma
Did you know that shawarma comes from the Turkish word *çevirme*, which means “turning”? Well, you do now. What is it about the scent of this spinning, sizzling hunk of meat that puts our brain on a one-track mission (and doubly so if intoxicated)? Venus Pizza has won Best Shawarma for years, due to a […]
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Best Shawarma
We have a theory as to why Venus has owned this category for a few years. Sure, there’s the authenticity of the shawarma and the freshness of the ingredients (chicken or beef, tomato, lettuce, pickles, pickled beets). But we think the real draw is that unbelievable garlic sauce. It’s like nothing found in nature, a […]