Gold Winner Wasabi House Silver Winner Sushi Nami Royale Bronze Winner Tako Sushi & Ramen The fans who nominated Wasabi House for Best Sushi know why they like the restaurant. “Their sushi is always fresh and delicious,” was one comment left during the online nominations process. “Such friendly staff, great food and variety,” was another. […]
Sushi Nami Royale
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Sushi Nami Royale brings izakaya to Queen Street
“We just want to bring something new and fun to Halifax,” says Catherine Luo, regional manager of the Sushi Nami restaurant family. After over a decade of opening sushi and Japanese restaurants across the city, the downtown location of Sushi Nami Royale—which has moved from its Dresden Row home to 1458 Queen Street—will open September […]
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Best Clayton Park Area Restaurant
Gold Winner Brewdebaker’s Tap & Grill Silver Winner Sushi Nami Royale Bronze Winner Redwood Grill Last year, Brewdebaker’s didn’t even break the top three, but this year it swooped in for the gold. Chef Ryan Payne credits the sudden victory with a few minor changes. The restaurant has expanded its menu and brought in more […]
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Best Clayton Park Area Restaurant
What’s Sushi Nami Royale’s secret? Here are a few tips: 1) Tsu-Nami hours. Between 3pm and 5pm and 9:30pm and 11:30pm Monday to Saturday, customers receive 20 percent off everything on the Tsu-Nami hours menu, including gyoza, beef tataki and karakuchi shrimp fry. 2) Sushi Nami Royale Membership. It has its privileges. You can get […]
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Novelty meal
This place is very expensive,” says Don Draper as the sizzle of cooking meat and clang of spatulas soundtracks the scene in Mad Men. He’s with Bethany, who, while sitting alongside the grill at Benihana complains that her “hair smells like [she’s] been frying chicken.” That scene was set 35 years ago, when the now-famous […]
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Best Clayton Park Area Restaurant
Another super-close race is taken by the defending champion, Sushi Nami’s second location. A more family-friendly and casual place than the originating downtown restaurant, SNR has now spawned a third location in Dartmouth, which should please sushi lovers on that side of the harbour. The love had been earned through reasonable prices, great service and […]
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The new Palaces
In the BLIP it’s known as the Indian Buffet Palace (8 Oland Crescent, 405-8909), but the second location in Dartmouth is simply India Palace and can be found at 972 Cole Harbour Road (444-8252). As with the Bayers Lake location it offers a daily all-you-can-eat buffet for lunch (11:30am-3pm, $11.99) and dinner (5pm-9pm, $13.99). Open […]
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Best Clayton Park Area Restaurant
Though open for only since February 2009, the second location of Sushi Nami—the first is downtown—has been embraced by the Clayton Park locals. Usually sudden success can be accounted for by a number of factors in concert: the stylish, white, black and terracotta dining room with a capacity of 70, the service, price and quality […]
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Best Lunch Specials
What are we talking about? This is what we’re talking about: Bento box specials of chicken, beef, salmon or shrimp teriyaki, tonkatsu (pork), unagi (eel), gindara (black cod) and cutlets, all with salad, rice, miso soup and one of the following four options: maki sushi, Japanese dumplings, sorted tempura or spring rolls. Or how about […]