Gold Winner Tom’s Family Restaurant Silver Winner Athens Restaurant Bronze Winner The Armview Restaurant & Lounge Tom’s owner Dimitri Panopalis emphasizes home-style, made-from-scratch cooking on his family-friendly menus that run the gamut of hearty food: from seafood to steaks to ribs, wraps, burgers, pizza, salads, kiddie specials and made-in-house deserts, Tom’s has it all—for all […]
The Armview Restaurant & Lounge
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Best Milkshake
Gold Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Silver Winner The Chickenburger, Bedford Bronze Winner The Armview Restaurant & Lounge Darrell’s milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard. Actually, they bring all the readers to the poll, knocking out the competition’s thick and delicious concoctions year after year. Owner Dan Joseph’s favourite blend is Peanut Butter Chocolate (us […]
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Best Milkshake
Gold Winner Darrell’s Restaurant Silver Winner The Chickenburger Bronze Winner The Armview Restaurant & Lounge Rich, quality ingredients make Darrell’s milkshakes the best. Best of Food readers haven’t stopped voting for Darrell’s yet, and why would they? These milkshakes come in classic strawberry, chocolate and vanilla, as well as popular chocolate peanut butter and Creamsicle […]
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Best Diner
Gold Winner The Armview Restaurant & Lounge Silver Winner Ardmore Tea Room Bronze Winner Darrell’s Restaurant It’s hard to describe the unique atmosphere found at The Armview. Upscale? Yes, but also unpretentious. Retro? Certainly, but with a casual modernity that suggests it’s not trying to replicate a classic diner experience, but update it with the […]
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Best Diner
OK, so if you want to get a sense of the imagination and delightful flavours available at the Armview, this was a recent selection for their Weekly Burger option, The Mango Tango Burger: beef patty, roasted red pepper and garlic aioli, mango salsa and lettuce on ciabatta. This is not your average diner food, nor […]
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AGNS gets a new cafe
Shoptalk has learned that the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (1741 Hollis Street, 424-7542) has awarded the tender for their cafe space—previously filled by Scanway and their Cheapside Cafe—to the fine folks at the Armview Grill cvompany, owners of the Armview Restaurant and Lounge. The new cafe, estimated to open in February 2011, is going by the witty handle of Untitled Eats. It will feature a largely local food-filled menu and will offer counter (take away) as well as table service along with catering for meetings, receptions, and other events.
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Best Diner
What we like about the Armview is the combo of retro decor with a thoroughly modern diner menu, with plenty of your milkshake/sandwich and fried delights, but also including avocado wraps, scallop noodle salad and cheeses blue or gouda slathering your burger. Oh, and it’s worth noting that at press time, the extension to the […]
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Dine out now
Ongoing until February 11 is the Dine Out program in local restaurants, launched through the Restaurant Association of Nova Scotia and in conjunction with Savour Food and Wine Show, taking place at the Halifax Marriot on February 25. What does this mean to you, oh Halifax restaurant frequenter? It means that a passel of local […]
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Complete guide to New Year’s Eve
NEIGHBOURHOOD TOP PICK DJ Anderoc If you live in the west end (or you’re up for cabbing there), The Armview has a solid neighbourhood gathering set up for New Year’s Eve. Chef Troy is making hors d’oeuvres to serve all evening, with bubbly at midnight. The lounge side of the restaurant will magically transform into […]
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Armview reno coming soon
Come January, the Armview (7156 Chebucto Road, 455-4395) will be a little roomier. A barber shop that once occupied the space next door to the popular west-end diner has closed with the passing of the barber in the summer of 2009. “We took the place over,” announces Armview co-owner George Kapetanakis. “We’re waiting to get […]
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‘BURB BARS: On the out of town
Working downtown has its perks—offices that are walking distance from a plentiful number of bars and restaurants is one—but if you live outside the core, the commute’s not an easy feat. Next time you’re headed home stop into one of these three joints to relax and wait out the traffic. They’re just a few of […]
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Food for thinking
With an absurd amount of places to dine out in Halifax, the best spot of all to eat is actually right in your kitchen. But with assignments, social life and dating, it’s all too easy to get fast or processed foods instead. It isn’t easy balancing a student’s hectic lifestyle with their body’s needs and […]