Gold Winner Ardmore Tea Room Silver Winner The Coastal Cafe Bronze Winner Portland Street Creperie The Ardmore Tea Room is an extra special Halifax place. A moment in time, an ol’ reliable, a guaranteed hangover cure and a table worth waiting for, Quinpool Road wouldn’t be the same without this breakfast institution. The earliest of […]
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Best Breakfast Sandwich
Gold Winner The Canteen Silver Winner The Coastal Cafe Bronze Winner Bagel Montreal Style “The Hangover is an OG,” says chef Renée Lavallée of the sammy that’s been on The Canteen’s menu since day one: Housemade bagel. Oulton’s bacon. Avocado cream. Local egg. The kind of yoke that’s probably (most definitely) going to drip down […]
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Halifax breakfast experts on how they like their eggs
Heman Lee Robie Street Station (2394 Robie Street) “I can’t give you an answer, I just love eggs. It is the underappreciated protein. It can be so versatile. It can be a creamy sauce to a elegant dish, a simple tie to a more exotic eccentric dish or a proper appetite suppressant in the middle […]
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Best Breakfast Sandwich
Gold Winner The Coastal Cafe Silver Winner The Canteen Bronze Winner The Ardmore Tea Room We added this new category to the roster in 2018, but it’s an old favourite who takes home the honours. After 11 years of serving “breakfast, brunch, whatever” the itty-bitty Coastal Cafe—known for its eternal packedness and incredible, creative brunch […]
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Best Breakfast
Gold Winner Ardmore Tea Room Silver Winner The Coastal Bronze Winner Mary’s Place What makes a good breakfast? Salty or sweet? Should pancakes come served with syrups or meats? Do you like your eggs scrambled, poached, fried or over-easy? Is it gonna be bacon, ham or bologna? These waffles and omelettes are anything but routine. […]
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Best Brunch
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner EDNA Bronze Winner The Coastal Joël Chiasson estimates that on any given Saturday upwards of 1,500 people have a bite to eat at Waverley’s Mic Mac Bar & Grill—a huge chunk of whom are stopping by for its classic breakfast-lunch hybrid menu, where filet mignon and […]
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Mark Giffin’s breakfast, brunch, whatever
WHO HE IS Mark Giffin, owner and chef at The Coastal Cafe, swore off making breakfast food. After he sold his bed and breakfast on the west coast, he moved to Halifax to pursue six years of fine dining at Bish World Cuisine. “I thought I would never cook another egg,’” he says. But one […]
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Best Breakfast
Gold Winner Ardmore Tea Room Silver Winner The Coastal Cafe Bronze Winner Cora, Halifax There are only so many places people are willing to get up at five in the morning for, and one of them is the Ardmore Tea Room. Classic to say the least, the Quinpool Road diner has been helping folks start […]
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Best Brunch
Gold Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Silver Winner EDNA Bronze Winner The Coastal Cafe Hit the Mic Mac Bar & Grill on a Saturday or Sunday and you’ll find a packed parking lot, and likely some hungry people patiently waiting for bottomless coffee and a bacony cure. It’s nothing fancy—no garnishes or foamed milk […]
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Best Breakfast
Gold Winner Ardmore Tea Room Silver Winner The Coastal Cafe Bronze Winner Cora’s, downtown A step up from last year’s silver awards, the Ardmore is claiming some glory. This is a classic greasy spoon joint through and through, complete with paper menus, bottomless coffee, cheap eggs and thick milkshakes. Known for its hangover cure superpowers […]
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Best Brunch
Gold Winner EDNA Silver Winner The Coastal Cafe Bronze Winner Robie Street Station “That’s a huge one for me because so many of the new restaurants have opened in the last couple of years, and there’s been a real emphasis on design,” says EDNA’s visionary Jenna Mooers of her Best Atmosphere accolade. Working with Breakhouse, […]
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Best Breakfast
Gold Winner The Coastal Silver Winner Ardmore Tea House Bronze Winner Mary’s Place II The best thing about The Coastal is that despite popular demand, it’s never changed. The menu? Sure, that’s always changing. Revealing new experiments with globally influenced creative comfort food to sit alongside beloved classics like The Elvis, McCoastal and the Durty […]