Gold Winner EDNA Silver Winner The Coastal Bronze Winner Cora, Halifax “As a restaurant owner and operator, I’m in it because this is what I love to do, I love my work. You don’t think of yourself as being the best in any type of way—and you’re not doing it to be the best,” says […]
The Coastal Cafe
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Best Breakfast
Gold Winner Ardmore Tea Room Silver Winner The Coastal Cafe Bronze Winner Cora, Halifax Halifax has spoken. This year bragging rights for best breakfast in Hali was snagged from The Coastal, five-year reigning champ. New winner The Ardmore is committed to the classic comfort breakfast, which means bacon and eggs for days. It’s no surprise […]
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Best Brunch
Gold Winner The Coastal Cafe Silver Winner Mic Mac Bar & Grill Bronze Winner EDNA What makes brunch here special is the zany cultural mergers happening in your plate. The Coastal takes morning classics and reinvents them using (among others) Mexican, Indian and French cuisines. Take the Naan-Cheros, featuring fried eggs, butter chicken and onion […]
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Best Breakfast
Gold Winner The Coastal Cafe Silver Winner Mary’s Place Cafe Bronze Winner Cora, Halifax When it comes to breakfast, it’s tough to compete with The Coastal’s inspired, standout menu. Winners of this category for four years running, these folks definitely have a corner on the breakfast market. Owner and chef Mark Giffen thinks the restaurant’s […]
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Best Brunch
Gold Winner The Coastal Cafe Silver Winner tess Bronze Winner jane’s on the common This is the first brunch win for Robie Street’s Coastal Cafe, a category the dearly departed jane’s on the common owned for years. With its straightforward no-nonsense approach, Coastal’s a clear choice for not just morning-after recaps, but every afternoon ones, […]
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Best Barista
Gold Winner Zane Kelsall, Two If By Sea Cafe Silver Winner Henry Whitfield, Starbucks Bronze Winner Kate Atkinson, The Coastal Cafe Zane Kelsall can’t imagine a working life without coffee. “I’ve been a barista for 10 years in one capacity or another,” says the 27-year-old co-owner of Two If By Sea Cafe. “Whenever I try […]
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Best Breakfast
Gold Winner The Coastal Cafe Silver Winner Cora’s Bronze Winner Ardmore Tea Room If you’ve ever been prowling around for a seat at The Coastal, you know it’s popular. If you were patient enough to wait for one, you’ll know it’s worth it. Owner Mark Giffin is blunt about not promising the most amazing dining […]
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Best Brunch
Gold Winner jane’s on the common Silver Winner The Coastal Cafe Bronze Winner Chez Tess jane’s on the common really packs them in for brunch, and the ones that don’t have a seat yet, know it’s worth the wait. jane’s takes typical brunch fare and kicks it up a notch. OK, a couple notches. With […]
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Coastal Cafe goes to dinner
The Coastal Cafe (2731 Robie Street, 405-4022), three-peat winner of Best Breakfast in our annual Best of Food Survey, is looking to moonlight with dinners starting this month. Coastal@NIGHT will be serving dinner as a five-course prix fixe menu at $50, with a wine or beer pairing at an additional $20-25. The evening service is […]
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Coastal@NIGHT launched
There’s a new operation being planned for spring at the The Coastal Cafe (2731 Robie Street, 405-4022): Coastal@NIGHT. Spearheaded by Graeme Ruppel, formerly the chef at Brooklyn Warehouse, it will run, initially, four nights a week (Thursday through Sunday). Expect a set, prix fixe menu of five to seven courses. A small selection of wines […]
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Best Breakfast
We like the Elvis—the peanut buttery, banana waffle delight. But’s that’s us. We also like that the Coastal is licensed. We like that it’s open from 8am to 3pm, with breakfast served until 2pm and lunch served from 11am. We like the overlap. We like the all-day breakfast on the weekend. We like the Elvis. […]
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Best Breakfast
Fighting off a challenge from Cora’s, Coastal maintains its dominance in the Best Breakfast category for another year. There are plenty of reasons for this: Owner and chef Mark Giffin’s amazing food, the friendly energy that suffuses the intimate Robie Street room. Or, we could heap all the credit on The Elvis, that monument to […]