Gold Winner The Armview Silver Winner Ardmore Tea House Bronze Winner Westcliff Restaurant & Convenience The atmosphere almost rivals the food and drink at this west end, family-run diner with an actual Northwest Arm view. The Armview has been around since the 1950s, but got a makeover—and a perfect kiss of sleek ’60s style—back in […]
Westcliff Restaurant & Convenience
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Resto revolution
The past 20 years have possibly been the most exciting, progressive two decades that the city has seen—food-wise, at least. While various special interest groups argue about what’s progress and what’s not, and development is bogged in municipal government mire, restaurant culture has seen significant changes. In 1993, Mosaic (the web browser that would popularize surfing) […]
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Best Diner
Gold Winner The Armview Restaurant & Lounge Silver Winner Ardmore Tea Room Bronze Winner Westcliff Restaurant & Convenience The Armview doesn’t just seem like the classic diner experience, it is a classic diner experience. The Armview has been around Halifax for over 50 years as a family-run restaurant. Diner foods can be hit and miss […]
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Burger queen, Beverly Griswold
Beverly Griswold lays out a simple paper placemat in front of my friend Mark and one in front of me, as Mark fills out the little swatch of paper with the details of our burgers—the famous burgers at the Westcliff Grocery & Lunch. “I don’t want to talk about other restaurants,” she says with her […]
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Best Bargain
Gold Winner Westcliff Restaurant & Convenience Silver Winner Mary’s Place Bronze Winner Brewdebaker’s Tap & Grill Beverley Griswold pulls the phone away from her ear and yells to her customers, “Why do you come here?” A few cheery, muffled replies echo in the background in between bites of diner deliciousness. “An at-home atmosphere,” she translates. […]
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Best Bargain
The Westcliff has been Best of Food’s Best Bargain for a couple of years now, and co-owner Beverly Griswold says it’s because they’ve maintained that steady bargain for more than a decade. “We’ve been here for 12 years and our prices haven’t really changed that much,” she says. One of the Westcliff’s most popular selections […]
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Best Bargain
“An unassuming little storefront at the intersection of Oxford and Bayers hides one of HRM’s best-kept secrets,” wrote former Coast food queen Liz Feltham of the Westcliffe. The secret is out. The hardcore north end denizens have spoken. With so many reasonable, tasty meals eaten, we all are learning about this joint, located in the […]
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Cheap Eats – Seven Dishes under Seven Dollars
$6.50 – McCoastal breakfast sandwich Coastal Coffee The description of the McCoastal, Coastal’s breakfast sandwich, comes across as tasty but innocuous: two fried eggs, havarti cheese, maple sausage on an English muffin. But the actual physical presence of this delicacy is something else altogether. It is roughly the size of a small human baby. The […]
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How to live for free all summer
It’s summertime and the spending’s easy. The temptations of big-name concerts, eating out, weekend getaways and cooling off with an ice cold beer—or more likely, beers—on a patio, are even harder to resist when the sunshiny weather has got you giddy. When you haven’t got much to work with, you’ve got to decide what’s worth […]