Gold Winner Morris East, Halifax Silver Winner Yeah Yeahs Pizza, Dartmouth Bronze Winner Stone Pizza Hall of fame Salvatore’s Pizzaiolo Trattoria It’s all about the team for Jennie Dobbs, Morris East owner and now thrice a winner in this category. “This year I have two employees who’ve worked at Morris East for 10 years,” she […]
Yeah Yeahs Pizza
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First look: Yeah Yeahs Pizza’s slick second home
Yeah Yeahs Pizza 1663 Barrington Street Opens Thu, Aug 29 Josh Nordin had a hunch when he first took a tour of 1663 Barrington Street last fall. It wasn’t much to look at then—a run-down office space with dingy carpet, cubicles, low ceilings and no bathroom—but its massive storefront windows gave him a glimpse at […]
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20 things to eat right now
Spaghetti carbonara Mappatura, 5883 Spring Garden Road, $12/$22 Carbonara is a dish that so many restaurants make, but so few seem to nail. From cream sauces that claim to be carbonara to sauces with scrambled egg to thin, watery undercooked sauce, this supposedly simple dish can also easily be botched. Mappatura chef and co-owner Terry […]
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Yeah Yeahs Pizza is coming to Halifax
If you’re a Yeah Yeahs Pizza fan you’re probably willing to go to the ends of the earth (or at least across the harbour) for your fix, but brilliant news—soon Haligonians won’t have to. Co-owners of Dartmouth’s highly addictive pizza joint, Josh Nordin and Dean Petty, have just started the renovation phase of their new […]
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Best Pizza Slice
Gold Winner Salvatore’s Pizzaiolo Trattoria Silver Winner Yeah Yeahs Pizza Bronze Winner Pizza Girls, downtown “The team here really knocks me off my feet and the customers are obviously amazing. I’m sort of just a bystander between the two watching it happen,” says Salvatore’s owner Chris Cuddihy. He says the slices are so amazing for […]
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Best Pizza Pie
Gold Winner Morris East, Halifax Silver Winner Yeah Yeahs PIzza Bronze Winner Mother’s PIzza Hall of fame Salvatore’s Pizzaiolo Trattoria “I think people just enjoy eating at Morris East.” Sure, Jennie Dobbs agrees that the pizza itself is bragworthy, but she’s quick to chalk her second Best of Halifax win up to the entire experience […]
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A taste of 2017
DARTMOUTH We all know the moment Dartmouth started flirting with becoming cool: It was when Two if By Sea opened its doors in November 2009. But, frankly, it turned colder and there’s where it ended. For awhile, anyway. (Let’s be honest: One great cafe does not a cool downtown make.) The last couple have years […]
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Best Pizza Slice
Gold Winner Salvatore’s Pizzaiolo Trattoria Silver Winner Sicilian Pizza, Donairs & Subs, Blowers Street Bronze Winner Yeah Yeahs Pizza You can’t get rid of Sal’s that easily, Halifax. After being ushered into the Hall of Fame last year thanks to its long run as Best Pizza Pie winner, the north end pizza joint has decidedly […]