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This is Pizza Corner, the infamous intersection of Grafton and Blowers Street that features three different pizza outlets on three corners. It’s a magnet for people spilling out of nearby downtown bars. The fourth corner is a church.
Like all pizza places in the Maritimes, they also serve donairs — and donair burgers, donair subs and donair pizza.
As the story goes, the donair craze began in Halifax in the 1970s. When Peter Gamoulakos came to Canada, he could not sell any Greek gyros. So he changed the lamb to beef, ditched the tzatziki and created a distinctive sweet sauce and voila — the Halifax donair was born.
A donair is basically made of meat sliced from loaf of pressed ground beef, flour and various spices turning on a vertical spit, diced tomatoes and onions in a pita. But what makes it a Halifax donair is the thick sweet sauce made of evaporated milk, sugar, vinegar and garlic.
It’s best to eat it outside or over a garbage can. The pita is really an afterthought as the overloaded sauce and meat just ooze everywhere. I prefer shawarmas and garlicky sauce but this donair was pretty tasty, especially after a long night out.
The King of Donair claims to have invented this Halifax specialty and has turned it into a successful chain business.
Its Pizza Corner location does a steady business, especially after the clubs and bars get out, and is the scene, I’m sure, of many conversations like this one Jason and I had at about 2 a.m.
Me: I’m getting a small donair. What do you want?
Jason: Yes.
Me: No, honey, what do you want? A medium donair or do you want pizza?
Jason: Mmmmm. Yes.
Me: So do you want a donair or a pizza?
Jason (pointing to a donair pizza): I want that.
Me: You don’t want a donair?
Jason: Yes.
King of Donair, 1580 Grafton St., Halifax, Nova Scotia, (902) 422-0000.
you are posting the coolest stuff! i am not a fan of donairs but scott is crazy about them. love that the fourth corner is home to a church!
Ok… When I come to Calgary I can’t leave without eating that donair pizza… I mean look at it… it’s ridiculous!! I have to have it.
Sorry, I read with pictures… I missed the being in Halifax part. Well.. I still have to have it!
How inebriated was he? I have had this conversation on pizza corner, not for many years, but still.
I can’t remember the name of my favorite- they’ve probably flipped names and/or ownership a long time since I lived there.
Has anyone here heard of the pizza corner diaries?
I’ve heard rumours that it’s a guy who lives in eyesight of our famous pizza trio and blogs about what he watches.
Post-bar drama and such … I’d love to get a link for this blog.
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holy cow.. this looks SO good man…
I live in the lower US East Coast.. Can you please tell me how to make this?
wow, ridiculous… look at this thing.
(all the food on your flikr is incredible btw)
has anyone mentioned the pizza corner belt? a lot of weekends, mike tyson will come to halifax to defend his pizza corner belt. he is usually soo drunk that he loses to a hometown hero almost every time. its kinda a running joke here in hali. check it out
You all know that “donairs” are Turkish cuisine, right? Even the name is Turkish: Donair is an Englishified-version the word “döner”… literally meaning “turning”, because the meat turns.
I grew in nova scotia eating donair’s. I now live in Georgia and can not get them
The pic’s make me want one! and boy do I know all about pizza corner lol
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