Anna’s Café and Grill

This place is not closed, just moved to Lower Water Street. Please amend as the owner mentioned that you have labeled the location as closed!!!

This is one of the best downtown takeout lunch spots. Great service, awesome prices, and loads of options.
I knew I loved this place a lot when they allowed me to order a «salad trio» comprised of couscous, rice, and grape leaf rolls. So delicious, not too heavy for lunchtime, and amazing value.

This was a great little family-​owned café which serves breakfast and lunch. The service was super friendly and the food very fresh. They were very accommodating with customizing my omelette. The daughter takes your order and helps around the restaurant, and is super friendly and the father is the chef. I believe this place has been around for five years. It may not look like much from the outside, but it is well located and not an overpriced tourist trap!

One of my new lunch go-​to spots in downtown Halifax! It’s a small little café so it can get quite busy over the lunch hour but it’s worth checking out.
What I love about Anna’s?
1 — Fresh ingredients — you can see all the yummy veggies and spreads while they make your meal.
2 — Loads of selection — feeling a pita? Lebanese? Breakfast (during certain hours)? Salads? They do it all.
3 — Fast and friendly service — I was in an out with my food in between 5 – 10 minutes. Now it might get busier with the lunch rush but that’s a-​ok in my books.
4 — Reasonable prices — you can easily get a hearty lunch for $ 10 or under.
Sold!

I love this place. Love love love. It pretty much makes my week when work friends and I troop down the road for Falafel Friday.
Be prepared — the falafel pita is filling just on it’s own, so order the platter only if you’re super hungry. Pitas are made to order, and often come with a side serving of hilarious service from Anna and Co (very clear it’s a family run business — sneak peek into very funny family dynamics over pita). If you like spice, order extra hot pickles. With a side of delicious hummus. Wow, I think I just drooled a little bit. Is it Friday yet?
I’ve had a couple of the side salads (tabouleh, lentils and rice, pasta salad) and they’ve all been great as well. Usually the platter is a bit too much for me though, so I stick with the pita alone.
Seriously, get over to Anna’s people, service is fast, food is reasonably priced, and it’s so so yummy.

I recently had lunch at Anna’s Café and Grill. It is a small café on Hollis Street, between Duke Street and George Street. They offer breakfast as well as Lebanese lunch. I went there around noon and had the shawarma platter which consisted of the shawarma (pita wrap) itself, rice, and a salad.
It is not really a restaurant in the strict sense — you order your food from the counter where my pita wrap was assembled according to my instructions and where I could choose from one of the salads in the fridge (I went with the pasta salad). The pita wrap is then toasted on a two-​plate electric grill. (Which helps to be able to eat it without it falling apart.)
The pita wrap was really very good. The salad was good too but the rice (with lentils) was only so-​so.
Including a large bottle of Diet Pepsi (710ml = 24 fl oz) I paid $ 9.56 plus tax.
I would like to give 3.5 out of 5 stars but since that’s not possible I’m giving 4 out of 5 stars. The food is good and the place is nice, but it’s not original enough or restaurant-​like enough to warrant full stars. It reminds me a bit of something you would find in a food court or on a university campus, not a standalone restaurant.
Note that they also seem to do a lot of catering for nearby offices — and for some reason their website, which you can visit at
, only talks about the catering side of their business. The catering menu on the website does however give you an idea of the type of food they sell and of the price range.

Do you need a place to eat breakfast or lunch while in Halifax at reasonable prices? Does it need to be near all the major attractions? Do you want great personal customer service? Then Anna’s is the place for you.
We found this cozy and homey place towards the end of our stay and ate there for breakfast. We fed a family of four (two teens who can eat!) for less than it would have been to eat at a chain restaurant in the U.S. with «okay» food! Here, the food was fresh and it was tasty. The best part were the home fries. We were also personally served by Anna herself. What a lovely woman. She made the experience so much better.
While I was there, I saw some of her lunch options… many delicious and fresh Mediterranean dishes (cous cous, tabbouleh, cucumber, etc). Wish we had discovered this treasure earlier in the trip.
Anna’s is a great place to break from the hustle of vacation, to enjoy great cuisine, and to be treated with excellent customer service.

Okay, this place is just a ridiculously awesome. Anna and her staff are all hilarious. They might seem a little mean, but that’s not the case at all. They’re just very serious about making you the greatest lunch you’ve ever had.
Hands down the best falafel in the city, too. If they recommend something, take it, they know what they’re talking about.

Favorite lunch spot for a delicious lunch. Everything is made fresh daily. If you can’t decide what to get just go with the special. Nice people making good food. Hard to beat!

Anna’s is a discrete little venue on Hollis Street with some quality bites. Lebanese dishes, sandwiches, soups and café style bevies— its a lovely stop if you’re in the neighborhood.
Family owned, and food from scratch, visitors can take comfort in the quality of their purchases. And while my sensitive tum cannot always handle the heftiness of a Lebanese dish, the tea and treats are complimentary to its welcoming atmosphere.
Breakfast is served, and includes the full bodied plate you may be craving. Pancakes, eggs, bacon and home fries can be just what the doctor ordered for some.
This isn’t a reoccurring frequent for me, but I hold Anna’s with kind regards. A fine local venue with quality cuisine, its the perfect place for the right palate.

A great little spot to stumble upon. Friendly staff and a nice menu.
These hidden treasures are some of the best places in town.
Go check out the menu, we were happy.

Small family business located on Hollis Street is small but wow can they produce some yummy food. Walking into this little gem of a location you were greeted by a warm and friendly atmosphere. Now there are not alot of tables but service is fast so the tables will turn quickly.
Now depending on what time of day that you go you can enjoy some delicious pancakes, bacon and eggs for breakfast and free coffee refills. Or you can chow down for lunch on healthy sandwich or salads. Yes there is more on the menu but you will have to stop by and see as I can not give all the secrets away.
You will be impressed.