Eli's Pizzeria — Restaurant in Dartmouth

My current favorite place in HRM for wings. You select whether battered or not, then a dry rub, then a sauce. So far the dry rubs have been so tasty that I don't end up using a lot of the sauce. The maple bacon may be my favorite, but also excellent are original, garlic parmesan, all dressed, and white cheddar. The candied bacon rub is salty & very flavorful. The jalapeno cheddar rub is definitely cheesy tasting. The Sriracha rub is good, but I found had a touch of fishy flavor. The sour cream & bacon rub is very good. I try to get a sauce that would be a good match or neutral with the dry rub. The buffalo sauce is shown 2 "peppers" worth of heat on the menu and I'd agree with that...a nice medium level of heat. The smoked Applewood BBQ rub is good and matches well with the very flavorful Baja Chipotle sauce (a smokey BBQ sauce). I also enjoy their poutine, which is drowning in melted cheese and a medium gravy (not dark beef, not quite as light as a poultry gravy). The pizza is good but I really, I just want to try every matherical combination of wing flavors and that's my reason for coming here. And they add new rubs, so I hope I live long enough to try many more. Staff are very friendly, family...

To preface, I don't like breaded wings, and I don't like non-breaded wings that are squishy and undercooked. If I get chicken wings, I want them crispy - ACTUALLY crispy, deep-fried wings.

It's been a long time since I've been able to find wings that I thoroughly enjoy and woooah Nelly - I've found them. My husband and I have heard about Eli's for a few years now and we finally decided to order last night. We bought 30 wings, which allowed us to pick three dry rubs (Eli's spice, Smoked Honey Habanero, and Smoked Applewood BBQ) and three sauces.

Although they were mixed together in a lined pizza box (they might have been separated for us but my husband slipped on the way into the house, which mixed them up) we separated them up as best as we could and went to town. Honestly: I finished mine before he did, and wished I had more. 😂 I LOVED them. Best wings I've had in HRM, by far. I totally understand the hype!

We also got a medium garlic fingers which was great! The cheese would come off the bread fairly easy but that's minor considering they tasted great and...

This place should be called Eli’s wing spot. Pizza was sub par but they do offer a stuffed crust option which is interesting to see on this style pizza (doughy, typically Lebanese style). Donair was also sub par as the meat was cold and seemed like it came out of a storage container and tossed in some sauce for final assembly lol. I will admit that it didn’t help they just ignored my special instructions on the order..

Now sorry, I had to be honest there about the pizzeria part of the store!

The wings are fantastic. Many different sauces and dry rubs to chose from. I had this place on my radar for the wings and decided to get basically everything else on the menu to sample what they have to offer. Sorry Eli, will certainly recommend the wings but can’t be pushing sub par doans and Za when there’s so much...