Joe's Food Emporium — Restaurant in Wolfville

Okay, so on Tuesday August 17th, 2021 my wife and I had dinner at Joe's Food Emporium. I ordered a hamburger and fries and my wife had a hot turkey sandwich.

Her sandwich was truly awesome. I think they must have stuffed at least three full-grown turkeys in between those two slabs of bread and the gravy was homemade and so good. I wish I'd ordered what she ordered.

My burger was a little tame, kind of a deep-fried hockey puck between a bun. My worst complaint was the battered fries which are REALLY a poor substitute for actual fries. In fact, if I could give Joe's one bit of useful advice, it would be to get rid of those discount battered fries and start making their own fries. Get some local potatoes and a handy-dandy industrial strength french fry cutter and go to town on making some of the good stuff.

I had a chocolate milkshake which was pretty darned good as well.

Still, I'm giving this five stars because of the service. Our waitress, a young girl with intricate braids was insanely busy and yet still managed to be cheerful and friendly and provide us with the best service possible. I can't remember her name (shoot, most days I can't even remember my own name) but if the management reads this you REALLY ought to give that lady a raise.

And get rid of the battered fries. They kind of taste like deep-fried...

Glad I ordered from here! In town for a night, on the road all day.

I love donairs and attempt to try out what towns have to offer when I visit. Between the choices in Wolfville, visually and with Google ratings, ordering here was with confidence and their follow-through didn't miss a beat.

Absolutely great take on a Halifax delicacy - solidly meaty with a welcome and different spice than what you typically get in the city. The donair sauce is original and homemade - no risk getting anything bought at the grocery store! The pita is soft, chewy and with the perfect amount of grease. Onions seemed sauteed, which is new and I enjoyed.

I ordered a medium pepperoni pizza for the kids - they loved it and so did I. Basket of fries with the spice they use on their Scot Skins; spice wasn't my absolute favourite but if you do this and get a cup of donair sauce for dipping, you'll never look back. Great combo.

Happy to pay the $5 delivery as I was a bit out of the main area of Wolfville (Evangeline Hotel) and this being a small town with less competition, higher expenses, it only makes sense to pass the costs on directly to specific customers rather than raise prices across the menu. Delivery was quick. Dude...

My daughter and I went there for lunch around 1 PM Saturday, June 27th and the service was terrible. We waited by a sign that said "wait to be seated" for 5 minutes or more without anyone acknowledging we were there, finally another customer told us just to find our own table because that's what they had to do too. After sitting for close to 20 minutes, maybe more, I got up and asked for menus because after someone came and got our drink order they completely forgot about us. When we finally got to order, our food took forever to arrive, it was almost an hour from the time we walked in until food was actually on our table and they weren't that busy inside. There is one server (a young lady) who has the worst attitude I've ever seen when it comes to dealing with customers, she's snappy and rude and it's with all customers and I don't understand how she keeps her job there. The food was good but I'll never wait that long again to be served. We also could hear 2 employees complaining the whole time we were there about how they had to continue to sanitize menus and how they hated being the ones to...