Pete's Place

Pete's Place
1777 Main Street
(204) 339-7225

Pete's Place is one of those good old Greek family restaurants that has been a mainstay of Winnipeg for at least two decades. I went to Pete's Place for the first time a year or two ago on the recommendation of a friend's mom and I've been visiting them regularly ever since. Their parking lot and interior recently got a makeover, so the restaurant is a little fresher-looking than it used to be.

Though I have tried some of their other food items, there are only two things that I think Pete's Place does exceptionally well: house-cut shoe string French fries and saucy slow-cooked pork ribs. The fries are great almost all the time, though once in a while, they'll be too greasy, probably because the fryer temperature was too cold. However, their fries are just the right thickness to be crispy, and with a sprinkling of salt and ketchup, they are the best fries in the city, in my opinion.

The pork ribs, though, are a house specialty. The portions are large, approximately a rack and a half, and for around $17, you also get one starter (salad or soup) and fries. The meat is very tender and very tasty. Once in a while, the restaurant will have ribs as their house special, so watch for that for some cheap and good eats!