A donair is all beef meat with spices (cooked on a vertical broiler and shaved off) on a pita bread with a sweet-tangy-garlicky sauce topped with tomatoes and onion. This is a Canadian Maritime favorite.
The donair originated when two brothers, John and Peter, moved to Canada from Greece in the 1960's and opened a pizza shop in the 1970's in Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada. The brothers loved their homeland food, the gyro. The traditional gyro did not go over well with the people of the Halifax area. So Peter came up with a new recipe of ground beef, secret spices, and a sweet sauce. He called it the donair. The donair has become the official food of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Pronounced "Dough n'aire"
