The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Fox & Monocle
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Rank 2. Cafe Malabar
Keralan
- Air Canada 2024 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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Rank 5. Marilena
Sushi
Lingcod Bourguignon, with bacon and pearl onions, is about as far from a typical sushi menu as you can get, which tells you something about what the kitchen is up to here. Marilena is a fine dining raw bar where the nigiri and sashimi lean on sustainable local seafood and the rest of the menu keeps the same restless energy. Vancouver Magazine gave it the gold for Best Victoria restaurant, which tracks.
- Air Canada 2023 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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Rank 6. Pilgrimme
Seasonal New American
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Rank 7. Ugly Duckling
Chinese
- Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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Eastsound, on Orcas Island, is not where you expect to find a restaurant that landed on the New York Times's restaurant list, but here we are. Matia Kitchen (say "may-shah") is a small, ingredient-driven restaurant where local produce gets the kind of careful treatment that earned a James Beard nomination. The menu shifts with the season, and the cooking has a quiet confidence that the room itself, unpretentious as it is, seems entirely unbothered by.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Avery Adams
- The New York Times The Restaurant List
- Seattle Met The Best Restaurants in Washington State
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Rank 11. end dive
Seafood Dive Bar
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- Air Canada 2018 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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Rank 17. Ursa Minor
Regional New American
- Seattle Met The Best Restaurants in Washington State
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Nick Coffey
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Rank 18. Cafe Brio
Italian
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Rank 20. Setsunai Noodle Bar
Noodles
A noodle bar tucked into a Lopez Island alleyway, where the chef makes his own ramen and udon and also, apparently, throws his own ceramics, which explains why the bowls are so good-looking. The broth is rich and deeply savory, the eggs are that soft jammy orange that makes everything look intentional. Reserve ahead: the handful of outdoor counter seats and high-tops fill up even when the ferry crossing feels like a bad idea.
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Rank 23. Baan Lao
Royal Thai
A 20-seat fine dining room in Steveston Village, which is otherwise known for fish and chips and frozen yogurt, turns out to be an oddly perfect home for royal Thai cuisine. White-gloved servers bring each course of an 18-dish tasting menu to white-clothed tables overlooking the Fraser River. The chef trained privately with Bangkok cooks before opening this, having no restaurant background at all. Canada's 100 Best ranks it among the country's top 25.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Restaurant
- Canada's 100 Best #24 · Best Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
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Rank 26. Uno Beef Noodle
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 27. Golden Paramount Seafood Restaurant
Cantonese Seafood
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Rank 28. The Fish Man
Seafood Chinese
- Canada's 100 Best #90 · Best Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards $9 · Elite 30 Canada
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Vancouver
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Rank 29. Bamboo Grove Restaurant
Chinese
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Rank 30. Max Noodle House
Hong Kong-style Noodles
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #20 · Elite 30 Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Casual Chinese
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Rank 31. Chengdu Street Food
Chengdu Chinese
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Rank 32. Long’s Noodle
Shanghainese Noodles
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Rank 33. 李良记 Xi'An Flavor
Chinese
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Rank 34. Osmanthus
Shanghainese
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Rank 36. Memory Corner
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 37. Car's Dessert
Chinese Dessert
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Rank 38. Lanxuan Restauant
Traditional Cantonese
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Rank 39. Jiang Nan Wok
Huaiyang
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Rank 40. Cha Kee
Cantonese
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Rank 41. AnnaLena
New American
Lego figurines and Star Wars memorabilia crowd the shelves of this moody navy-walled Kitsilano tasting menu restaurant, which is exactly the right amount of strange given what comes out of the kitchen. Chef Mike Robbins writes his courses in crayon on the menu, holds a Michelin star, and lands at number 35 on North America's 50 Best. The food draws on B.C. seasons and global technique in equal measure, and the wine program runs deep on small producers.
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Rank 42. Geng Shi Ji
Hunan
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Rank 43. Sumibiyaki Arashi
Yakitori Japanese
A lantern outside, a curtain to slip past, and fourteen seats at a Douglas fir counter where the binchōtan grill is the whole point. Sumibiyaki Arashi is a yakitori omakase counter in Mount Pleasant, and the chef runs heritage birds through every cut imaginable, thigh to heart to chicken knee, over charcoal hot enough to demand constant attention. A Michelin star and the tare on that grill go back decades. Reservations are scarce.
- Canada's 100 Best #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 44. Burdock & Co
Farm-to-table New American
Andrea Carlson's tasting menu at this Mount Pleasant corner spot shifts thematically with the season, so the October menu is genuinely a different argument than the June one. The bread course alone sets the tone: nori cornbread, herb gougères, sourdough, aged sake kasu butter. Farm-to-table without the earnest lecture. Carlson holds a Michelin star, and the non-alcoholic pairings are, unusually, not an afterthought.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2013 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best #33 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 45. June
Bistro French
The room arrives before the menu does: red-tinged lighting, curves everywhere, the kind of design that makes a Tuesday feel like an occasion. June is a French bistro and serious cocktail bar on Cambie that landed at number 17 on North America's 50 Best Bars and fourth on Canada's 100 Best new restaurants in the same year, which is a neat trick. The food runs to butter-heavy, comforting bistro standards; the drinks list is the other reason to come.
- 50 Best #17 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Canada's 100 Best #4 · Best New Restaurants
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 47. Masayoshi
Edomae Sushi
Counter seats at this intimate omakase spot put you close enough to watch each piece of nigiri take shape in real time, which is either meditative or nerve-wracking depending on your personality. Chef Masayoshi Baba runs a jewel-box Edomae sushi room on Fraser Street, letting BC's local catch guide the progression. The room is quiet, the pacing is ceremonial, and the tab reflects all of that. It holds a Michelin star.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Japanese Cuisine Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Omakase
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Rank 48. Jade Seafood Restaurant
Chinese
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The roast duck arrives at the table as a ceremony, sliced tableside and served with the kind of precision that makes you feel underdressed even if you aren't. This gold-accented fine dining room on Cambie is the Vancouver outpost of a centuries-old Beijing institution, and it holds a Michelin star. The menu runs from crispy duck to bird's nest and abalone, but simple stir-fried greens with garlic pull their weight just as quietly alongside the showpieces.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Chinese Cuisine Restaurant
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #15 · Elite 30 Canada
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Rank 50. Sushi Hyun
Omakase Sushi
The counter is a single slab of hinoki cypress, two centuries old, polished by hand before every service until it releases a faint citrus scent. That kind of obsessive care sets the tone for this intimate omakase room tucked off Robson Street, where the chef holds a Michelin star and sources his tuna through Japan's most revered merchant, authentication papers displayed quietly at your elbow. The vibe, somehow, is kitchen party.
- Air Canada 2025 · Best Design · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 51. Okeya Kyujiro
Omakase Japanese
A black curtain drops at the exact minute of your reservation, which tells you everything about what follows. This omakase counter imports nearly all its fish and produce directly from Japan, but the kitchen goes further with live music, Buddhist chanting, and bamboo leaf carving woven between courses. It holds a Michelin star and reads less like dinner than like a ceremony someone spent years choreographing. Dress accordingly.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Omakase
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Rank 52. Uno Beef Noodle
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 53. Kissa Tanto
Italian fusion Japanese
Upstairs in a Chinatown walkup, rose banquettes and antique Japanese panels recreate the jazz cafés of 1960s Tokyo, which is a strange and perfect setting for a Michelin-starred restaurant fusing Japanese and Italian cooking. The kitchen plays it straight: hand-cut pasta with miso-cured egg yolk and parmesan, tiramisu made with plum wine-soaked tofu. Cult Japanese whiskies share the drinks list with Italian amari, and the cocktails split the difference. Dress up a little.
- Air Canada 2016 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Canada's 100 Best #15 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 54. Suyo
Modern Peruvian
The whitewashed facade on Main Street gives nothing away, but inside, tall tropical plants and plush seating set the mood for modern Peruvian fine dining done without a trace of fuss. The kitchen runs citrus-bright ceviches and tiraditos alongside bolder, earthier plates, and the bar program is the kind that earns its own reputation. A Michelin Selected restaurant with a AAA Four Diamond rating.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Restaurant Awards: Bartender and Sommelier of the Year
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Rank 55. St. Lawrence
Québécois French
The savory éclair filled with duck liver mousse has become something of a calling card here, and it explains a lot about the place. St. Lawrence is an elegant Québécois French tasting restaurant with a convivial front bar, a semi-open kitchen, and a Michelin star. The fixed menu rotates by season, sometimes leaning into sugar shack classics, sometimes into French bourgeois cooking, always with sauces that deserve more attention than they get.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best French Cuisine Restaurant
- Air Canada 2018 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 56. Chez Céline
French
The tartare here arrives bright with herbs and anchovy salt, which tells you most of what you need to know about Chez Céline's register. It's a French bistro and bar on Fraser Street, the kind of neighbourhood spot that somehow also reads as subtly refined, in the Quebec casse-croûte tradition. J-C Poirier and Margaux Herder's room is cozy without being sleepy, and the cocktail program is serious enough to earn a Spirited Awards regional nod.
- Canada's 100 Best #10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best #60 · Best Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best New Restaurant
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Rank 57. Gary's
Rustic French
Rye rolls arrive warm with green garlic butter before you've even settled in, which tells you most of what you need to know about Gary's. It's a snug neighborhood restaurant in the Cambie corridor doing rustic French cooking, the kind that leans on parsley sauces and saffron rouilles rather than anything fussy. The Michelin Guide has given it a Bib Gourmand, and the room tends to fill with locals who seem to know each other.
- Air Canada 2024 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best New
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The room is divided into zones shaped by wood, water, and wind, which tells you something about how seriously this Mount Pleasant restaurant takes itself. Chef Vish Mayekar runs a globally roaming menu that pulls from South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe without announcing the detour each time. You can order à la carte or hand the kitchen the wheel entirely. The cocktail program runs on a zero-waste brief and keeps pace with the food.
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best #80 · Best Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Hassib Sarwari
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Rank 59. Bravo
Seafood
The dry-aged fish program is the detail that separates this buzzy Fraser Street seafood spot from every other neighborhood bar doing a raw bar. The menu is small and shifts often, but the cooking stays bold and punchy, from hiramasa with aguachile to squid tagliolini that goes places pasta doesn't usually go. Vancouver Magazine gave it gold for both informal dining and seafood, and the Michelin Guide has taken notice too. Service is friendly without being precious.
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Informal Contemporary
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 60. Folke
Vegetarian
Seaweed pressings on deep blue walls and dried grasses set the coastal mood at this small, plant-forward restaurant in Kitsilano. The menu rotates around whatever vegetables the kitchen is currently obsessing over, and the cooking is the kind that makes omnivores forget to keep score. A no-tipping policy made headlines when it opened, but the food is what keeps people coming back. It holds a Michelin Guide selection.
- Air Canada 2023 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Vancouver
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Rank 61. Boulevard
Seafood
Hand-painted imported tile floors and marble-topped bars set the tone at this upscale seafood restaurant inside the Sutton Place Hotel on Burrard. The room is large but pulls together through chic lighting and buttery leather seating, and the menu matches the mood: baked oysters, house-made pasta loaded with Pacific shellfish, and a mixed shellfish platter that gets its own trio of sauces. Roger Ma took Vancouver Magazine's Chef of the Year in 2026.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Canada's 100 Best #59 · Best Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Restaurant Awards: Pastry Chef of the Year · Kenta Takahashi of Boulevard
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Rank 62. Dynasty
Cantonese
The fish tanks near the entrance set the tone: this is a grand Cantonese seafood restaurant where the crab you're eyeing is still very much alive. The dining room runs to white tablecloths and banquet-scale celebrations, but the kitchen handles a casual dim sum lunch with equal care. Vancouver Magazine named it Restaurant of the Year, and it holds a Michelin Guide selection. Regulars know to call ahead for off-menu specials that never quite make it onto paper.
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #1 · Elite 30 Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Restaurant of the Year
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 63. Bacchus
European-inspired New American
A grand piano sits in the corner like it's been there forever, and at Bacchus, inside the Wedgewood Hotel, that's more or less the point. This is a white-tablecloth hotel restaurant where the flower arrangements are serious and the chandelier means business. The kitchen turns out European-leaning classics with enough care to feel considered rather than comfortable. A spot on Canada's 100 Best list and a AAA Four Diamond rating confirm the room isn't just dressing.
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Rank 64. Lila
Plant-Based Indian
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Plant-Based
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Rank 65. Elio Volpe
Coastal Italian
A mechanic shop turned coastal Italian osteria in Cambie Village, Elio Volpe does wood-fired pizza with a brunch version that gives people a reason to leave the house on a Sunday. The room has bar seating for solo meals and enough shared plates, including a whole grilled branzino, to make a group feel purposeful. Vancouver Magazine handed it gold for both Best New and Best Italian in the same year, which is the restaurant equivalent of a very good report card.
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Restaurant Awards: Bartender and Sommelier of the Year
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best New
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Rank 66. Vij’s
Indian
Vikram Vij built his reputation working the room personally, stopping at tables each night in a dining room that takes Indian cuisine seriously without taking itself too seriously. This is an elegant sit-down restaurant where the cocktail list is designed to hold its own against heavily spiced food, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand keeps showing up for a reason. The lamb popsicles in fenugreek sauce have their own devoted following.
- Air Canada 2013 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Vancouver
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Rank 68. Anh and Chi
Vietnamese
A blue neon sign salvaged from the family restaurant that stood here for a generation anchors the bar of this sleek, midcentury-modern Vietnamese spot on Main Street. The brother-and-sister team behind it treat the menu as a love letter to Vietnam, running from pho to softshell crab salad to grilled prawn mousse with fresh herbs. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Vancouver
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
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Rank 69. The Acorn
Vegetarian
Sunchoke with salal berry and burnt onion isn't a dish you'd find yourself ordering on instinct, which is part of the point at this creative vegetarian fine-dining room in Mount Pleasant. The kitchen names its organic BC suppliers on the menu and takes texture as seriously as flavor. The Michelin Guide has it selected, and first-timers tend to do well surrendering to the tasting menu rather than pretending they know what salal berry tastes like.
- Air Canada 2013 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Sustainability Award
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 70. Elisa
Steakhouse
A custom wood-fired grill anchors the room at this Yaletown steakhouse and bar, open flame flickering against warm wood tones while the kitchen runs tartares alongside Canadian and wagyu cuts. The butcher shop next door feeds the kitchen's sourcing philosophy. It holds a spot on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list and took Vancouver Magazine's Restaurant of the Year. Dress up a little; the room expects it.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- World's 101 Best #32 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Restaurant of the Year
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Rank 71. Nero Tondo
Farm-to-table New American
An 18-seat farm-to-table restaurant on Powell where nearly everything on the plate comes from British Columbia, and the wine list follows the same rule. The menu shifts constantly with the season, building dishes around a single ingredient and crediting the growers by name. Counter seats wrap around an open kitchen stuffed floor to rafters with preserving jars and glassware. The Michelin Guide has it selected, and Air Canada named it one of Canada's top new restaurants in 2025.
- Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Informal Contemporary
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Rank 72. Kavita
Modern Indian
Pine needles and deer lichen aren't typical pantry staples, but the chef at this modern Indian restaurant near Olympic Village uses foraged and hyper-local ingredients as the backbone of a daily-changing tasting menu. Whole spices are roasted and ground in-house, and the effect reads less as fusion than as a very specific argument about where Vancouver actually is. Canada's 100 Best listed it among the country's top restaurants for 2026.
- Canada's 100 Best #96 · Best Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best New Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Indian
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Rank 73. Le Crocodile
French
Rob Feenie, the chef behind the beloved and long-mourned Lumière, took over this longstanding French fine dining institution and quietly made it new again. The bones remain, foie gras terrine, Dover sole, veal with morel sauce, Alsatian apple tart, but the sauces have lightened and Asian grace notes have crept in without the menu losing its French accent. The renovated room is warmer, blonder, and easier to love than before.
- Canada's 100 Best #26 · Best Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Hall of Fame · Michel Jacob
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best New
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- VineRoutes Award of Distinction · Restaurant Awards
- Golden Owl Awards Nominee · Best Brunch Experience
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Vancouver
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A shimmering chandelier and a floor-to-ceiling wine wall set the scene at David Hawksworth's eponymous fine dining room inside the Rosewood Hotel Georgia. The crowd looks freshly styled, and the cooking matches the room's composure: contemporary and precise, built on simple luxuries done with care. You can enter through the hotel lobby or slip in directly from Georgia Street, which suits both the suits and everyone else.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Fine Dining Hotel Restaurant
- Air Canada 2011 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 76. Yuwa
Japanese
The interior leans European, all Armani-quiet sleekness, but the kitchen stays firmly in Japan. Yuwa is a chic Japanese restaurant in Kitsilano where the menu shifts daily around whatever is freshest, and the co-owner doubles as one of Vancouver's sharpest sommeliers, which shows in a sake and wine list that keeps food people talking. The monied west-side crowd dresses accordingly and never needs to ask how anything works.
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Sommelier of the Year · Iori Kataoka
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Japanese
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The kitchen is the room at this Michelin-starred fine dining counter on East Pender, where an L-shaped bar puts you close enough to watch every move the chef makes. Patrick Hennessy came up at Eleven Madison Park and carries that precision into cooking that reads simple on paper but lands as something more considered on the plate. Local sourcing is the quiet backbone of the menu, though the technique is doing most of the talking.
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Rank 78. Sushi Masuda
Sushi
Six seats tucked into the corner of an unrelated restaurant, accessed through a print shop, which tells you everything and nothing about what follows. This is a Michelin-starred omakase counter where the chef trained at a top Tokyo bar, and the room is so spare that the food has nowhere to hide. His wife runs hospitality with the kind of quiet attentiveness that makes a long tasting meal feel effortless rather than ceremonial.
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Rank 79. Botanist
West Coast New American
The bar at Botanist sits just inside the Fairmont Pacific Rim, intimate and posh enough that dressing up feels like the point. This is fine dining with a serious cocktail program, and the drinks lean into a nature-obsessed identity, including a glass-fronted lab where the team produces things like a martini built with kombu and sea asparagus. North America's 50 Best Bars placed it at number 38. The kitchen behind it runs hyper-local West Coast tasting menus alongside à la carte.
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Rank 80. Good Thief
Vietnamese
Pull back the velvet curtain and you're inside the world of nhậu, the Vietnamese tradition of drinking and eating with friends until things get blurry. Good Thief is a cocktail bar and restaurant on Main Street, the self-described rebellious younger sibling to Anh and Chi next door. The drinks lean boldly Vietnamese, the food runs from binchotan skewers to Dungeness crab garlic noodles, and the whole menu is designed to share. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.
- Canada's 100 Best #44 · Best Bars
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Informal Contemporary
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Rank 81. Sushi Hil
Sushi
Natural light and blonde wood keep things calm at this small, counter-forward sushi shop on Main, where the focus is squarely on the fish. The chef's approach is classic: beautifully cut sashimi, seasonal ingredients, and just enough acidity to lift the sweetness of top-notch seafood. Easier on the wallet than the city's omakase circuit, and a Michelin Bib Gourmand. One judge called it the first place they'd send an out-of-towner, which tracks.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Moon Hu
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Japanese
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Rank 82. Niwa
Japanese
Closed weekends by design so the staff can have a life, Niwa is a small Japanese dining room on Powell Street where blonde wood, filmy lights, and a kitchen counter set a mood of deliberate calm. The chef, formerly of Le Crocodile and Farmer's Apprentice, runs a menu tied to whatever the Pacific Northwest offers right now. Pickles, rice bowls, mochi sourdough, sake, and clarified cocktails. Weekdays suddenly feel like a reward.
- Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Informal Contemporary
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Rank 83. Landmark Hot Pot
Chinese
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #4 · Elite 30 Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chinese
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Rank 84. Delara
Modern Persian
Natural light pours through lattice screens and past paintings by local Iranian artists at this modern Persian restaurant on West 4th. The kitchen leans into the architecture of Persian flavors: tart dried limes, fragrant spices, richness from nuts and seeds. A judge once said the food has "a mother's touch," which is either the nicest thing you can say about a restaurant or the nicest thing you can say about anything.
- Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Middle Eastern
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Rank 85. Homer St. Cafe
Contemporary American
The rotisserie chicken here gets an overnight brine before it even sees heat, which tells you something about how seriously this neighborhood restaurant takes comfort food. Chairs hung as wall art and a lively patio give the room an easygoing, slightly offbeat feel. The Michelin Guide has it selected, and Vancouver Magazine named the crew among its premier picks. Order the chicken, add a biscuit, and leave room for the cheesecake.
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Nick Bertoia
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Golden Owl Awards Nominee · Best Brunch Experience
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Rank 86. Song
Thai
A casual Thai restaurant on East Broadway where the green curry beef shank reportedly stops conversations cold. Song holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and Vancouver Magazine's gold for best Thai, and the room feels built for lingering over pomelo salad and lemongrass wings with a group that shows up hungry. The menu runs deeper than the familiar standards, though the pad Thai earns its place on the table without apology.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
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Rank 87. Selene
Fine-dining Greek
The oyster mushroom souvlaki arrives with walnut skordalia and tarragon vinegar, which tells you pretty quickly that this isn't the whitewashed-walls-and-ouzo setup you've been to before. Selene is a fine-dining Greek restaurant in Hastings-Sunrise that takes the canon seriously enough to know exactly where to bend it. Vancouver Magazine gave it a Gold Medal for Best Mediterranean, and the room has earned the quiet confidence that comes with it.
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Mediterranean
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Rank 88. Maenam
Thai
Angus An runs a small empire of Thai concepts across Vancouver, but this Kitsilano original is where it all started and still where the cooking cuts deepest. Maenam is a sit-down Thai restaurant where the kitchen balances bold aromatics with serious precision, and rustic-looking plates consistently surprise you. The wine list is genuinely thought-through, not an afterthought. It holds a Michelin Guide selection and has taken Vancouver Magazine's gold for Best Thai more times than anyone's counting.
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Chef of the Year · Angus An
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
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Rank 89. Chang ‘An
Shaanxi
The Peking duck here requires a phone call to reserve, then arrives tableside in a cloud of flambéed rum, carved to order, with the carcass reborn as soup or a peppery stir-fry for the finale. This Shaanxi restaurant on Granville pairs that theater with biang biang noodles, roast lamb, and waterfront views. A Michelin Selected pick, it draws a crowd that planned ahead and dressed for the occasion.
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Rank 90. Chupito
Mexican
A covered outdoor taqueria on Yukon Street that feels like someone smuggled a great Mexico City back-alley spot into a Vancouver residential neighbourhood. The Mexican cooking leans a little ambitious, and the cocktail program punches well above the taqueria average. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place regulars quietly hope you won't find out about.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Bartender of the Year · Tara Davies
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Latin American
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Rank 91. Seaport City Seafood
Chinese
You climb a flight of stairs off Cambie to find white tablecloths, chandeliers, and a wall of pristine fish tanks keeping watch over the room. It's an upscale dim sum shop drawing the kind of crowd that irons its shirts, but the Michelin Bib Gourmand signals the menu won't punish your wallet the way the setting implies. The kitchen plays dim sum mostly traditional, with occasional detours that actually make sense.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best New
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chinese
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- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Golden Owl Awards Winner · New Venue of the Year
- Golden Owl Awards Nominee · Best Cocktail Experience
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Rank 93. ¿CóMO? Taperia
Spanish
Finding a seat at this perpetually packed Spanish tapas bar on East Seventh requires luck, persistence, or both. The room runs on the warm, slightly chaotic energy of a good Madrid bodega, with conservas lined up alongside the fritos and raciones. Rare Spanish wines are the move, and the servers know them well enough to steer you right. A Michelin Selected pick that draws a neighborhood crowd happy to wait.
- Air Canada 2019 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
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Rank 94. Nightingale
Wood-fired Pizza
The Neapolitan-style pizzas come out of a wood-fired oven with properly blistered crusts, which is a fine way to anchor an otherwise wide-ranging menu of shareable rustic plates. This stylish, high-ceilinged downtown restaurant pulls in business lunches by day and groups of friends by night, and the room handles both without breaking a sweat. The Michelin Guide has selected it, and Vancouver Magazine gave it gold for Best Informal Contemporary.
- Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Sommelier of the Year · Chris Rielly
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Informal Contemporary
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Rank 95. Chef's Choice
Cantonese
Copper and wood panels give the dining room an easy elegance, but the room is really just a warm place to sit while the kitchen does its work. This is an upscale Cantonese restaurant where the menu runs deeper than most, with a "kitchen specialties" section that includes wine-marinated crispy duck tongues and kidneys alongside the kind of congee that makes you want to cancel your afternoon. The Michelin Guide has it listed among its Vancouver selections.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Vancouver
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Upscale Chinese
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- VineRoutes Vine Award Winners · Restaurant Awards
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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Tucked onto the second floor of a shopping mall on Marine Drive, this sprawling Cantonese banquet hall is the kind of place locals fill on weekends without needing to tell anyone about it. Dim sum runs through the afternoon, with dumplings packed with shrimp that actually justify the wait. Dinner pivots to a broader seafood menu, lobster and abalone among them. The room fits large groups comfortably, which is the whole point.
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Rank 98. Chinatown BBQ
Barbecue
Roast duck and char siu hang lacquered in the window on East Pender, which is all the sign Chinatown BBQ really needs. It's a casual Cantonese barbecue spot with vintage art on the walls, a lazy Susan in the middle of the table, and regulars who look like they've never once consulted the menu. The barbecue pork travels well in a takeout box, but the room has its own pull. The barbecue goose, a chef's recipe, requires two days' notice.
- Chinese Restaurant Awards #28 · Elite 30 Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Jason Ye
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Casual
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- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Nick Bertoia
- Golden Owl Awards Winner · Best Brunch Experience
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
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Rank 100. Blue Water Cafe
Seafood
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Seafood
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Seafood