The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Memory Corner
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Rank 1. Memory Corner
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 2. The Fish Man
Seafood Chinese
An informal seafood shrine where chef Bo Li treats local catch—lingcod, grouper, white sea bass, geoduck—with culinary precision. The sour-cabbage hotpot and two dozen varieties of BBQ skewer pair brilliantly with beer in a room that thrums with conviviality and noise. This is serious cooking in a decidedly unstuffy setting.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #90 · Best Restaurants
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · $9 · Elite 30 Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Casual Chinese
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Rank 3. Long’s Noodle
Shanghainese Noodles
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Rank 4. 李良记 Xi'An Flavor
Chinese
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Rank 5. Max Noodle House
Hong Kong-style Noodles
Max Noodle House pulls off what's increasingly rare in Metro Vancouver: proper Hong Kong-style wonton noodles where the alkaline strands have genuine bite, the wontons are light and carefully made, and the broth tastes like it took time. The fried chicken wings swim in Chinese rice wine and the stewed beef brisket carries notes of dried tangerine peel, all at a casual counter where you don't need reservations or deep pockets.
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · #20 · Elite 30 Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Casual Chinese
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Rank 6. Osmanthus
Shanghainese Chinese
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Rank 7. Geng Shi Ji
Hunan Chinese
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Rank 8. Jiang Nan Wok
Huaiyang Chinese
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Rank 9. Car's Dessert
Chinese
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Rank 10. Cha Kee
Cantonese Chinese
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Rank 11. Chengdu Street Food
Chengdu Chinese
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Rank 12. Lanxuan Restauant
Cantonese Chinese
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Rank 13. Maruhachi Ra-Men
Noodles
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 15. Jade Seafood Restaurant
Chinese
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Rank 16. Golden Paramount Seafood Restaurant
Cantonese Seafood
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Rank 17. Uno Beef Noodle
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 20. Bamboo Grove Restaurant
Chinese
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Rank 21. Baan Lao
Royal Thai
Chef-owner Nutcha Phanthoupheng applies meticulous technique to royal Thai cuisine in a serene 20-seat dining room overlooking Steveston's river. Each of eighteen tasting-menu dishes—from hand-shaped dumplings to tiger prawns in tom yum—demonstrates studied precision, learned through private instruction in Bangkok.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Restaurant
- 50 Best 2025 · #12 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #24 · Best Restaurants
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A Montreal-style bistro where chef J-C Poirier trades the precision of his Michelin-starred St. Lawrence for something looser and more playful. Foie gras sandwiches with fruit preserves sit alongside soft-serve drizzled with olive oil, the menu stripped to its essentials: lamb belly brochette, arctic char with sauce meunière. It's unpretentious food that knows exactly what it is.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #10 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #60 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 23. Masayoshi
Edomae Sushi
Chef Masayoshi Baba's jewel-box counter in Vancouver channels the ceremonial precision of Tokyo's finest sushi bars, each course arriving like a small act of reverence. British Columbia's local catch guides his Edomae-style nigiri, from uni-studded openers to abalone soft as custard—a succession of small, perfect moments.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Japanese Cuisine Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Upscale Japanese
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Rank 24. Published on Main
Contemporary New American
In a bright room edged with greenery on Main Street, Chef Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson builds dishes from fermented condiments, foraged ingredients, and West Coast precision—squash roasted and pickled, shrimp barely cooked beside apple and cucumber. The tasting menu and bar menu both deliver the same revelatory sense of timing, where seasonality isn't philosophy but practice.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- 50 Best 2025 · #28 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
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Rank 26. Uno Beef Noodle
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 27. June
Bistro French
A seductive red room by Héctor Esrawe houses French bistro cooking of technical precision—the Pasta for Rachel, a sheet studded with Comté and oozing Normandy butter, epitomizes the decadent restraint. Downstairs, the listening bar Lala serves cocktails like the Noisette Manhattan, a browned-butter riff orchestrated by Keefer Bar veterans, making the pilgrimage to Cambie Village worthwhile.
- 50 Best 2026 · #17 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #4 · Best New Restaurants
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 28. Suyo
Modern Peruvian
A spare storefront opens onto a plant-filled dining room where Peruvian cuisine arrives refined but unhurried. Hamachi tiradito and arroz con pato with duck confit demonstrate technical restraint that lets ingredient and sauce speak.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
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Rank 29. Neptune Palace Seafood Restaurant
Cantonese Chinese
Neptune Palace occupies a sprawling second-floor dining hall where tables fill quickly during dim sum service, the carts wheeling past trays of notably plump shrimp dumplings and steaming congee. At dinner the menu expands into pricier Cantonese territory—lobster, abalone, roasted duck—a shift that feels less like indulgence than obligation to the room's appetite for occasion.
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Rank 31. Bravo
Seafood
A Michelin-selected seafood spot on Fraser Street that pairs raw fish and oysters with fermented hot sauces and tropical fruit. The small, frequently changing menu favors bold flavors—think squid pasta and scallops with coconut—served by genuinely warm staff.
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Informal Contemporary
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Seafood
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The dining room glows with gold leaf and modernist angles, a century-and-a-half heritage distilled into glass and brass. The roasted duck arrives mahogany-dark and shatteringly skin-first, but the kitchen moves with equal precision through delicate broths, sautéed greens, sea cucumber—each dish executed with the restraint of a place confident in its own name.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Chinese Cuisine Restaurant
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · #15 · Elite 30 Canada
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Rank 33. Good Thief
Vietnamese
Behind velvet curtains, Vincent and Amelie Nguyen channel nhậu—Vietnamese drinking culture—into a moody cocktail bar where phở-inflected whisky and basil-watermelon highballs land alongside crispy frog legs and Dungeness crab noodles. The menu trades refinement for swagger, each plate and drink a small rebellion against restraint.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #44 · Best Bars
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 34. The Acorn
Vegetarian
A vegetarian kitchen sourcing directly from BC suppliers transforms unfamiliar ingredients like sunchoke and salal berry into dishes that balance texture and taste with equal care. The tasting menu best reveals the restaurant's resourcefulness, served in a room warmed by attentive staff.
- Air Canada 2013 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Sustainability Award
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 35. Zab Bite
Northeastern Thai
A bright spot on Fraser Street devoted to northeastern Thai cooking, where boat noodles swim in a funky, aromatic beef broth studded with meatballs and tripe, and grilled pork jowl arrives crackling, dusted with toasted rice and a sharp nam jaew. The kitchen handles its crowd-pleasers with care, but the regional specialties—punchy, unapologetic—are what justify the trip.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
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Rank 37. Lila
Plant-Based Indian
Lila turns plant-based Indian cooking into something genuinely playful, with vibrant curries and breads that don't read as an afterthought to meat dishes. The Main Street spot has the warmth of a neighborhood favorite that happens to take its vegetables seriously.
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Indian
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Plant-Based
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Rank 38. Landmark Hot Pot
Chinese
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · #4 · Elite 30 Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chinese
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Rank 39. Bufala River District
Italian
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 40. Sumi
Korean
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Korean
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Korean
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Rank 41. Crab Hot Lau (Kingsway)
Northern Vietnamese
Cherry Pham's family-run Northern Vietnamese spot on Kingsway is a bustling, no-frills counter where the rice field crab hot pot—made with noodles from her hometown—arrives with a complex, addictive broth that justifies the three-year award streak. The beef carpaccio salad and meaty crab spring rolls are equally convincing reasons to navigate the crowds.
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
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Rank 42. Elio Volpe
Coastal Italian
A former mechanic shop in Cambie Village now hosts Elio Volpe, a casual-yet-refined coastal Italian osteria where wood-fired pizzas arrive with lambrusco onions and burrata, and housemade pasta like spaghetti alle vongole shares the menu with whole grilled branzino. The buzzing bar is perfect for a solo meal, while shared plates make it equally welcoming for groups.
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Italian
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best New
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Rank 44. Sumibiyaki Arashi
Yakitori Japanese
Peter Ho tends a 14-seat binchō-tan grill with the focus of a monk, rotating heritage chicken skewers inches from the coals until skin crisps and meat yields to the gentlest pressure. The omakase unfolds across impeccably butchered cuts—thigh, heart, oyster—each one glossed with a decades-old tare that tastes less like seasoning than like time itself.
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2025 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 45. Anh and Chi
Vietnamese
Anh and Chi occupies the bones of their parents' three-decade-old restaurant, now stripped clean with midcentury furniture and a vintage neon sign glowing behind the bar. The kitchen moves through Vietnam's classics—banana blossom salad bright with softshell crab, grilled prawn mousse with herbs—with the ease of people who know the territory intimately.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
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Rank 46. Dosa Corner
Indian
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Rank 47. Sushi Hil
Sushi
Natural light spills across blonde wood at Sushi Hil, where Chef Hil Nguy works the counter with unhurried precision, building each piece as if it might break. Sweet prawns arrive whole over crushed ice; aka isaki meets bright citrus; aji from Kagoshima carries ginger and scallion's sharp bite. Seasonal fish and careful technique make a modest argument for what sushi can be.
- 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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- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Indian
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Rank 51. Burdock & Co
Contemporary
Andrea Carlson's corner room on Main Street moves through the seasons with thematic precision—June's florals yield to October's bitter greens and Salt Spring Island citrus—each plate a study in ingredient clarity. A celeriac akimono glazed in yuzu or tuna with fermented rosehip and sudachi arrives as the culmination of that philosophy, accomplished and inventive in equal measure.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2013 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #33 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 52. Vij’s
Indian
Vikram Vij still works the room at his thirty-year-old temple to Indian fine dining, where wine-marinated lamb and paneer curries arrive with the precision of haute cuisine. The cocktails are inventive, the spices articulate, and the owner's belief in his cuisine's place at the table remains unshaken.
- Air Canada 2013 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Indian
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Rank 53. Mount Pleasant Vintage & Provisions
Cocktail Bar
Wood-fired grill and vintage shop rolled into one, Mount Pleasant mixes retro aesthetics with cocktails that defy their nostalgic setting—the Shiso Fancy layers tequila, apricot, yogurt and shiso into something thoughtfully strange. Crisp snacks arrive in lunch boxes; the drinks are for adults, but the whole room feels like permission to play.
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #91 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Runner Up · Best Cocktail Experience
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- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
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Rank 57. Nammos
Greek
White-washed walls and azure accents transport you to a Greek island, where Nammos executes the familiar repertoire—crispy spanakopita, grilled sea bream with fennel, loukoumades—with an unhurried attention to ingredient and technique that distinguishes it from the city's other Greek establishments. The cooking tastes like it has something to prove, and it does.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Mediterranean
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Rank 58. Kalvin’s Szechuen Restaurant
Szechuan Chinese
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Rank 59. Bonjour Vietnam
Vietnamese
Bonjour Vietnam Bistro channels a West Hollywood nightclub aesthetic with potted plants and mood lighting, drawing a fashion-forward crowd with grilled pork sausage wrapped in lemongrass and pepper-crusted beef carpaccio. The short rib pho and bun bo hue arrive in soul-warming bowls, matched by disarmingly sweet service that makes the whole enterprise feel genuinely welcoming.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
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Rank 60. Bufala
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 61. Chupito
Mexican
Chupito feels like a back-alley discovery you'd text friends about, tucked into a covered outdoor spot on Yukon Street where the elevated Mexican cooking—tender sautéed octopus with capers and olives, charred lemon and jalapeño—tastes both refined and unpretentious. The cocktails are equally thoughtful, especially the Xochimilco, a temperature-shifting clarified milk punch spiked with mezcal and topped with hot horchata foam.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Bartender of the Year · Tara Davies
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Down a staircase behind June, the brasserie upstairs, lies Lala—a subterranean cocktail den with the golden warmth of a vintage rec room, vinyl spinning nightly, and a bar manager crafting precise, unexpected drinks like a mezcal-forward Gibson riff with persimmon-shallot mignonette. The room's curves and retro speakers suggest comfort; the cocktails suggest thought.
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Rank 64. Savio Volpe
Contemporary Italian
Clean, marble-lined rooms that could belong to any Italian city set the stage for cooking that respects regional tradition while keeping one eye on the diner's pleasure. Garlic knots studded with black pepper arrive warm and tender, their piquant marinara worth the extra charge. Lamb ragu with sage and pecorino finds its ideal vessel in creste di gallo.
- Air Canada 2016 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Italian
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Restaurant Awards: Bartender and Sommelier of the Year
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Rank 65. AnnaLena
Contemporary
Chef Mike Robbins's tasting menu evolves dish by dish, weaving seasonal B.C. ingredients with global accents and whimsical playfulness—oyster with foie gras, charcoal-cooked black cod in green curry. The relaxed room, dressed in nostalgic tchotchkes against navy walls, pairs refined cooking with Reverie Beall's adventurous wine list.
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Rank 66. Dublin Crossing Irish Pub
Irish British
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Rank 67. Dynasty
Cantonese Chinese
Dynasty Seafood trades in the theatrical confidence of live tanks and classical dim sum, where steamed dumplings and crab-and-fish-maw soup arrive with the precision of a well-oiled kitchen. Regulars who call ahead unlock off-menu specials that justify the pilgrimage to this elegant room.
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · #1 · Elite 30 Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Restaurant of the Year
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chinese
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Rank 68. Yuwa
Japanese
Chef Masahiro Omori's nigiri transcends the chic European-leaning room with impeccable Japanese technique and daily-shifting freshness. Buttery chutoro and ethereal sockeye salmon justify the pilgrimage to this quietly classical counter in Vancouver.
- 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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Rank 69. Song
Thai
On East Broadway, Song channels Thai cooking through an idiosyncratic lens: lemongrass wings arrive deep-fried and fragrant, pad Thai stakes a claim on savory perfection, and northern laab blooms with the push-pull of fish sauce and lime against tender pork. The kitchen works from regional ingredients with evident invention, turning familiar dishes into something you won't find elsewhere.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
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Rank 70. Elem
Contemporary
Vish Mayekar's cooking draws from global sources—Indian bhel, Mexican grilled fish, Middle Eastern spices—with unshowy precision and zero waste. The room's three distinct zones feel designed for contemplation, matching food that rewards close attention without performing.
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #80 · Best Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Hassib Sarwari
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Rank 71. Bun Cha Ca Hoang Yen
Vietnamese Noodles
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Rank 72. Gary's
Rustic French
Gary's trades formality for a kind of purposeful ease, its French country cooking—asparagus with saffron rouille, pork collar with parsley sauce—arriving without pretense on rye rolls slicked with green garlic butter. The rum baba, soaked in chamomile syrup and crowned with pistachio custard, suggests that comfort and refinement need not be at odds.
- 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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Rank 73. Kilimanjaro Snack House
Ethiopian
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Caribbean
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
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Rank 76. Maruhachi Ra-Men
Noodles
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 77. Elisa
Steakhouse
In Yaletown, a steakhouse where the adjacent butcher shop isn't decoration but doctrine: every cut sourced from BC ranches and beyond, Japanese wagyu for the serious spender. Start with Dungeness crab spring rolls or tartare—smoked bison, vegetables, traditional—then the bone-in Vancouver cut, seared and confident, or beef Wellington if you want theater with your protein.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- World's 101 Best #32 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Hanna Flodström
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Rank 78. Okeya Kyujiro
Omakase Japanese
A dark room lit by votive candles holds its curtain until your appointed moment arrives, revealing an omakase where seasonal fish and theatrical gestures—sasagiri carving, uni from competing waters—blur the line between meal and ceremony. The crispy tempura sandbar fish and flower-shaped wagashi suggest a kitchen that serves beauty as seriously as flavor.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Japanese
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At Kavita, Tushar Tondvalkar pursues Indian cooking with unshowy precision. Charcoal-grilled chicken arrives in a silken malai sauce; goat and lentils fold into haleem crowned with crisp alliums and heat. The kitchen operates without fanfare, letting technique and restraint speak for themselves.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #96 · Best Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Indian
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best New Restaurant
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Rank 80. Casa Molina
Spanish
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Editor’s Choice · Restaurant Awards: Best Date Night
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Mediterranean
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best New
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Rank 81. Seaport City Seafood
Chinese
Seaport City Seafood's elegant dining room, anchored by live fish tanks, serves dim sum that balances tradition with contemporary flourishes like black truffle fried rice. Steamed pork ribs and stir-fried cumin lamb shank showcase the kitchen's command of umami-rich comfort.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chinese
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best New
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Rank 82. El Gato Gab Gab
Mexican
A lively Main Street spot where the energy is all chatter and clinking glasses, El Gato Gab Gab serves Mexican food and cocktails that match the buzz around you. The cooking is assured enough that you can order without second-guessing, and the drinks keep pace with the kitchen's confidence.
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Latin American
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
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Rank 83. Folke
Vegetarian
In a small Kitsilano room of deep blue walls and seaweed pressings, Colin Uyeda and Pricilla Deo serve plant-based cooking that moves beyond vegetables into genuine revelation. The cabbage in potato mole arrives tender and crunchy at once, proof that restraint and technique can transform what arrives on the plate.
- Air Canada 2023 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Plant-Based
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 84. Maenam
Thai
The kitchen at Maenam treats Thai fundamentals—tom yum, panang curry—as starting points for something more exacting, building dishes around pristine local fish and seasonal produce until familiar flavors achieve an almost unbearable clarity. The room is unpretentious, the plating modest, but every plate speaks to a chef who understands that restraint and precision matter more than flourish.
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Chef of the Year · Angus An
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
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Rank 85. Chef's Choice
Cantonese Chinese
Copper and wood panels wrap a dining room where the kitchen pursues both obscurity and tradition with equal fervor. Duck tongues marinated in rice wine, soup dumplings trembling with seafood broth, and a signature chicken glazed in black truffle sauce arrive as proof that Chef's Choice operates beyond the usual repertoire of neighborhood Chinese restaurants.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Upscale Chinese
- The Infatuation The Best Restaurants In Vancouver
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- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 87. New Mandarin Seafood Restaurant
Cantonese Chinese
A cavernous dining hall with crystal chandeliers and floor-to-ceiling windows fills nightly with families ordering dim sum from photo-heavy menus, each basket arriving steaming from the kitchen. The black pepper pork biscuits and wasabi shrimp dumplings arrive supple and precise, grounding the room's elegance in unfussy, boisterous appetite.
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Rank 88. Nook
Italian
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 89. Cafe Xu Hue
Vietnamese
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Rank 90. Baja Racing
Baja Mexican
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- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Ashwan Luckheenarain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Editors’ Choice · Restaurant Awards: Best After-Work Drinks
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Mediterranean
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Rank 92. Nook
Italian
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 93. Do Chay
Vegetarian Vietnamese
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Rank 95. Fassil
Traditional Ethiopian
Fassil's traditional Ethiopian cooking centers on sour, pillowy injera and deeply spiced wots—the lentil-based misir with its hit of berbere is particularly worth ordering—in a casual neighborhood spot on Broadway where eating with your hands feels like a natural extension of the warmth. It's the kind of place where the communal spirit of the food matches the room's genuine hospitality.
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Caribbean
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
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Rank 97. Unchai
Thai
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
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Rank 98. The Keefer Bar
Chinese Cocktail Bar
Behind backlit anatomical charts, a Chinatown bar channels traditional Chinese medicine into cocktails—durian and baijiu meet rum in a Colada; turkey tail mushroom deepens a Daiquiri. Crystal-clear house ice, funky DJ sets, and dim sum from neighboring dumpling shops complete the prescription.
- 50 Best 2026 · #7 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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Rank 99. Prophecy
Cocktail Bar
A basement bar in the Hotel Georgia where beverage director Jeff Savage engineers deceptively simple cocktails through months of development, layering unexpected ingredients like beeswax-washed whisky and yuzu kosho. Digital art and Afro House Noir soundtrack a moody, sexy space that honors a century of the room's transformations.
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Jeff Savage
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