The Top 56 Places to Eat and Drink Near Ursa Minor
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- Seattle Met The Best Restaurants in Washington State
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Nick Coffey
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A corner banquette in this small bar invites lingering over cocktails that trace the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt's expeditions through flavor—a sotol Old Fashioned with piloncillo and suspended venison, a citrusy Cyanometer named for his sky-measuring instrument. Brant Porter's place weaves the 19th-century explorer into everything from artwork to sharing plates, romantic without artifice.
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #53 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: Northwest and Pacific · Avery Adams
- Seattle Met The Best Restaurants in Washington State
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
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Rank 5. Citrus & Cane
Tropical Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- 50 Best 2026 · #87 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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A narrow Victoria room where Asian-minded cooking meets local ingredients on a small-plates menu that feels cosmopolitan without trying too hard. The scallion milk buns with caramelized onion butter alone justify the detour.
- Air Canada 2025 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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Rank 10. Marilena
Sushi
The chicest room in Victoria serves impeccably sourced seafood and sashimi at a polished raw bar and dining room backed by the city's most serious wine program. Top Table's first Island outpost plays it both ways—precise nigiri alongside creative reaches like lingcod Bourguignon—and the service sets a new standard for the city.
- Air Canada 2023 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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Rank 12. Ugly Duckling
Chinese
- Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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Rank 13. Cafe Malabar
Keralan Indian
- Air Canada 2024 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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On Government Street at the edge of Chinatown, End Dive channels the spirit of Victoria's vanished dive bars through a pescatarian lens. Shareable plates build around local seafood and produce treated with restraint—smoked beets, roasted cabbage, salmon belly with black-lime remoulade—while drinks cleave to regional producers. It's a room that honors both greens and ghosts.
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- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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Rank 18. Cafe Brio
Italian
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The Courtney Room is a polished fine-dining room working the seasonal rhythms of Vancouver Island's larder into tightly composed plates. Order the B.C. side stripe shrimp toast on local sourdough and the lamb bacon tagliatelle, dishes that announce what this kitchen does best.
- Air Canada 2018 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Victoria
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In a forest cabin on quiet Galiano Island, chef Jesse McCleery builds seasonal tasting menus from foraged and locally grown ingredients with the precision of someone who knows exactly what the landscape offers. Yellow pea tostadas meet albacore tuna; charcoal noodles arrive dark and alkaline, traced with chicken fat and celery leaf. The food moves with the seasons, patient and particular.
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Rank 33. 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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Rank 35. 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 36. Golden Paramount Seafood Restaurant
Cantonese Seafood
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Rank 37. Maruhachi Ra-Men
Noodles
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 38. Bamboo Grove Restaurant
Chinese
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Rank 40. Uno Beef Noodle
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 41. 李良记 Xi'An Flavor
Chinese
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Rank 42. Long’s Noodle
Shanghainese Noodles
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Rank 43. Memory Corner
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 44. Chengdu Street Food
Chengdu Chinese
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Rank 46. 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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