The 36 Best Restaurants in Calgary
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The best restaurants in Calgary, according to the experts: The 50, Canada's 100 Best, and AAA have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Eight comes out on top.
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Bar Chouette and Fortuna's Row hold the next two places. AAA shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Air Canada next.
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Rank 1. Eight
Japanese
You start with a phone call from a white handset in a hotel lobby, then follow someone through a maintenance corridor to a gilded parlour for cocktails, then slip through a hidden door to eight counter seats facing an open kitchen. That is the whole restaurant. Darren MacLean runs a Japanese-influenced tasting menu of around twenty courses built on hyper-seasonal Canadian ingredients, and photographs are forbidden. It holds a spot on North America's 50 Best Restaurants list.
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- The 50 #2 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best #9 · Best Restaurants
- The 50 Highest New Entry Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 2. Bar Chouette
Creative French
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- AAA Three Diamonds
- Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Air Canada 2023 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 4. Gatsby's
Fine-dining French
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- Canada's 100 Best Canada's 100 Best: #74 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 7. Lulu Bar
Hawaiian
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- Chinese Restaurant Awards Chinese Restaurant Awards: Top 50 Honourees · Elite 30 Canada
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The old Model Milk Dairy building on 17th gives this lively restaurant its name and its bones, with an open, industrial feel softened by a genuinely buzzy room. The menu changes every couple of weeks, pulling from local and regional producers, so there's no such thing as a regular order. Desserts lean into the building's dairy past with ice cream making an appearance. The wine and cocktail list is well considered.
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Rank 11. Alloy
Creative Pan-Asian
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Rank 11. Aloha Modern Kitchen
Hawaiian
Surf photography covers the walls and the blue décor commits hard to the bit at this Hawaiian comfort food spot on Macleod Trail. The menu leans into plate lunches, poke, Spam musubi, and huli huli chicken, with tropical cocktails that come alcohol-free if you'd rather. It's the kind of casual, shareable-plates place where the servers know the menu cold and nobody's in a hurry to rush you out.
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Rank 11. FinePrint
Modern French
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Rank 11. KAMA
Creative Mediterranean
A stylish Mediterranean small-plates restaurant where the mezze menu is designed for mixing, matching, and ordering one more round before you've decided you're done. The room leans into cool lighting and a central bar that keeps things lively, and the cocktail list holds its own alongside the food. The crowd skews toward people who know how to split a bill twelve ways without drama.
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Rank 11. Luca Restaurant
Italian
Servers in white jackets move through a room of crisp linens and glass chandeliers, which tells you everything about the register before you've opened the menu. This is a polished Italian dining room with a short, focused menu that runs from whipped ricotta bruschetta through gourmet pastas to lobster risotto and a pistachio-crusted lamb rack. The wine list leans Italian, and the cocktail program covers both the spirited and the sober.
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Rank 11. Orchard
Modern Mediterranean
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Rank 11. The Coup
Vegetarian Pan-Asian
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Rank 11. Vero Bistro Moderne
Modern Italian
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Rank 23. Francine’s
French
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- Canada's 100 Best Canada's 100 Best: Recommends
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Rank 23. Penny Crown
American
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- Canada's 100 Best Canada's 100 Best: Recommends
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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Chandeliers hang over a dining room full of ornate flourishes and soaring windows, which sets the stage for an Indian restaurant that doesn't do anything quietly. The menu covers serious ground: tandoor specialties, dosas, idlis, biryanis, curries, and a long run of snacks to graze through before you commit to a main. Themed craft cocktails keep the evening moving. A good pick when you want the full occasion, not just a meal.
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- AAA AAA: Approved
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- Air Canada Air Canada: 2015 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
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