The Top 100 Restaurants Near Dublin Crossing Irish Pub
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Rank 1. 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 2. Dublin Crossing Irish Pub
Irish British
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Rank 6. 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 7. Jade Seafood Restaurant
Chinese
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Rank 8. Uno Beef Noodle
Chinese Noodles
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Rank 9. 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 10. 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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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.
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #10 · Best New Restaurants
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #60 · Best Restaurants
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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 13. 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 14. 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 15. 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 16. 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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Rank 17. 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 18. 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 19. 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 20. 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 21. 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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Rank 22. Jiang Nan Wok
Huaiyang Chinese
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Rank 23. 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 24. 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 25. 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 26. 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 27. 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 28. 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 29. Lanxuan Restauant
Cantonese Chinese
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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 31. 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 32. Dosa Corner
Indian
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Rank 33. 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 34. 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 35. 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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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 37. Botanist
Contemporary
Chef Hector Laguna's departure hasn't dulled Botanist's edge—its hand-cut tagliatelle with foraged mushrooms and sourdough chicken remain assured and bold. The adjacent bar laboratory engineers whimsical cocktails like the Raincouver, topped with an edible cloud, alongside a sophisticated gin martini built with kombu and sea asparagus.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Hotel Bar
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Rank 38. Geng Shi Ji
Hunan Chinese
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Rank 39. Blue Water Cafe
Seafood
Frank Pabst has spent decades perfecting the fundamentals at Blue Water Cafe, where a swordfish might arrive cooked to a temperature most chefs only talk about achieving. The service reads your mind before you need anything, which is the kind of polish you'd expect from a fine-dining seafood room that somehow stays unfussy.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Seafood
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Seafood
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Rank 40. Osmanthus
Shanghainese Chinese
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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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- 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 43. 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 44. 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 45. 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 46. Cha Kee
Cantonese Chinese
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Rank 47. 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 48. 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 49. Golden Paramount Seafood Restaurant
Cantonese Seafood
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Rank 50. Boulevard
Seafood
Executive chef Roger Ma elevates pristine seafood—charcoal-grilled sablefish, blue fin tuna—with restrained modern technique and Asian inflection. An opulent room of marble and leather surrounds a versatile menu where house-made pasta and impeccable oysters command equal attention.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #59 · Best Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Chef of the Year · Roger Ma
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Rank 51. 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 52. 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 53. 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 54. Hawksworth
Contemporary
Chef David Hawksworth's restaurant occupies an elegant corner of the Rosewood Hotel Georgia, all shimmering chandeliers and wine-lined walls where the clientele gleams as much as the décor. His cooking traffics in restrained luxury—a mushroom consommé with matsutake and foie gras, agnolotti that balances hazelnut and umami—the kind of refinement that doesn't announce itself.
- 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 55. Bacchus
European-inspired New American
Nestled in the Wedgewood Hotel's hushed lobby, Bacchus wraps you in marble and candlelight while chef Stefan Hartmann serves European cooking with local spine—foie gras terrine with roasted plum, prawns in lobster bisque. The wine list ranges globally; the martinis are formidable.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #67 · Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 56. St. Lawrence
Québécois French
Chef J-C Poirier rotates themed menus at this intimate Vancouver room, reframing French-Canadian classics through seasonal lenses—sugar shack fare in winter, bourgeois bistro cooking in spring. The cooking is refined and ingredient-driven, the wine list focused on small organic producers, the kitchen visible and its aromas inescapable.
- 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 57. 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 58. 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 59. Kilimanjaro Snack House
Ethiopian
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Caribbean
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
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Rank 60. Kissa Tanto
Fusion
In a Chinatown walkup outfitted like a 1960s Tokyo jazz café—rose banquettes, soft light, steely walls—chef Joël Watanabe executes Japanese-Italian fusion with the precision of fine dining. Charcoal udon with Dungeness crab, hand-cut tajarin with miso egg, tiramisu inflected with plum wine: each dish suggests a kitchen fluent in both traditions and committed to seasonal restraint.
- Air Canada 2016 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #15 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 61. 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 62. Memory Corner
Taiwanese Chinese
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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 64. 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 65. 李良记 Xi'An Flavor
Chinese
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Rank 66. Long’s Noodle
Shanghainese Noodles
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Rank 67. Sushi Hyun
Omakase Sushi
Chef Juhyun Lee's six-seat counter unfolds as a spare, ceremonial space where Japanese luxury meets understated Korean inflection through impeccable edomae omakase. The hinoki wood gleams; the fish speaks; service dissolves into attentiveness itself.
- 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 68. 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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- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 70. Moltaqa
Moroccan
Moltaqa tucks into a warren of intimate nooks on Mainland Street, where Moroccan hospitality unfolds through warm service and lingering conversation. A chicken pastilla arrives flaky and dome-shaped, its phyllo shell dusted with cinnamon and powdered sugar, sweet against savory—a dish that justifies the pilgrimage.
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 71. 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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Rank 72. Kalvin’s Szechuen Restaurant
Szechuan Chinese
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Rank 74. L’Abattoir
West Coast French
L'Abattoir pairs French technique with BC ingredients in a warmly lit Gastown mezzanine that feels more convivial than formal. Baked oysters and Fraser Valley duck anchor a menu where even dessert—a buttery mille-feuille with salted honey—shows restrained elegance.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Air Canada 2011 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Upscale Contemporary
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Rank 75. Bamboo Grove Restaurant
Chinese
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Rank 76. Giardino
Tuscan Italian
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Hall of Fame · Umberto Menghi
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Bobby Copiak
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Italian
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Rank 77. Chengdu Street Food
Chengdu Chinese
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Rank 78. 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 79. 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 80. 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 81. Homer St. Cafe
Contemporary American
Homer Street's brick dining room—casual furniture doing double duty as wall art—pivots on a rotisserie chicken brined overnight in house sauce, its skin crisped and glazed with gravy or ranch alongside buttermilk biscuits. The kitchen treats comfort food as a discipline rather than an afterthought, finishing the meal with cheesecake layered in white chocolate, almonds, and quince.
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Nick Bertoia
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 82. Chang ‘An
Shaanxi Chinese
The dining room overlooks Vancouver's waterfront with the confidence of a stage set. Peking duck arrives tableside in a flourish of flambéed rum, its skin shattered into gold, the meat carved with ceremony before the bones yield a second act as peppery broth or rustic stir-fry. Hand-pulled noodles and roasted lamb anchor the Shaanxi repertoire for those who skip the drama.
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Rank 83. 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 84. Baby Dhal Roti
Homestyle Caribbean
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best African and Diaspora
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Rank 85. Ophelía
Mexican
Ophelía's dining room gleams with murals and carved color, a visual feast matching what arrives on the plate. Francisco Higareda cooks his mother's pan-regional Mexican repertoire with precision: corn-crusted octopus swimming in Oaxacan mole blanco, tacos built on locally made tortillas, tres leches cake that tastes like memory. The margaritas are worth the wait for a table.
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Rank 87. Fat Mao
Thai Noodles
Fat Mao Noodles is a casual counter spot where Angus An sends out bold Thai-style broths and noodles that taste like they're made with actual conviction. The hot and sour pork noodle bowls are the thing that keeps people coming back, though the rotating signature soups suggest it's worth ordering something different each time.
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Casual
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Casual
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Casual
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Rank 88. Le Crocodile
French
Rob Feenie has restored Le Crocodile with a lighter hand than expected: the dining room glows with blonde woods and natural light, the French classics—Dover sole, foie gras terrine, poulet à la crème—remain, but their sauces have thinned and their edges sharpened with subtle Asian inflection. This is Feenie's Lumière sensibility applied to an institution, rather than a repudiation of it.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #26 · Best Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Hall of Fame · Michel Jacob
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best French
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Rank 89. Chinatown BBQ
Barbecue
A neighbourhood spot with vintage art on the walls and a steady crowd of regulars, Chinatown BBQ does unfussy Chinese barbecue that's equally good eaten straight from a takeout box or shared family-style around a lazy Susan. The barbecued pork is the everyday star, but if you're after something special, order the Chef's Secret barbecued goose a couple of days ahead.
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · #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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Rank 90. Delara
Modern Persian
Chef Bardia Ilbeiggi's Persian cooking balances tartness, freshness, and warmth—a bowl of aush with barley and legumes could stand alone, yet the beef short rib's tangy depth demands attention. The dining room, suffused with natural light and local Iranian art, feels both calm and alive.
- Air Canada 2022 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Middle Eastern
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Middle Eastern
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Rank 91. Oddfish
Seafood
Behind the scaffolding of a perpetually bustling Kitsilano corner sits an elevated-casual seafood spot where pasta vongole and ceviche draw locals and tourists alike. Staff in Hawaiian shirts work the beach-chic dining room, with a rotating catch-of-the-day sheet that keeps things constantly fresh.
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Seafood
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Seafood
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Rank 92. Lunch Lady
Vietnamese
The fluorescent glow of Lunch Lady on Commercial Drive reveals a straightforward counter operation where Chef Nguyen Thi Thanh's Vietnamese cooking inspires genuine ambivalence—not from doubt, but from abundance. Fried black tiger prawns arrive glossy with fish sauce; garlic noodles coil with casual precision; wagyu beef broth deepens with time. The real challenge is choosing what to forgo.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Vietnamese
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Rank 94. Bao Bei
Chinese
Chef Joël Watanabe's brasserie at the edge of Chinatown trades tradition for invention, elevating humble Chinese classics with precise technique and unexpected elements—fried rice studded with prawns and bitter melon, mantou buns layered with braised pork and miso-serrano aioli. The cooking is playful without being precious, grounded in quality ingredients and a genuine understanding of flavor.
- Air Canada 2010 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chinese
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Rank 96. Bufala
Contemporary Italian
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Rank 97. Chancho
Mexican
A no-frills counter on Commercial Drive where everything hinges on one thing: excellent tacos made with tortillas pressed to order and piled with housemade salsas and rich, shredded pork. Walk in with appetite and cash, grab a few from the window, and eat standing up or find a spot nearby.
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Latin American
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Latin American
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Latin American
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Rank 99. A.BENTO
Taiwanese
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- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain