The Top 100 Restaurants Near ELLIPSIS
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Rank 2. 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 2024 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Chef of the Year · Angus An
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Thai
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Rank 3. 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 2024 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Steakhouses
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Rank 4. Farmer's Apprentice
Contemporary
A narrow room filled with neighborhood regulars shares Chef Alden Ong's produce-driven cooking—striped bass crusted with shrimp and finished in XO sauce, kale rapini swimmy with vadouvan butter, daily sourdough that asks no permission. Weekend lunch pivots to Basta Barbecue, where Filipino-Tausug beef cheeks arrive tender enough to surrender to buttery lettuce and sunchoke kimchi.
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Rank 5. 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 6. 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 7. Giardino
Tuscan Italian
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Bobby Copiak
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Hall of Fame · Umberto Menghi
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Italian
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Rank 8. 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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- 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 10. 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 12. 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 13. 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 14. Maxine's
European
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Premier Crew · Nick Bertoia
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Winner · Best Brunch Experience
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Runner Up · Best Patio Experience
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Rank 15. Nook
Italian
Nook is a casual Italian spot where you can grab a bowl of housemade pasta and a glass of wine without ceremony or fuss. The kitchen keeps things straightforward—think seasonal vegetables, quality ingredients, and the kind of food that tastes like someone actually wants to feed you well.
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 16. 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 17. 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 2024 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Middle Eastern
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Middle Eastern
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Rank 18. Fable Kitchen
Contemporary
Red brick and open kitchen define this Kitsilano cafe, where farm-sourced breakfasts arrive with architectural precision—eggs Benedict, challah French toast, golden rosti—and a crowd that hasn't thinned in over a decade. Dinner pivots to short rib and polenta, sustaining the same unfussy competence that makes a side of potatoes feel essential.
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Rank 19. 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 20. 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 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Fine Dining
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Rank 21. Tasty Indian Bistro
Indian
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Indian
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Indian
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Indian
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Rank 22. 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 24. 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 25. 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 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best French
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Rank 28. Octopus' Garden
Japanese
Octopus tentacles colonize every wall of this long-running sushi shop on Cornwall Avenue, where kitsch dissolves into genuine hospitality. The fish arrives supremely fresh—moist saba, snappy spot prawn—and the kitchen toys with tradition: tempura lobster nestled in avocado, jellyfish in garlic ponzu. A place that turns curious diners into regulars.
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Rank 29. 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 30. Salmon n' Bannock
Indigenous
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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. Thai Basil
Thai
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Rank 35. 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 36. 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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- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Indian
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
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Rank 38. Au Comptoir
Classic French
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Rank 39. 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 40. Thai Basil
Thai
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Rank 41. Dovetail
California-Inspired
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Winner · New Venue of the Year
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Cocktail Experience
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Rank 43. 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
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Canada's 100 Best 2025 · #4 · Best New Restaurants
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Rank 44. 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 46. A.BENTO
Taiwanese
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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 50. Sushi Jin
Sushi
A six-seat counter in an unmarked storefront serves omakase with distinctive refinement: live lobster sashimi with caviar, ankimo in ponzu, nigiri balanced between sweet and salty. The chef's restraint elevates each course without flourish.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Upscale Japanese
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Rank 51. 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.
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 2 Pins
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Hotel Bar
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Rank 52. 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 54. 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 55. CinCin
Italian
CinCin's wood-fired kitchen and handmade pasta have anchored Robson Street for years, turning out Alberta lamb that's still pink and perfect alongside delicate rigatoni dressed with nothing more than stracciatella and restraint. It's a polished, grown-up spot where consistency matters more than novelty, and that reliability is exactly the point.
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Italian
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Upscale Italian
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Italian
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Rank 57. 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 58. Maruhachi Ra-men
Japanese 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 59. Mott 32
Chinese
A soaring downtown dining room with polished service sets the stage for Mott 32's refined Chinese cuisine, where the famed applewood-roasted Peking duck shares the spotlight with delicate hot-and-sour soup dumplings. The kitchen moves beyond showstoppers to excel at the small things—stir-fried broccoli with ginkgo and red dates, mapo tofu with lobster—with enough swagger to remind you this is a special-occasion room that doesn't take itself too seriously.
- Chinese Restaurant Awards 2025 · Top 50 Honourees · Elite 30 Canada
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chinese
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chinese
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- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Editors’ Choice · Restaurant Awards: Best After-Work Hang
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Rank 61. Japadog
Japanese
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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 63. Fanny Bay Oyster Bar
Seafood
At Fanny Bay Oyster Bar, the raw bar gleams with oysters from the restaurant's own farms, while grilled specimens arrive hot and buttery, topped with herb gremolata. The sablefish collar—crisped and sided with peppadew and shishito—confirms a kitchen that treats seafood as something alive, not mere protein.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Seafood
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Rank 64. 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 65. Per Se Social Corner
Italian
A corner room where the menu pivots easily from a quick tapa to a full meal, the service unhurried and genuinely warm. The lobster and crab ravioli arrives in a chipotle coconut broth that justifies the return visit alone.
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Rank 67. Karma Indian Bistro
Indian
Soft wood and brass light the room at this sophisticated bistro on Fourth Avenue, where a chef balances tradition with invention. Chicken Madras arrives deeply spiced alongside coconut rice; jumbo prawns swim in spinach purée. The saffron rice pudding and mango ice cream are worth saving space for.
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Rank 68. H Tasting Lounge
Vancouver
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- VineRoutes 2025 · Vine Award Winners · Restaurant Awards
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Editors’ Choice · Restaurant Awards: Best Patios
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Patio Experience
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
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- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Elizabeth Blau - Blau + Associates
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Steakhouses
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Rank 73. Din Tai Fung
Taiwanese Chinese
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Rank 74. 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 75. Ban Bu Xian
Sichuan Chinese
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Rank 76. Nook
Italian
A casual neighborhood Italian spot that somehow feels like a local favorite everywhere it opens, with standbys like rigatoni boscaiola and port-glazed chicken liver crostini that justify the repeat visits. The specials—particularly the tomato-forward pastas when summer produce peaks—are where the chef's actual thinking shows through.
- 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 77. 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 78. Dante Italian Sandwich
Italian
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Rank 79. Straight Brooklyn Pizza
Neapolitan Pizza
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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 81. 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 83. Nightingale
Wood-fired Pizza
The lofty dining room draws business crowds at lunch, but Nightingale works equally well for casual dinners with friends—a place where rustic, seasonal cooking from a wood-fired oven (blistered Neapolitan pizzas, roasted sweet potatoes with xo sauce) and a roster of shareable plates feel neither fussy nor precious. Desserts like peaches-and-cream cheesecake complete the meal without ceremony.
- Air Canada 2016 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Informal Contemporary
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Restaurant Awards: Sommelier of the Year · Chris Rielly
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Rank 84. Café Medina
Mediterranean
Café Medina hums with the clatter of espresso cups and the shuffle of locals queuing for Belgian waffles, their kitchen exhaling steam and the smell of saffron all morning long. The paella—orzo studded with chorizo, vegetables, avocado, and a perfect fried egg—arrives as a small argument for staying put.
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Rank 85. C|PRIME
Italian
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Rank 86. Tetsu
Omakase Sushi
Three counter seats, two chefs, and a stripped-down philosophy: no gold leaf or showmanship, just impeccable fish and careful technique. A meal unfolds through poached mackerel with mountain potato, tender octopus in soy-dashi, and nigiri of aged snapper and creamy cutlass fish. Restraint as a form of respect.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Silver Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Japanese
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Upscale Japanese
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Rank 87. 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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- Air Canada 2013 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Mediterranean
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Rank 90. Pinche Taco Shop
Mexican
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Rank 92. 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 93. Tayybeh
Syrian Middle Eastern
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Rank 95. Miku
Japanese
Harbor views frame a kitchen where French and Italian techniques enliven Japanese foundations, with Ocean Wise seafood paired against refined sauces that feel neither fussy nor expensive. The aburi salmon oshi sushi—wild sockeye, jalapeño, house-made condiment—arrives as something between technique and emotion, the kind of dish that makes you understand why people keep coming back.
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Fine Dining Experience
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Casual Japanese
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Rank 96. Sushi Masuda
Sushi
Six seats behind a print shop, Chef Yoji Masuda constructs sushi with Tokyo precision and quiet confidence. Each course—from monkfish liver to pristine nigiri—moves with the grace of someone uninterested in grandeur.
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Rank 97. Maruhachi Ra-men
Noodles
- Vancouver Magazine 2024 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Honourable Mention · Restaurant Awards: Best Chain
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
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Rank 98. 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 100. Carlino
Northern Italian
Tucked on a hotel terrace, this dining room channels the alpine borderlands of Friuli with quiet sophistication. Freshly made cjarsons arrive topped with poppy seed butter; a braised cabbage agrodolce cuts through rich Milanese cutlet. The kitchen sources locally and lets seasonal produce speak, Italian restraint as philosophy.