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  2. A massive stone fireplace anchors the main room of this wood-paneled chalet steakhouse, which has been warming up Banff visitors in a 1930s building long enough to feel like part of the mountain itself. The menu splits its loyalties between Alberta beef and classic Swiss-style fondue, which is a more charming combination than it sounds. Come hungry, come in layers, and don't skip the cheesy doughnuts.

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    512 4 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P0J6 · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–9 PM

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    1213 1st SW, Calgary, AB, Canada · Invermere
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–3 PM

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  10. Family-style Italian in Niagara Falls, where the kitchen sends wave after wave of antipasto, pasta, and pizza to the table until everyone goes quiet. Think of it as a buffet that comes to you, which is a more civilized arrangement than anyone usually manages at a buffet. Solo diners or smaller appetites can order from the regular menu instead. The send-off is a little box of biscotti for the drive home, which is a genuinely Italian move.

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  12. Rank 992. Daphne

    Seafood

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  13. Rank 992. Donatello

    Italian

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  14. Rank 992. El Catrin

    Mexican

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  15. Rank 992. FinePrint

    Modern French

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    113 8 Ave SW, Calgary, AB · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  21. Rank 992. 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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    211 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–11 PM

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    110 8th Avenue SW, Calgary, AB · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–3:45 PM

  23. Rank 992. Lapinou

    European

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  26. 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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    5875 Falls Ave., Niagara Falls, ON · Niagara Falls
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  29. Rank 992. Orchard

    Modern Mediterranean

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    Address
    620 10 Ave SW #134, Calgary, AB · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

  30. Rank 992. Petros82

    Greek Seafood

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    26, rue St-Louis, Québec, QC · Québec
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–10:30 PM

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    211 10 Ave SW, Calgary, AB · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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  41. Directly across from the Four Seasons Centre, this polished Vietnamese restaurant fills its large dining room with booths, bar stools, and enough greenery to suggest someone actually tends it. The menu leans on traditional recipes, and the coconut curry, available with duck, chicken, or shrimp, gets most of the attention. The timing is convenient if you're catching a ballet and want something more interesting than a pre-show martini.

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  46. Rank 992. Tank310

    American Beer Bar

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    1209 1st Street SW, Calgary, AB · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  51. Rank 992. The Coup

    Vegetarian Pan-Asian

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    Address
    924 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB · Calgary
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–10 PM

  52. Rank 992. The Joneses

    American

    A circular bar anchors the room at this casual American comfort spot in the thick of Toronto's financial district. The menu leans into familiar territory, pulled pork mac and cheese, braised short ribs, hearty vegetable casseroles, with enough tweaks to keep things interesting. Sofas and traditional tables share space with a screened patio when the season cooperates, which suits the after-work crowd just fine.

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  53. Rank 992. The Rosebud

    Seasonal French

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    618 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB · Calgary
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–Noon

  56. Rank 992. Vero Bistro Moderne

    Italian-French

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    209 - 10th St. NW, Calgary, AB · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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    322 11 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–11 PM

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  60. Rank 992. Wynona

    Italian

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  62. The dough takes three days to make, which partly explains the line of rain-soaked Vancouverites camped under the East Broadway awning. This is a casual New York pizza joint doing three styles: classic New York, Sicilian, and Detroit. The thick, crispy-edged Detroit pies in particular have developed a following that shows no signs of thinning out, regardless of weather, which in Vancouver is really saying something.


    Address
    325 E Broadway, Vancouver, BC · Vancouver
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    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–Midnight

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  63. Rank 1063. Bar Oso

    Spanish


    Address
    150-4222 village sq, Whistler BC · Whistler
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    Closed now, opens 4:30 PM

    Friday 4:30 PM–Midnight

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  64. Rank 1064. Buckstop

    Barbecue

    Antler chandeliers and flickering candles light a narrow, 32-seat bar in the West End that smells like barbecue and stays open until 2am with a full kitchen running the whole time, which is rarer in Vancouver than it should be. Rock and blues play loud enough that you lean in to talk, and at the chatty bar you'll have made friends before the second round arrives. A genuinely un-Vancouver-ish room, in the warmest possible sense.


  65. Rank 1064. El Caminos

    Mexican Cocktail Bar

    House margaritas come in mugs here, which tells you most of what you need to know about El Caminos. This Mexican cocktail bar on Main Street does the Pacific Northwest version of a dive, all shabby-chic surfaces and pan-Latin classics poured without ceremony. Locals pack it out on weekends and Margarita Mondays draw a crowd that tends to spill onto the sidewalk, so come early or come patient.


    Address
    3250 Main St, Vancouver, BC · Vancouver
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 3 PM

    Friday 3 PM–11 PM

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  66. Rank 1064. Fat City Blues

    New Orleans-inspired Cajun & Creole

    Absinthe comes out the traditional way here, slow drip and all, which tells you where this New Orleans-inspired bar's priorities lie. The cocktail list splits into classics and signatures, and the Louisiana-comfort food is priced like the neighbourhood actually lives here, because it does. Live blues on weekends keeps things from getting too precious. The kind of bar that already has regulars who know the staff by name.


  67. Rank 1064. Linwood Essentials

    Cocktail Bar


  68. Rank 1064. The Granville Room

    Cocktail Bar

    Brick walls, Edison bulbs, and wooden shelves set the cocktail-bar mood, then the flat-screens and thumping house music cheerfully undermine the whole thing. The Granville Room sits on Vancouver's neon-lit strip and leans into it: twenty- and thirty-somethings come here to drink with intention, share some bar food, and not overthink it. Call it a party pub wearing a speakeasy costume, and you've got it about right.


  69. Rank 1064. The Refinery

    Cocktail Bar

    A flight of stairs off Granville Street leads to a low-lit cocktail lounge where nearly everyone is sitting down, cocktail in hand, which sets the mood right away. The team makes their own syrups, vermouths, and preserves for drinks built around local ingredients, and a charcuterie-heavy menu keeps people at the table long enough to order another round. Communal tables and upbeat music give it a party-at-a-friend's-place feel.


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    1115 Granville Street, Vancouver, BC · Vancouver
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7 PM

    Friday 7 PM–1 AM

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  70. A semi-circular tiki bar tucked inside the Waldorf Hotel's entertainment complex on East Hastings. The room is built around a big, curved bar with a red top and a mirror wall behind it that bounces the whole scene back at you. Tiered tables ring the outer edge, leaving floor space for when things get crowded. It shares the building with restaurants and live music venues, so some nights come with a cover; earlier in the week it runs as its own thing, free to wander into.



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    1-60 Bloor St W, Toronto ON · Toronto
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11:59 PM

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    758 Route 310, Souris, PE · Bay Fortune
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    Closed now, opens 2 PM

    Friday 2 PM–6 PM

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    380 Elgin St, Ottawa, ON · Ottawa
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11:59 PM

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    195 Dundas St W, Toronto ON · Toronto
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–Midnight

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    944 Fort St, Victoria BC · Victoria
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–9:15 PM

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    2656 Quadra St, Victoria BC · Victoria
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    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–4:30 PM, 4:30 PM–10 PM

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    26 Powell St, Vancouver BC · Vancouver
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–11 PM

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    45 Grannan St, Saint John, NB · Saint John
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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    81 Harbord St, Toronto, ON · Toronto
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11:30 PM

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  81. Rank 1090. Antica Pizzeria & Ristorante

    Wood-fired Pizzeria

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    809 - 1 Ave NE, Calgary, AB T2E 0C2 · Calgary
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    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–9 PM

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The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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