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  1. Lumache is a sixteen-seat Italian pasta room where the water boils close enough to the tables that glasses fog, all of it lit by drippy candles and scored by yacht rock. There's a multi-course tasting, though ordering a la carte lets you keep better track of the damage. Seats vanish in monthly booking drops, so people sign up for the waitlist or show up at opening and plead, politely, with real conviction.


  2. Rank 783. Maiiz

    Taqueria


  3. Rank 783. March

    Cantonese

    March is a tiny Cantonese spot where the chef works the kitchen solo, which means the pace is set by one person and her wok. She may roll in after you've been seated, and she may hand you a deck of Uno cards while the smashed cucumber salad comes together. In exchange, dishes land the second they're done, so the jian buns arrive scalding and the eggplant has the sticky-sweet edge of something fried too hard on purpose.


  4. Rank 783. Nina Pizza Napolitaine

    Neapolitan Pizzeria

    Nina is a casual Neapolitan pizzeria, and the pies come out in about 90 seconds, which is roughly how long it takes to decide between the housemade 'nduja and the rosemary ham. The cheeses come from nearby Charlevoix, and a natural-leaning red is on hand to go with them. There are two locations, one on the tourist-heavy rue St-Jean and one in St-Roch, plus delivery to your hotel for anyone who's given up on pants. Kids are welcome.


  5. Red Fish Blue Fish is a converted shipping container on the Victoria waterfront, which makes it the rare seafood spot where the kitchen is also technically cargo. You order at the window, wait in a line that grows with the cruise ships, and eat standing at a ledge over the water with fish and chips, chowder, and fries that come with a spot prawn mayo. It's cheap, casual, and The Infatuation lists it among the best restaurants in Victoria.


    Address
    1006 Wharf St, Victoria, British Columbia · Victoria
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–7 PM

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    2128 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC · Vancouver
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    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–10 PM

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    69 Rue St-Zotique E, Montréal QC · Montréal
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    Open now, until 7:30 PM

    Friday 7:30 AM–7:30 PM

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  8. Serena's is a counter-service pizza and hoagie shop on Fort Street that looks like a Philadelphia dive arrived by tornado and decided to stay. The mozzarella sticks wear a coat of crushed Doritos, and the cookies are roughly hubcap-sized. Order a single sausage slice on your way somewhere else, or haul home a few square pies and garlic knots for a group. The cheesesteak gets just enough whiz to season your lips.


    Address
    766 Fort St, Victoria, British Columbia · Victoria
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–10 PM

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  9. Shiraz is a Persian restaurant in a stone-walled basement on Grande Allée, handy for a post-museum dinner when you'd like your culture followed by lamb. The owners will walk you through the menu and, if you linger, their life story, so budget the time. It's bring-your-own-bottle, the back room has hosted visiting singers, and the dizi arrives in two courses, which feels like a plot twist.



  10. Address
    1 Westmount Sq, Westmount QC · Westmount
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10:30 PM

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  11. Rank 783. Tourist

    Wine Bar

    Tourist is a tiny wine bar on Blanshard where the reds come chilled and poured into stemware small enough to make you feel oversized. The cheeseburger and the mountain of fried potatoes are the move, and the bottles skew toward small-batch producers from Salt Spring Island. It's a shoebox lit by LED strips, so come after dark, when it looks like a mood board that got built.


  12. This is a casual Trinidadian counter spot in a residential stretch of Saanich, where the roti arrives as a hefty pocket stuffed with turmeric-stained chana and potato or braised pork with a kick that rivals espresso. You eat in a room covered in a tropical mural, fizzy Tings in hand, while a throwback playlist runs on a loop that has absolutely, at some point, rickrolled you. It's lunch-priced and ready for jeans.


  13. Uchida is a small, quiet Japanese lunch spot in downtown Victoria built around chirashi donburi, a bowl of raw fish over seasoned sushi rice. The albacore zuke, soaked in a mild marinade, is the move, and a tart green salad comes along for the ride. The room is so hushed the staff seem to be shelving the sashimi rather than serving it, which suits anyone recovering from the Bug Zoo down the block.


  14. Vignoble Les Ouches is a seasonal winery on Île d'Orléans, a half-hour drive from Québec City, where you sip flights at picnic tables under umbrellas and look out over the vines. There's trout gravlax to go with the organic chardonnay and a pétanque court for when the wine kicks in. Dress code is whatever survived the drive, and kids and leashed dogs are welcome.



  15. Address
    2506 Douglas St, Victoria, British Columbia · Victoria
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM

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  16. Rank 817. Lulu Bar

    Hawaiian


    Address
    510 17th Ave, Calgary, AB · Calgary
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–1 AM

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    892 Queen St W, Toronto, ON · Toronto
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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  18. Address
    286 Ch Coulombe, L'Étang-du-Nord QC · L'Étang-du-Nord
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–Midnight

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  19. Rank 819. Arthurs Nosh Bar

    Creative Jewish



  20. Address
    11382 Rang de la Fresnière, Mirabel QC · Mirabel
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  21. Address
    6500 avenue Christophe-Colomb, Montreal QC · Montréal
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    Open now, until 6:30 PM

    Friday 7:30 AM–6:30 PM

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  22. Address
    108-465 Rue Notre-Dame, Repentigny QC · Repentigny
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–10 PM

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  23. Address
    115 Av Laurier Ouest, Montréal QC · Montréal
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    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–11:59 PM

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  24. Rank 819. Bernie Beigne

    Doughnut Shop



  25. Address
    4354 Rue Wellington, Montreal QC · Verdun
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    Open now, until 8 PM

    Friday 9 AM–8 PM

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  26. Address
    65 St-Zotique Est, Montréal QC · Montréal
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10 PM

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  27. Address
    845 Rue St-Pierre, Terrebonne QC · Terrebonne
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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  28. Rank 819. Buvette Chez Simone

    Natural Wine Bar


    Address
    4869 Avenue du Parc, Montréal QC · Montréal
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4 PM

    Friday 4 PM–1 AM

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  29. Address
    124 Rue St-Viateur O, Montréal QC · Montréal
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    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 6 AM–Midnight

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  30. Rank 819. Chez Saint-Pierre

    Seasonal French

    A five-course seasonal restaurant in Rimouski that looks like a forest cabin and cooks like a Paris address that takes itself seriously. The chef is a devoted steward of the Saint Lawrence Lowlands, working with small local producers and foraged ingredients on a menu that shifts every month. Everyone sits down and eats together, which either sounds charming or alarming depending on your mood.



  31. Address
    G101-360 Saint-Jacques Street, Montréal QC · Montréal
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–3 PM

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  32. Rank 819. Estiatorio Milos

    Fine-dining Greek


  33. Rank 819. Fairmount Bagel

    Bagel Shop






  34. A drive-in fast food joint housed inside a giant orange the size of a small building, which is either architecture or a very committed fruit stand. The menu runs on hot dogs, fries, and the house orange drink, whose recipe stays locked away like state secrets. Prices are pocket change, no dress code applies, and the line moves fast, partly because everyone already knows what they want.



  35. Address
    3041 Rue Notre-Dame Ouest, Montréal QC · Montréal
    Hours

    Open now, until 1 AM

    Friday 5 AM–1 AM

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  36. Address
    1320 Rue Bélanger, Montréal QC · Montréal
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–10 PM

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  37. Rank 819. Kem CoBa

    Homemade Ice Cream Shop



  38. Address
    185 Rue Principale, St-Sauveur QC · Saint-Sauveur
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–2 AM

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  39. Rank 819. La Bine

    Boulangerie


    Address
    2966 Ch Ste-Marie, Mascouche QC · Mascouche
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    Open now, until 6 PM

    Friday 8 AM–6 PM

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  40. This seafood restaurant in Percé started life as a youth hostel for hippies and beatniks, and a few of the era's more radical guests left graffiti that's still on the ceiling. These days the revolution mostly involves splitting a seafood platter or a pizza on the terrace, with Rocher Percé sitting right there like a very large, very patient waiter. It's a casual, sit-down spot, and the view does a lot of the heavy lifting.



  41. Address
    1810 Route 223, Beloeil QC · Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11:30 AM

    Friday 11:30 AM–2 PM, 5 PM–9:30 PM

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  42. Rank 819. Mano Cornuto

    Italian Café


    Address
    988 Rue Ottawa, Montréal QC · Montréal
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

    Reserve
    Resy
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  43. Address
    37 Place Bourget N, Joliette QC · Joliette
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    Open now, until 3 PM

    Friday 7 AM–3 PM

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    1 Rue de la Rivière, Clermont QC · Clermont
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–7 PM

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  45. Address
    485 Boul des Laurentides, Saint-Sauveur QC · Piedmont
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    Open now, until 3 PM

    Friday 9 AM–3 PM, 5:30 PM–9 PM

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  46. Address
    111 Rank 2 Gravel, Ferme-Neuve, QC · Ferme-Neuve
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    Open now, until 8 PM

    Friday 9 AM–8 PM

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  47. Address
    351 St-Paul Ouest, Montréal QC · Montréal
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    Open now, until 4 PM

    Friday 8 AM–4 PM

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  48. Address
    241 Boulevard Curé-Labelle, Ste-Rose QC · Sainte-Rose
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–10:30 PM

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  49. Address
    778 Rue St-Jean, Québec QC · Québec
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    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–5 PM

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  50. Address
    156A Av Laurier Quest, Montréal QC · Montréal
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–2 PM, 6 PM–9:30 PM

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  51. Address
    387 Rue Racine E, Chicoutimi QC · Chicoutimi
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–9:30 PM

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  52. Address
    3721 Notre-Dame Ouest Montréal QC · Montréal
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–11 PM

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  53. Address
    263 rue St-Viateur O, Montréal QC · Montréal
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    Open now, until midnight

    Friday 6 AM–Midnight

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  54. Address
    365 Rue Racine E, Chicoutimi QC · Chicoutimi
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    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–Midnight

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  55. Address
    106 Bloomfield Main St, Prince Edward, ON · Bloomfield
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 4:30 PM

    Friday 4:30 PM–9 PM

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  56. Address
    5445 Lakeshore Rd, Kelowna, BC · Kelowna
    Hours

    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–2:30 PM, 5 PM–8:30 PM

    Reserve
    OpenTable
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  57. Address
    2854 Peatt Rd #105, Langford, BC · Langford
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 8 AM

    Friday 8 AM–4 PM

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  58. Address
    5524 Rue Saint-Patrick #200, Montréal, QC · Montréal
    Hours

    Open now, until 3 PM

    Friday 8 AM–3 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  59. Address
    12431 102 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB · Edmonton
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11 PM

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  60. The panzerotti here is a golden, deep-fried pocket that weighs close to two pounds, stuffed with mozzarella and pepperoni until it barely holds together. This no-frills Richmond Hill pizza joint has been around forever, and the regulars know to keep it simple. Wings and kitchen-sink salads round out the menu, but the panzerotti is the reason the place has a reputation that reaches well past the suburbs.


  61. Rank 884. Bar Tartare

    Wine Bar

    The fridges here run deep with natural, low-intervention, and unfiltered wines from B.C. and further afield, and the staff will pop a cork in your direction before you've even settled in. Bar Tartare is a wine bar tucked inside the Birds and the Beets cafe on Alexander, with a short food menu anchored by the tartare the name promises. Guest chefs rotate through on nights, so the kitchen is never quite the same twice.


    Address
    54 Alexander St, Vancouver BC · Vancouver
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 5 PM

    Friday 5 PM–11:59 PM

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  62. Address
    1418 Dundas St W, Toronto ON · Toronto
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–10 PM

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  63. A cheese vault holding a million dollars' worth of age-ripened wheels is the main character here, and yes, you can tour it. This west-end fromagerie and gourmet grocery has grown into a sprawling emporium stocked with over 500 varieties of cheese alongside charcuterie, truffles, olive oils, and prepared foods. A wine bar sits upstairs for when the tasting gets serious. The kind of place where you arrive for one wedge and leave needing a second bag.


  64. Low-intervention wines and sake anchor the menu at this Hastings-Sunrise wine bar, where small plates shift with the seasons and the bottle shop keeps locals dropping by even when they're not staying for dinner. The patio fills up in summer, the room pulls everyone back in come fall, and next door the team runs a shop selling homewares and beef fat from their sibling restaurant, which is exactly the kind of neighborhood ecosystem this stretch of East Hastings deserves.



  65. Address
    360 Robson St, Vancouver BC · Vancouver
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 11 AM

    Friday 11 AM–7 PM

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  66. Rank 884. Emmer

    Italian Bakery

    The croissants here leave evidence, buttery and flaky enough that you'll be picking debris off your shirt for the rest of the morning. This Harbord Street bakery has built a following around laminated pastry and long-fermented sourdough, with savory Saturday specials that rotate weekly and draw a line of regulars who planned their whole day around it.


    Address
    161 Harbord St, Toronto ON · Toronto
    Hours

    Open now, until 4 PM

    Friday 9 AM–4 PM

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  67. The chef here prefers "thoughtfully remixed" to "Asian fusion," which is fair enough given that his scrambled eggs hide scallops and tiger prawns in the curds. This progressive restaurant in Thornhill runs a modernist, jade-toned room that pulls in a genuinely mixed crowd, from scruffy Gen Z to Birkin-toting regulars. The fried chicken between black sesame waffles with honey butter is the kind of dish that makes you stop mid-sentence.


    Address
    98 & 99-505 Highway 7 Thornhill ON · Markham
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 10 AM

    Friday 10 AM–3:30 PM, 5 PM–10 PM

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  68. A covered public market on the waterfront where the gap between tourist trap and excellent picnic is navigable if you know where to look. Oyama Sausage Co does mortadella and cured meats worth the detour; Terra Bread handles the carbs; Benton Brothers has the Salt Spring Island cheese. Grab Lee's doughnuts, find a bench on False Creek, and watch the paddleboarders while pretending you had a plan all along.


    Address
    1669 Johnston St, Vancouver BC · Vancouver
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 9 AM

    Friday 9 AM–7 PM

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  69. Rank 884. Itacate

    Mexican


  70. Rank 884. Japadog

    Japanese

    A hot dog topped with teriyaki sauce, Japanese mayo, and a strip of seaweed is either a very good idea or a very weird one, and Japadog has spent years proving it's the former. The original Burrard and Smithe cart is the one to visit, though the small chain has since grown to multiple trucks and storefronts across the city. Anthony Bourdain stopped by for the No Reservations Vancouver episode and left a convert.



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