The Top 64 Places to Drink Near Sonora Resort
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Rank 1. The Keefer Bar
Chinese Cocktail Bar
A cocktail bar in Chinatown that actually leans into its address, pulling traditional Chinese medicine ingredients, baijiu, and the occasional durian into drinks that sound unhinged but somehow work. The crowd is creative and dressed for a night out, not a tasting seminar. Order food, too, since the dim sum and dumplings come from the neighbors. Canada's 100 Best Bars noticed, and they were right to.
- 50 Best 2026 · #7 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
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Rank 2. Bagheera
Indian-inspired Cocktail Bar
The entrance is a fake horse-race bookie joint, and you have to place a bet on King Louie to get in, which means half your group will chicken out and miss a genuinely stunning cocktail bar. Inside, a barrel-shaped ceiling draped in horseshoes and Victorian-era jungle wallpaper sets the mood for Indian-inspired drinks that are more creative than they have any right to be. Curries and pakoras keep things grounded.
- The Pinnacle Guide 1 Pin
- 50 Best 2026 · #59 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Cocktail Experience
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Rank 3. Meo
Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #64 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Bronze Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best New
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Nominee · New Venue of the Year
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Rank 4. Laowai
Shanghai Cocktail Bar
You walk into a dumpling shop, order the number 7, and a freezer door swings open into a teal-and-gold speakeasy dressed like 1920s Shanghai. Laowai holds Canada's largest baijiu selection, and the bartenders actually know what to do with it, whether that's a tasting flight or a Piña Colada riff that somehow works. The crowd is conspiratorial in the best way, everyone quietly smug about knowing the trick. Eat the dumplings too.
- 50 Best 2026 · #72 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Canada
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Rank 5. Botanist
West Coast New American
Perched inside the Fairmont Pacific Rim, Botanist is the kind of upscale restaurant where people actually dress up and mean it, sneakers included. The kitchen leans hard into Pacific Northwest ingredients, wild seafood and Fraser Valley produce, handled with real care. The bar is its own destination, with a cocktail program so theatrically nature-obsessed it comes with edible clouds. A Michelin pick, and worth every bit of the occasion it demands.
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 2 Pins
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · Best International Hotel Bar
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Rank 6. Prophecy
Cocktail Bar
The basement of Hotel Georgia has been many things over the years, and its latest life as a sleek cocktail bar is by far the best one. The drinks look effortless but apparently take months to develop, which you can taste. The crowd skews stylish and knows it, the music is low and moody, and digital art drifts across the walls. Order something off the cocktail menu and let the vibe do the rest.
- The Pinnacle Guide 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Top 10 Nominee · International Bartender of the Year · Jeff Savage
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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Rank 7. Mount Pleasant Vintage & Provisions
Cocktail Bar
A cocktail bar on Canada's 100 Best Bars list that looks like your grandparents' rec room, which is either alarming or exactly the vibe, depending on how you feel about burnt-orange carpet. The drinks are genuinely inventive while the room leans full retro, and the bar snacks lean unabashedly fun. The crowd is relaxed Mount Pleasant locals who appreciate a well-made cocktail but also want tater tots with it. No notes.
- 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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- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Editors’ Choice · Restaurant Awards: Best Wine Bars
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Vancouver
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Tucked inside the Fairmont Pacific Rim, this hotel lounge punches well above its minibar. The marble bar, fireplace, and nightly live music make it feel genuinely glamorous rather than just expensive, and the sushi and raw bar snacks give you a real reason to linger beyond a nightcap. The crowd skews hotel guests in good coats and locals who know a well-designed room when they see one.
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 11. Di Beppe
Italian
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee Shops In Vancouver, BC
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Runner Up · Best Pizza Experience
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If you blink, you'll miss the entrance, which is sort of the point. This moody coffee shop on Hastings hides behind a concrete cylinder and opens into something that feels like a cave designed by someone who actually liked caves, all moss walls and dark wood. The staff will ask what flavors you're into before recommending anything, and they mean it. Grab a waffle donut while you're at it.
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A coffee shop that looks like it was grown rather than built, Nemesis sits beside Emily Carr University and draws art students, cyclists rolling off the nearby greenway, and people who definitely own a good camera. The wood-and-rose-petal architecture earns its reputation, but the coffee holds its own too, with carefully sourced beans and proper pour-overs. Someone brings your order to the table, which feels like a small luxury.
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- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee Shops In Vancouver, BC
- Sprudge The Sprudge Guide To Coffee Shops In Vancouver, BC
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Rank 16. 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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Kafka's is the kind of coffee shop that actually wants you to stay, with a loft upstairs and a long counter perfect for settling in with a laptop or a novel you keep meaning to finish. Arts students, professors, and the quietly productive crowd all coexist here without anyone feeling out of place. The single-origin beans are taken seriously, and the chocolate chip cookie is exactly as reliable as a cookie should be.
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Rank 18. June
Bistro French
This French bistro on Cambie has become one of those rooms where everyone looks slightly better than they probably deserve, thanks to a sultry red interior and food that commits fully to the idea of comfort as an art form. The cocktail list is genuinely worth the trip on its own. The crowd skews date-night and industry, the kind of people who order another round before the first one's done.
- 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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Nemesis is a coffee shop that earns the detour on looks alone, tucked next to Emily Carr University in a wood-and-rose-petal structure so photogenic that art students have basically made it their living room. The coffee is the real reason to show up, though, with single-origin pour-overs roasted in-house from farms the team actually visits. Pastries come fresh daily, orders are brought to your table, and the sunny brick plaza makes it very easy to lose an afternoon.
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Rank 21. Good Thief
Vietnamese
Pull back the velvet curtain and you're in a moody Vietnamese cocktail bar where the drinks taste like someone ran a bowl of phở through a liquor cabinet, and somehow it works. Good Thief holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and earns it, with small plates built for sharing and cocktails sharp enough that the spirit-free versions still hold their own. The crowd leans young, loud, and happily committed to staying late.
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #44 · Best Bars
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
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The great thing about Small Victory is that you genuinely can't tell if it's a bakery that makes great coffee or a coffee shop that makes great pastries, and after one visit you stop caring. The wood beams, marble tables, and brass rod geometry give it a polished but cozy feel, and the counter stools are always full of people pretending to work. Go hungry, because the pastry case will ambush you on your way to order.
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Pallet is a specialty coffee roaster with cafes across Vancouver, and this Railtown spot doubles as their roastery, so the coffee is about as fresh as it gets. The crowd is a good mix of laptop workers, design students, and locals who take their long black seriously. The space is big, bright, and industrial without trying too hard. Grab a pastry and stay a while, there's plenty of room to actually spread out.
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Pallet is a specialty coffee roaster with cafes around Vancouver, and this downtown spot in the historic Jameson House building draws the kind of crowd that actually knows what single-origin means but isn't weird about it. The space is bright and airy, the pastries are solid, and the long black hits right. Come for good coffee without the pretension, stay because the wifi works and nobody's rushing you out.
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Tucked behind a concrete cylinder on a busy block, Prototype is a specialty coffee shop that feels like a very stylish cave, all moss walls and dark wood with angles that somehow suggest stalactites. The staff will actually ask what flavors you like before recommending something, which sounds gimmicky until it works. They roast small batches in-house and make waffle donuts to go with. Bring your laptop or a date who's into it.
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Rank 26. Lala
Cocktail Bar
Tucked beneath a brasserie on Cambie, Lala is a basement cocktail bar with the warm, curved vibe of a vintage rec room, all golden light and retro speakers. Some of the city's best vinyl DJs spin nightly, so it actually sounds as good as it looks. The cocktails are genuinely creative without being annoying about it. The crowd figures out pretty quickly that this is the real destination, not the restaurant upstairs.
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- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New International Cocktail Bar – Canada
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Runner Up · Best Cocktail Experience
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Rank 31. Chez Céline
French
A cozy French casse-croûte on Fraser that pulls off the trick of feeling like your neighbourhood spot even on the first visit. The menu leans classic but moves with the seasons, and the kitchen has a light touch that keeps things tasting like food instead of technique. It's the kind of room where regulars look dangerously comfortable, and you'll understand why after one meal.
- 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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Turks Coffee Bar has been a Commercial Drive institution forever, the kind of dark, lived-in coffee shop where nobody's performing for anyone. The sign reads "non-conforming since 1992," which tells you everything about the vibe: community table regulars, park wanderers drifting in from Grandview across the street, the full neighborhood spectrum. The coffee is serious without being snobby, roasted in-house and served straight at the bar.
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Rank 34. Kissa Tanto
Fusion
Upstairs in a Chinatown building that gives nothing away from the street, this Michelin-starred fine dining room does Japanese-Italian fusion in a way that actually makes sense. The moody rose-hued banquettes and low lighting draw a well-dressed crowd who came to linger. The kitchen blends miso and pasta and Pacific seafood without forcing it, and the drinks list matches cult Japanese whiskies against Italian amari like it was always obvious.
- Air Canada 2016 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Canada's 100 Best 2026 · #15 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 35. Jungle Room
Rainforest
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Rank 36. St. Lawrence
Québécois French
St. Lawrence is a Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant in a cozy, jewel-box room where the cooking is rooted in Québécois French tradition but keeps reinventing itself with seasonal themed menus. Think elevated sugar shack, then classic French bourgeois cooking, then something else entirely. The crowd leans date-night and special-occasion, everyone a little dressed up and leaning in. The foie gras éclair alone is worth the trip.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Air Canada 2018 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best French Cuisine Restaurant
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Pallet is a specialty coffee roaster with a cafe attached, so you're getting beans they roasted in the back room rather than something that arrived on a truck last month. The Railtown location draws the creative-freelancer crowd, laptops open, headphones around their necks, clearly not in a rush. It's bright and airy inside despite the industrial bones, and the pastries are worth grabbing. Order a long black and settle in.
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Rank 39. Published on Main
Contemporary New American
Published on Main has a Michelin star and a spot on Canada's 100 Best, and it earns both without trying to impress you. It's a fine dining tasting menu spot on Main Street where the chef pulls from Nordic fermentation traditions, West Coast ingredients, and a Manitoban upbringing, somehow making all three feel inevitable together. The room is bright and plant-filled, and the crowd skews curious rather than stuffy. Bar seats and à la carte are available if commitment issues are a concern.
- 50 Best #17 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Canada
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Tucked just outside Granville Island in a building designed by Arthur Erickson, Oidé Coffee is the kind of sleek, concrete coffee shop where the baristas describe their tasting notes from memory, not the bag. The crowd skews creative, the benches fill up with laptop workers and journal writers, and the rotating beans are taken seriously without anyone making you feel bad about it. Worth the detour.
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Nemesis is a coffee shop that doubles as an architectural flex, with a wood-and-rose-petal structure that makes art students and cyclists stop mid-stride. The coffee is the real draw, though, with single-origin beans roasted in-house and pour-overs that actually justify the wait. Pastries from Dope Bakehouse rotate constantly and pair well with the soft, gallery-quiet interior. Your order gets brought to the table, which feels unexpectedly civilized.
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Pallet is a specialty coffee roaster with cafes across Vancouver, and the Kingsway location brings the same bright, welcoming energy the brand is known for. The crowd skews laptop-open and unhurried, the kind of people who actually taste their coffee rather than just survive on it. The beans are serious, the space is airy, and the pastries are genuinely good. Go when you need a real cup and a place that won't rush you out the door.
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Pallet is a specialty coffee roaster with cafes scattered around Vancouver, and the Railtown flagship is the one worth seeking out. The roastery hums away behind the coffee bar, the space is airy and industrial with high ceilings, and the crowd is a reliable mix of remote workers and people who actually know what a long black is. Grab a pastry, find a seat, and stay longer than you planned.
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Pallet is a specialty coffee roaster with cafes across Vancouver, and the Kitsilano location on West Broadway pulls in the laptop crowd and weekend walkers in equal measure. The coffee is serious without being snooty, the kind of place where the baristas actually know what they're doing. Grab a long black if you're feeling bold, pair it with a pastry, and settle in. The vibe is bright and relaxed, easy to spend more time in than you planned.
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Rank 47. Container Brewing
New England-Inspired
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Craft Brewery Experience
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Patio Experience
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Rank 50. 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 51. Elisa
Steakhouse
Yaletown's most serious steakhouse does something most don't: it butchers its own meat next door, which tells you everything about how this place operates. The open-fire kitchen runs like quiet theatre, and the room pulls in the kind of crowd that orders wagyu without blinking. BC local cuts, US Prime, and Japanese wagyu all get the same careful treatment. One of the World's Best Steak Restaurants, and it earns it.
- 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 54. Mansion Nightclub
South Beach-Inspired
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- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Nominee · Nightclub of the Year
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Subculture Experience
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Rank 56. The Acorn
Vegetarian
Vegetarian fine dining that actually earns the word "fine," The Acorn has been a Mount Pleasant staple for years and holds a Michelin selection to prove it. The kitchen sources obsessively from BC suppliers and treats sustainability as a real practice, not a talking point. The crowd skews creative and eco-conscious, the kind of people who read the menu like a novel. First-timers should let the tasting menu do the talking.
- Air Canada 2013 · Top 10 · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2026 · Restaurant Awards: Sustainability Award
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 57. Bravo
Seafood
A buzzy, seafood-focused neighborhood spot on Fraser that punches well above its zip code, with a Michelin nod and a Vancouver Magazine award to back it up. The menu is small and changes often, built around bold, punchy flavors and a serious dry-aged fish program you won't find many places doing this well. The room has real energy, the bar is thoughtful, and the crowd is the kind that actually knows what they ordered.
- Air Canada 2024 · Finalist · Best New Restaurants
- Vancouver Magazine 2025 · Gold Medal · Restaurant Awards: Best Informal Contemporary
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 58. Stanley Park Brewing
West Coast-Inspired
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- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Nominee · Nightclub of the Year
- Golden Owl Awards 2024 · Runner Up · Best Hotel Lounge Experience
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Elizabeth Blau - Blau + Associates
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