The best restaurants for upscale in Ottawa, curated by TastyPals editors.
Fast answers for diners searching for upscale restaurants in Ottawa. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
Seau de Crabe sits on Tenth Line Road in Orléans — not the kind of address that appears on anyone's instinctive short-list, but the operation has built a following on a format that resists trend-chasing: shellfish cooked to order, sauced…
Read restaurant page
Twenty years on Bank Street is a track record most Ottawa restaurants cannot come close to matching, and The Whalesbone has spent those two decades refusing to dress itself up as something grander than an oyster house.
Read restaurant page
Pelican Seafood Market & Grill has operated at the intersection of retail fish market and sit-down dining room, with a proper restaurant expansion following in 1996 — an unusual duality that the room appears to treat as a structural argu…
Read restaurant page
Alta Vista is not where Ottawa diners typically look for a considered seafood meal, and Walkley Road has no interest in persuading them otherwise.
Read restaurant page
The Seafood Grill on Merivale Road in Nepean operates on a premise that is rarer than it should be in Ottawa: the fish market and the kitchen are the same business.
Read restaurant page
The Shore Club in Old Ottawa East positions itself as a deliberate occasion — not the kind of room that flatters every Tuesday, but the kind that asks something of you before you walk in.
Read restaurant page
Flipper's Seafood Restaurant has occupied its spot above Von's Bistro on Bank Street for over forty years, reached by a staircase that functions as an informal filter.
Read restaurant page
The top restaurants for upscale in Ottawa include Seau de Crabe Restaurant (Ottawa), The Whalesbone Bank Street, Pelican Seafood Market & Grill. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
Seau de Crabe Restaurant (Ottawa) is among the top-rated options for upscale in Ottawa, with a 9.6 Google rating and 2,024 reviews.
TastyPals curates picks based on Google ratings, community reviews, and editorial judgment. Learn how we choose →
TastyPals for iPhone
Use the web to compare the right spots for this moment, then get personalized picks in the app when you want a sharper shortlist.
Google Play coming soon.
