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French•Vancouver•moderate
St. Lawrence Restaurant
J.C.
date nightdinner
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9.2
Based on 1487 reviews
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Best Restaurants in Vancouver 2026
Ten Vancouver restaurants that define the city's quietly exceptional food culture — from a Railtown Québécois room to a Coal Harbour aburi sushi bar, a Chinatown Japanese-Italian gem, and the Mount Pleasant osteria that makes Sunday dinner feel like the most important meal of the week.
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Italian•Vancouver•moderate
MICHELIN ★
Kissa Tanto
Kissa Tanto is the Bao Bei team's Japanese-Italian restaurant in Vancouver's Chinatown, and by most serious accounts one of the more conceptually coherent fusion projects in the country.
Chinatown dinnerlunchdinner
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9.0
Based on 1721 reviews
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Seafood•Coal Harbour•moderate
Botanist
Botanist occupies a position at the Fairmont Pacific Rim that few hotel restaurants in Canada manage convincingly: a dining room with a reputation that holds independent of its address.
waterfrontdinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 1906 reviews
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Canadian•Vancouver•$$$$
Hawksworth Restaurant
David Hawksworth's flagship room inside the Hotel Georgia has functioned as one of Vancouver's clearest fine-dining reference points since it opened, and its longevity is itself a form of argument.
date night
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8.6
Based on 2058 reviews
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Italian•Vancouver•value
Osteria Savio Volpe
Savio Volpe occupies a particular and deliberate position in Vancouver's Italian restaurant landscape: a wood-fire kitchen in the Fraserhood neighbourhood that operates on osteria logic rather than trattoria convention.
hidden gemdinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 3606 reviews
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Chinese•Chinatown•moderate
Bao Bei
Bao Bei arrived in Vancouver's Chinatown before the neighbourhood became a dining destination, and it is widely credited as one of the rooms that helped make it one.
Chinatown dinnerlunchdinner
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9.0
Based on 1405 reviews
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Scandinavian•Vancouver•$$$$
MICHELIN ★
Published on Main
Published on Main has positioned itself as Mount Pleasant's most wine-serious neighbourhood restaurant — a distinction that, in Vancouver's increasingly crowded casual-dining landscape, carries real weight.
fine diningwine barcocktail
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8.8
Based on 1755 reviews
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Sushi•Downtown•value
Miku Vancouver
Miku holds a particular place in Vancouver's dining landscape as the originator of aburi sushi — a style in which pressed or nigiri sushi is flame-seared to order rather than served raw in the traditional sense.
Sushidinnertakeout
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9.2
Based on 8215 reviews
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Fine Dining•Vancouver•value
MICHELIN ★
AnnaLena
Michael Robbins' Kitsilano restaurant has developed a reputation as one of Vancouver's most coherent dining propositions — a seasonal New Canadian kitchen whose standing rests not on a single marquee dish but on the consistency of a kitc…
dinnerfine diningmichelin star
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9.4
Based on 1718 reviews
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Italian•Vancouver•value
Ask For Luigi Restaurant
Ask for Luigi has occupied a particular place in Vancouver's Italian restaurant conversation for long enough that its reputation is less a matter of buzz and more a matter of record.
hidden gemdinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 3199 reviews
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