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Bakery•North Vancouver•value
Dip Co. Sandwich & Focabari Bakery
Dip Co.
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9.8
Based on 850 reviews
Best waterfront Restaurants in Vancouver: 35 Picks for 2026
The best restaurants for waterfront in Vancouver, curated by TastyPals editors.
35 restaurantsAvg rating 9.1Updated July 2026
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Top picks for waterfront in Vancouver
Fast answers for diners searching for waterfront restaurants in Vancouver. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
Dip Co. Sandwich & Focabari Bakery
#1 pick
Dip Co. Sandwich & Focabari Bakery
Bakery | North Vancouver | value
Known for Suprima.
Eivan Restaurant and Bar
#2 pick
Eivan Restaurant and Bar
Global | North Vancouver | moderate
Known for Mirzaghasemi.
#3 pick
Akbarjoojeh 19th | اکبرجوجه
Global | North Vancouver | moderate
Strong pick for dinner.
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Global•North Vancouver•moderate
Eivan Restaurant and Bar
Eivan fills a real gap on Lonsdale Avenue: elevated Persian cooking presented with the seriousness of a contemporary dining room rather than the casualness that's long defined the North Shore's restaurant scene.
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9.8
Based on 480 reviews
3
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Global•North Vancouver•moderate
Akbarjoojeh 19th | اکبرجوجه
On the busy stretch of Lonsdale where North Van does its everyday eating, Akbarjoojeh 19th makes its case for the charcoal-grilling tradition of northern Iran.
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9.6
Based on 4103 reviews
4
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Global•North Vancouver•moderate
Chop and Chew
Chop & Chew on Lonsdale isn't angling for a reservation-list crowd, and that restraint is part of what makes it worth paying attention to.
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9.6
Based on 695 reviews
5
Global•North Vancouver•moderate
Carpe Grill & Diner
Carpe Grill & Diner has positioned itself as the Shipyards District's casual anchor for the smashed-burger-and-breakfast crowd — a family-owned counter at 125 Victory Ship Way that leans into the waterfront energy of North Vancouver's re…
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9.6
Based on 556 reviews
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Global•North Vancouver•value
Scratch Kitchen Deep Cove
Scratch Kitchen sits on North Dollarton Highway, technically Dollarton Village rather than Deep Cove proper, but the distinction barely matters — it's the kind of casual, ingredient-driven spot that a quieter, residential stretch of the…
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9.6
Based on 338 reviews
7
Vietnamese•North Vancouver•moderate
Phonatic Social Restaurant
Phonatic Social is doing something specific and underrepresented on the North Shore: it's making the case for Northern Vietnamese cooking in a city where the conversation about Vietnamese food almost always starts — and ends — in the south.
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9.6
Based on 306 reviews
8
Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Kuroki Kaiseki Omakase Kitchen 黑木関西会席料理
Kuroki Kaiseki Omakase Kitchen 黑木関西会席料理 is an easy seafood option in Richmond in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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9.6
Based on 217 reviews
9
German•North Vancouver•moderate
Jägerhof Restaurant
Jägerhof Restaurant is an easy german option in North Vancouver in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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9.4
Based on 1205 reviews
10
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Contemporary•Coal Harbour•moderate
SOCIAL CORNER COAL HARBOUR
There are 290 seats here, and the design wants you to feel every one of them as a gift: walnut millwork, copper countertops, a Murano glass chandelier tucked into the private room.
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9.4
Based on 1170 reviews
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Contemporary•Coal Harbour•moderate
The Sequel - Kitchen & Bar
Coal Harbour has a habit of producing rooms that look like ambition and feel like airports — all glass and waterfront light doing the emotional work nobody behind the design bothered to do.
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9.4
Based on 549 reviews
12
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Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Baan Lao Fine Thai Cuisine
Baan Lao is not the kind of Thai restaurant Richmond has seen before.
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9.4
Based on 427 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.
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9.2
Based on 1906 reviews
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Contemporary•Coal Harbour•moderate
Nook Coal Harbour
Coal Harbour has always been a neighbourhood searching for a dining identity — corporate lunch crowds, hotel overflow, the odd special-occasion splurge with a water view.
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9.2
Based on 455 reviews
15
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Japanese•North Vancouver•value
Sapporo Kitchen Deep Cove
Sapporo Kitchen is doing something deceptively straightforward: it's a sub-$20 ramen shop planted in Deep Cove, one of North Vancouver's most scenic and genuinely underserved corners for serious bowl culture.
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9.2
Based on 360 reviews
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Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Breakfast Table Steveston
Breakfast Table in Steveston Village has built a reputation as a brunch room with a genuine point of view — a family-owned spot that runs its eggs Benedicts and breakfast plates through an Asian-fusion lens, which is exactly the kind of…
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9.2
Based on 312 reviews
17
Italian•North Vancouver•moderate
Sempre Uno
Sempre Uno occupies a particular position in the North Vancouver dining landscape — a neighbourhood Italian room that, by most accounts, takes its cooking seriously enough to justify the SeaBus crossing for anyone coming from the city side.
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9.2
Based on 254 reviews
18
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Seafood•North Vancouver•moderate
Fishworks
Fishworks is a seafood restaurant in North Vancouver in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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9.0
Based on 1525 reviews
19
Global•North Vancouver•value
Cafe Orso
Cafe Orso isn't trying to out-brunch the brunch industrial complex, which is exactly what makes it interesting.
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9.0
Based on 589 reviews
20
Global•North Vancouver•moderate
Liberty Kitchen Harbour Centre (North Vancouver)
Liberty Kitchen Harbour Centre occupies a specific and underserved lane in the North Vancouver dining landscape: the Italian-leaning all-day room that approaches weekend brunch with the same seriousness as a dinner service.
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9.0
Based on 390 reviews
21
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Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Britannia Brewing Steveston
Britannia Brewing's Steveston outpost has what may be the best seat in Richmond — a bright, high-ceilinged room and a heated patio positioned directly on the waterfront in Steveston Village, steps from the fishing boats and marina that r…
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8.8
Based on 1328 reviews
22
Bistro•North Vancouver•value
Arms Reach Bistro
Deep Cove does a lot of the atmospheric work before anyone looks at a menu — seaplanes on the water, kayaks stacked at the shore, that particular North Shore light that makes a Tuesday feel like a long weekend.
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8.8
Based on 1187 reviews
23
Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Kisamos Taverna
Kisamos Taverna is a seafood restaurant in Richmond in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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8.8
Based on 1177 reviews
24
Pizza•North Vancouver•moderate
King Taps
King Taps is a pizza restaurant in North Vancouver in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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8.8
Based on 793 reviews
25
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Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Toast To Coast Brunch Bar
Toast To Coast Brunch Bar has built a genuine following in Richmond on a straightforward premise: do the weekend-morning classics properly, lean into the coast the name promises, and keep the room easygoing enough that people actually wa…
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8.8
Based on 677 reviews
26
Global•North Vancouver•moderate
Provisions Italiana at Seaside Hotel
There's a version of hotel dining that functions purely as infrastructure — a room that exists so guests don't have to think too hard about leaving.
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8.8
Based on 640 reviews
27
French•North Vancouver•value
Deep Cove Chalet
Deep Cove Chalet is not a restaurant that's auditioning for relevance.
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8.8
Based on 547 reviews
28
Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Steveston Built Local Taphouse & Grill
Steveston Built Local Taphouse & Grill occupies a particular niche that Steveston's fishing-village waterfront has long needed: a neighbourhood room that leans into its coastal identity without performing it for out-of-towners.
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8.8
Based on 204 reviews
29
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Global•North Vancouver•moderate
Tap & Barrel • Shipyards
Tap & Barrel Shipyards occupies some of the more coveted waterfront real estate on the North Shore, and by most accounts it reads the room correctly — which is to say it doesn't pretend to be a downtown destination restaurant.
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8.6
Based on 5247 reviews
30
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Global•North Vancouver•value
Honey Doughnuts & Goodies
What Honey Doughnuts & Goodies is doing on the North Van side of the bridge is worth paying attention to: an all-day casual kitchen running a genuinely eclectic menu — Mexican, Italian, classic diner, brunch staples — at a price point th…
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8.6
Based on 3932 reviews
31
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Contemporary•Coal Harbour•moderate
Lift Bar Grill View - Downtown Vancouver
Lift sits at the edge of Coal Harbour with the kind of view that could make a mediocre kitchen insufferable — all that waterfront light, the seaplanes lifting off, North Shore mountains turning blue in the evening distance.
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8.6
Based on 2110 reviews
32
Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Steveston Seafood House
Steveston Seafood House occupies a particular and valuable niche in Richmond's dining landscape: a mid-range seafood room anchored to real geography rather than manufactured concept.
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8.6
Based on 1049 reviews
33
Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Catch Kitchen + Bar
Catch Kitchen + Bar occupies a renovated waterfront room in Steveston that earns its reputation before a single plate arrives — a rooftop patio with a 270-degree panorama over the historic harbour is the kind of setting that could easily…
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8.4
Based on 1302 reviews
34
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Seafood•Richmond•moderate
Blue Canoe Waterfront Restaurant
Blue Canoe sits at the edge of Richmond's waterfront with the kind of quiet confidence that tends to come from a restaurant that knows its neighborhood rather than its press.
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8.2
Based on 1830 reviews
35
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Seafood•North Vancouver•moderate
PIER 7 Restaurant + Bar
PIER 7 Restaurant + Bar is an easy seafood option in North Vancouver in Vancouver to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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8.0
Based on 2541 reviews
Common questions about waterfront in Vancouver
What are the best restaurants for waterfront in Vancouver?
The top restaurants for waterfront in Vancouver include Dip Co. Sandwich & Focabari Bakery, Eivan Restaurant and Bar, Akbarjoojeh 19th | اکبرجوجه. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
What is the best waterfront restaurant in Vancouver?
Dip Co. Sandwich & Focabari Bakery is among the top-rated options for waterfront in Vancouver, with a 9.8 Google rating and 850 reviews.
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