Vancouver · 580 restaurants
Find your next table by cuisine, neighbourhood or review depth.
Fast answers for diners searching where to eat in Vancouver, pulled from the TastyPals Best Restaurants guide before the broader directory kicks in.
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Vancouver · Korean · value
What Hens Up in New Westminster is doing is not complicated to explain, but it is harder to execute than most Korean fried chicken spots bother to: multiple flavor profiles, real discipline in the kitchen, and a price point that makes or…
Vancouver · Brunch · $$$$
Loreto is the rare brunch room that earns its Mexican-inspired billing without leaning on cliché.
Vancouver · Chinese · moderate
Few Vancouver restaurants arrive with the institutional weight that iDen & Quanjude brings.
Vancouver · Italian · moderate
Kissa Tanto is the Bao Bei team's Japanese-Italian restaurant in Vancouver's Chinatown, and by most serious accounts one of the more conceptually coherent fusion projects in the country.
Vancouver · Fine Dining · value
Michael Robbins' Kitsilano restaurant has developed a reputation as one of Vancouver's most coherent dining propositions — a seasonal New Canadian kitchen whose standing rests not on a single marquee dish but on the consistency of a kitc…
Vancouver · Scandinavian · $$$$
Published on Main has positioned itself as Mount Pleasant's most wine-serious neighbourhood restaurant — a distinction that, in Vancouver's increasingly crowded casual-dining landscape, carries real weight.
Vancouver · Fine Dining · $$$$
Barbara occupies a 500-square-foot sliver of Chinatown at 305 E.
Vancouver · Japanese · splurge
Masayoshi operates against the grain of Vancouver's current omakase scene, where competitive theatrics — knife reveals, architectural plating, tableside spectacle — have become as much the product as the food itself.
Vancouver · Fine Dining · value
Burdock & Co is the kind of fine dining restaurant room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Vancouver · Sushi · splurge
Sushi Masuda occupies a specific and deliberate position in Vancouver's sushi landscape — one built around restraint rather than spectacle.
Vancouver · Vietnamese · value
The Lunch Lady on Commercial Drive arrives with credentials that precede any meal: four consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand awards and a lineage that traces directly to Nguyễn Thị Thanh's Saigon street stall, the one Anthony Bourdain made…
Vancouver · Vietnamese · value
Anh and Chi carries a specific kind of weight that no amount of interior design can manufacture.
Vancouver · Cambodian · $$
Phnom Penh has occupied the same Chinatown corner since the mid-1980s, and the ritual hasn't softened: lines gather before the doors open, and the room fills with dark chairs, close tables, and little ornamentation beyond the Khmer dolls…
Vancouver · Japanese · value
Chef Hilary Nguy spent nearly two decades working his way through Vancouver's Japanese restaurant scene before opening Sushi Hil in 2022 on Main Street's Riley Park–Little Mountain stretch — a deliberate distance from the downtown omakas…
Vancouver · Italian · value
Magari by Oca grew out of Oca Pastificio on Commercial Drive, a counter-service pasta spot that built its reputation on handmade pasta, proximity to the cook, and a near-complete absence of pretension.
Vancouver · French · moderate
Gary's is what happens when a supper club outgrows its origins and becomes something a neighbourhood can't afford to lose.
Vancouver · Indian · $$
Vij's is the restaurant Vancouver food culture keeps returning to as a reference point — the place that, over decades, has insisted Indian cooking belongs in the same conversation as any serious fine-dining room in the city.
Vancouver · Thai · $$$$
Song (by Kin Kao) holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand — recognition that points not to extravagance but to cooking that justifies its place at the table.
Vancouver · Japanese · $$
There is no signage outside Motonobu Udon, which feels less like modesty than confidence.
Vancouver · Indian · $$$$
Karma occupies a Kitsilano corner on West 4th with more ambition than its casual pricing lets on.
Vancouver · Dim Sum · $$$$
Little Bird makes a quiet case against the idea that dim sum requires a cavernous banquet hall and a trolley.
Vancouver · Chinese · $$$$
Perched on the second level of the Cambie Whole Foods, in a space Milestones once occupied, Seaport City has spent arguing that Hong Kong cooking deserves white tablecloths and chandeliers.
Vancouver · Bar · $$$$
Chupito's move to Yukon Street has done it a favour.
Richmond · Chinese · value
Gyubee made its first BC move by landing in Richmond rather than downtown Vancouver, which tells you something about where the chain's instincts are — this is a neighborhood built around serious eating, and AYCE Japanese BBQ fits right i…
Vancouver · Indian · moderate
The Biryani Republic makes a quiet, confident argument that Vancouver's Indian dining scene has been underselling itself.
Vancouver · Thai · value
Thai Away Home on Cambie is a thai restaurant in Vancouver that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
Vancouver · Korean Barbecue · $$$$
Good Nine landed in Richmond's Alexandra Road corridor in late 2024 with a claim worth taking seriously: it's the first restaurant in the Metro Vancouver area to grill Korean barbecue over a traditional cast iron pot lid — *gamasot* lids…
North Vancouver · Global · moderate
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.
Vancouver · Breakfast · moderate
Northern Cafe has occupied a lumberyard building in South Vancouver, which makes it one of the city's more improbable breakfast institutions — vintage decor, an industrial address that keeps the tourist foot traffic low, and a community…
Downtown · Halal · value
Jerusalem Shawarma opened its downtown Vancouver location on Robson Street as the BC outpost of an established Alberta chain, and the reception has been notable: close to seven thousand reviews at a near-perfect aggregate rating suggests…
Kitsilano · Steakhouse · value
Quick geography note before you plan your night: Glowbal lives inside TELUS Garden on West Georgia, which puts it firmly in downtown Vancouver — not Kitsilano — so sort out your transit accordingly.
Richmond · Hot Pot · moderate
Haidilao is the hot pot chain that treats a Tuesday dinner like an occasion, and the Richmond outpost on No.
Vancouver · Indian · moderate
On Fraser Street, Hyderabad Biryani House does the thing I always want and rarely get in Vancouver: it treats biryani as the main event, not a starchy afterthought.
Mount Pleasant · Indian · value
Dhamaka has built its reputation in Mount Pleasant on a proposition that is rare in Vancouver: biryani treated as the main event rather than an afterthought on a sprawling menu.
Vancouver · Indian · value
Hyderabad Haveli on Kingsway has built a clear reputation as a specialist in Hyderabadi dum biryani — the sealed-pot, slow-cooked form that demands more from a kitchen than any other preparation in the biryani canon.
Downtown · Japanese · value
Ramen Danbo on Robson is not trying to reinvent the conversation about Japanese food in Vancouver.
Yaletown · Seafood · moderate
Blue Water Cafe is the restaurant Vancouver's culinary reputation leans on when the city wants to show off its relationship with the Pacific, and from everything on record, the room holds up its end of the bargain.
Downtown · Steakhouse · value
Riley's isn't playing coy about what it is.
West End · Mexican · value
Climb to the second-floor cantina above Denman Street and you land in a room that knows exactly what it is: an open kitchen on one side, a colorful mural of cactus against a pink-maroon sky on another, sombreros pinned up like the place…
Kitsilano · Burgers · value
Juicy Joe's has built a genuine following in Kitsilano — a neighbourhood that has no shortage of places competing for your lunch dollar — on the strength of a tight, no-detours menu and a reputation for griddled patties that people appar…
