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Middle Eastern•Winnipeg•$$$$
MCDonair and shawarma
MCDonair and shawarma suits a night out when you want middle eastern that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
hidden gemdate night
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10.0
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Best date night Restaurants in Winnipeg: 126 Picks for 2026
The best restaurants for date night in Winnipeg, curated by TastyPals editors.
126 restaurantsAvg rating 9.2Updated July 2026
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Top picks for date night in Winnipeg
Fast answers for diners searching for date night restaurants in Winnipeg. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
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Greek•Winnipeg•value
The Green Falafel
Winnipeg has been quietly overdue for a falafel spot worth talking about, and The Green Falafel — at 1833 Grant Avenue in River Heights — arrives with real intention behind it.
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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9.8
Based on 407 reviews
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Asian•Winnipeg•$$$$
Tring5
Tring5 on Portage Avenue has built a reputation on doing something specific: a tight, genre-fluid Asian menu that refuses to commit to a single flag and is reportedly better for it.
hidden gemdate night
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9.8
Based on 390 reviews
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Pizza•Winnipeg•$$$$
Red Swan Pizza - Winnipeg Osborne
Red Swan Pizza - Winnipeg Osborne is a pizza pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
hidden gemdate night
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9.8
Based on 294 reviews
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Italian•Corydon•moderate
Naan Culture
What Naan Culture is doing on Corydon Avenue has nothing to do with Italy in any traditional sense, and that is entirely the premise.
Italian dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.8
Based on 282 reviews
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Bar•Winnipeg•moderate
THOMAS HINDS SAMPLING ROOM
Thomas Hinds Sampling Room is a cigar lounge on Carlton Street — unmarked blue door, directly across from the RBC Convention Centre, next to a tobacconist that has occupied the same space for over three decades — that has apparently figu…
Drinks and dinnercocktailsdate night
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9.8
Based on 263 reviews
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Vietnamese•Winnipeg•$$$$
Banh Ngon
There is reportedly one table at Banh Ngon, and that single detail does more to describe 690 Sargent Avenue than any menu description could.
hidden gemdate night
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9.8
Based on 197 reviews
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Asian•Winnipeg•$$$$
Punjabi Feast
Punjabi Feast is a asian pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
hidden gemdate night
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9.8
Based on 116 reviews
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Wine Bar•Winnipeg•moderate
Petit Socco
Petit Socco has established itself as one of the Exchange District's most distinctive wine bars by grounding its menu in Moroccan and Mediterranean cooking with evident seriousness — the kind that signals genuine engagement with a culina…
Wine and small platesdate nightcocktails
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9.8
Based on 98 reviews
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Indian•Winnipeg•$$$$
Sigri Indian Bistro
Sigri Indian Bistro occupies a strip-mall address in Winnipeg's northwest that signals nothing from the outside — which makes the interior genuinely surprising.
date night
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9.6
Based on 1318 reviews
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Contemporary•Exchange District•moderate
Amsterdam Tea Room and Bar
Amsterdam Tea Room and Bar has one of the more quietly distinctive origin stories in the Exchange District: Scottish owner Mark Turner opened it in 2016 as a loose-leaf tea shop, and that DNA is still visible everywhere — 74 teas on the…
Date nightgroup dinnerstylish
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9.6
Based on 1107 reviews
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Shawarma•Winnipeg•$$$$
Prairie Donair Main Street
Prairie Donair on Main Street makes no architectural promises it cannot keep.
date night
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9.6
Based on 596 reviews
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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$
Two Kelly's Cafe
Two Kelly's Cafe occupies a quiet strip of Fort Garry Place behind the Fort Garry Hotel, and by every account it operates less like a restaurant than like someone's idea of what a restaurant should feel like before the industry got to it.
hidden gemdate night
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9.6
Based on 355 reviews
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French•St. Boniface•splurge
Le Colonial Restaurant and Bar
Le Colonial occupies a particular conceptual niche that most Winnipeg diners either grasp immediately or miss entirely: it is a French-Vietnamese restaurant operating from the heart of St.
French bistrodate nightspecial occasion
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9.6
Based on 255 reviews
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Pizza•Winnipeg•$$$$
Gitz Pizza & Beverages
Gitz Pizza & Beverages has no apparent ambition to become a destination, and that self-awareness is the most useful thing a neighbourhood pizza spot can possess.
hidden gemdate night
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9.6
Based on 245 reviews
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Japanese•Exchange District•moderate
Ocean Bites
Ocean Bites has arrived in the Exchange District at a moment when Winnipeg's dining scene is finally catching up to its own ambitions, and from everything the room signals, it knows exactly what it wants to be: a contemporary seafood cou…
Date nightdate nightgroup dinner
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9.6
Based on 215 reviews
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Italian•Corydon•moderate
Stella's Cafe @ 1100
Stella's Cafe @ 1100 suits a night out in Corydon when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Italian dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.6
Based on 32 reviews
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Greek•The Forks•value
Baraka Pita Bakery & Restaurant
One navigation note before you go: Baraka Pita Bakery is located on Main Street in Winnipeg's North End, not at The Forks, so adjust your route accordingly.
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 2746 reviews
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Breakfast•Winnipeg•$$
Clementine Cafe
Clementine occupies a corner of Winnipeg's Exchange District and has, by most accounts, become the morning destination that neighbourhood has been angling toward for years.
brunchdate night
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9.4
Based on 2360 reviews
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Pizza•Winnipeg•$
Flying Pizza
Flying Pizza is not a room that asks anything of you — no mood lighting, no curated playlist, no pretense of occasion.
date night
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9.4
Based on 1923 reviews
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Wine Bar•Winnipeg•$$$$
Harth Mozza & Wine Bar
Harth Mozza & Wine Bar has been doing something quietly radical in Winnipeg's south end since 2017: building a neighborhood restaurant that the neighborhood actually treats like one.
cocktailwine bardate night
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9.4
Based on 1366 reviews
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Asian Fusion•Winnipeg•$$$$
Peg's Bistro | The Stir Fry House
What Peg's Bistro on Regent Avenue West appears to have built — deliberately, from the evidence of its regulars and its room — is a dining philosophy that treats assembly as authorship.
date night
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9.4
Based on 1017 reviews
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Middle Eastern•Winnipeg•$$$$
Kings Restaurant | Middle Eastern Cuisine
Kings Restaurant sits in a Gateway Road strip mall with a parking lot out front and zero ambient pretense — and if you know anything about Winnipeg's more reliable eating, that setting is less a warning than a signal.
date night
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9.4
Based on 966 reviews
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Asian•Winnipeg•$$$
Nola
Nola sits in Winnipeg's Exchange District and makes a deliberate, committed case for New Orleans cooking — not the surface markers of it, but the underlying technique that gives the cuisine its actual character.
fine diningcocktaildate night
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9.4
Based on 766 reviews
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Fusion•Osborne Village•$$$
Sous Sol
Sous Sol occupies the basement beneath Deer + Almond in Osborne Village, and by most accounts it functions as Winnipeg's most serious cocktail destination — the kind of program that belongs in the national conversation about what Canadia…
creativedate nightfusion
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9.4
Based on 754 reviews
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Hawaiian•Winnipeg•$$$$
Honu Poké Restaurant - Downtown
Honu Poké on Smith Street has built a room that runs counter to everything downtown lunch culture usually demands.
date night
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9.4
Based on 574 reviews
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Pizza•Winnipeg•$
Red Swan Pizza - Winnipeg St. James St.
Red Swan Pizza - Winnipeg St. James St. suits a night out when you want pizza that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
date night
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9.4
Based on 567 reviews
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Bar•Corydon•$$$
The Roost on Corydon
The Roost occupies a position in Winnipeg's dining landscape that is less about culinary ambition and more about physical rarity: a functioning rooftop bar in a city where the combination of structural requirements and municipal permitti…
cocktaildate night
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9.4
Based on 557 reviews
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Greek•Winnipeg•value
Ramallah Cafe
What separates Ramallah Cafe from Winnipeg's broader Middle Eastern landscape is scale paired with consistency — three locations across Munroe Ave., Pembina Hwy., and Kenaston Blvd.
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 537 reviews
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Italian•Corydon•splurge
Passero
Passero has developed a reputation as the Italian restaurant in Winnipeg that takes its culinary tradition at face value — not as a loose aesthetic borrowed for naming conventions, but as an actual organizing principle for what arrives a…
Creative diningdate nightspecial occasion
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9.4
Based on 524 reviews
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Pizza•Winnipeg•$$$$
Hungry Bite Pizza
Hungry Bite Pizza on Ness Avenue operates with the kind of quiet conviction that doesn't need to advertise itself.
date night
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9.4
Based on 446 reviews
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Fusion•Corydon•splurge
Né de Loup
Né de Loup opened on Corydon Avenue in October 2024 in the former Enoteca space — Chef Scott Bagshaw's small-plates room that twice drew national attention — and the transition appears considered rather than opportunistic.
Creative diningdate nightspecial occasion
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9.4
Based on 435 reviews
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Greek•Corydon•value
Greek Market
Greek Market on Corydon is what happens when a family refuses to let a specialty grocery stay in its lane.
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 343 reviews
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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$$$
Buvette
Buvette 204 operates on a frequency most restaurants don't attempt to tune into.
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 313 reviews
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Indian•Winnipeg•$$$$
Craving Curries
Craving Curries on Roblin Boulevard is a family-run Indian kitchen operating in west Winnipeg's neighbourhood-restaurant territory — the kind of room where the hospitality reportedly feels personal rather than procedural, driven by owner…
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 279 reviews
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Sushi•Winnipeg•$$$$
Kuma Sushi
Kuma Sushi on River Avenue operates as a takeout-only sushi counter, and that structural decision — no dining room, no table service, no atmosphere to subsidize — shapes everything about what the place actually offers.
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 254 reviews
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Pizza•Winnipeg•$$$$
CrustyCraft Pizza
CrustyCraft Pizza operates Tuesday through Sunday, 11am to 11pm — hours that suggest a place built less for the quick lunch grab and more for the kind of evening that's allowed to drift.
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 241 reviews
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Breakfast•Exchange District•moderate
SOHO kitchen + wine
SOHO Kitchen + Wine occupies a space in the Exchange District that the neighbourhood does best — heritage brick, cobblestone context, and a room that could coast on atmosphere alone.
Date nightdate nightgroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 238 reviews
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Korean•Winnipeg•$$$$
Kim Chi - Korean Delight
Let me be direct about what Kim Chi Korean Delight is and isn't, because the distinction matters more than the food does.
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 194 reviews
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Japanese•River Heights•value
Meal Set Bistro | Sushi
Ken Nguyen's origin story is genuinely unusual for a sushi spot: he started with meal prep, cooking around a day job until the demand outgrew what Tuesday deliveries could contain.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 173 reviews
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Wine Bar•Winnipeg•$$$$
Bar Accanto
Bar Accanto occupies a particular kind of position in Winnipeg's drinking-and-eating landscape — not a wine bar that happens to have food, but one where the two are reportedly built around the same logic.
wine barcocktailhidden gem
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9.4
Based on 157 reviews
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Contemporary•Osborne Village•value
Shirley's | Restaurant & Gourmet Grocery
Shirley's Restaurant & Gourmet Grocery opened in Osborne Village in early 2025 as one of the more deliberate restaurant concepts Winnipeg has seen in recent memory.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 121 reviews
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Cocktail Bar•Winnipeg•$$$$
Must Be The Place
Must Be The Place suits a night out when you want cocktail bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
cocktailhidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 105 reviews
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Vietnamese•Winnipeg•$$$$
Banh Mi Mr Lee
Banh Mi Mr Lee is the kind of vietnamese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
hidden gemdate night
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9.4
Based on 101 reviews
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Wine Bar•The Forks•moderate
Colleen
Colleen suits a night out in The Forks when you want wine bar that feels grown-up without getting stiff. Burrata and Endive Salad also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Wine and small platesdate nightcocktails
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9.4
Based on 65 reviews
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Indian•Winnipeg•$
Cilantro's Restaurant - Gateway Rd
Cilantro's on Gateway Road is doing something quietly radical in Winnipeg's Indian restaurant landscape: making the cuisine accessible without diluting it.
date night
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9.2
Based on 2976 reviews
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Steakhouse•Winnipeg•$$$$
529 Wellington Steakhouse
529 Wellington occupies a specific and necessary position in Winnipeg's dining landscape: the serious steakhouse that operates at the level of formality its price point demands, rather than approximating it.
fine diningdate night
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9.2
Based on 1633 reviews
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Italian•Winnipeg•$$
Bellissimo
Bellissimo doesn't do much to flag itself from the street, and that's apparently been the operating philosophy for over two decades.
cocktaildate night
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9.2
Based on 1164 reviews
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Vietnamese•Winnipeg•$
Banh Mi King
Banh Mi King on Portage Avenue is not a room designed to hold a long evening.
date night
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9.2
Based on 1048 reviews
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French•St. Boniface•$$$
Inferno's Bistro | French
Inferno's Bistro occupies a renovated two-storey home in St.
frenchdate nightcozy
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9.2
Based on 1021 reviews
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Indian•Winnipeg•$$$$
Cilantro's Modern Indian Cuisine - Portage
Cilantro's Modern Indian Cuisine on Portage Avenue is doing something that most Indian restaurants in Winnipeg don't have the nerve to attempt: treating Indian food as a living, evolving cuisine rather than a greatest-hits archive.
date night
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9.2
Based on 952 reviews
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Fusion•Exchange District•$$$
Deer + Almond
Kristian Sommer's Deer + Almond is routinely cited as Winnipeg's most essential reservation, and the case holds up under scrutiny.
creativedate nightfusion
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9.2
Based on 814 reviews
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Italian•Corydon•moderate
Saperavi | Georgian Restaurant • Lounge • Patio
Corydon Avenue runs long on bistros and wine bars, but Saperavi occupies a category entirely its own: by most accounts, the first Georgian restaurant on the Canadian Prairies, operating out of a lounge-and-patio setup that fits the neigh…
Italian dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.2
Based on 759 reviews
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Burgers•Winnipeg•$
The North Star Drive-In
The North Star Drive-In is a seasonal takeout window on McGregor Street in Winnipeg's North End, and it is not pretending to be anything else.
date night
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9.2
Based on 670 reviews
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Cocktail Bar•Winnipeg•$$
Langside Grocery
Langside Grocery is doing something specific in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood: a serious cocktail bar that built a real kitchen around it, not the other way around.
cocktaildate night
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9.2
Based on 491 reviews
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Mexican•Winnipeg•$
BMC Taqueria
BMC Taqueria on Henderson Highway is the kind of place that makes a quiet argument just by existing: that a three-taco plate at a price most restaurants would be embarrassed to charge can still be the best thing you eat this week.
date night
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9.2
Based on 489 reviews
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Wine Bar•Osborne Village•moderate
The Oxbow | Natural Wine Bar & Restaurant
Oxbow has developed a clear reputation as the natural wine bar Osborne Village was missing — not simply a room that borrows the language of the category for positioning purposes, but one that appears, by consistent account, to have assem…
Wine and small platesdate nightcocktails
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9.2
Based on 434 reviews
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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$$$
Kahaani- East Indian and Hakka Cuisine
Kahaani opened in March 2024 on Regent Avenue West with a specific thesis: that East Indian cooking and Hakka Indo-Chinese cuisine are not opposite poles but a single, historically rooted conversation.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 379 reviews
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Chinese•Winnipeg•$
Singyun Restaurant
Singyun Restaurant on Provencher Boulevard sits in St.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 349 reviews
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Steakhouse•Winnipeg•value
Capital Grill & Bar
Capital Grill and Bar has established a clear identity in Winnipeg's competitive downtown dining landscape — a steakhouse that, by most accounts, takes its core format seriously without dressing it in the formality that can make occasion…
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerbrunch
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9.2
Based on 345 reviews
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Contemporary•River Heights•$$$
fusion grill
Fusion Grill has been running the same play since 1996, and the fact that it still feels fresh is the whole argument for it.
date nightrelaxeddinner
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9.2
Based on 306 reviews
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Italian•Winnipeg•$$
Tre Visi Cafe
Tre Visi Café on Grosvenor Avenue operates on a philosophy that is increasingly rare in mid-priced Italian dining: restraint in portion size, generosity in technique.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 252 reviews
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Wine Bar•Osborne Village•moderate
Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa has built a reputation as the room in Osborne Village that gives a small-plates evening some actual weight — a Spanish- and Mediterranean-inflected tapas, oyster, and cocktail bar that, by most accounts, treats the night as a…
Wine and small platesdate nightcocktails
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9.2
Based on 245 reviews
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Sushi•Winnipeg•$$$$
Honba Sushi Restaurant
Honba Sushi Restaurant is the kind of sushi room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 200 reviews
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Italian•Exchange District•moderate
Borgo Antico
Borgo Antico is a italian pick in Exchange District in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. LA MARCA PROSECCO and SPUMANTE RIBOLLA GIALLA BRUT SAN MARTINO also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Date nightdate nightgroup dinner
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9.2
Based on 161 reviews
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Cocktail Bar•Winnipeg•$$$$
Patent 5 Distillery and Tasting Room (Retail hours are pickup hour)
Patent 5 is what happens when an accountant, an engineer, an entrepreneur, and a pharmacist decide the craft spirits scene needs more rigor — and then back that conviction with a 2,600-square-foot former livery stable in Winnipeg's East…
cocktailhidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 149 reviews
67
Chinese•Winnipeg•$$$$
Tasty Chinese Cuisine
Tasty Chinese Cuisine is a chinese pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 118 reviews
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Mexican•Winnipeg•$$$$
barBURRITO
barBURRITO suits a night out when you want mexican that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 114 reviews
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Pizza•Winnipeg•$$$$
Canadian Unlimited Pizza House
Canadian Unlimited Pizza House is a pizza pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 112 reviews
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Japanese•Winnipeg•$$$$
Eating Sushi
Eating Sushi is a japanese pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
hidden gemdate night
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9.2
Based on 101 reviews
71
Wine Bar•Osborne Village•moderate
Solera
Solera is a wine bar pick in Osborne Village in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. Really Boujee Old Fashioned and Solera'd Boulevardier also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Wine and small platesdate nightcocktails
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9.2
Based on 90 reviews
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Diner•Winnipeg•$
Red Top Drive Inn
Red Top Drive Inn is one of Winnipeg's most quietly stubborn institutions — a drive-in that opened in 1960 under Gus Scouras and George Depres, and has operated with essentially the same recipes ever since.
brunchdate night
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9.0
Based on 1931 reviews
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Gastropub•Osborne Village•value
Leopold's Tavern Winnipeg - Osborne South
Leopold's Tavern Winnipeg - Osborne South suits a night out in Osborne Village when you want gastropub that feels grown-up without getting stiff. THE Deadly Dipper and MEGA MOZZA STICKS also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 1608 reviews
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Burgers•Winnipeg•$
VJ's Drive Inn
VJ's Drive Inn is the kind of burgers room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
date night
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9.0
Based on 1485 reviews
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Burgers•Winnipeg•$$
Dairi-Wip Drive-In
Dairi-Wip Drive-In has been doing one thing since 1958 and doing it without apology: old-school drive-in burgers, dogs, and chili in Winnipeg's French Quarter on Marion Street, cash in hand.
date night
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9.0
Based on 1415 reviews
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Gastropub•River Heights•value
Leopold's Tavern Winnipeg - Academy
Leopold's Tavern Winnipeg - Academy is the kind of gastropub room in River Heights you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more. THE Deadly Dipper and MEGA MOZZA STICKS also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 1212 reviews
77
French•St. Boniface•splurge
Promenade Brasserie
Promenade Brasserie opened in St.
French bistrodate nightspecial occasion
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9.0
Based on 1205 reviews
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Breakfast•Winnipeg•$$
Falafel place
Falafel Place has been doing one very specific thing since 1986, and Winnipeg's breakfast landscape is richer for it.
brunchdate night
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9.0
Based on 1165 reviews
79
Greek•Downtown•value
Olympia Diner
Olympia Diner has been anchoring Greek home cooking on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg's Westwood/St.
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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9.0
Based on 1089 reviews
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Burgers•Winnipeg•$
Daly Burgers
Daly Burgers on Corydon is the kind of operation that makes you recalibrate what a burger joint can be — not because it's flashy, but because it's been doing the same thing right since 1998 without flinching.
date night
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9.0
Based on 1062 reviews
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Greek•Winnipeg•value
Taverna Rodos | Restaurant & Lounge
Taverna Rodos on Roblin Boulevard in Charleswood is doing something quietly specific: it's the Greek institution Winnipeg's west end actually needed, operating from a patio ringed by trees and red umbrellas rather than a downtown strip,…
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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9.0
Based on 1037 reviews
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Pizza•Winnipeg•value
Corrientes Argentine Pizzeria
Corrientes, on Garry Street, is Winnipeg's argument that Argentine asado culture translates — not as theme-restaurant approximation, but as a format that actually makes sense when you give it room to breathe.
Pizzatakeoutcasual night
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9.0
Based on 948 reviews
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Gastropub•Osborne Village•value
Leopold's Tavern Winnipeg - Osborne Village
Leopold's Tavern Winnipeg - Osborne Village is the kind of gastropub room in Osborne Village you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more. THE Deadly Dipper and MEGA MOZZA STICKS also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 939 reviews
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Italian•Winnipeg•$$
Pasquale's Italian Ristorante
Pasquale's Italian Ristorante on Marion Street is a Winnipeg institution that operates on a straightforward premise: Italian-Canadian family cooking, made from scratch, served across nearly five decades without significant reinvention.
date night
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9.0
Based on 929 reviews
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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$
James Ave Pumphouse Food & Drink
James Avenue Pumphouse occupies one of the Exchange District's more architecturally compelling sites — a repurposed industrial building whose heritage bones give the patio program something most outdoor dining rooms in Winnipeg simply ca…
date night
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9.0
Based on 914 reviews
86
Vietnamese•Winnipeg•$
Viva Restaurant
Viva Restaurant is the kind of vietnamese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
date night
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9.0
Based on 687 reviews
87
Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$
Hargrave St. Market
Hargrave St.
date night
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9.0
Based on 646 reviews
88
Pizza•Winnipeg•$
Pizzeria Pronto
Pizzeria Pronto has built its identity around a proposition that sounds simple but is actually a quiet act of commitment: one price, unlimited toppings, dough made in-house that morning.
date night
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9.0
Based on 641 reviews
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Fast Food•Winnipeg•$$$$
The White Top Drive In (North)
White Top Drive-In has been running since 1968, which in Winnipeg's compressed summer economy is not a small thing.
date night
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9.0
Based on 628 reviews
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Mediterranean•River Heights•value
Bonfire Bistro
Bonfire Bistro operates out of a quietly ambitious corner of Corydon Avenue where River Heights locals have apparently made the place their own in a way that's rare even for a neighbourhood this comfortable with its restaurants.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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9.0
Based on 627 reviews
91
Korean•Winnipeg•$$$$
Hong Du Kkae
Hong Du Kkae on Pembina Highway is a family-run Korean restaurant with a quiet room and a menu that reads like a love letter to the kind of food Korean families actually cook at home — not the abbreviated, westernized version, but the lo…
date night
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9.0
Based on 615 reviews
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Greek•Winnipeg•value
Taste of Mediterranean
Taste of Mediterranean on Kennedy Street has been doing one thing since 2013 and doing it without apology: spinning meat on an open gyro spit in full view of everyone who walks through the door.
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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9.0
Based on 600 reviews
93
Japanese•Winnipeg•$$
Sushi Daruma
Sushi Daruma sits at 34-1128 Henderson Highway in a part of Winnipeg that doesn't particularly need another sushi spot — and yet this family-owned operation has carved out a real following precisely because it behaves like a neighborhood…
date night
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9.0
Based on 554 reviews
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Fast Food•Winnipeg•$$$$
The Burger Place on Main
The Burger Place on Main is a Winnipeg institution built around a deceptively simple premise: the classic North American burger, executed with the kind of operational discipline that fast food chains simulate but rarely achieve.
date night
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9.0
Based on 455 reviews
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Deli•Winnipeg•$$
The Yellow Deli
The Yellow Deli on Des Meurons Street occupies a particular lane that almost no other Winnipeg restaurant attempts: part health food shop (it houses Common Sense Natural Products), part bakery, part deli, and entirely the product of the…
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 399 reviews
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Chinese•Winnipeg•$$
Plaza Restaurant
Plaza Restaurant on Union Avenue W has been holding down its corner of east Winnipeg for over twenty years, and the room makes no argument against that tenure — no mood lighting, no curated playlist, no gap between tables calibrated for…
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 355 reviews
97
Thai•Winnipeg•$
Kyu Bochi
Kyu Bochi on Logan Avenue is doing something genuinely unusual for Winnipeg: threading Thai and Cambodian cooking into a single, coherent menu without treating either tradition as a footnote.
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 340 reviews
98
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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$$$
Newcastle Restaurant
Newcastle Restaurant sits at 1010 Main St.
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 280 reviews
99
Vietnamese•Winnipeg•$
Ha Long Bay Restaurant
Ha Long Bay Restaurant is a vietnamese pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 276 reviews
100
Caribbean•Winnipeg•$
Deen's Caribbean Restaurant
Deen's Caribbean Restaurant is the kind of caribbean room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 269 reviews
101
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Restaurant•Winnipeg•value
The Nook
The Nook on Sherbrook occupies a particular place in Winnipeg's brunch landscape that is increasingly rare in any mid-sized Canadian city: a counter-service diner whose format has remained structurally unchanged long enough to become the…
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerbrunch
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9.0
Based on 256 reviews
102
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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$
Oak Point Restaurant
Oak Point Restaurant has been a fixture on Oak Point Highway since 1976, and the Stamatis family's Greek-rooted kitchen is the rare kind of operation that time doesn't flatten — it deepens.
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 252 reviews
103
Chinese•Winnipeg•$
South Ocean Restaurant
South Ocean Restaurant is a chinese pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 169 reviews
104
Afghani•Winnipeg•$$$$
Kabul Fourteen
Kabul Fourteen is the kind of afghani room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 118 reviews
105
Vietnamese•Winnipeg•$
Pho Hoi An Restaurant
Pho Hoi An Restaurant is a vietnamese pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
hidden gemdate night
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9.0
Based on 111 reviews
106
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French•St. Boniface•splurge
Stella's au CCFM
Stella's au CCFM earns its particular standing in Winnipeg not because it reinvents French café tradition but because it anchors it to a neighbourhood that actually has one.
French bistrodate nightspecial occasion
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8.8
Based on 2208 reviews
107
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American•River Heights•value
Brazen Hall Kitchen & Brewery
Brazen Hall Kitchen & Brewery sits in River Heights as a brewpub with genuine dual purpose — the beer brewed on site is reportedly a destination in its own right, not merely incidental to the kitchen.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 1799 reviews
108
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Steakhouse•River Heights•value
Silver Heights Restaurant & The Heights Lounge
Silver Heights Restaurant & The Heights Lounge is a steakhouse pick in River Heights in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 1458 reviews
109
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French•Winnipeg•$$$
Peasant Cookery
The Peasant Cookery occupies a corner of Winnipeg's Exchange District with the conviction of a room that has done its homework on French bistro culture before adapting it to the prairies — not the other way around.
date night
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8.8
Based on 1190 reviews
110
French•St. Boniface•$$$
Resto Gare And Train Bar Bistro
Resto Gare and Train Bar Bistro occupies a particular lane in St.
frenchdate nightcozy
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8.8
Based on 927 reviews
111
Pizza•River Heights•$$$
Pizzeria Gusto
Pizzeria Gusto has held a prominent place in Winnipeg's pizza conversation long enough that its reputation reads as structural rather than trendy.
date nightrelaxeddinner
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8.8
Based on 869 reviews
112
Greek•Corydon•value
Kristina’s
Kristina’s is a greek pick in Corydon in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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8.8
Based on 598 reviews
113
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Wine Bar•Exchange District•moderate
Cordova Tapas & Wine
Cordova Tapas & Wine occupies a particular lane in Winnipeg's Exchange District that not enough places bother with: the serious wine bar that actually feeds you well.
Wine and small platesdate nightcocktails
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8.8
Based on 349 reviews
114
Greek•Winnipeg•value
Homers
Homers isn't trading on nostalgia alone — though it has plenty to trade.
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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8.8
Based on 264 reviews
115
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Japanese•River Heights•value
Sushi Academy
Sushi Academy has been quietly holding down Academy Road in River Heights for long enough that it's become the kind of neighbourhood spot that locals stop questioning and just use.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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8.8
Based on 200 reviews
116
Italian•Corydon•moderate
Confusion Corner Drinks + Food
Confusion Corner Drinks + Food is the kind of italian room in Corydon you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Italian dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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8.6
Based on 1166 reviews
117
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Brazilian•Winnipeg•$$$$
Carnaval Brazilian BBQ
Carnaval has anchored the historic East Exchange since 2008, the city's only Brazilian churrascaria, and the rodizio format dictates everything about how the night unfolds.
date night
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8.4
Based on 1808 reviews
118
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Italian•Corydon•$$
Cafe 22
Cafe 22 is the kind of italian room in Corydon you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more. Trio of Dips and Antipasto also give you a decent sense of the menu.
pastadate nightpatio
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8.4
Based on 1231 reviews
119
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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$$
SMITH Restaurant
Smith at The Inn at the Forks holds a position that almost no other Winnipeg restaurant can claim: a working riverfront patio with sightlines over both the Assiniboine and Red Rivers, attached to a kitchen that appears to treat the brunc…
date night
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8.4
Based on 984 reviews
120
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Contemporary•St. Boniface•$$
Chaise Café & Lounge
Chaise Café & Lounge is a contemporary pick in St. Boniface in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
patiooutdoorsummer
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8.4
Based on 787 reviews
121
Contemporary•The Forks•moderate
Prairie's Edge
Prairie's Edge is a contemporary pick in The Forks in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. Tiramisu French Toast and Eggs Benedict also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Patio seasongroup dinnerdate night
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8.4
Based on 655 reviews
122
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Greek•Osborne Village•value
Zaytoon
Zaytoon suits a night out in Osborne Village when you want greek that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Greek dinnerdinnergroup dinner
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8.4
Based on 527 reviews
123
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Mexican•Osborne Village•value
Carlos & Murphy's
Carlos & Murphy's is a mexican pick in Osborne Village in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned. Nachos Oaxaca and Pig & Pineapple Nachos also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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8.2
Based on 1566 reviews
124
Italian•Corydon•moderate
Colosseo Ristorante Italiano
Colosseo Ristorante Italiano is the kind of italian room in Corydon you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more. Frittura di Pesce and Cozze Pepate also give you a decent sense of the menu.
Italian dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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8.2
Based on 1078 reviews
125
Chinese•River Heights•value
Hi-Ball Restaurant
Hi-Ball Restaurant is the kind of chinese room in River Heights you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Neighborhood dinnerdinnerdate night
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8.2
Based on 148 reviews
126
South American•Winnipeg•$$$
Hermanos Restaurant & Wine Bar
Hermanos lands in the Exchange District as one of the more deliberately conceived rooms downtown Winnipeg — a South American-leaning grill house with a wine bar operating as a genuine equal partner rather than an afterthought.
cocktaildate night
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7.8
Based on 1069 reviews
Common questions about date night in Winnipeg
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The top restaurants for date night in Winnipeg include MCDonair and shawarma, The Green Falafel, Tring5. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
What is the best date night restaurant in Winnipeg?
MCDonair and shawarma is among the top-rated options for date night in Winnipeg, with a 10.0 Google rating and 314 reviews.
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