Best date night Restaurants in Winnipeg : 122 Picks for 2026

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Drinks and dinnercocktailsdate night

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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…

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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.

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Punjabi Feast

Punjabi Feast is a asian pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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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…

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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.

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9.6

Based on 1318 reviews

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

French•St. Boniface•splurge

Shawarma•Winnipeg•$$$$

Prairie Donair Main Street

Prairie Donair on Main Street makes no architectural promises it cannot keep.

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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.

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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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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.

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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

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.

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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.

seafooddate nightgreek

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Based on 2746 reviews

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.

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Based on 1923 reviews

cocktailwine bardate night

Wine Bar•Winnipeg•$$$$

Harth Mozza & Wine Bar

Harth Mozza & Wine Bar has been doing something quietly radical in Winnipeg's south end: building a neighborhood restaurant that the neighborhood actually treats like one.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

Creative diningdate nightspecial occasion

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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…

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Hungry Bite Pizza

Hungry Bite Pizza on Ness Avenue operates with the kind of quiet conviction that doesn't need to advertise itself.

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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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Greek Market

Greek Market on Corydon is what happens when a family refuses to let a specialty grocery stay in its lane.

Breakfast•Exchange District•moderate

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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Japanese•River Heights•$

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.

date nightrelaxeddinner

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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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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.

Cocktail Bar•Winnipeg•$$$$

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Based on 2976 reviews

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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Based on 1633 reviews

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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Based on 1164 reviews

Banh Mi King

Banh Mi King on Portage Avenue is not a room designed to hold a long evening.

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Based on 1048 reviews

French•St. Boniface•$$$

Inferno's Bistro | French

Inferno's Bistro occupies a renovated two-storey home in St.

frenchdate nightcozy

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Based on 1021 reviews

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Fusion•Exchange District•$$$

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.

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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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Based on 814 reviews

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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…

Wine Bar•Osborne Village•moderate

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

Steakhouse•Winnipeg•value

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Singyun Restaurant

Singyun Restaurant on Provencher Boulevard sits in St.

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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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Contemporary•River Heights•$$$

fusion grill

Fusion Grill has been running the same play, and the fact that it still feels fresh is the whole argument for it.

date nightrelaxeddinner

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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.

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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…

Italian•Exchange District•moderate

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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.

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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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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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Chinese•Winnipeg•$$$$

Tasty Chinese Cuisine

Tasty Chinese Cuisine is a chinese pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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Mexican•Winnipeg•$$$$

barBURRITO

barBURRITO suits a night out when you want mexican that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

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Canadian Unlimited Pizza House

Canadian Unlimited Pizza House is a pizza pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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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.

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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.

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Red Top Drive Inn

Red Top Drive Inn is one of Winnipeg's most quietly stubborn institutions — a drive-in that opened under Gus Scouras and George Depres, and has operated with essentially the same recipes ever since.

brunchdate night

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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.

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Based on 1608 reviews

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.

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Based on 1485 reviews

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Burgers•Winnipeg•$$

Dairi-Wip Drive-In

Dairi-Wip Drive-In has been doing one thing and doing it without apology: old-school drive-in burgers, dogs, and chili in Winnipeg's French Quarter on Marion Street, cash in hand.

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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.

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Based on 1212 reviews

French•St. Boniface•splurge

Promenade Brasserie

Promenade Brasserie opened in St.

French bistrodate nightspecial occasion

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Based on 1205 reviews

Greek•Downtown•value

Olympia Diner

Olympia Diner has been anchoring Greek home cooking on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg's Westwood/St.

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Based on 1089 reviews

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 without flinching.

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Based on 1062 reviews

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,…

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Based on 1037 reviews

Gastropub•Osborne Village•value

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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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.

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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.

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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…

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Mediterranean•River Heights•value

Viva Restaurant

Viva Restaurant is the kind of vietnamese room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.

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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$

Hargrave St. Market

Hargrave St.

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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.

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Fast Food•Winnipeg•$$$$

The White Top Drive In (North)

White Top Drive-In has been running, which in Winnipeg's compressed summer economy is not a small thing.

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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.

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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…

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Taste of Mediterranean

Taste of Mediterranean on Kennedy Street has been doing one thing and doing it without apology: spinning meat on an open gyro spit in full view of everyone who walks through the door.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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.

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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$$$

Newcastle Restaurant

Newcastle Restaurant sits at 1010 Main St.

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Restaurant•Winnipeg•value

Ha Long Bay Restaurant

Ha Long Bay Restaurant is a vietnamese pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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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.

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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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Restaurant•Winnipeg•$$

Oak Point Restaurant

Oak Point Restaurant has been a fixture on Oak Point Highway, and the Stamatis family's Greek-rooted kitchen is the rare kind of operation that time doesn't flatten — it deepens.

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South Ocean Restaurant

South Ocean Restaurant is a chinese pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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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.

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French•St. Boniface•splurge

Pho Hoi An Restaurant

Pho Hoi An Restaurant is a vietnamese pick in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

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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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Based on 2208 reviews

103

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.

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Based on 1799 reviews

104

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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.

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Based on 1458 reviews

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.

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Based on 1183 reviews

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106

French•St. Boniface•$$$

Resto Gare And Train Bar Bistro

Resto Gare and Train Bar Bistro occupies a particular lane in St.

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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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Kristina’s

Kristina’s is a greek pick in Corydon in Winnipeg when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.

Wine Bar•Exchange District•moderate

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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.

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Homers

Homers isn't trading on nostalgia alone — though it has plenty to trade.

Japanese•River Heights•value

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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.

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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.

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8.6

Based on 1166 reviews

113

Brazilian•Winnipeg•$$$$

Carnaval Brazilian BBQ

Carnaval has anchored the historic East Exchange, the city's only Brazilian churrascaria, and the rodizio format dictates everything about how the night unfolds.

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8.4

Based on 1808 reviews

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

115

Contemporary•St. Boniface•$$

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…

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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.

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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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Greek•Osborne Village•value

Zaytoon

Zaytoon suits a night out in Osborne Village when you want greek that feels grown-up without getting stiff.

Mexican•Osborne Village•value

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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.

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8.2

Based on 1566 reviews

120

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.

Chinese•River Heights•value

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8.2

Based on 1078 reviews

Reserve Menu Rate

121

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.