Every table worth booking, by category

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One MICHELIN Star contemporary tasting menu room that skips white tablecloths for a relaxed dining-room feel. Signature plates include a wagyu tartare served as a four-part riff on a burger and tempura green beans with oyster emulsion.

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Chef Patrick Hennessy, formerly of Eleven Madison Park, cooks for a tiny L-shaped counter in Chinatown. Expect precise contemporary courses such as oysters with Northern Divine caviar.

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Chef Andrea Carlson's one-star farm-to-table room, built on relationships with British Columbia growers and foragers. Sommelier Kelcie Jones was named MICHELIN Sommelier of the Year for Vancouver in 2025.

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A one-star Japanese and Italian mash-up styled after a 1960s Tokyo jazz cafe, with antique Japanese panels on the walls. One of the most atmospheric upstairs rooms in Chinatown.

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Chef and owner Jean-Christophe Poirier's Quebecois bistro, a one-star favourite for oreilles de crisse, duck-liver eclair and maple St. Honore.

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One MICHELIN Star for contemporary North American cooking rooted in local farms and producers. Georgia Straight readers also voted it Best Fine Dining in the 2026 Golden Plates.

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A 14-seat yakitori counter that earned a MICHELIN Star in the 2025 Vancouver guide. Chef Pete Ho grills over binchotan charcoal; order the chicken skewers and red crab chawanmushi.

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Chef Juhyun Lee serves edomae nigiri across a 200-year-old hinoki counter, a new star in the 2025 guide. The fried karei flounder with rice is a house signature.

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Theatrical one-star kaiseki and sushi omakase whose front-of-house team won the 2025 MICHELIN Outstanding Service Award for Vancouver. Booking well ahead is essential.

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Chef Roger Ma's seafood-forward dining room inside the Sutton Place Hotel, named Vancouver Magazine's 2026 Chef of the Year and Best Fine Dining. Try the baked oysters with creamed spinach or the seafood pasta with Calabrian chili breadcrumbs.

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Named Restaurant of the Year and Best Chinese at the 2026 Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, and ranked number one on the Chinese Restaurant Awards Elite 30. It is also a MICHELIN Guide recommended address.

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The Vancouver outpost of the historic Beijing duck house QuanJuDe, holding one MICHELIN Star in the 2025 Vancouver guide. Peking duck carved tableside is the reason to come.

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Opened in 2014 and now a Richmond icon for ambitious modern dim sum, with black truffle siu mai and cuttlefish-ink shrimp dumplings. Dim sum runs daily 10:00 to 15:00 and dinner 17:00 to 22:00, with free parkade at Empire Centre.

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Inside Aberdeen Centre, this is the Golden Village benchmark for consistency: flaky baked barbecue pork pastries and translucent shrimp dumplings with dried scallop and spinach. Weekend waits are long, so reserve.

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High-end Cantonese beside Bridgeport SkyTrain with an all-picture menu of more than 90 dim sum items. Signatures include chicken wings stuffed with sticky rice and radish cake stir-fried with XO sauce.

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Sleek chandeliers and dark wood, with dim sum that mixes tradition and invention: crab meat dumplings, mushroom rice rolls and a deep-fried turnip cake wrapped in noodles with wasabi mayonnaise.

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A word-of-mouth favourite led by chef May Chau, twice named Best Dim Sum at the Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards. The cooking prizes technique over presentation: pork and crab dumplings, daikon spring rolls.

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One of the last places in Metro Vancouver still doing old-school push-cart dim sum, so you choose from the steamer baskets as they roll by. Classics rule: black bean spareribs, sticky rice in lotus leaves.

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Family-run since 1985 and a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand, this Cambodian and Vietnamese institution is legendary for its butter chicken wings and the number 71 beef. Expect a line.

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Voted Best Seafood in the Georgia Straight's 2026 Golden Plates readers' poll, a long-running Yaletown room known for its raw bar and unsung-hero species.

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A more than 35-year-old Vancouver seafood and steak institution that placed second for Best Seafood in the 2026 Golden Plates. Famous for its oyster bar and rooftop garden patio.

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A MICHELIN Guide recommended oyster bar and shellfish market run by the Vancouver Island shellfish farm of the same name, so the oysters come straight from the source.

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A MICHELIN Bib Gourmand pick in the 2025 Vancouver guide, offering good-value seafood cooking away from the downtown crowds.

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The Fairmont Pacific Rim's harbourfront lounge, MICHELIN recommended for its raw bar of sashimi, nigiri and BC shellfish, with live music most evenings.

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A tiny, ingredient-led room with a MICHELIN Bib Gourmand, cooking a short seasonal menu built around British Columbia farms and foragers.

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Vancouver's best-known vegetable-driven restaurant, MICHELIN recommended and voted Best Plant-Based in the 2026 Golden Plates.

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A MICHELIN recommended plant-based restaurant on West Broadway, working with local growers and natural wine.

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The Fairmont Pacific Rim's flagship, MICHELIN recommended and voted Best Hotel Restaurant in the 2026 Golden Plates, with a Pacific Northwest menu and a dedicated cocktail lab.

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Vancouver's flagship food market, with produce, fishmongers, bakers and prepared-food counters under one roof. Summer hours run Monday to Wednesday 09:00 to 18:00 and Thursday to Sunday 09:00 to 19:00, with early coffee from Blue Parrot and JJ Bean from 07:30.

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One of North America's largest night markets, running weekends and holidays through the summer season. Note that 2026 is billed as its final season after 26 years.

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The heart of Richmond's Golden Village: an Asian mall whose food court and restaurants, led by Fisherman's Terrace, anchor most dumpling crawls. Canada Line's Aberdeen Station is at the door.

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The Japanese-Canadian hot dog cart that became a Vancouver street-food emblem, voted Best Food Truck in the Georgia Straight's 2026 Golden Plates.

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Design-forward roaster with striking interiors, pour-over bars and ambitious pastry, voted both Best Coffee Roaster and Best Coffee Shop in the 2026 Golden Plates.

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A multi-roaster Gastown fixture where the espresso flight lets you taste three coffees side by side from a rotating seasonal menu.

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A calm, wood-lined Gastown roastery turning out carefully brewed single origins on serious equipment.

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Owned by Canadian Barista Champion Sammy Piccolo since 2012, with big windows, natural light and coffee served in signature turquoise mugs. The original is on Commercial Drive.

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Founded in 1974 by Francesco Curatolo and now run by master roaster Brian Turko, holder of 15 International Institute of Coffee Tasters gold medals. The team also runs Turks on Commercial Drive.