Top 12 Restaurants in Vancouver
Ranked from 5,140 places across 95 neighbourhoods by rating and review volume. Re-cut every week.
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Landmark Hotpot House
The owner's favourite table in the city. Cantonese-style hot pot on Cambie that runs to 2 AM, which is when the room is at its best.
4023 Cambie St, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2X9 Opens 5 PM Jacky's pick Details → 02Phnom Penh Restaurant
Family-run Chinatown institution since 1985. The deep-fried chicken wings are the reason for the line.
244 E Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1Z7 Opens 11 AM Jacky's pick Details → 03Elisa
Contemporary steakhouse in Yaletown — dry-aged cuts over the wood grill, an oyster and cocktail bar up front, and a wine list worth the detour.
1109 Hamilton St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5P6 Opens 4:30 PM Jacky's pick Details →Neighbourhoods
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Fresh seafood — especially wild Pacific salmon and local shellfish — an outstanding sushi culture, farm-to-table cooking built on Fraser Valley produce, Asian fusion across Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Southeast Asian kitchens, and the Japadog: a hot dog topped with seaweed, teriyaki and wasabi mayo.
The California Roll. Chef Hidekazu Tojo is widely credited with creating it in Vancouver in the 1970s, though Los Angeles disputes the claim. It has since become one of the most recognized sushi rolls in North America.
Vancouver is a city, so it has no national dish. Canada as a whole has no single legally recognized national dish either, though poutine and maple syrup-based dishes are the usual answers.
Poutine — fries topped with cheese curds and gravy — is treated as the national comfort food. Nanaimo bars (from Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island), butter tarts and tourtière round out the list.
Natural beauty between the Pacific and the Coast Mountains, a mild climate by Canadian standards, deep cultural diversity that shows up first in the food, a consistently high quality of life, and a major port and film industry known as Hollywood North.
Eight restaurants took stars when the Michelin Guide arrived in 2022: Published on Main, St. Lawrence, Kissa Tanto, AnnaLena, Barbara, Burdock & Co, iDen & QuanJuDe Beijing Duck House, and Masayoshi. Twelve more took Bib Gourmand distinctions.
About this list
Eating Vancouver tracks 5,140 restaurants across 95 neighbourhoods in Metro Vancouver — Richmond, Burnaby, East Vancouver, Downtown, the West Side, the North Shore, Surrey and everywhere between. The ranking is Google rating weighted by review volume, then filtered by hand to drop chains, closed rooms and listings with too few reviews to mean anything.
No restaurant pays to be listed and nothing here is sponsored. Ratings and hours are refreshed weekly.