Abigail’s Party is a cozy tapas and wine bar that serves casual dishes with an upscale twist. Using fresh organic ingredients, this European style eatery offers up an innovative menu with an intimate decor.
Contact: info@abigailsparty.ca
Amuse-Bouche Restaurant is a cute French restaurant in Toronto. The focused menu spans the globe giving it a cutting-edge.
Contact: 416.913.5830
A modern French restaurant with a seasonal tasting menu and 500 label wine selection constructed around two 1860s woodcutters' cottages.
Contact: 416.222.2220
RESTAURANT
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Bacchus Restaurant is an award-winning, luxurious restaurant in the heart of downtown Vancouver with innovative Modern French cuisine featuring ingredients indigenous to the West Coast.
Contact: 604.689.7777
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Biff's Bistro and Wine Bar offers flavourful French cuisine with an outstanding selection of market fresh seafood and classic bistro specialties.
Contact: 416.860.0086
Bin 941 - Bin 942 Tapas Parlour
Claiming to have launched Vancouver's small plates trend, Bin 941 - Bin 942 are part tapas restaurant, part up-tempo bar.
Contact: gord@bin941.com
With a seasonal menu that changes weekly, Bishops serves West Coast cuisine with an emphasis on organic, regional produce.
Contact: inquire@bishopsonline.com
THE BLACK HOOF
The Black Hoof is a small restaurant with a number of beers on tap, wine and a short menu that features foie gras, prosciutto tasting, and cabbage and bone marrow soup.
Contact: 416.551.8854
Known for its innovative West Coast plates using seafood from wild and sustainable sources, Blue Water Cafe is considered Vancouver’s definitive destination for seafood.
A sophisticated restaurant with a pub attitude, Boneta is a modern bistro that serves a seasonal menu with modern European comfort food.
Contact: 604.684.1844
Located in the heart of Toronto’s Annex, this popular bistro offers daily specials with a Middle Eastern flair. Guests are invited to enjoy a beer or glass of wine from a collection of house vintages.
Contact: dine@bythewaycafe.com
Featuring the finest seafood from local waters and around the world, prepared with fresh local produce and innovative sauces, C is the dining destination for seafood lovers. You will discover the riches of the oceans prepared in ways never before imagined.
Contact: info@crestaurant.com
c5 Restaurant Lounge is a fine dining restaurant located atop the world-renowned Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. The cuisine at c5 captures the essence of Toronto’s cultural fabric with modern and imaginative dishes taking inspiration from the flavours of the city’s ethnic markets and fusing them with local Ontario ingredients.
Contact: 416.586.7928
>Campagnolo Restaurant is an Italian restaurant serving rustic dishes from the Piedmont Emiglia-Romagna regions of Italy, including pizza, pasta and seasonally inspired main dishes.
Contact: info@campagnolorestaurant.ca
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Canoe serves regional Canadian cuisine with breathtaking views of downtown Toronto high above the city in the TD Bank Tower.
Contact: 416.364.0054
The Chefs’ Table Society of British Columbia
The Chefs’ Table Society of British Columbia is a province-wide collaborative that promotes standards of excellence in enhancing the reputation of regional cuisine, and supports innovative and sustainable programs that inspire, educate and nurture chefs, producers and the local food industry.
Contact: info@chefstablesociety.ca
Cibo Trattoria offers authentic Italian cuisine made with fresh local same-day ingredients in an elegant atmosphere.
Contact: info@cibotrattoria.ca
Acclaimed for its contemporary cuisine that is ingredient driven with a seasonal focus, CinCin’s menu embraces the sensibilities of Italian/ Mediterranean cuisine in every dish.
Contact: reservations@cincin.net
Cioppino's Mediterranean Grill & Enoteca
Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill and its sister restaurant next door, Enoteca, combine Italian with Mediterranean cuisine. It boasts one of the largest wine cellars in Vancouver with thousands of bottles available.
Contact: 604.688.7466
Coast offers a superb seafood dining experience in a beautifully designed atmosphere. Located next door to Coast is the O-Lounge, an LA style cocktail lounge where guests can unwind with an after dinner drink.
Contact: 604.685.5010
Sitting in the heart of Vancouver’s Gastown, Cobre serves “nuevo latino” – a style of cooking that blends Argentinean, Cuban, Brazilian, and Mexican cuisine.
Contact:info@cobrerestaurant.com
Cru is a popular wine bar style restaurant with great "small plates" and a three-course prix fixe menu. It has an award-winning, yet user-friendly, innovative wine program featuring over 35 wines by the glass.
Contact: info@cru.ca
Crush Wine Bar serves modern cuisine in a newly transformed 1904 brick and beam building with British style ambiance.
DB Bistro Moderne is a casual bistro with a contemporary interpretation of a classic French bistro. The menu reflects the changing seasons with a focus on fine ingredients.
Contact: 604.739.7715
Bistro
DELUX
Delux is hip and unpretentious with a menu comprised mostly of French bistro fare with a slight Cuban influence.
Contact: 416.537.0134
Drake serves lovingly concocted international cuisine and reinterpreted classics. Executive Chef Anthony Rose and Chef de Cuisine Darren Glew present unique menus culled from their combined talents.
Contact: 416.531.5042
With an open-concept kitchen in the heart of Byward Market, Domus Cafe serves an ever-changing menu of regional dishes and rare wines.
Contact: 613.241.6007
EIGENSINN FARM
Located on a rural farm, this world-renowned dining room is intimate and rustic with a maximum of twelve guests on any given evening. The menu features innovative flavours made with farm fresh local ingredients.
Contact: 519.922.3128
Elixir Restaurant and Bar at the Opus Hotel
Located in the world-renowned Opus Hotel, Elixir Restaurant and Bar serves modern interpretations of French classics with BC flourishes and seasonal ingredients.
Contact: info@elixir-opusbar.com
Farmed and Dangerous: Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR)
Think twice about eating farmed salmon. Salmon farming is bad for the environment. Imagine the raw sewage that half a million people would create in one day. It is probably too much to imagine. Now imagine if it were pumped directly into the ocean without having been treated.
The Foxley Bistro and Bar serves Pan-Asian cuisine that is prepared in a distinctively European manner. The menu of healthy and eco-friendly dishes changes regularly depending on the availability of quality ingredients.
Contact: 416.534.8520
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A tasty, non-fussy meal is guaranteed at Go Fish, a fish lover’s haven located at the False Creek Fishermen’s Wharf in Vancouver.
Grace serves modern farmhouse cuisine with traditional flavours inspired by family dinners.
Contact: 416.944.8884
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Hamilton Street Grill is a contemporary steakhouse featuring Certified Angus Beef along with a large selection of fresh seafood entrees in the trendy Yaletown area of downtown Vancouver.
Contact: 604.331.1511
Hapa Izakaya serves Japanese fusion style tapas in a softly lit and intimate environment.
Contact: Robson Location: 604.689.4272/ Kitsilano Location: 604.738.4272
ROOM
Residing just east of the University of Toronto and open until the wee hours, the Harbord Room creates full meals and small tapas plates to accompany their incredible selection of beers, wines and cocktails.
Contact: 416.962.8989
HOOF CAFE
Hoof Café specializes in brunch favourites with a charcuterie twist. During the night, guests are welcome to sample meaty bar snacks and cocktails.
Contact: 416.551.8854
Il Nido brings the tastes of Northern Italy to downtown Vancouver in an elegant, yet informal atmosphere.
Contact: 604.685.6436
Jericho Tennis Club is a members-only club where members enjoy sports tournaments, entertainment and meals in their dining room overlooking English Bay and the North Shore Mountains.
Contact: 604.224.2348
Located just off of Vancouver’s bustling Robson Street, Joe Fortes is a San Francisco style seafood grill boasting an abundant wine selection and an award-winning oyster bar.
Contact: 604.669.1940
Ki serves a full menu of modern Japanese flavours in a lively atmosphere where you can watch Ki’s sushi chefs prepare your dishes.
Contact: 416.308.5888
Latitude offers a unique blend of North and South American flavours served in a stylish environment in Vancouver’s Main Street district.
Contact: info@latitudeonmain.com
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Located within the National Arts Centre, Le Café offers fresh continental cuisine for both private engagements and corporate functions.
Les Faux Bourgeois offers patrons a little taste of Paris serving generous portions of classic French favourites in a unique 60’s style retro atmosphere.
Contact:info@lesfauxbourgeois.com
With its provocative blend of European sophistication, modern French sensibilities and West Coast innovation, Lumière cuisine speaks a language all its own. Celebrated New York Chef Daniel Boulud and Executive Chef Dale MacKay have captured the imaginations and palettes of fine food lovers from all over the world.
Contact: lumiere@relaischateaux.com
Casual and vibrant, Navarra is a Basque-style eatery using fresh local ingredients to create dishes reminiscent of Northern Spain.
Contact: 613.241.5500
Niagara Street Cafe is a fine dining restaurant with a romantic dining room and ever changing organically based menu.
Contact: 416.703.4222
A much loved Italian restaurant in Toronto, serving both classic and inventive Italian fare. Noce also boasts an award-winning wine cellar.
Contact: noce2@bellnet.ca
Overlooking Vancouver’s False Creek, Nu is a lively French Bistro with an eclectic menu.
Contact: info@whatisnu.com
Ocean Wise is a Vancouver Aquarium conservation program created to educate and empower consumers about the issues surrounding sustainable seafood. Ocean Wise works directly with restaurants and markets, ensuring that they have the most current scientific information regarding seafood and helping them make ocean-friendly buying decisions. The options are highlighted on their menus and display cases with the Ocean Wise symbol, making it easier for consumers to make environmentally friendly seafood choices.
Contact: oceanwise@vanaqua.org
O'Doul's Restaurant & Bar has a look and feel of a New York bistro with jazz playing seven nights a week. Its menu is West Coast eclectic with an emphasis on the fresh harvest of the fertile Fraser delta and the bounty of the Pacific.
Contact: 604.661.1400
Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts
Pacific Institute of Culinary Arts is a private training facility with a fine dining restaurant on the premises. Under the direction of the chef instructors, students in the Culinary Arts program design and prepare a weekly three-course menu using the freshest in-season ingredients.
Contact: 604.734.4488
Pangaea is a restaurant where international inspiration and regional ingredients come together to form a unique and wonderful dining concept.
Contact: 416.920.2323
Provenance Regional Cuisine is Toronto's first regionally focused grocery home delivery service that sources the freshest and most flavourful seasonal ingredients available from the most dedicated producers.
Contact: alex@provenancecuisine.ca
The Pear Tree Restaurant serves a unique blend of European and Canadian cuisine using seasonal local, organic and sustainable ingredients to create a sublime year-round menu.
Contact: 604.299.2772
Located by the beach in Vancouver’s West End, Raincity Grill serves Pacific Northwest cuisine that is based on local resources.
Contact: info@raincitygrill.com
Located in the heart of Toronto’s financial district, Reds is an upscale destination for wine lovers. Boasting a vast wine cellar featuring many rare and international selections, Reds Bistro and Wine Bar serves simply prepared food using seasonal and regional ingredients.
Contact: redsbistro@sircorp.com
Located in Victoria, Red Fish, Blue Fish is a fish and chip shop that prides itself in offering 100 per cent sustainable Ocean Wise seafood.
Contact: 250-298-6877
Refuel, the restaurant formerly known as Fuel, has reinvented itself to become a comfortable neighbourhood hangout serving modified comfort food classics.
Contact: info@refuelrestaurant.com
With a menu that changes with the seasons, Restaurant 18 is a seafood and steakhouse offering an elite wine list.
Contact: 613.244.1188
Scaramouche Restaurant has been voted twice as “Toronto’s Top Restaurant” by Gourmet magazine. Serving fine food and wine, it is the place to be as the sun sets and the lights of the city’s skyline begin to twinkle through the restaurant’s windows
Contact:416.961.8011
With an extensive wine list, Social offers progressive North American cuisine in a casual atmosphere.
Contact: 613.789.7355
Sueolio emphasizes seasonal organic ingredients in their signature North American style dishes. Guests can dine-in or choose from a variety of all-natural items in its grocery section.
Contact: 306.979.8102
Splendido is a contemporary fine dining restaurant serving high quality, seasonal, locally sourced, and family farmed products that have been traditionally prepared.
Contact: 416.929.7788
Starfish features a unique assortment of oysters shucked by World Oyster Opening Champion, Patrick McMurray. The menu changes daily to include fresh fish and shellfish as well as steak, duck and more.
Contact: 416.366.7827
FISH
TARO'S FISH
Taro's Fish is a little shop where you can purchase ready-made takeout containers of beautifully cut, fresh fish (from glistening, silver-skinned mackerel, tuna belly and fluke to plump raw scallops and sea urchin) for sashimi or sushi at home.
Contact: 416.730.8555
The Corner Suite offers back to basics French cuisine with a Mediterranean flare.
Contact: info@thecornersuite.com
Considered one of the best Japanese restaurants in Vancouver, Tojo's serves fresh and inventive seafood and sushi to its patrons.
Contact: info@tojos.com
UNION serves Ontario farm fresh, locally grown food, with an emphasis on seasonal fruits and vegetables.
Contact: 416.850.0093
Vancouver magazine is a magazine about Vancouver. It chronicles and reflects Vancouver's emergence as a dynamic international city and is published 10 times a year with two special interest annual magazines: Eating & Drinking Guide, the ultimate guide to Vancouver's best bars, restaurants and food shops; and Guestlife Vancouver, a hotel room magazine that covers the best places to see, shop, play, eat, drink and explore.
Contact: 604.877.7732
Vertical serves seasonal cuisine inspired by southern Italy and the Mediterranean with a focus on simplicity and freshness in the heart of Toronto's financial district. Whole grilled fish, fresh pasta and naturally raised Ontario beef are specialties of Vertical.
Contact: 416.214.2252
With a seasonal menu using fresh local ingredients and traditional Indian spices and cooking techniques, Vij’s serves unique Indian cuisine.
Contact: contact@vijs.ca
Reflecting the origins of the restaurant name, Voya thrives on its inspiration - the thought that food can transplant one to places never before experienced. Executive Chef Marc André Choquette's sophisticated, internationally-fused dishes feature fresh, local and organic ingredients, always true to the season. Voya is a member of the Green Table and Ocean Wise™ sustainable programs.
Contact: 604.639.VOYA
Keeping true to their region, and true to their seasons, West serves contemporary regional cuisine and modern interpretations of classics using local ingredients.
Contact: info@westrestaurant.com
Zucca Trattoria serves a seasonal menu of organic meat and produce with a commitment to the regional cuisine of Italy.
Contact: 416.488.5774
100milediet.org/category/vancouver
On the first day of spring, 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon embarked upon a simple experiment – for one year, they would buy or gather their food and drink from within 100 miles of their apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia. Their 100-Mile Diet struck a deeper chord than anyone could have predicted. Within weeks, reprints of their blog at thetyee.ca had appeared on sites across the Internet. Then came the media, from BBC Worldwide to Utne magazine. Dozens of individuals and grassroots groups have since launched their own 100-Mile Diet adventures. The need now is clear: a locus where 100-milers can get the information they need to try their own lifestyle experiments, and to exchange ideas and develop campaigns. That locus will be here at 100MileDiet.org—turning an idea into a movement.
Contact: ssellers@randomhouse.com
