Bone-Marrow Pho at Linh Cafe

The Vietnamese street food that made Anthony Bourdain misty on television now has a permanent home on The Drive.

The plant-filled Main Street room that makes a first date feel like it's going well before a word is spoken.

Run by the actual Fanny Bay farm, this is Vancouver's only tide-to-table oyster bar, and the marble counter is yours.

The sunny tiled downtown room with legendary Belgian waffles, a lavender dark chocolate situation, and a line that is genuinely worth it.

Fukuoka-style tonkotsu you customize on a little order sheet, plus a queue that counts as your best first-date warmup.

The only dinner where eating with your hands from the same plate is not just allowed, it's the whole point.

Gary, Anu, and thirty years at the stove make Langley's top-rated Indian worth every minute of the drive.

A decades-long West Broadway fixture serving Kashmiri and Mughlai recipes nobody else in the city is cooking.

Lantern-lit West End izakaya where the sake list rewards bravery and stone-grilled beef keeps arriving until you've forgotten your plans.

Crispy, forearm-length dosas and midnight filter coffee until 3am, for the night that isn't over yet.

A Michelin Guide pick on the corner of Homer and Smithe that runs cafe by day, 800-degree pizzeria by night, and lounge after that.

A sleek Coquitlam bistro with a 4.5 across nearly a thousand reviews, because the lamb biryani has something to say for itself.

Six or eight tables, Ethiopian art, and a tradition called gursha where you hand-feed each other, which is romantic on purpose.

French technique and Gastown cobblestones, with an atrium, award-winning cocktails, and a bar that doesn't rush you out.