Bread-Pudding Bennies at BLVD Bistro

Vancouver's first Michelin Young Chef Award winner cooks seasonal BC plates in a warm wood room beside the Pacific Spirit forest.

The Langley sleeper with a 4.8 rating and seats so few that booking one is basically a love letter.

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

Michelin-starred Kitsilano fine dining with vintage toys on the shelves, steps from the beach, and zero sense of its own importance.

Michelin-starred Mount Pleasant room with zero attitude, precise West Coast cooking, and a wine list that will respectfully wreck your schedule.

Port Moody's number-one table, where Executive Chef Juraj Dado's seasonal European cooking makes the Tri-Cities feel like a very good idea.

Doors at 7am, a glass roof over the Fraser, and thirteen kinds of eggs benedict at the only Dutch breakfast room in the region.

A Kits diner since 1988, so stuffed with vintage toys and lunchboxes there's barely room for the towering buttermilk pancakes.

Iron Chef champion Alex Chen's glamorous Burrard Street seafood room, Michelin-recommended and seriously polished.

Chef David Hawksworth's marble-and-velvet Rosewood room, for the night you want them to think you eat like this every Thursday.

Downtown Maple Ridge's small-town bistro with an urban streak, open at 8am for corned beef hash, poached eggs and a decent flat white.

White Rock's most-booked brunch room: small, rustic, and making nearly everything in the building, from the bread to the butchery.

A Moody Centre brunch room built by people who thought pancakes deserved a wider window, with deep booths, rattan lamps and a flight of mimosas on a board.

Coal Harbour, Stanley Park and the North Shore mountains through floor-to-ceiling glass, with a Canadian Culinary Champion kitchen to match.