Croissants and Eggs at Blacksmith Bakery

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

The Fraser St bistro that locals call FauxBo, guard jealously, and can't stop recommending despite the notoriously tough reservation.

Duck confit and beef bourguignon at a 55 acre Langley vineyard, poured with the wine that grew outside the window.

The Marinaside seawall's grande dame: French-leaning West Coast seafood and a wine list a hundred deep by the glass, with False Creek lapping past the patio rail.

Gastown's newest bistro serves one dish, an eight ounce striploin with green sauce and frites for $44, and refuses to apologize for the short menu.

A fun, fabulous French bistro on Hornby that Tripadvisor ranks in Vancouver's top ten, open from morning croissants to last-call cocktails.

A tiny family-run French kitchen hiding on a Lower Lynn side street, rewriting its whole menu every week.

A 1933 heritage house in Fort Langley with a flower-framed patio, live music on Thursdays, and contemporary Canadian cooking worth the drive.

A Top Chef alum runs the griddle at this pastel 1950s room on Pemberton, where the coin-tiled floor was laid by hand and the milkshakes are still spun to order.

The cult Belgian brewery on Thunderbird Crescent where national-medal sours and golden tripels await anyone clever enough to find it.

A 38-seat binchotan counter where the chef hands the roll straight across, still warm, and the nori is still crackling.

Vikram Vij's legendary modern Indian room, where the wine-marinated lamb popsicles have been redefining romance since the '90s.

A 1912 heritage room at the foot of Dundarave Pier, gutted so nothing stands between the table and Burrard Inlet.

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