Handmade Pasta at Savio Volpe

Climb the Robson staircase into a golden room where a six-foot wood grill has been perfuming everything since noon.

Tsawwassen's quiet fine-dining secret: a husband and wife kitchen, dry-aged AAA beef, house pasta and a 4.6 built over a decade.

A tiny, beloved West Point Grey room near Alma serving slow-cooked northern Italian with a menu that changes nightly and often isn't printed at all.

Hand-stretched hearth pizza and pasta made that day, in a booth-lined room one block up from Ambleside Beach.

An Ambleside trattoria that only opens for dinner, sets proper white linen, and has quietly become one of the highest-rated rooms in West Vancouver.

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

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

Michelin-listed Main Street kitchen where Peru meets Tokyo and Canton: alpaca tartare, arroz con pato, and a pisco bar that hums until close.

A Burnaby Heights pasta institution since 1986 where one bowl genuinely feeds two and the lineup out the door is non-negotiable.

An Austin Heights institution since 1997, Northern Italian pastas and desserts made by hand in a cozy neighbourhood room.

Andrea Carlson's candle-lit Michelin star in Mount Pleasant, where the Moon tasting menus track exactly what BC is growing this week.

A dim, jazz-soaked 1960s Tokyo cafe in Chinatown, where tajarin with uni is just how dinner starts.

The North Shore's only certified Neapolitan oven, hot enough to blister a margherita in about ninety seconds.

Ladner Village's cozy 4.7-star Italian, crisp wood-fired pizzas and house pasta at prices that make it a weeknight regular.