Heritage Patio & Live Music at Beatniks Bistro

PoCo's smokehouse and brewhouse on one address: ribs, pulled pork, craft beer and a gin list that no one saw coming.

Fort Langley's homegrown brewery pours its own beer beside a Fraser Valley seasonal menu and a turfed, dog-friendly patio.

A South Langley farm cidery with apples literally out back, bone-dry and elderflower flights, brick-oven pizza, and a grassy field built for lingering.

A reservation-taking, sit-down burger room in Mount Pleasant: exposed brick, Edison bulbs, leather booths and an open kitchen turning out award-winning halal Angus burgers.

A cozy Cloverdale dinner room with a dedicated martini list and live music on Friday and Saturday nights.

Fort Langley's artisan bakeshop on the site of a 1910 blacksmith's, open at 7am for breakfast, oversized laminated pastry and Republica coffee.

West Coast seafood and a marina-view patio at the toe of Horseshoe Bay, two minutes from the ferry ramp.

A thirty-year-old Richmond warehouse hung with classic records and old instruments, serving crab cake bennies and waffles from 8am, seven days.

The only Ladner table actually over the water: chowder, coconut prawns and the fishing fleet sliding past the deck.

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

Yaletown's new 270 seat comfort food operation changes personality three times a day, and every version of it thinks your date deserves a margarita.

Maple Ridge's most-voted pub, minutes from Golden Ears, with generous portions, daily drink specials, and a room that hums but never shouts.

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.

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