Intimate Chef's Tasting at Annora

Chef J-C Poirier's Michelin-starred Railtown room where Québécois comfort food arrives in quantities your willpower simply won't survive.

Vancouver Foodie Tours runs a two hour progressive meal through the market: cheese, charcuterie, candied salmon, chocolate truffles and a honey-dip donut finish.

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

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.

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

A 1918 Cloverdale heritage house with five intimate dining rooms and a tableside flambé service that treats dessert as theatrical inevitability.

The Michelin-listed W 4th kitchen that is genuinely relaxed, genuinely BC-farm-driven, and has a fried chicken sandwich with permanent-resident status.

A heritage Tudor mansion on Deer Lake's shore, five minutes from Metrotown, plating sustainable West Coast cooking with a Mediterranean accent.

Dinner at the top of Queen Elizabeth Park: West Coast cooking, white tablecloths and big windows looking north to the city and the mountains.

A tiny Queensbury Village brunch room where the eggs benedict lands on house-made savoury bread pudding instead of an English muffin.

White Rock's top-ranked Marine Drive kitchen, where BC spot prawns and a cozy patio make Tuesday feel like a proper anniversary.

A 1926 North Shore institution where the Yukon-style bacon arrives in slabs and a century of carved masks watches you eat breakfast.

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.