Lakeside Dining at Hart House on Deer Lake

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

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

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

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

The WAG's covered bay patio is White Rock's best argument for always booking the view table and ordering the cold martinis.

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

A tiny Railtown chalkboard room doing nose-to-tail, seed-to-fork cooking that changes with whatever's actually good right now.

A heritage-building institution on Moncton Street, plating Chef Sushila Narain's West Coast seafood in Richmond's prettiest fishing village.

Deep Cove's long-running waterfront bistro, where the patio leans over Burrard Inlet and the Ocean Wise seafood earns every candle.

South Surrey's tiny, fiercely good open-kitchen bistro: Chef Veen's French technique, BC farm sourcing, and a 4.7 that politely destroys every chain nearby.

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

Dinner 553 feet up in a room that does a full lap of the city every hour, so even if the conversation stalls, the view will not.

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

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