Neighbourhood Italian at Il Posto

A Michelin-name Italian on Kingsway where spit-roasted meats, seasonal handmade pasta and wine do more romantic work than you ever had to.

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

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

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

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

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.

Port Moody's most-loved pizza, charred pillowy Neapolitan pies from a blazing wood oven, ten minutes from Brewers Row.

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.

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

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

Brewers Row's biggest patio, where free arcade games, a Dreamboat Hazy IPA, and a food truck conspire against whatever you had planned next.

A brewpub in the middle of an 1860s fishing village, with the longest bar in Ladner and a backyard patio built for slow afternoons.