Old Delhi Street Eats at Delhi 6 Bistro

Where Pondicherry's centuries-old French-Indian love affair lands in Hastings-Sunrise, with a coconut tequila chaser.

Butter chicken poutine, paneer tacos and spiced cocktails in Surrey's slickest Indian lounge, open until 3am.

One of Vancouver's highest-rated Indian spots on The Drive, where street-food snacks flow into proper cocktails and a room that hums.

Satnam Singh's polished Yaletown Indian room, where the tandoor and the cocktail program are locked in a tie for the highlight.

A decades-long West Broadway fixture serving Kashmiri and Mughlai recipes nobody else in the city is cooking.

A sleek Coquitlam bistro with a 4.5 across nearly a thousand reviews, because the lamb biryani has something to say for itself.

South Indian dosas with a cocktail list built for spice, low lighting, and 2,300 reviewers who've already figured this out.

Butter chicken tacos, red-leather booths and craft cocktails, in a South Surrey taproom with half a rickshaw by the door.

Vikram Vij's legendary modern Indian room, where the wine-marinated lamb popsicles have been redefining romance since the '90s.

Named for chef Tushar Tondvalkar's mother and the Marathi word for poetry, Kavita's Ammakase tasting earns both meanings course by course.

Davie Street's tiny Goan kitchen, steps from Sunset Beach, with a whole pan-fried pomfret and cocktails that won Vancouver Magazine over.

Gary, Anu, and thirty years at the stove make Langley's top-rated Indian worth every minute of the drive.

Crispy, forearm-length dosas and midnight filter coffee until 3am, for the night that isn't over yet.

A dum biryani lid that opens in a cloud of saffron, a mandi built for two, and the kitchen open until 2am on weekends.