Editorial picks, not sponsored
13 places chosen for being distinct rather than for being everything: dockside fish, farm-to-table rooms in the Cowichan Valley, Tofino kitchens and a few serious Victoria dining rooms. Filter by where you are staying and what the evening is for.
2 of 13 restaurants
Winery restaurant
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The restaurant at Unsworth Vineyards in Mill Bay, in a restored farmhouse among the vines, serving Cowichan Valley produce with the estate's wines. The natural lunch on a wine-tour day.
Upstairs dining room and bar
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Tofino's best-known dinner: a two-storey room above the harbour with a menu built around what the coast provides — cedar, seaweed, wild fish, foraged greens — and a bar that takes cocktails as seriously as the kitchen takes fish.