The Best New Restaurants in Canada*
*Well, as chosen by enRoute.
Congratulations to top-10 finalists:
2. Kingyo Izakaya (Jury comments: "If this were a search for Canada’s most dangerous new restaurant, Kingyo would be a shoo-in. Open flames and sharp twigs are only some of the perils that await”)
3. Salt Tasting Room (“It takes guts to open a restaurant without a kitchen on a street known as blood alley and then decorate it like a prison cafeteria. Salt has guts in spades.”)
In the also-rans, congrats to locals:
Ӣ Chow
Ӣ Fuel
Ӣ Gastropod
Ӣ The Shore Club
Ӣ So.Cial at Le Magasin
Ӣ The Taco Shack
For the full list of 20 winners - including top restaurant Atlantica (Newfoundland and Labrador) - visit enRoute magazine.
Comments
2 Comments
John Lucas
Oct 29, 2007 at 10:57am
Clearly I don't get out enough. The only one on this list I have actually been to is Gastropod, and then only for dessert and drinks. I can vouch for their desserts, though!
John Burns
Oct 29, 2007 at 11:13am
Me neither. I've been to <a href="http://fuelrestaurant.ca/" target="_blank">Fuel</a> and again, the deserts were super-yummy but the other food was merely okay.
I mean, not to get all foodie-snooty - it was good - but service was eh, presentation was eh, and portions were a bit out of whack. (I'm "the friend" <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-67111/fuel-for-a-better-experience" target="_self">in this review</a>.)
I'd like to check out that Salt Tasting Room, though. I recently went to (like, found!) the Shebeen, and it was such a great space. I think those Heathers are smart folks!
PS. Not to dis the enRoute folks too much, but did you read those jury comments?
Related story: <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-76626/vancouver-golden-plates-best-resta... target="_self">The Golden Plate Awards: Best Restaurants of Vancouver</a>.