Cooking out of the Coho Commissary kitchen and serving meals in the Victoria Public Market or for delivery, Cafe Malabar’s two young chefs have found a following for their creative Keralan cuisine. Read more…
BEST RESTAURANTS
The ultimate list of where to eat now.
Victoria’s Best Restaurant Award Winner 2024: Best Middle Eastern or North African – Syriana
At Syriana, Safaa Naeman’s tasty Middle Eastern foods — from pillowy hand pies to spicy yalange — offer a bounty of must-try savoury and sweet dishes. Read more…
Victoria’s Best Restaurant Award Winner 2024: Best Sommelier and/or Wine Program– The Courtney Room
The Courtney Room’s sommelier Colin Davidson is a champion of small, family-run wineries, and his carefully curated wine list includes an ever-changing selection of B.C. and international wines, including rare finds you won’t see elsewhere. Read more…
Victoria’s Best Restaurant Award Winner 2024: Outstanding Service – Marilena Cafe & Raw Bar
Led by restaurant director Aaron Matsuzaki, a veteran from the Toptable Group in Vancouver, Marilena Cafe & Raw Bar’s service is smart, seamless and professional to a fault. Read more…
Victoria’s Best Restaurant Award Winner 2024: Best West Coast Contemporary – Wild Mountain Food & Drink
With a massive wood-burning oven turning out perfect pizzas and fire-roasted vegetables and meats, Wild Mountain Food & Drink lets their Island ingredients shine. Read more…
Victoria’s Best Restaurant Award Winner 2024: Best Cocktail Bar or Lounge – Humboldt Bar
Humboldt Bar offers an immersive cocktail experience and the chance to journey into the world of historic polymath and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Read more…
Victoria’s Best Restaurant Award Winner 2024: Producer of the Year – Finest at Sea
Locals love Finest at Sea for fresh salmon, halibut and crab sold from their retail fish counter, the value-added Finest at Sea products and arguably the finest fish and chips in town, served from their food truck. Read more…
Victoria’s Best Restaurant Award Winner 2024: Tastemaker(s) of the Year – Greg Hays and Silvia Marcolini, Cafe Brio
In Cafe Brio, Greg Hays and Silvia Marcolini crafted a distinctive, Italianate restaurant, still a popular place to dine on Fort Street. They’ve been named Tastemakers of the Year at the 2024 YAM Best Restaurant Awards. Read more…
Victoria’s Best Restaurant Award Winner 2024: Chef of the Year – Clark Deutscher
2024 Chef of the Year Clark Deutscher is in charge of developing menus for three Victoria restaurants — as seasonal ingredients arrive from their farm partners, he riffs on the possibilities. Read more…
Victoria’s Best Restaurant Award Winner 2024 Restaurant of the Year – The Courtney Room
The Courtney Room relies on fresh, seasonal ingredients from farmers, fishers and foragers, just one of the reasons it’s been named the Restaurant of the Year in the 2024 YAM Best Restaurant Awards. Read more…