All the Vanmag Restaurant Award Winners Participating in Dine Out Vancouver This Year

Far be it from us to gatekeep some of the best restaurants and meals in the city—in fact, Vanmag’s entire ethos is to share the beating heart of Vancouver’s restaurant industry through our annual Restaurant Awards.

Each year, our judges and loyal readers take on the delicious task of eating their way through the city to present the best of the best in menus, flavours and restaurant experiences so you, the people, know exactly when and where to make those birthday, anniversary or any other special occasion dinner reservations. Lucky for you (and us!), the annual Dine Out Vancouver Festival makes it all the more easy, with three-to-five course set menus starting at $25, running from January 21 to February 8.

Of all 450 restaurants participating in the yearly festival, here are what some of Vanmag’s favourite dining spots are slinging during the 24th annual Dine Out Vancouver.

Moltaqa

Yaletown’s Moltaqa, which took home gold in last year’s Best African and Diaspora category, will be serving up both a lunch and a dinner menu for Dine Out—$25 for lunch and $39 for dinner—which includes a taste of their harissa chickpea soup or their smoky eggplant puree (baba ghanoush to some) as an appetizer, a theatrical roasted duck flambe or chicken lemon olive tagine as an entree, and then coconut, almond briwat or walnut cookie trio with moroccan tea to cap the meal.

Nook

Nook, our beloved Best Chain winner, will also be serving up both a lunch ($25) and a dinner ($40) menu, showing off their signature burrata and prosciutto toasts, salads and a choice of select pizzas (such as margherita and pepperoni) or pastas (gnocchi with baby meatballs, anyone?). 

Chez Celine

While our Best French category winner, St. Lawrence, won’t be dishing out a dine out menu of their own, its sister spot Chez Celine (by St. Lawrence chef J-C Poirier alongside Margaux Herder and David Lawson) has put together a $65 three-course dinner menu, which could include a taste of their escargot, beef tartare, mushroom cavatelli and, of course, their famous poutine, capped by diving into their ineffable Maple Crème Caramel dessert. The spot’s $35 brunch menu could start off with focaccia, butter and jam or the dreamy kids cereal mix, plus an omelette with pistou, and finishing the meal on their flambeed crepes suzette.

Sula

Sula’s Davie Street location took home gold in last year’s Best Indian category, but the spot has three spots in Vancouver (Main Street and Commercial Drive, too)—all of which are participating in Dine Out this year. For $45, you’ll get to try a five-course menu that could start with a smoked red pepper shorba or a mint-jalapeno paneer, mouthwatering mains such as the vegan bamboo mushroom saag (in which earthy mushrooms and tender spinach are “tossed with a twist of the east,” according to their menu) and ending on the Khubani coconut firni, a South Indian–style dessert made with coconut milk and jaggery. No meal is complete without chai, of which Sula will offer their house Sula chai or a rose chai, and a select Dine Out wine or cocktail.

Elio Volpe

There are plenty of Italian restaurants on the Dine Out list, but we’re especially excited for the $69 offering by 2025 Best Italian winner Elio Volpe: on this five-course menu, you’ll find the spot’s black truffle sunchoke arancini, slow-cooked duck legs and a citrus semolina cake.

Zoomak

Zoomak, which took home gold in our Best Korean category in 2025, stuns with a $40 offering: yook-hoe (a spicy beef tartare), the temple bibimbap (with rice, assorted wild vegetables and mushrooms in a spicy Gochujang sauce) and a green plum sorbet are all part of the three-course meal.

Delara

Delara is doing brunch, lunch and dinner, featuring some of their signature dishes that won them gold in our Best Middle Eastern category, such as Ghormeh Sabzi, a beef, bean and herb stew, along with dessert options honey baklava and a creamy scoop of saffron ice cream (topped, delightfully, with pistachios and rose petals).

Maenam

Kitsilano’s Maenam by Chef of the Year Angus An (also winner of the Best Thai category) offers a $65 menu, featuring a taste of some of the restaurant’s most-loved dishes: a hot and sour soup of local clams and their grilled pork jowl salad.

Burdock and Co

Michelin-starred Burdock and Co got a nod as our first-ever Sustainability Award winner in 2025. Serving up an elevated Dine Out menu for $110, the restaurant will offer up choices of sea bream crudo (complete with macadamia nut ice and island citrus vinaigrette) or kangaroo loin in an Australian spice broth, a vegemite roasted lamb loin and a tonka bean custard for dessert—among a few other choices. 

Published on Main

Meanwhile, the only other restaurant to serve up a $110 menu is the Michelin-starred Published on Main—also the bronze winner in Vanmag’s Upscale category—with roasted scallops, smoked and candied steel with burnt nori on a kelp croustade and a wagyu beef strip-loin as options.

All Dine Out Vancouver menus are now live online here.