Restaurants

20-plus Award-Winning Restaurants Participating in Dine Out 2025

These eateries are on our don't-miss list for Vancouver's favourite week of dining.

By Dani Wright /

Dine Out Vancouver is back, and it’s bigger than ever. Over 425 restaurants are serving up exclusive menus from January 22 to February 9, giving you 19 days to explore Vancouver’s world-class dining scene. But let’s face the cold, hard truth: there’s no way you can hit them all. And with such an epic list, finding the best of the best can feel like a major time sink. So we did it for you.

Just like last year, we’ve curated the top spots, cross-referencing it with the winners of the Vanmag Restaurant Awards. Now, you can effortlessly explore Vancouver’s most award-winning menus and and lock down those sought after reservations ASAP.

Vanmag Restaurant Award Winners Participating in Dine Out 2025

 

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The Acorn

The Acorn earned gold in Best Vegetarian in 2022, and now the restaurant is serving brunch and dinner for Dine Out. Brunch is $49 for two courses with options like kohlrabi with cayenne pepper nahm jim and an omelette with melted leeks, braised mustard seeds, pickled shallots, Heidi cheese and mornay. Dinner is family style and $65 with items like beets with fermented horseradish, kraut, mustard seeds and ambrosia apple. See the full menu of options here.

 

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Acquafarina

Acquafarina scored an honourable mention in Best Italian Upscale in the 2024 Restaurant Awards. For Dine Out it’s offering three-course lunch and dinner for $65 with options like wagyu beef carpaccio with truffled egg yolk, shallots, radish and fresh black truffle and wild mushroom, porcini and ricotta stuffed pasta with sage butter. See all the options here.

Alimentaria

Alimentaria won an honourable mention in Latin American in the 2022 Restaurant Awards. It’s $39 lunch and dinner menus include items like chicken enmoladas (corn tortillas, Oaxacan mole negro, roasted chicken, crema, cheese, onion, cilantro) and charred beet tostadas with labne, salsa macha and sesame seeds. See the rest of the menu here. 

Ancora

Ancora earned gold in Best Seafood in the 2017 Restaurants Awards and Best Patio in 2024 Editors’ Choice. For 2025 Dine Out the restaurant is offering a $39 three-course lunch menu with options like tuna tataki topped with yuzu kosho and green onions and Peruvian-style paella sablefish croquettes with chorizo, corn and baby shrimp. Plus, it is also offering a $65 dinner menu with options like a salmon tiradito (with aji amarillo leche de tigre) and Atun Saltado (with albacore tuna, Peruvian rice, saltado reduction, red onions and scallions). See the rest of the options here. 

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Bar Susu

Bar Susu won gold in Best New Restaurant in the 2022 Restaurant Awards. It’s $65 dinner menu for Dine Out features options like its famous KFC maitake mushrooms and squash risotto with perigord black truffle and sage. See the rest of the three-course menu options here. 

 

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Caffè La Tana 

Caffè La Tana won silver in Best Italian Casual in the 2024 Restaurant Awards. The restaurant is offering a $39 lunch menu that includes items like chicory salad with mustard vinaigrette, gorgonzola dolce, roasted pears and walnuts and Pepino’s spaghetti and meatballs. See the rest of the menu here. 

Collective Goods

Collective Goods earned silver in Best New Restaurant in 2022. For Dine Out Vancouver the $50 per person menu for two features the restaurant’s beloved steak frites. See the full menu here. 

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Cactus Club 

Longtime Best Chain Restaurant Awards winner Cactus Club earned its place among the best of the best when it was awarded the Hall of Fame award for 2024. It’s $45 menu for Dine Out 2025 features some of its top items, like the prawn crunch roll and blackened Creole chicken. See the full offerings here. 

 

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CinCin

Last year CinCin earned bronze in Best Italian Upscale.  This year for Dine Out the Robson Street legend is offering a $59 dinner menu with Italian classics like mozzarella corrozza (fried mozz with marinara) and wood-grilled pork chop with polenta, broccolini and pear and saffron mostarda. See the full menu here. 

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Delara

Delara’s modern take Persian cuisine earned it gold in Best Middle Eastern in the 2024 Restaurant Awards. In Dine Out Vancouver it’s offering brunch ($35), lunch ($35) and dinner ($55) featuring items like roast chicken leg with barberry sauce, crispy saffron rice and herb salad. See the rest of the offering here. 

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Gary’s 

Gary’s scored bronze in our awards for Best New last year. For Dine Out the restaurant is serving up a luxe five-course family-style dinner ($65 per person) featuring lamb bourguignon with mash, carrots, pearl onions, lardons and horseradish. See the rest of the menu here.

 

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Pepino’s

Pepino’s took silver in Best New Restaurant and gold in Best Restaurant Design in the 2019 Restaurant Awards. In 2025, for Dine Out Vancouver, the restaurant is offering a $49 three-course dinner menu featuring its beloved rigatonii alla vodka. See the full menu here.

Pidgin

Not to relive it, but the 2021 Restaurant Awards were a different breed. We were hot on the tails of the pandemic and that’s why Pidgin won Best Pivot thanks to its survival skills during the dark days. In happier times, it also scored gold in Best Gastown in 2017. For $65 this year at Dine Out you can try the restaurant’s duck ssam (with house banchan). See the rest of the options here.  

 

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L’Abattoir 

Longtime Vancouver-staple L’abattoir took home silver last year in Best French. It’s offering a three-course dinner for $65 featuring dishes like octopus ceviche and squash and ricotta agnolotti. See the rest of the menu here.

 

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La Mezcaleria

La Mezcaleria scored an honourable mention in Latin American in 2024. For Dine Out Vancouver it’s serving up dinner ($65) with dishes like emoladas verdes (with multiple filling options) and tequila-honey mussels. See the full menu here.

 

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La Taqueria

La Taqueria won gold in Latin American in the 2022 Restaurant Awards. For Dine Out this year the Brentwood location is offering lunch and dinner (both $38) featuring flautas, tacos and more. See the rest of the offerings here. 

Monarca

Monarca earned silver in Latin American in last year’s Restaurant Awards. For $55 at this year’s Dine Out Vancouver you can try the restaurant’s Mexican-style wagyu meatballs and more. See the rest of the offerings here. 

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Maenam 

Maenam earned gold in the Best Thai category of our awards last year, and chef Angus An is serving lunch ($45) and dinner ($65) for Dine Out. Both menus are family-style and feature dishes like grilled chicken laarb and Massaman duck leg curry. See all the offerings here.

Potluck Hawker Eatery

Potluck Hawker Eatery scored an honourable mention in 2021’s Best New. For Dine Out the restaurant is serving up lunch ($28) and dinner ($28) featuring its nasi lemak fried chicken sando and do-not-miss Milo dinosaur drink. See the rest of the menu here. 

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Nook

Nook took home gold in Best Chain in our awards last year. For Dine Out Vancouver the restaurant’s various locations are offering lunch ($25) and dinner ($40) featuring Italian staples like Margherita pizza and rigatoni arrabiata. See the full menu here.

 

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Nuba

Nuba earned bronze in Best Chain in 2023. For Dine Out 2025 the restaurant’s various locations are offering a $39 three-course dinner with options like red lentil soup and lemon chicken skewers. See the full menu here.

 

Dani Wright

Dani Wright