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Food for Thought

Savor the stories behind Canada’s most exciting new dining spots. These original pieces highlight the creativity and passion shaping the country’s food scene, offering you a closer look at the restaurants making an impact.

An Appetite for Going Further

There is an increasing willingness to drive two hours for lunch, make an unexpected detour or add an overnight stay simply because there is a restaurant worth discovering. Distance becomes less of an obstacle and more a part of the apleasure.

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At the Water’s Edge

9 October 2026

We went to Halifax expecting to bring two kitchens together for a night. Instead, we found a city already gathered around its own table, confident in what it had built and generous enough to pull up a few more chairs.

One Night on rue Marquette

9 October 2026

The premise was simple: bring together two restaurants from the 2025 program, impose virtually no rules and see what happens. A chef’s creative playground.

A Study in Generosity

13 August 2026

Generosity has always been one of hospitality’s defining ingredients

A City Told Through Its Table

13 August 2026

Great restaurants have an uncanny ability to follow us home

The team at No.8 Burlington

Kinship at the Core of the 2025 Class

Family, by blood and by choice, are the backbone of their decisions both grand and granular.

The names of founder Lenny Moy’s children—Janelle, Evan, and Cailee—fuse into Janevca, the restaurant inside Rosemead House in Victoria. Claire Jacques, in Montreal, honours a pair of grandparents. Vancouver’s June and Lala draw from the co-proprietors’ lineages; Cam Watt’s mother and Keenan Hood’s daughter, respectively. Their most well-known dish, Pasta for Rachel, is the namesake of Chef Connor Sperling’s wife.

The Art of Solo Dining

The Art of Solo Dining

No compromise, just you and exactly what you want to eat, where you want to eat it.

The Taste of Innovation

Innovation revealed itself in many forms this year, in flavour, in form, and in philosophy.

Grace in the Gesture, Precision in the Warmth

True hospitality resists definition. It’s felt more than seen, found in gestures that connect craft to care.

The Full Use Kitchen & the Art of Hyper Local Dining

Sustainability today is less a movement than a mindset — one that shapes not just sourcing, but systems of thought and care

SPOTLIGHT

AIR CANADA’S BEST NEW RESTAURANTS 2025

The Top 10 2025

Year’s Best 2025

Precision in every strand.

Finalists 2025