7 seafood restaurants worth the trip across Canada, editor-ranked. All cuisines in Canada.
Blue Water Cafe ★ 4.7 · Vancouver
yaletown · 1095 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5T4
Blue Water Cafe in Yaletown under chef Frank Pabst since 2000 is Vancouver's reference seafood room, Ocean Wise certified and an Unsung Heroes host.
Tip: The raw bar walks in early evening; the dining room books a week out on OpenTable. February's Unsung Heroes menu is the calendar event.
Blue Water Cafe ★ 4.7 · Vancouver
yaletown · 1095 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5T4
Blue Water Cafe in Yaletown under chef Frank Pabst since 2000 is Vancouver's reference seafood room, Ocean Wise certified and the Unsung Heroes host annual.
Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar ★ 4.6 · Vancouver
downtown · 845 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2K6
Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar at the Sutton Place Hotel under executive chef Roger Ma runs Vancouver's reference oyster bar plus a wood-fired Pacific menu.
Tip: The oyster bar walks in nightly; the dining room books two weeks out through OpenTable.
Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar ★ 4.6 · Vancouver
downtown · 845 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2K6
Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar at the Sutton Place Hotel under executive chef Roger Ma runs Vancouver's reference oyster bar plus a wood-fired Pacific menu.
Joe Fortes Seafood & Chop House ★ 4.4 · Vancouver
west-end · 777 Thurlow Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 3V5
Joe Fortes on Thurlow is Vancouver's long-running upmarket seafood house since 1985, named for Vancouver's first lifeguard, plus a rooftop oyster bar.
Tip: The rooftop oyster bar walks in for sundowner oysters from 16:00 May to September; the dining room books on OpenTable.
Le Filet ★ 4.3 · Montreal
plateau · 219 Avenue du Mont-Royal Ouest, Montreal, QC H2T 2T2
Le Filet is Bouillon Bilk's seafood-focused sibling facing the mountain in Montreal, a dim, sultry room turning out delicate fish plates meant for sharing.
Tip: Portions are tapas-sized; order broadly across the menu rather than one main each.
Chalet BBQ ★ 4.3 · Montreal
ndg · 5456 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC H4A 1V9
Chalet BBQ has roasted hardwood-charcoal chicken in NDG since 1944, an unchanged Montreal rotisserie whose quarter-chicken and gravy fries define the genre.
Tip: The room looks frozen in the 1960s on purpose; dine in for the full retro rotisserie experience.