Best Restaurant + Outstanding Chef 2017: Patrick Kriss Alo
The Best Restaurant 2017 award presented by NESPRESSO goes to Patrick Kriss' Alo.
No. 27: Raymonds
95 WATER STREET, ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR RAYMONDSRESTAURANT.COM 709-579-5800 RAYMONDS OCCUPIES A HANDSOME FORMER BANK BUILDING ON WATER STREET, CLOSE TO ST. JOHN’S HARBOUR AND A STONE’S THROW OR TWO FROM THE LANDMARK CABOT TOWER ON SIGNAL HILL, WHICH…
No. 30: Ten Foot Henry
1209 1ST ST. SW., CALGARY, ALBERTA TENFOOTHENRY.COM 403-475 5537 IT USED TO BE THAT CALGARY’S LOVE OF BEEF WAS UNCONDITIONAL. On restaurant plates, vegetables always played second fiddle to protein. But local taste is evolving. And one of the restaurants…
No. 29: River Café
25 PRINCE’S ISLAND PARK, CALGARY, ALBERTA RIVER-CAFE.COM 403-261-7670 SET ON AN ISLAND IN THE RUSHING BOW RIVER, RIVER CAFÉ HAS AN UNUSUAL LOCATION THAT SETS IT APART FROM MOST RESTAURANTS. So does its 25-year devotion to innovative, all-Canadian cuisine. In…
No. 21: Bar Raval
505 COLLEGE STREET, TORONTO, ONTARIO THISISBARRAVAL.COM A VISIT TO THIS STANDING ROOM-ONLY SPANISH-THEMED BAR IS AN EDUCATION. It is a study, first, in how an inspired, smart design firm (Partisans) and a good batch of African mahogany can transform an…
No. 22: Cabane à Sucre
11382 RANG DE LA FRESNIÈRE, ST.-BENOÎT DE MIRABEL, QUEBEC CABANEAUPIEDDECOCHON.CA 514-281-1114 THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT RESERVATIONS TO GET IN QUEBEC, AND PROBABLY IN CANADA. Why? Because the Cabane is only open a few weeks during maple syrup…
No. 23: Nota Bene
180 QUEEN STREET WEST, TORONTO, ONTARIO NOTABENERESTAURANT.COM 416-977-6400 THIS RESTAURANT MARKED ITS EIGHTH YEAR (2016) UNDER A NEW REGIME OF ONE: CHEF DAVID LEE, WHO BOUGHT OUT HIS PARTNERS AND GAVE THE PLACE A RETHINK. First, there was a major…
No. 24: L’Abattoir
217 CARRALL STREET, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA LABATTOIR.CA 604-568-1701 ALTHOUGH CO-OWNER AND GENERAL MANAGER PAUL GRUNBERG HAS OF LATE BEEN HUSTLING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN, WINNING HIGH PRAISE FOR HIS RECENTLY OPENED SAVIO VOLPE, THIS RUGGEDLY ELEGANT FRENCH-INSPIRED CHARMER…
No. 25: Liverpool House
2501 NOTRE DAME STREET WEST, MONTREAL, QUEBEC JOEBEEF.CA 514-313-6049 LIVERPOOL HOUSE IS THE MIDDLE CHILD IN THE DAVID MCMILLAN, FRÉDÉRIC MORIN AND ALLISON CUNNINGHAM FAMILY. And, like many others in this category, it has fantastic qualities that are too often overlooked, as everyone…
No. 26: Vij’s Restaurant
3106 CAMBIE STREET, VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA VIJSRESTAURANT.CA 604-736-6664 VIKRAM VIJ AND MEERU DHALWALA HAVE RELOCATED THIS MUCH-LOVED CONTEMPORARY INDIAN HOT SPOT TO EXPANSIVE NEW QUARTERS. And while the regrettable no-reservations policy has come along for the voyage, seating capacity is…
No. 28: Scaramouche
ONE BENVENUTO PLACE, TORONTO, ONTARIO SCARAMOUCHERESTAURANT.COM 416-961-8011 IN TORONTO RESTAURANT TERMS, THIS ONE IS A SENIOR CITIZEN—AND, COME EVENING, YOU SEE PLENTY OF THOSE HERE, MANY WHEELED DOWN FROM APARTMENTS UPSTAIRS IN THE BENVENUTO BUILDING. But you also see large…
No. 37: L’Express
3927 SAINT DENIS STREET, MONTREAL, QUEBEC RESTAURANTLEXPRESS.COM 514-845-5333 WHO, IN 2017, WOULD POST A PHOTO OF SOMEONE SMOKING ON THE OPENING SCREEN OF THEIR WEBSITE ? Well, L’Express does. The French restaurant embodies all the romantic ideas about Montreal being…