Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in North Vancouver from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in North Vancouver
Lower Lonsdale holds several of the clearest wine-led dining rooms, with extensive lists across different styles of meal.
Fishworks is a modern sustainable seafood restaurant in Lower Lonsdale with an extensive wine list. The room offers small plates and à la carte service, and the menu stays focused on Pacific Northwest seafood from the West Coast.
Sempre Uno is a restaurant in Lower Lonsdale. It occupies a historic corner location in North Vancouver and serves modern Italian fusion dishes from an open kitchen. The menu is a la carte, and the restaurant has an extensive wine list.
JOEY Shipyards is a 9,500 sq ft waterfront restaurant in Lower Lonsdale with a wine list, craft cocktails and small plates. Its two-story design and 2,450 sq ft patio give the room a broad harbour-facing footprint in the neighbourhood.
North Vancouver’s distinctive rooms range from omakase sushi to Michelin-recognised Italian street food and a mountain bistro.
Sushi MAHANA in Lower Lonsdale serves farm-to-table omakase sushi at a counter of 10 seats. Master chef Hiroshi Hoshiko leads the room. The room has a wine list, a sake program and craft cocktails, and the cooking uses local seasonal ingredients with Japanese technique.
Fiorino - Lonsdale Quay in Lonsdale Quay serves Florentine-inspired Italian street food. Small plates, a la carte dishes and family style dishes are on the menu. The waterfront patio faces Vancouver harbour. Craft cocktails are poured, the restaurant holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand award.
Altitudes Bistro in Grouse Mountain is a casual alpine bistro. Panoramic mountain and city views take in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland from 3,700 feet. The menu is a la carte and small plates. The wine list is extensive, and the room has a beer program and craft cocktails.
Lower Lonsdale has the strongest concentration of wine-oriented dining in North Vancouver. Fishworks, Sempre Uno, JOEY Shipyards and Sushi MAHANA all sit there, and each brings an extensive wine program to a different style of meal, from seafood to Italian to omakase.
North Vancouver has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Fiorino - Lonsdale Quay in Lonsdale Quay holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand award for Italian street food with Florentine inspiration. It has a wine list and serves small plates, a la carte dishes and family style dishes.
Sushi MAHANA in Lower Lonsdale serves omakase counter dining in our North Vancouver guide. Master chef Hiroshi Hoshiko leads this farm-to-table sushi bar, with 10 seats at the counter, a wine list and a sake program. The cooking uses local seasonal ingredients with Japanese technique.
None of the venues in our North Vancouver guide hold a Wine Spectator award. The guide’s wine-led rooms include Fishworks, Sempre Uno, Sushi MAHANA, JOEY Shipyards and Altitudes Bistro, each with an extensive wine program.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
North Vancouver
Selected entries from the current guide for North Vancouver.
North Vancouver, Canada
One of North Vancouver's most enduring dining institutions, Tomahawk Restaurant at 1550 Philip Ave has served the North Shore since the mid-twentieth century. Its longevity in a neighbourhood defined by changing tastes speaks to a particular kind of local authority. For visitors arriving from Vancouver proper, it represents a different register of dining, rooted, consistent, and deeply tied to the community it feeds.
North Vancouver, Canada
Akbarjoojeh 19th brings Persian grilling tradition to Lonsdale Avenue in North Vancouver, where the ritual of slow-cooked marinated chicken and the customs of Iranian table culture translate readily to the North Shore's appetite for neighbourhood dining that goes beyond the familiar. The address at 1857 Lonsdale Ave places it squarely within a corridor that rewards those who look past the obvious choices.
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Altitudes Bistro belongs to the North Shore’s mountain-dining category, where the setting matters as much as the plate and local sourcing has to read clearly rather than cosmetically. The case for going is strongest when the meal is treated as part of a Grouse Mountain day, not as a downtown-style destination dinner transplanted uphill.
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Anatoli Souvlaki sits on Lonsdale Avenue at the foot of North Vancouver's main commercial corridor, serving Greek street food in a neighbourhood that rewards casual, walk-in dining over destination reservations. The address places it within easy reach of the Lonsdale Quay waterfront and the SeaBus terminal, making it a practical stop for both North Shore residents and visitors crossing from downtown Vancouver.
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On a residential stretch of Edgemont Boulevard in North Vancouver's Edgemont Village, Bufala occupies the casual-Italian niche that the North Shore has traditionally underserved. The menu is built around Neapolitan-style pizza and buffalo mozzarella, making it a neighbourhood anchor for a suburb that tends toward casual dining over destination dining.
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Fiorino at Lonsdale Quay sits at address 123 Carrie Cates Court in North Vancouver, positioned where the SeaBus terminal meets the public market. The venue draws from a dining corridor that includes waterfront neighbours ranging from seafood-focused spots to casual Mediterranean. Visitors crossing from Vancouver often treat Lonsdale Quay dining as a destination in its own right rather than an afterthought to the ferry ride.
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Fishworks anchors the lower Lonsdale dining corridor with a seafood-forward program rooted in Pacific Northwest coastal sourcing. Sitting at 91 Lonsdale Ave, the room draws from waters that define British Columbia's culinary identity. For North Vancouver diners tracking provenance as closely as plate quality, it belongs in the first conversation.
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JOEY Shipyards occupies a waterfront position at 125 Victory Ship Way on the North Vancouver side of Burrard Inlet, placing it within the broader JOEY Restaurant Group's casual-premium category. The setting, a working-harbour conversion with inlet views toward Vancouver's downtown skyline, frames the dining experience as much as the menu does. For the North Shore, it represents the larger-chain end of a dining corridor that also includes independent operators along Lonsdale.
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Khaghan sits on Marine Drive in North Vancouver's Lower Lonsdale corridor, drawing from a dining tradition where the pace and structure of the meal carries as much weight as what arrives on the plate. The address at Unit 66, 935 Marine Drive places it within reach of both the waterfront and the residential neighbourhoods climbing toward the mountains. For the North Shore's growing appetite for serious, character-led dining, it represents a distinct point on the map.
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Kypriaki Mediterranean Grill occupies a strip-mall address on Marine Drive that undersells what the kitchen delivers: a focused approach to Eastern Mediterranean cooking in a North Vancouver dining scene that leans heavily toward Pacific Rim and casual American formats. For those working through the neighbourhood's mid-tier options, it represents the Mediterranean strand of that mix.
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Liberty Kitchen Harbour Centre sits at 1378 Main St in North Vancouver, drawing on the waterfront energy of Harbour Centre with a format that positions it within the neighbourhood's growing dining confidence. The address places it close to the Lonsdale corridor's casual-to-mid-market tier, where the cooking conversation is increasingly local and ingredient-focused rather than franchise-driven.
North Vancouver, Canada
Sempre Uno occupies a prominent address at 1 Lonsdale Avenue, placing it at the commercial and cultural axis of North Vancouver's Lower Lonsdale district. The restaurant draws from Italian-rooted traditions in a neighbourhood increasingly defined by ambitious independent dining. It sits among a cluster of destination restaurants that have collectively shifted the North Shore's reputation beyond its commuter-suburb origins.
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On Marine Drive in North Vancouver, Smoke and Bones BBQ occupies a corner of the city's casual dining scene where smoke and slow heat do the talking. The format is direct barbecue, pitched at a neighbourhood crowd that knows its ribs from its brisket. For visitors crossing from Vancouver proper, it sits within reach of the North Shore's broader dining strip.
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North Vancouver's sushi scene rarely demands the kind of advance planning associated with Vancouver's downtown omakase counters, but Sushi MAHANA, at 175 3rd St W, sits in a different category from the neighbourhood's casual Japanese spots. The address places it firmly on the North Shore, where refined Japanese dining is a smaller, more considered niche than in the city proper. What the room offers, and how to approach booking, matters more than any single dish.
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Located on 1st Street East in North Vancouver's Lower Lonsdale district, The Gull occupies a neighbourhood where waterfront dining has grown considerably more serious over the past decade. Positioned among a cluster of independently operated restaurants on the North Shore, it draws diners crossing from Vancouver proper as well as locals who treat the area as a destination in its own right.
North Vancouver, Canada
Tour De Feast sits at 319 Mountain Hwy in North Vancouver, operating within a local dining scene that prizes neighbourhood loyalty over destination traffic. Details on cuisine format, pricing, and hours are limited in the public record, making direct contact a reliable first step for anyone planning a visit. It belongs to a corridor of North Vancouver tables that draw the same faces back week after week.
North Vancouver
Selected entries from the current guide for North Vancouver.
North Vancouver, Canada
Grouse Mountain rises above North Vancouver as one of British Columbia's most recognized year-round mountain destinations, offering skiing, wildlife encounters, and aerial tram access within 30 minutes of downtown Vancouver. The mountain operates across multiple elevations, shifting from forest trails and grizzly bear habitats at lower levels to alpine skiing and panoramic viewing platforms at the summit.
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Selected entries from the current guide for North Vancouver.
North Vancouver, Canada
Cafe Orso sits on Gallant Avenue in North Vancouver's Lower Lonsdale fringe, a neighbourhood where the bar program increasingly defines a room's identity as much as the kitchen does. The venue occupies a tier of Canadian neighbourhood bars where craft and locality intersect, drawing a crowd that crosses the inlet from Vancouver proper and stays for it.
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Selected entries from the current guide for North Vancouver.
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