Since the food was generally extremely good in Canada, I thought a post to share the best places we ate would be worthwhile.
Toronto
Flippers – excellent breakfast, with soufflé pancakes being the highlight.
Banff
Farm & Fire – the pizzas here are extremely good, with plentiful and unusual toppings.
Sky Bistro – locally sourced menu which is made up from whatever is possible to get to the top of a mountain, cooked beautifully.
Three Bears Brewery – fantastic burgers, probably the best of the holiday, with local beers which you can order a sampler of 6 to save deciding which to choose!
Bluebird – we had breakfast, which was excellent (particularly the eggs benedict), but they also do a dinner menu.
Field
Evil Dave’s Grill – very small restaurant, be prepared to queue, but well worth waiting. The raspberry pie is exceptional.
Jasper
Famoso – a pizzeria of sorts, but the chicken wings are incredible.
Bear Paw’s Bakery – Canada seems very good at cakes, but this bakery was exceptional. Their sandwiches are also very, very good.
Estío – a sort of Jamaican vibe, the food is varied but excellent and the toasties the highlight.
Olive – upmarket restaurant, their Poutine was the best we had, laced with truffle.
Vancouver
Danbo – OMG. Ramen which was very, very close to what you’d get in Japan. Queue for 30 minutes if you have to, this was one of the best meals we had.
Breka – another bakery, again with exceptional baked goods. Massive selection, the chocolate almond croissants were superb.
The Sauce Pasta – doesn’t look like much, but an authentic Italian with huge portions and amazing flavours. Don’t bother with the garlic bread, you won’t need it (and it’s the only thing we had that wasn’t worth it!)
Dante Italian Sandwich – proper Italian sandwiches, huge portions.
Kozak – Ukranian, everything was excellent. The sausage is made by the owner’s mother, and it’s incredible.
Tofino
Tacofino – the original one (we also tried one in Vancouver). Fish taco was amazing, but most of the other dishes, including the watermelon and basil slushie, were exceptional.
Shelter – very nice restaurant with excellent food, the chuck was incredible.
Rhino – great but always busy café, the breakfast wraps were huge and amazing.
Big Daddy’s – sort of fish and chips, done casually. Extremely good, particularly the shrimp and chowder.
Victoria
Block – superb Japanese-inspired restaurant done in a tapas style. All extremely good, the Tokyo fries were excellent, as was the okonomiyaki.