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Downtown Fine Dining
Marilena Cafe & Raw Bar
Toptable's elevated West Coast room — globally sourced seafood, a Japanese-leaning raw bar, and a serious dinner menu of towers and steak frites. Named Canada's Best New Restaurant.
Fine dining in Victoria is not one style of room. The best special-occasion restaurants here range from polished Italian classics and seafood rooms to chef-driven Chinatown dining and destination-worthy rooms outside the core.
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Toptable's elevated West Coast room — globally sourced seafood, a Japanese-leaning raw bar, and a serious dinner menu of towers and steak frites. Named Canada's Best New Restaurant.
Inspired by Northern Italian cuisine with a Pacific Northwest twist, Il Terrazzo has served Victoria for three decades from its hidden Waddington Alley courtyard with six fireplaces and a vine-draped patio.
A small French country brasserie at the edge of Chinatown. Since 2001, the room has stayed intimate, the wine list deep, and steak frites and mussels among the city's most-ordered plates.
A destination Sooke restaurant with a hyper-seasonal tasting menu built around the farm, forest, and ocean within a few kilometres of the kitchen, plus an oceanfront patio.
Set in the lovingly restored Rosemead House, formerly the Old English Inn. Wood-fire-driven cooking — steaks, charred vegetables, house-made pasta and breads — under Top Chef Canada alum Andrea Alridge.
An Indian-inspired small-plates and cocktail bar from the Sizzling Tandoor family, with tapas-style sharing dishes and a cocktail programme built around South Asian flavours.
A Chinatown counter doing a single immersive tasting menu built around the fields, forests, and waters of Coastal BC. Set aside two and a half hours.
A long-standing Fort Street stalwart serving Italian-leaning, ingredient-driven plates in a warm, candle-lit room. House-made pastas, locally sourced proteins, and one of the city's most-loved wine lists.