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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.
Best Fine Dining in Victoria, BC.
Victoria's best fine dining — tasting-menu rooms, polished classics, and destinations worth booking ahead.
8 current picks · 3 archive links · Updated June 2026
Quick answer
Where to start
Start with Marilena Cafe & Raw Bar, Il Terrazzo, and Brasserie L'École. The archive links below are worth a scroll for the backstory — just check hours and details before you head out, since they change.
- Current picks
- 8
- Archive support
- 3
- Coverage
- Fine Dining
Best Fine Dining in Victoria, BC
The places you choose when the meal itself is the occasion.
Treat this as a shortlist, not gospel. Start with the current picks, raid the archive links for the backstory, and always check hours, menus, and reservations before you head out — these things move around.
The archive isn't filler. It's here when an older Tasting Victoria story still explains why a place, neighbourhood, or dish is worth your time.
- Fine-dining or special-occasion fit
- Strong service, room, and drink program
- Memorable dinner rather than a quick fallback meal
- Listed in the Tasting Victoria editor picks
Local picks
8 places
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Downtown Fine Dining
Il Terrazzo
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.
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Chinatown Fine Dining
Brasserie L'École
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.
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Sooke Fine Dining
Wild Mountain Food & Drink
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.
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Esquimalt Fine Dining
Janevca Kitchen & Lounge
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.
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Saanich Fine Dining
Kinu by Sizzling Tandoor
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.
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Chinatown Fine Dining
Ugly Duckling Dining & Provisions
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.
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Harris Green Fine Dining
Cafe Brio
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.