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Restaurantica is a curated guide to restaurants across Canada — showing where to go, what to order, and what each kitchen does best.
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Featured restaurants
Our top-ranked rooms right now — the kitchens worth planning a drive around.
Contemporary CanadianWeinkeller Restaurant
Weinkeller is a fine-dining restaurant on Victoria Avenue in Niagara Falls — adults-only (18+), cellar-brick room, prix fixe menu with a late-night tapas list, and house wines made on-site and served on tap. Open since 2013; the counterpoint to the city's tourist-strip dining geography.
ThaiNa-Ha-Thai's Kitchen
Naruemon Verspagen opened Na Ha Thai's Kitchen in 2014 after building a following at the Guelph Farmer's Market. The menu carries a 'From Northern Thailand' section (Khao Soi, Hung Lay curry, Northern Larb-Muang), house-made curry pastes across five varieties, and a salted-crab papaya salad with fermented tiny crab. Named for her daughter Nahathai.
MexicanMolkagtez Mexican Cuisine
Parkdale Mexican spot built around molcajetes, tacos, ceviches, cocktails, weekly specials, and lively late-week energy.
CubanHavana Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge
Havana Restaurant & Cocktail Lounge is a downtown Niagara Falls Cuban restaurant and cocktail lounge for ropa vieja, D's Paella, mojitos, colourful room energy, and weekend Latin music nights.
ThaiTaste With Andy
Chan Thon Andy Phoung opened Taste With Andy at the end of 2020. The menu pulls from his family's Khmer cooking — Cambodian, the heritage thread — and runs across Thai and Vietnamese traditions. Mom's Chicken Curry, Khmer Burger weekly special, a thirteen-dollar jar of Andy's own super chili paste sold standalone. Downtown Guelph, 45 Cork Street East.
Gastro PubDavis Craft Kitchen & Bar
Davis is Refined Fool's downtown Sarnia craft kitchen and bar, pairing a current comfort-food menu with house beer, cocktails, shareables, tacos, sandwiches, and a warm bar-room feel.
Upscale CasualThe Friendly Society
A lively Elora restaurant-bar with a polished all-day menu, generous comfort-food range, and a name rooted in local history. Go for Tuna Tartare, the Crispy Chicken Caesar Sandwich, The Wagyu Burger, and the room’s warm downtown energy.
ItalianRizzo's House of Parm
Rizzo's House of Parm is a Crystal Beach red-sauce Italian spot built around parms, pasta, shareable starters, and Matty Matheson's Fort Erie home-town connection.
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