22 h. ago Five Calgary restaurants made Canada's 100 Best Restaurants list

Some of Canada's best restaurants can be found here in Calgary

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46 h. ago Restaurants Canada is extremely pleased by City of St. John’s lowering patio fees by 85%

St. John’s, May 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Restaurants Canada congratulates the City of St. John’s council and Mayor Danny Breen for their decision to significantly lower patio fees ahead of the busy tourism season. Newfoundland and Labrador’s restaurant industry generates $1.3 billion in economic activity, representing 3.2% of the province’s GDP, but with U.S. […]

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65 h. ago Nearly 30 Toronto restaurants just ranked among the 100 best in Canada

The annual ranking of Canada's top 100 restaurants has just been released by Canada's 100 Best for 2025, and it should come as little surprise that Toronto's food scene made a huge impression.It's no secret among locals that Toronto is home to some seriously great restaurants — I have a full-time job writing about them, after all — but it always feels extra special when hometown heroes get recognized on a national stage.This year's ranking of Canada's 100 best restaurants does exactly that, with Toronto spots occupying more than a quarter of the spots on the list, with a whopping 29 entries.Rounding out the top five, Alo, Edulis, and 20 Victoria managed to secure third, fourth and fifth place standings, followed by Quetzal (a personal favourite of mine, but that's neither here nor there) in eighth.The remainder of the top 50 goes on to include Sushi Masaki Saito (16), Aburi Hana (29), Dreyfus (42), Sushi Yugen (43), Be...

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65 h. ago This rural Ontario spot is Canada’s best restaurant, according to annual list

From coast to coast, a panel of 160 judges ranks the top places to eat and drink in the 2025 Canada's 100 Best Restaurants List

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3 d. ago Restaurant sales projected to contract in 2025 amid trade war with U.S., despite a strong start to the year thanks to the GST/HST holiday

Toronto, May 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — While the GST/HST holiday prevented foodservice bankruptcies and boosted sales and employment in the first two months of 2025, the tariff war has thrown the industry into uncharted waters, finds Restaurants Canada’s latest Quarterly Report. Restaurants Canada’s updated 2025 commercial foodservice sales forecast is now in negative territory. […]

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3 d. ago Toronto tops in Canada for restaurants offering vegan, vegetarian dining

Bad news, everyone. Toronto is not the coolest city in Canada. But take solace in the fact that it might be the most vegan- and vegetarian-friendly place for diners. That is what the folks at Betway discovered when they did a deep dive into the hippest places to live in North America, with Boston taking […]

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5 d. ago Toronto bars and restaurants getting major boost during Leafs playoff games

Toronto is abuzz with excitement after the Maple Leafs pulled off a Game 6 series-clinching win against the Ottawa Senators in the first round of the NHL playoffs, but bars and restaurants close to the action have extra reason to celebrate.According to data from Moneris, Canada's leading commerce provider, Toronto's restaurant industry, and those institutions in and around Scotiabank Arena in particular, saw a boost in customer spending during the first two games of the series.During game one, Moneris reports that food and beverage institutions near Scotiabank saw a five per cent increase in business, which, considering the game was played on a holiday Sunday, is no small feat.During game two, spending for the bars and restaurants in the area saw an even greater increase at six per cent.As for the bars and restaurants elsewhere in the city, Moneris' data also shows that, during the first two games of the series, bars and restaurants elsewhere in the c...

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8 d. ago Lorne Gunter: What's next for Poilievre, and Alberta, after the Liberals' re

First, a few words about Pierre Poilievre. There was a statue of Sir John A Macdonald outside Victoria City Hall until it was taken down recently for “woke” reasons. The sculpture was there because, at one point, Macdonald lost his seat in Kingston and ended up having to represent the B.C. capital instead. So, while […]

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2 w. ago Ontario pizzeria wins top prizes at two national competitions within a week

One Ontario pizza chef is taking the industry by storm after first-place wins at two major national competitions within the space of one week.It's been a veritable pizza party across North America in recent weeks, after the annual International Pizza Challenge brought together pizzaiolos from around the world to compete for glory, ending in some major wins for Toronto pizzerias.Just a week later, the competition continued on home turf, with the return of the Restaurants Canada (RC) Show and its eagerly anticipated pizza competition in Toronto, followed immediately by the Canadian Pizza Summit's Chef of the Year competition in Montreal.The mere existence of these competitions is enough to give the average pizza-lover goosebumps, but for one Ontario pizza chef, they've proven particularly exciting.Chef Bart Nadherny, the owner and head chef at Burlington's Son of a Peach Pizzeria and The Sunshine Doughnut Co., is enjoying some particularly well-deserved praise aft...

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3 w. ago Ontario’s free trade legislation is a game changer for Canada’s internal trade framework, but more provinces need to get on board

Toronto, April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Restaurants Canada congratulates the Ontario government for tabling legislation to remove its Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) exceptions, adopt mutual recognition with reciprocating provinces, liberalize labour mobility and allow direct-to-consumer sales of alcohol. “Every premier in Canada should be looking to Ontario and doing what it did yesterday […]

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3 w. ago Ontario restaurant serves up the biggest nacho plates in Canada

One Ontario pub is making a name for itself by serving up some of the largest nacho plates Canadian diners could possibly get their hands on.If you're anything like me, you agree that there's no such thing as too many nachos, and that's why, while many Toronto residents might be planning to take road trips to many of Ontario's natural wonders or theme parks this summer, I'll be headed to a pub in Paris, Ontario, that serves up the largest plate of nachos in the country.Sure, Toronto may be known for some larger-than-life food and beverage options, like 3.5 L glasses of wine and two-foot-long slices of pizza, you might just want to travel outside of the city to get your hands on this heavyweight champ.Ever since opening in 2008, Paris' Cobblestone Pub has been a go-to in the community for pub comfort food classics and sports game screenings, drawing a cult following from the community and visitors alike for the past 17 years.Not content to settle on the same old standard offerin...

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4 w. ago Restaurants Canada is extremely pleased by new loan program and alcohol discount announced in Newfoundland and Labrador’s budget

St. John’s, April 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Restaurants Canada is very pleased by today’s announcement from the government of Newfoundland and Labrador of a $10 million restaurant loan guarantee program and doubling the alcohol wholesale discounts to 10% for licensed restaurants on wine, spirits and ready-to-drink beverages. These measures will help the province’s more […]

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last month Canadian Franchise Association Announces Winners of the 2025 Awards of Excellence in Franchising

McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada and EverLine Coatings and Services receive top honours at the CFA Awards Gala TORONTO, April 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Canadian Franchise Association (CFA) is pleased to announce that the Traditional (those with brick-and-mortar locations) and Non-Traditional (those that are mobile or home-based) Grand Prize winners of the 2025 CFA […]

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