Calgary has quietly become one of Canada's most exciting places to eat. If you're looking for the best restaurants in Calgary, you'll find everything from farm-to-table rooms on the river to chef-driven tasting menus, buzzy shared-plate kitchens and a world-class steak scene — most of it packed into a walkable core around the Beltline, 17th Avenue, Inglewood and East Village.
At the top end, River Café on Prince's Island plates award-winning, fire-cooked Canadian cuisine, Model Milk on 17th Avenue is the celebrated shared-plates room in a converted dairy, and Major Tom does retro-glam supper-club cooking on the 40th floor. For a special occasion, EIGHT and Rouge are among the city's finest tasting-menu rooms, and the grand Teatro anchors Stephen Avenue.
For something more relaxed, Ten Foot Henry is the cheerful, vegetable-forward all-day room everyone loves, Pigeonhole pours natural wine with cured-meat plates, Deane House serves prairie cooking in a 1906 heritage home, and Shokunin fires some of the best yakitori in the country.
Below are our current Calgary picks — real, operating rooms worth booking. Tap any for the neighbourhood, price and what to order, then turn the list into a personalized itinerary.