Edmonton is one of Canada's most underrated food cities, and the locals know it. If you're after the best restaurants in Edmonton, you'll be eating hand-rolled pasta, nose-to-tail farm cooking, serious cocktails and chef-driven tasting menus — much of it clustered on 124 Street, in Oliver and the Brewery District, and along Whyte Avenue.
Corso 32 is the flagship — a tiny Jasper Avenue pasta temple regularly named among Canada's finest Italian restaurants, with its wine bar Bar Bricco next door. RGE RD builds whole-animal, farm-to-table menus from Alberta producers, while Bundok, Clementine and Pip lead the contemporary scene with tight, ingredient-driven cooking.
The buzz right now runs through the North 53 and Little Wolf rooms for seasonal plates, MSSM for a high-end Japanese omakase experience, and Uccellino for rustic, grander-scale Italian. Together they make a food city that rewards a long weekend.
Below are our current Edmonton picks — real, operating rooms worth booking. Tap any for the neighbourhood, price and what to order, then turn them into a personalized itinerary.