Air Canada Unveils the Country's Best New Restaurants Top 10 List for 2024
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Montreal restaurant Sabayon ranks first overall, withToronto's Mhel andMaison de Soma fromMont-Tremblant in second and third place - More than 30 restaurants were visited in 2024 by a single anonymous reviewer, who assessed all aspects of the dining experience
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Canada's Best New Restaurants is the longest running and most respected Canadian restaurant ranking
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This year's Top 10 restaurants were selected by award-winning cookbook author, Wall of Bakers judge and culinary journalist
"Every restaurant I visited told an eloquent story about its community, championing local ingredients and diverse culinary traditions," said
The 2024 Air
The Top 10
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Sabayon (
Montreal, QC ): Intentionality is the thread through each aspect of this brilliant 14-seatMontreal restaurant, which offers tea and dinner services by renowned pastry chefPatrice Demers and sommelier Marie-Josée Beaudoin. It's all in the details here, from cobalt blue cutlery rests handmade by the couple, to AirCanada's Best New Restaurants' Dish of the Year, grilled oyster mushrooms capped with a caramelized arlette and a cloud of sabayon sauce. -
Mhel (
Toronto, ON ): The Toronto restaurant features an open kitchen where chefs with six burners and two charcoal grills add up to Korean-Japanese alchemy. Mhel also offers AirCanada's Best New Restaurants' Dessert of the Year: purin, a sweet and simple Japanese rendition of crème caramel. -
Maison de Soma (Mont-Tremblant, QC ): A farm-to-table restaurant at its finest, on a 600-acre property in the Laurentians, where nearly every ingredient is cultivated. Whether serving a crunchy and custardy take on okonomiyaki, a Japanese cabbage pancake, or a tropical tasting Somananas sour (AirCanada's Best New Restaurants' Cocktail of the Year),Maison de Soma upends expectations. -
Takja BBQ House (
Toronto, ON ): This high-end Toronto Korean barbecue (KBBQ) spot showcases grilled house-dry-aged meats, seafood and seasonal veg andAir Canada Best New Restaurants' Sides of the Year: shareable banchan small plates, including kimchi two ways, mustard greens, spicy jalapeño muchim and a scallion salad. -
Café Malabar (
Victoria, BC ): Press the button for service at a kitchen stall in Victoria Public Market and moments later a parade of coastal Keralan dishes arrives at communal tables, from clay pots of fish chatty choru to flaky egg puffs and lacy rice hoppers. -
Parapluie (
Montreal, QC ): At this saucy, white table-clothed bistro inMontreal's Mile End neighbourhood, platonic ideals of boulangerie bread and frites accompany eight-minute-20-second eggs in cloudlike tarragon emulsions and barely-torched trout in delicate pools of horseradish dill cream so you can soak up every last drop. -
Bar Prima (
Toronto, ON ): A heady mix of determination and bygone glamour are what makeToronto's Bar Prima a primo spot and judgeTara O'Brady's pick for theAir Canada Best New Restaurants' Design of the Year, where classics like beef tartare come spruced up on a bed of chives, laced with fermented chili and punctuated with sardine and bone marrow cream. -
Fat Rabbit (St. Catharines, ON ): Led by chef and co-ownerZach Smith ,Fat Rabbit is not your average restaurant. As a full-time grill house, zero-waste butcher, live-fire caterer, and grocer, this multi-hyphenate earned AirCanada's Best New Restaurants' Concept of the Year. -
Gary's (
Vancouver, BC ): The first restaurant from industry veteransBailey Hayward andMathew Bishop brings supper club vibes toVancouver's South Granville neighbourhood, where locals and visitors alike can spring for dishes like crudo, gem salad, hen-of-the-woods, and rabbit. -
Crumb Queen/Andy's Lunch (
Winnipeg, MB ): At this one-two punch of an eatery inWinnipeg , the day begins withCloe Wiebe's naturally leavened boules and blink-and-you-miss-them viennoiseries. An hour before noon,Andrew Koropatnick clocks in with sandwiches on split housemade pizza bianca, shareable pastas, salads and supplì.
Awards Celebration
The Top 10 restaurants were revealed at a special
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