Victoria, B.C. Restaurants

Experiencing local cuisine is an important part of visiting any destination and a gourmet getaway to Victoria will introduce you to more than just food; Victoria's West Coast cuisine will feed your soul. Using the freshest local ingredients and flavours that reflect the wild Pacific Northwest, a number of fine dining restaurants, hotels and specialty food shops have put Victoria and Vancouver Island on the culinary map. We also offer celiac-friendly dining suggestions. 

Surrounded by coastal waters and the rich farming regions of the Saanich Peninsula and Cowichan Valley, Victoria's gourmet chefs are blessed with an abundance of local produce right in their own backyards. Seafood, particularly salmon and shellfish, is a mainstay of West Coast cuisine and can be caught fresh from Pacific waters. Local farms supply fresh, seasonal ingredients and unusual varieties of food that chefs embrace. A number of Vancouver Island wineries complete the gourmet experience by providing locally-made wine. Along with locally produced wines you can also sample  a variety of local micro-breweries, cideries and distilleries.