Air Canada Inflight Magazine Names Top Ten Canada Restaurants

Travel agents looking to help immerse their clients in the best new dining options can take direction from enRoute, Air Canada’s inflight magazine, which just announced its Top 10 list of Canada’s Best New Restaurants for 2016 and the Air Canada enRoute People’s Choice Award.

Award-winning food writer Andrew Braithwaite searched the country’s latest and greatest and offers up a list that includes a mix of ethnic culinary options and both major city and off the beaten path locales.

Winners include: Kissa Tanto (Vancouver), a Chinatown restaurant that blends Italian and Japanese cuisine; Alo (Toronto), a bustling establishment where “the service troupe operates like Broadway stagehands”; FireWorks (Bay Fortune, Prince Edward Island, located at the Inn at Bay Fortune, the “fire brigade” cooks over a brick-lined grill; Foxy (Montreal): a “glamourous nighttime spot” in a Griffintown alley; Kraken Cru (Quebec City): seats only 12, so help your clients book ahead; and Highwayman (Halifax, NS): which “celebrates Nova Scotia’s own seaside ties.”

Thirty five Canadian restaurants were nominated for the annual People’s Choice award, and this year the winner is Backhouse in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON. Located in Ontario’s wine country, Backhouse features “a globe-hopping wine list” with cool-climate pinot noir and gamay from Tawse Winery, Meldville Wines and the chef’s own label, Crawford Wine Project.

Readers can see the full story and details of the winners in the November issue of enRoute, and at the Air Canada enRoute website. For a behind-the-scenes look at the top three restaurants, enRoute has published a video series at enroute.aircanada.com/2016top10.