Nancy Matsumoto 11/1/22 Nancy Matsumoto 11/1/22

Canada’s Best New Restaurants 2022: The Top 10

The Top 10 list is back by popular demand. Our anonymous food critic reprised her culinary marathon, landing in no fewer than 17 cities to taste-test menus at the most tantalizing restaurant openings across the country (polishing off 226 dishes along the way).

Nancy Matsumoto 8/15/22 Nancy Matsumoto 8/15/22

Restaurant Trends Spotted on the Road

I was the peripatetic restaurant critic who travelled from St. John’s to Tofino, observings the common interests and obsessions of chefs and restaurateurs across the country. Here are six industry trends that stood out on my cross–country culinary odyssey.

Nancy Matsumoto 10/23/19 Nancy Matsumoto 10/23/19

Canada's Best New Restaurant

For the second year in a row, I traveled across Canada to pick the country’s best new restaurants. Read about my number one pick, Quebec City’s Arvi, here.

Nancy Matsumoto 8/9/19 Nancy Matsumoto 8/9/19

Canada's Best New Restaurants: the 2019 Contenders

We flew Nancy Matsumoto from coast to coast to find the top new restaurants in the country. The methods are old-school: There’s a handy list of fake names for booking tables, and we won’t be swayed by freebies, since Air Canada enRoute always picks up the tab. The margin for error is pretty much non-existent: Restaurants get one shot to impress our discerning diner and then she’s gone.