3 Ottawa eateries featured on Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants list
Posted May 5, 2026 12:52:59 PM.
Last Updated May 5, 2026 12:53:33 PM.
There are three places in the nation’s capital among the top 100 places to eat across the country.
According to Canada’s 100 Best Restaurants, a publication dedicated to ranking, over 160 experts from across the country listed three Ottawa businesses as home to some of Canada’s best this year.
The highest ranking restaurant is Atelier at 54th place — lower on the list this year. The upscale “modern Canadian cuisine” provides a 40-course tasting menu.
The review notes that Chef Marc Lepine has brought the restaurant through many iterations over the years, but he’s settled on several to master.
“His dishes are precise, complex, delicious and sometimes strange…in concept, but never in flavour,” the review reads.
A new addition to the list this year is Antheia, located in Ottawa’s Little Italy neighbourhood, however the eatery focuses on “innovative, fermentation-forward artistry.”
Headed by Chef Briana Kim, who owns the business, she has created a menu of vegetarian dishes that host “almost meaty savouriness.”
Kim wrote on Instagram that the restaurant took almost two years to come to fruition, only recently opening a month ago.
The review notes that Antheia is an “intimate destination.”
Finishing off the list of Ottawa restaurants is Arlo at number 77, a drop from 50th place last year.
“Customers flock for ever-changing menus that exemplify playful but potent ingredient-focused Canadian cuisine,” the review reads.
The Centretown eatery is busy but still creates moments of intimacy past the “buzzy” bar and front room.
