Tofino
Tofino clings to the open Pacific at the end of the island road, a surf town whose fish tacos, food trucks, and acclaimed dining rooms run on the day's catch and the storm-watching crowd. End-of-the-world cooking, seriously good.

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Featured in Tofino
Top-ranked rooms with exceptional dining experiences, hand-picked by our editors.
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Wildside Grill
9.1Wildside Grill is a casual Tofino seafood stop built around West Coast ingredients, daily lunch-through-dinner utility, and a menu that turns cod, salmon, tuna, chowder, gumbo, tacos, and poutine into beach-road comfort food.
Wolf in the Fog
9.0Wolf in the Fog is a Tofino dinner room built around coastal seafood, foraging language, live reservations, and a current menu where seaweed salad, potato-crusted oysters, lingcod, halibut, scallops, and a seafood tower carry the story.
The Pointe Restaurant
8.9The Pointe Restaurant is a reservation-led coastal Canadian room at the Wickaninnish Inn, strongest when diners lean into Dungeness crab, halibut, caviar service, Howard's Wine Cellar, and the Pacific-facing dinner rhythm that makes it more than a hotel dining room.
Shed
8.9Shed is a downtown Tofino burgers, bowls and brews room with a west coast casual spine: a namesake beef burger, albacore tuna and salmon bowls, local farm-and-water sourcing, patio and indoor seating, and first-come-first-served service that keeps the visit flexible.
Ombré
8.9Ombré is a chef-led Tofino room from the Wolf in the Fog team, built around seasonal small plates, coastal seafood, handmade pasta, cocktails, and a wine list that suits a slower dinner near the water.
Shelter Restaurant
8.8Shelter Restaurant is a long-running Tofino waterfront restaurant built around local waters, inlet views, cocktails, and an all-day menu. The strongest read is seafood first: Taste of the Sound, Sakamoto Tuna Tataki, chowder, mussels, fish and chips, and salmon bowls carry the coastal identity.
The BEAR Bierhaus Restaurant
8.8The BEAR Bierhaus turns the revived MAQ Hotel into a casual Tofino gathering room: Vancouver Island oysters, spot prawn pasta, burgers, craft beer, cocktails, patio time, daily happy hour and game-day energy in one downtown address.
Long Beach Lodge Resort
8.7Long Beach Lodge Resort turns Cox Bay into a three-part dining program: polished seafood in The Great Room, casual beach food at SandBar Bistro, and Surf Club snacks around the water. The best case is seafood-led, reservation-friendly, and strongest when a visit uses the room and the beach together.
ROAR
8.5Live-fire cooking, a loud room, and Tofino seafood make ROAR a strong pick when you want a Hotel Zed dinner with real menu weight behind it.
250 Social Bar + Kitchen
8.4Downtown Tofino bar-and-kitchen where Kerala-rooted flavours move through coastal comfort food, burgers, bowls, cocktails, and a casual room built for long lunches or summer evenings.
Surfside Grill
8.4Surfside Grill is a Tofino beachside takeout stop at Tsawaak RV Resort, built around panko-fried cod and salmon, fish tacos, chowder, burgers, and a licensed patio. The Jeff Mikus and Wildside Grill lineage gives the seafood focus a clear local spine, while phone-ahead ordering and late daily hours keep it practical.
Poblanos Mexican Eatery
8.3Poblanos Mexican Eatery is a compact Tofino Mexican counter built around birria, seafood-leaning shareables, tacos, burritos and bowls. The strongest read is quick, beach-town takeout with a coastal edge: braised-beef Birria, Diablo Shrimp, Tuna Ceviche and Mexican Shrimp Cocktails carry the menu beyond a basic taco stop.
Saltrose
8.0Saltrose is a new Tofino beachside eatery at Pacific Sands, built around wood-fire coastal comfort: smoked mozzarella, brisket-led starters, burgers, pasta, mussels, fish cakes, and a casual lunch-to-dinner setting with pickup ordering.
The Great Room
7.5The Great Room pairs its Cox Bay dining room with a coastal menu built for several kinds of Tofino visit, from brunch to a reserved dinner. Halibut, Shrimp Carbonara and a pre-ordered Crab and Seafood Platter for Two give the kitchen its clearest identity.
Top 10 in Tofino
The highest-rated restaurants and most-loved dishes, ranked by Restaurantica readers.
- 1Cod Fish & Chipsat Surfside Grill10
- 2Birriaat Poblanos Mexican Eatery10
- 3Whole Steamed Dungeness Crabat The Pointe Restaurant10
- 4Shed Burgerat Shed10
- 5Taste of the Soundat Shelter Restaurant10
- 6Fresh Shucked Effingham Oystersat The BEAR Bierhaus Restaurant10
- 7Crab and Seafood Platter for Twoat Long Beach Lodge Resort10
- 8Cod Club Burgerat Wildside Grill10
- 9Tofino Seaweed Saladat Wolf in the Fog10
- 10ROAR's Dry Aged Beef Burgerat ROAR10
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