Each year, we ask Avenue readers to vote for their favourite restaurants in Calgary in our Best Restaurants readers’ choice ballot. These are some of their favourite places in the city.
Winner
Hearts Choices
Hearts Choices’ menu of delicious plant-based fare features a hearty mix of Asian and Thai dishes, handhelds and more. The café and market, which has two farmers’ market locations and one standalone location, dishes up big portions of vegan mac n’ cheeze, a buffalo chick’un burger, drunken noodles and more.
Multiple locations, heartschoices.com, @heartschoices
Runners-up
The Coup
For over 20 years, The Coup has been turning local ingredients into delicious vegan and vegetarian cuisine. Featuring innovative recipes and unexpected flavours, the menu offers dishes like drunken noodles, tempeh shawarma and shishitos. The restaurant interior is decorated with leafy hanging vines and contemporary wood paneling that creates a bright space.
924 17 Ave. S.W., 403-541-1041, thecoupyyc.com, @thecoupcalgary
Vegan Street
What began as a food truck in 2018 is now a thriving restaurant and lounge serving up plant-based comfort food in Inglewood. Split an order of mushroom “kalamari,” or catch up with friends over plant-based tacos and margaritas.
1413 9 Ave. S.E., 403-454-3287, veganstreet.ca, @veganstreetyyc
Canela Vegan Bakery & Cafe
Canela Vegan Bakery & Cafe whips up sweet and savoury vegan baked goods that will have you coming back again and again. Whether you opt for the coco-fetti cookies with shredded coconut, a cinnamon roll or a spinach ricotta roll, you can’t go wrong. Pop by the Inglewood or Bridgeland locations for coffee and a snack before taking a box of pastries home to share.
1319 9 Ave. S.E., 403-226-4199; 208 4 St. N.E., 403-226-4199, canelayyc.com, @canelayyc
Nan’s Noodle House
Nan’s Noodle House is a plant-based restaurant bringing pan-Asian techniques and flavours to the table. Along with a few appetizers and handhelds like banh mi, the menu mainly focuses on noodle dishes ranging from a black garlic ramen to kimchi udon.
3103b Edmonton Tr., 403-455-0590; 12445 Lake Fraser Dr. S.E., 403-478-8853, nansnoodlehouse.com, @nansnoodlehouse
