Are you looking for a new Vancouver restaurant to try? Or want to know what will be opening up soon?
Well, you’re in the right place as we’ve compiled an ongoing list of the new and coming soon Metro Vancouver restaurants below:
New Vancouver Restaurants That Opened Recently:
🍦 North Van’s craft froyo shop lands its first Vancouver spot – Krave Kulture just soft opened a kiosk at the Harbour Cruises marina on Denman, its Vancouver debut.
🍜 A Fukuoka ramen chain opened its bar-only Main Street shop – top ramen chain, Ramen Danbo, makes it debut on Main Street
🍜 A halal Uyghur noodle stall quietly opened downtown – Lagman is serving hand-pulled Silk Road noodles on the quiet second floor of Robson Public Market.
🥣 A global acai chain opens its first Richmond shop – Oakberry just opened by Capstan Station with bowls, smoothies, and matcha, after Vancouver and Burnaby.
🥐 A 24/7 downtown bakery soft opened with 20% off drinks – Bloom Bakery Cafe took the old Blenz unit at Robson and Seymour, with the discount running through August 15.
🍸 A redesigned hotel restaurant with huge downtown views just soft opened – Cloudstreet at the Hyatt Regency is led by former Forage chef Craig Sung, with a September grand opening to come.
☕ Richmond’s popular HK cafe stall keeps expanding – One Cafe 正斗茶記 just opened at Lansdowne Centre food court, taking the former Villa Vietnamese unit.
🍵 A new matcha trailer soft opened near the Richmond Auto Mall – Toki serves single-origin Uji and Shizuoka matcha, tuna melts, and house matcha ice cream, open since July 17.
🍪 A melt-in-your-mouth butter cookie brand opened a downtown tea bar – Buttercrumbs brought its butter cookies and mochi muffins to Bentall Centre’s lower concourse.
🍞 A Korean salt bread cafe quietly soft opens downtown – Salt & took over the former Dulcey space with garlic, corn, and blueberry crumbs loaves plus fresh fruit milks.
☕ A popular HK-style cafe stall opens its third Richmond location – One Cafe soft opened at Lansdowne Centre on July 16, taking over the former Villa Vietnamese unit.
🍦 A Hong Kong style ice cream truck rolls into Richmond – Watt a Truck comes from the Snackshot team, serving HK-style soft serve, mango sago sundaes, and floaties with zero generator noise.
🍜 Two Japanese chefs open a hidden ramen stall in the West End – Menya Tsuzuki just opened at 1610 Robson St with tonkotsu, mazesoba, and jiro style bowls.
🍖 A Cantonese BBQ spot finally opens on Cambie after a long delay – BBQ & Co brings $9.90 char siu with rice, soy sauce chicken, and roast duck to the old Chef Wobot unit.
🍰 A luxury Toronto bakery boutique lands at Oakridge Park – Delysees has opened at Oakridge Park with sculpted fruit mousses, macarons, and gold gift boxes, marking its Western Canada debut.
🫕 Richmond gets a mashup of hot pot, sizzling plates, and an AYCE buffet – Taoke pairs hot pots and sizzling steak plates with a Taiwanese all-you-can-eat buffet bar at Aberdeen Centre.
🍜 A Hong Kong ramen chain quietly opens in the West End’s ramen alley – Betsutenjin, which closed its shops back home, has landed in Vancouver with prawn miso bowls and lobster handrolls.
🍖 A new Japanese fire-grilled meat spot lands in Burnaby – Hungry Tiger Grill has opened in Madison Centre with butadon, soba, curry, and an all-you-can-grab salad bar.
☕ Popular Richmond coffee roaster opens a downtown bar – Moving Coffee has arrived in Yaletown, finally giving downtown its own Moving Coffee bar.
☕ A tiny cycling-themed coffee window opens in Gastown – Celeste quietly picked up one of Gastown’s prettiest patios this spring, from a cafe almost too small to believe.
🥙 A US shawarma chain takes over a downtown Popeyes – Shawarma Time has opened its Canadian debut in the closed Popeyes at the CBC building, just before the World Cup.
🌯 Fast-growing kathi roll chain opens its first drive-thru in Langley – Rollzzy has opened an Indian QSR drive-thru at 26391 Fraser Highway, its eighth location around the region.
🍗 A Drake-backed hot chicken chain just landed on Granville Street – Dave’s Hot Chicken just opened its first Vancouver location.
🌮 An all-day Mexican brunch and bakery lands in a tricky Chinatown corner – Loreto is now open in the former La Cerveceria corner unit at 219 Union Street, doubling as an espresso bar and bakery.
🍵 A longtime Hong Kong style restaurant reopens in a Richmond food court – CK Tea C just opened in Pacific Plaza’s food court, run by the owners of Ming Tak, the Granville spot that closed after 24 years.
🍜 A cult Toronto pho chain just opened a massive new room on Kingsway – Pho Anh Vu just opened its first Vancouver location, a big, stylish room and its second spot in Metro Vancouver.
🥣 Massive bowls of tomato broth mixian just took over a Richmond pho stall – Jiawei Big Bowl is serving big bowls in Richmond Public Market for the price of a smaller bowl next door, plus leftover pho.
🍵 The viral rotating matcha pop-up lands a permanent home – Emeri opens its first storefront on Main Street in Mount Pleasant on June 20, sorting matcha and hojicha by strength inside a former Goldilocks bakery.
🍖 A family-run Texas BBQ smokehouse hits the Steveston waterfront – Wharf and Flame opened in early May with house-smoked meats, cold drinks, and a dog-friendly patio.
🍞 Vancouver’s 24/7 bakery finally lands in Surrey – Breka Bakery opened June 18 next to the King George SkyTrain, after first teasing the King George Hub spot last fall.
🧋 The viral mango tea shop opens a bigger Robson spot that flips into a bar at night – Alfa Tea is pouring bubble tea now, with a food-and-alcohol bar concept launching in July.
🥡 A food court stall reopened just a week after shutting down – O’Kitchen is back in Amazing Brentwood’s TABLES food court with a new five-year lease and a 20% soft-reopening deal.
🐟 A Burnaby taiyaki shop just opened a massive new Vancouver flagship – Little Pisces hits Olympic Village at double the size of its Lougheed shop, opening at 8 AM with $3 coffee.
New Vancouver Restaurants Opening Soon:
🍩 A Korean brioche donut shop is opening on Robson – Mello is taking a mezzanine unit at 1400 Robson, with staff pointing to August.
🔥 An award-winning tapas team goes live-fire with Spanish seafood – Como Ultramar is opening in the historic Faber Block on East Broadway, cooking Northern Spanish seafood over charcoal.
🍗 A Boston Thai chicken rice spot is taking over a Broadway burrito unit – Hen is bringing khao man gai and cocktails to the former Best Burrito space in Mount Pleasant.
🌯 A Chipotle is coming across from Oakridge Park – Chipotle has its sign mounted on the Polygon building at Cambie and 41st, interior still gutted.
🍨 A local ice cream maker opens its first new shop in nearly a decade – Earnest Ice Cream expands to Granville Island this fall with flavours made only for that location.
☕ World famous coffee brand is opening an Oakridge Park outpost – % Arabica is bringing the glowing Precht Kiosk it runs in Dubai and Beijing, not the grey concrete cave of its Richmond store.
☕ Two sisters bet everything on a cafe in the city’s priciest corner – Unscripted Coffee opens a 750 sq ft community cafe steps from Waterfront Station this summer, with Pallet espresso and cultural slushies.
🧋 A mango drink brand opens its first patisserie cafe concept on North Road – Alfa Tea takes the former Bono Cafe unit by H Mart, while MACU opens a block away in Burnaby this summer.
☕ Busy Hong Kong-style cafe stall adds a second Crystal Mall spot – One Cafe is opening in Crystal Mall’s food court in the old Kingspark Good Food unit, with a broader menu.
🍕 A New York slice shop returns to Kingsway after its plaza was demolished – Straight Outta Brooklyn has signage up at 918 Kingsway from the Via Tevere team, with buildout underway behind the windows.
🍜 Popular Japanese ramen chain is opening a Coquitlam Centre food court stall – Kinton Ramen has signage up at Coquitlam Centre’s food court, its second food court stall after Waterfront.
🍳 Famous LA egg sandwich chain spotted opening downtown – Eggslut has bright yellow signage up on Alberni Street below Din Tai Fung, confirming its first Vancouver location this year.
🍝 The Via Tevere team is opening a tiny pasta osteria in Yaletown – Rosalia Osteria, from Dom and Frank Morra of Via Tevere and Don’t Argue Pizza, arrives this summer with house-made pasta.
🍦 Cheap Chinese soft serve giant eyes Canada – Mixue rumoured to debut in Richmond’s Diabetes Plaza.
☕ A top Mount Pleasant coffee roaster is taking over an iconic downtown shack – Honest to Pete is the new tenant of the former JJ Bean shack by the CBC.
🍲 A new Sichuan noodle and braised-dish spot takes over a Richmond hot pot unit – Chuan Noodle House is replacing Grandma Liu Hotpot, joining 18 Tee in the same plaza.
🍜 A pho spot was spotted coming to Aberdeen Centre’s ‘cursed’ corner – Pho Net Viet is taking over the former Hazukido Cafe Plus unit, a Richmond corner locals call cursed.
🛒 A 26,425 sq ft grocery store with a carvery and donut shop is coming to Richmond Centre – Fresh St. Market lands its 10th B.C. location in 2027 with a carvery, hot bar, Peak Donuts, and fresh-baked cookies.
☕ A no-tipping coffee shop is opening its third Vancouver location – Doe Coffee has signage up at a new 49th and Main corner development near Langara College.
🥐 A top croissant bakery is opening a third downtown location – Angus T is bringing coffee and made-daily pastries to 320 Granville by Waterfront Station, opening late summer.
🔥 A mystery restaurant is teasing flame grill, broth, and Wagyu downtown – SUMU has signs up at the long-empty SalaThai unit on Burrard.
🍖 Lansdowne Centre’s food court is finally getting a roast meat stall – Roastory Asian BBQ has a coming-soon banner up at the former Katte unit.
🍫 A famous Swiss chocolatier takes its first downtown Vancouver spot – Läderach is replacing the Pacific Centre Nespresso unit, with signage promising a Fall 2026 opening.
🥟 A dim sum and indoor golf simulator bar spotted opening in Richmond – Dimsum Caddy is taking over the old Shark Club beside Sandman Signature, serving elevated dim sum and cocktails this June.
🛒 A massive 38,000 sq ft grocery store is coming to Burnaby’s new masterplanned community – Thrifty Foods will anchor Brentwood Block as the chain’s first Burnaby store and the project’s first confirmed retail name.
🍲 A Sichuan duck braise private kitchen is opening a Richmond storefront – Lao Lao is bringing its popular braises to Union Square this summer after years on Fantuan.
🍔 Xi’an Chinese hamburger stall sets up at Empire Centre – Meeting in Chang’an just took over a unit at Richmond’s Empire Centre food court, with the buildout 90 percent complete.
🧋 A 50-year-old Toronto juice and bubble tea chain lands at Lansdowne Centre – Freshly Squeezed just took over the former My Coffee unit inside Richmon
☕ Fast-growing coffee chain snags another Kingsway corner unit – Trees Coffee is taking over a corner unit at the recently completed REN rental tower on Joyce and Kingsway in East Vancouver.
🥟 Chongqing noodles and seafood potstickers headed to Aberdeen Square – Spice & Sea has signage up in the plaza next to Richmond’s Aberdeen Square, pointing to an upcoming opening.
🧋 Taiwanese mango drink chain returning to Burnaby after March closures – MACU Tea has new signage up on North Road, confirming a comeback after all three locations shut down earlier this year.
🍞 A popular HK-style cafe is quietly opening a pineapple bun bakery in Richmond – One Cafe is building a new shop called One Bolo at Empire Centre, just steps from its existing food court stall.
🧋 A popular Taiwanese bubble tea chain is relocating to the Cambie corridor – CoCo is moving near Langara, growing the corridor’s already dense bubble tea cluster.
🥐 Vancouver’s popular artisanal bakery cafe is expanding to North Vancouver – Coming Soon signs for Small Victory are up across the bridge, marking the bakery’s first North Shore location.
🥐 A New West sister-run cafe is quietly expanding to East Vancouver – Coasters Coffee is taking over a corner unit at E 29th and Rupert Street.
☕ The ‘King of Karak’ chai chain just locked down a second Vancouver location – Chaiiwala is adding a Downtown spot along Granville Street next to KFC.
🍩 Vancouver’s iconic donut shop is opening across from Langara College – Lee’s Donuts just confirmed its newest expansion, landing directly across from the campus.
🍕 Vancouver pizzeria chain expands to North Van – Ignite Pizzeria announced a 5th location at 101 Lonsdale Avenue in the Beasley Block, opening spring 2026.
🍜 Beloved French-Vietnamese cafe reveals noodle bar – Linh Noodle Bar is coming soon to the former Bacaro space in Vancouver House.
🐑Happy Lamb takes over Food Street – Replacing the stalled Bellwether project, Happy Lamb is opening a new “Hot Pot & Grill” concept in Richmond.
🥗 Montreal’s cult-favourite salad chain coming – Mandy’s Gourmet Salads is opening two locations in Kitsilano and Coal Harbour.
🦞 Seafood boil chain heads to Burnaby – Captain’s Boil is bringing its messy, hands-on bags to the new Gilmore Place development.
🧋 Major Chinese bubble tea chain hits BC – TeaByDo is opening its first BC location in Richmond’s Union Square Shopping Centre.
🇬🇷 New yogurt concept taking over Yaletown – Meros House of Yogurt brings wellness-focused Greek yogurt bowls to the former Unni Pastries space.
🛒 Legendary drug store spot gets new life – 88 Supermarket is replacing the 40-year-old London Drugs on Kingsway with Southeast Asian specialties.
🥣 ‘King of Rice Noodle Rolls’ heading to Burnaby – Yin Ji Chang Fen is taking over the former Green Basil Thai space on Kingsway.
🍦 Froyo comeback at Richmond Centre – Yogen Fruz to open new location with fresh offerings.
🍜 World’s largest mazesoba chain opens in Richmond – Kokoro Mazesoba reveals second outpost at CF Richmond Centre.
🍜 Popular ramen chain heads to Richmond – Japanese chain Horin Ramen opening its first Richmond location.
🍦 Global ice cream chain arriving at Lansdowne – Baskin Robbins to open at Lansdowne Centre even though redevelopment buzz.
🍰Breka Bakery to debut in Richmond – Richmond Centre to welcomes its first Breka location, which will open 24/7.
🌶 Big Way Hot Pot to expand with third Robson spot – Filling demand with another location on Robson Street.
🍽 “Social Canteen” to open in Metrotown area – New foodie market concept to open but details remain scarce.
🍜 World’s largest udon chain heads to Richmond – Marugame Udon is set to open at CF Richmond Centre.
🥙 Mediterranean chain set to open in Vancouver – Tahini’s brings its signature shawarma to Renfrew Street soon.
☕️ Charming bakery cafe brewing excitement in Richmond – Pocorit to offer pastries, coffee, and specialty drinks come spring 2026.
🌿 Zero-waste cafe expands – NOMAD Espresso Bar & Bakery to join new Harry Jerome Community Centre in 2026.
🇬🇧 UK dessert chain to debut in West End – Heavenly Desserts is joining the Landmark on Robson lineup.
🫖 UK Tea Chain lands in Vancouver – Chaiiwala of London to open its first Robson Street location.
🛒 Kitsilano market expands with new shop – Be Fresh is opening its second location on Alma Street.
🔥 Hot new addition to Surrey – Big Way Hot Pot spotted opening at King George Hub, their first in Surrey.
🍵 Toronto’s viral Matcha Matcha expanding west – Popular matcha cafe set sights on Vancouver, location TBD.
🍚 Popular Hei Hei Rice Roll opens at Crystal Mall – Fans rejoice! Burnaby gets Richmond’s beloved rice roll spot.
That rounds up our list of restaurants opening their doors, or getting ready to open.
We hope you try a few, or all of them, and enjoy safe and memorable meals. If you’re looking for the best food in Vancouver, peek our lists so you won’t be disappointed.