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:
🍞 The sell-out-line salt bread pop-up opened a Coquitlam store – Saltybear just opened in Kensington Plaza.
🥟 An 8,000 sq ft dim sum and golf simulator bar opens – Dim Sum Caddy took over Richmond’s old Shark Club.
🍰 Online Chinese cake shop opens its first storefront – DBB Cake takes the empty Hy Tea unit on Ackroyd Road.
🍖 A halal food hall opened in Commercial Drive’s old snack bar – Chef Hyve took the closed Drive Canteen unit.
🥣 Vancouver’s first serious Greek yogurt bar – Meros House of Yogurt opened August 8 at 1207 Hamilton Street.
🍶 A 130-seat Japanese restaurant took the old SalaThai unit – Sumu just opened on Burrard with yakitori, hot pot, and donburi in one place.
🥢 The pay-by-weight malatang shop is now a sleek bistro – Datang Bistro served its first day of Northeastern Chinese in Richmond.
🍩 Top Korean donut shop opens its two-level Robson cafe – Mello soft opened August 11 with Seoul-style mezzanine seating.
☕ Two sisters with zero restaurant experience opened a downtown cafe – Unscripted Coffee is at 455 Granville with a customer-voted menu.
🥣 New Wuhan noodle stall lands in Parker Place – Jing Noodle House took the old Jiang Jiang stall, running mala beef noodles.
🦀 A Vietnamese kitchen and bar took the old La Chuoi unit – Viethaus runs cha com rice cakes, duck bao, and frog legs.
🌶️ New Chongqing noodle shop opens in ‘Diabetes Plaza’ – Chuan Noodle House took the old Grandma Liu Hotpot unit August 3.
🍳 Popular Hong Kong cafe opens a second stall steps away – One Cafe took Crystal Mall’s old Kingspark Good Food unit August 8.
🍦 Homesickness led to a botanical gelato cart’s first stall – Lava Lunis Gelateria runs Junction Public Market August 14 to September 9.
☕ A bakery cafe quietly opened by Capstan Station and it’s already packed – Pocorit gives Richmond’s Capstan area a proper sit-down cafe again.
🍦 A global ice cream chain lands inside Lansdowne Centre – Baskin Robbins, cashless and with a Cakery counter, opened in the mall’s former post office unit.
🧋 Richmond’s newest bubble tea shop goes herbal and healthy – Pika Herb Tea is open at 8580 Alexandra Road, run by a husband and wife, with ginseng, goji and house-made lotus seed milk.
🍱 The old AFURI ramen unit on Main Street is sushi now – Sushi Nami just opened in the Mount Pleasant space, running party trays up to $70 with foie gras on the oshi.
🥐 Croissant bakery finally opens its West End shop – Angus T opened July 24 at 1305 Davie Street with green tea, earl grey, and dark chocolate raspberry croissants.
🍷 Two Kissa Tanto vets open a 36-seat Portuguese tasca on Fraser – Maria Celeste grand opens August 4 at 4181 Fraser Street with shared Portuguese plates and an all-Portuguese wine list.
☕ A local roaster just took over an Olympic Village Starbucks corner – Pallet Coffee has been open since early July in its 8th shop, with a six-option tea list and a labelled pastry case.
🍣 Affordable sushi chain quietly opens its second downtown room – Sushi California opened beside the Orpheum with arched stone niches, black marble tile, and a $103.80 party tray for 60 pieces.
🎵 A new listening bar opens in Gastown, nearly a year later than planned – Amber is open at Powell and Columbia with Chef Ryan Mills on a Pacific Northwest raw bar menu.
🌮 Cheap taco shop is back four months after shutting all three locations – Gringo has reopened at 27 Blood Alley Square in Gastown.
🥨 A new French bakery hung a giant croissant sculpture in its window – Bisou Bakehouse just opened on Robson Street, a second downtown swing after its Telus Garden shop was seized.
🍲 Longtime Korean restaurant moves one floor down into the food court – Man Ri Sung reopened in the Aberdeen Centre food court after 10 years upstairs, with a fully Korean menu and no Peking duck in sight.
🍦 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.
New Vancouver Restaurants Opening Soon:
🍜 Top ramen chain spotted opening an express concept at UBC – Danbo Express takes the old Corner Kitchen unit at UBC Village.
☕ Chinese coffee giant is landing in Metrotown – Cotti Coffee, founded by two ex-Luckin executives, is past 13,000 stores.
🐑 A Richmond corner unit is going back to Xinjiang food – Dolan has a new name up on Leslie Road.
🍣 Premium Japanese seafood takeout lands in a shuttered Richmond cafe – Kano Sushi Market is moving into Unit 153 on Minoru Boulevard.
☕ No-tipping, living-wage cafe with no single-use cups – Unveil Coffee Roasters opens at 2815 West Broadway in September.
🍜 The “birthplace of chili ramen” takes a New West unit – Horin is opening across from New Westminster Station.
🥐 Richmond’s 24/7 bakery just got pushed to 2027 – Breka was due this summer at 2,500 sq ft. is delayed.
🧋 Jasmine tea brand spotted at Richmond Centre – Molly Tea is opening the mall’s fourth bubble tea shop.
🍜 A 300-location noodle chain picks Richmond for its Canada debut – Mr. Noodle Chen is taking the old Pepper Lunch unit.
🥞 BC’s first crunchy crepe shop is getting a Greektown room – The Crepe Spot is taking 3141 W Broadway.
🍗 Filipino fried chicken chain is adding 16 BC locations – Jollibee goes from four to 20 over five years.
🍣 The Port Moody sushi spot that closed after 23 years is back – Matsuzushi says renovations are done and it reopens in early August, two missed target dates later.
🍩 Granville Island’s iconic donut shop is crossing the water – Lee’s Donuts, the shop behind the Honey Dip, is expanding to Victoria.
🍣 A sushi shop appears in Crystal Mall’s all-Chinese food scene – Yue Sushi was spotted going into the 250-store Burnaby centre where the food has always been Chinese.
🥖 Popular banh mi shop takes over a 30-year-old Main Street pizza unit – Nami is opening its third shop at 3030 Main Street in the former Papa’s Gourmet Pizza space, no opening date yet.
🧋 A popular bubble tea chain lands its first Burnaby shop – Chayan is taking the former Little Monk Pretzels unit on the lower level of Metropolis at Metrotown.
🏨 A 24-hour bakery chain wants to build a 30-storey hotel tower – Breka has applied for a 391-foot tower near Marine Drive Station, with a cafe at street level and a restaurant on the 30th floor.
🔥 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 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.
🍕 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 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.
🍖 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 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 Richmond
☕ 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.
🍞 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.
🥐 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.
🍜 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.
🛒 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.
🌶 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.
🇬🇧 UK dessert chain to debut in West End – Heavenly Desserts is joining the Landmark on Robson lineup.
🛒 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.
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.