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Best Restaurants Open Late in Vancouver 2026
Open Late · Vancouver · 6 tables ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 19, 2026 · Updated June 19, 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections
Vancouver's best kitchens lock up early. The rooms that win the awards here, Published on Main, Hawksworth, St. Lawrence, Burdock & Co, run a single tight dinner service and send their last plates by ten. So the city's real late scene grew up somewhere else: in the Chinatown and Gastown izakayas, at a clutch of raw bars and high-low rooms that open precisely because so little serves food after 10pm. These are the kitchens that are still cooking at midnight, and several past it. The six below were chosen because they cook well and they cook late, ranked on how good the kitchen still is in the last hour before it closes.
1.Bao Bei Chinese Brasserie
Tannis Ling's Michelin-listed Chinatown brasserie cooks to midnight on weekends; the best late food in the city. Book Friday.
Bao Bei sits in a narrow heritage room on Keefer Street, the heart of old Chinatown, where Tannis Ling has run her modern Chinese brasserie since 2010. It is the rare Vancouver kitchen that is both excellent and genuinely late: the MICHELIN Guide carries it in its Vancouver selection, and on Friday and Saturday the kitchen serves until midnight rather than the ten o'clock the rest of the week. The cooking is sharp, Sichuan-leaning small plates built for sharing, anchored by the shao bing flatbread, the mantou with pork belly and a much-copied kale salad. Two people graze well for around CA$45 to 70 a head before drinks. The weekend late seating is the one to book, so reserve a Friday or Saturday table and order across the menu.
Reserve through the Bao Bei website; weekend tables go fast.
2.Oku Izakaya
Gastown's after-hours izakaya runs its kitchen to 2am on weekends, the latest serious seat in town. Sit at the counter.
Oku is the kitchen that actually stays open. From its Gastown room it runs an izakaya menu until 1am Monday to Thursday and 2am on Friday and Saturday, which makes it the default destination for chefs and hospitality workers coming off shift. The cooking holds up that late: karaage and blistered shishito peppers off the standard izakaya playbook, alongside sharper plates like the yellowtail with wa-chimichurri, washed down with a deep list of Japanese beer, sake and whisky. Expect around CA$45 to 65 a head for a spread of small plates. The counter is the move for a late solo meal, and the room only gets better as it gets later. Book a late table or simply walk up to the bar after midnight.
Book Oku Izakaya, or take a late seat at the counter.
3.Anh and Chi
A Michelin Bib Gourmand Vietnamese kitchen that runs seven nights to eleven; the dependable late sit-down. Book ahead on weekends.
Anh and Chi is the Nguyen family's modern Vietnamese room on Main Street, a Michelin Bib Gourmand kitchen that earns the late slot on consistency rather than closing time. While the izakayas push past midnight, this is the one full dinner you can count on seven nights a week, with the kitchen on until eleven every night, not just on weekends. The cooking is sharp and regional: shaking beef, lemongrass pork, crisp imperial rolls and a long vegetarian section, served in a bright, busy room. Plan on around CA$35 to 50 a head. It is the pick for a real meal at half past ten when you want food over a counter scene; go midweek and order family-style.
Reserve through Anh and Chi; the kitchen runs to eleven nightly.
4.Ama Raw Bar
A second-floor Fraserhood raw bar pairing nigiri and cocktails to midnight; the late nightcap meal. Go Thursday on.
Ama is a small, dim raw bar on the second floor of a Fraser Street building in Fraserhood, the stretch of South Vancouver that has quietly become one of the city's better eating strips. It opens Thursday to Sunday from six in the evening until late, with the kitchen running to midnight, and it is built for exactly the meal Vancouver is short of: a late, unhurried plate of raw seafood with a serious cocktail. The bar leans Japanese-inspired, with bluefin and king salmon nigiri, hamachi sashimi and a wagyu tartare, served à la carte at a counter made for two. Expect around CA$60 to 90 a head with a drink or two. Come after nine, sit at the bar, and order nigiri in rounds.
Book Ama Raw Bar Thursday to Sunday for a late seat.
5.Breeze Bar
Gastown's trashy-classy late bar plates caviar beside hot dogs to midnight, built for the after-ten gap. Drop in.
Breeze Bar opened on Carrall Street in Gastown as a deliberate answer to how little of Vancouver serves food past ten. Its trick is a high-low menu that puts a snappy hot dog on the same list as a tin of Ossetra caviar, which means you can eat cheaply or splurge depending on the hour and the company. The room runs Wednesday to Saturday from six until midnight, with the kitchen going the whole time, so it works as both a proper late dinner and a place to land after one. The owners cited the closure of the old Sardine Can and the scarcity of late kitchens as the reason it exists. Spend swings from around CA$30 for snacks to CA$70-plus with caviar and a few drinks. Walk in midweek, sit at the bar, and build a meal from both ends of the menu.
Walk in Wednesday to Saturday; the bar takes late drop-ins.
6.Guu with Garlic
The izakaya that taught Vancouver to eat late, still loud and cheap to 11:30 on Robson. Bring a group.
The Guu group brought the izakaya to Vancouver in the early 2000s, and Guu with Garlic on Robson Street remains the loud, communal, shout-your-order version that started it. The kitchen runs to 11:30pm, later than almost any full-service room in the West End, sending a long menu of cheap, generous small plates: the garlic dishes the room is named for, agedashi tofu, karaage, black cod and a constant churn of izakaya staples. It is the most affordable late table on this list, around CA$35 to 50 a head, and the sister Guu rooms on Thurlow and in Davie Village keep similar hours if Robson is full. Bring a group, order in waves, and don't be quiet about it.
Walk in or book Guu with Garlic; the group rooms keep late hours.
Avoid for a late dinner
Great kitchens, early last call
The award rooms close at ten. Published on Main, Hawksworth, St. Lawrence and Burdock & Co are among the best kitchens in the city, but they are built for an early, single-turn dinner and stop serving around 10pm. Book them for the meal itself, not for a late table, and move on to one of the rooms above if the night is still young.
The Granville strip after midnight. The bars and pizza windows on the Granville entertainment strip serve food well past closing time, but it is slice-and-poutine fuel for a night out, not a destination dinner. Use it to soak up the evening, and keep the list above for an actual late meal.
How to eat late in Vancouver
Vancouver rewards a plan after ten. The single most reliable late kitchen is Oku Izakaya in Gastown, open to 1am on weeknights and 2am on weekends, so when in doubt, that is the booking. For the best food, time your night around Bao Bei's Friday and Saturday midnight service, since the Chinatown brasserie keeps earlier hours the rest of the week. Anh and Chi is the every-night insurance, a Michelin Bib Gourmand room on Main Street whose kitchen runs to 11pm seven days, while the Chinatown and Gastown cluster keeps Bao Bei, Oku and Breeze Bar within a few minutes' walk of each other if the first room is full.
Reservations help but are rarely essential this late: the izakayas, Oku and the Guu rooms, take walk-ins at the counter, while Bao Bei and Ama are worth booking ahead for the weekend. Vancouver tips around 18 to 20 percent and adds 5 percent GST, so build that into the late-night spend. Dress is relaxed across the board, and the rooms only fill as the night runs on, so a table that looks quiet at ten will be busy by midnight. For one long night, start with dinner at Bao Bei in Chinatown, then walk to Oku in Gastown for the after-midnight stretch.
Frequently asked
What are the best restaurants open late in Vancouver?
Oku Izakaya in Gastown runs its kitchen to 1am on weekdays and 2am on weekends, the latest serious kitchen in the city. Bao Bei in Chinatown, the standout for food, serves to midnight on Friday and Saturday, and Anh and Chi on Main Street keeps its kitchen on to 11pm seven nights a week. Ama on Fraser Street and Breeze Bar in Gastown both keep their kitchens running to midnight.
How late can you eat dinner in Vancouver?
Later than its reputation suggests, but you have to know where to go. The izakayas run latest: Oku in Gastown serves to 1am on weeknights and 2am on weekends, and the Guu group keeps kitchens going past 11pm. Bao Bei, Ama and Breeze Bar all serve to midnight on the nights people actually go out. Most of the city's fine-dining rooms, by contrast, stop at ten.
Where can you eat after midnight in Vancouver?
Oku Izakaya in Gastown is the answer most nights, with the kitchen open to 1am Monday to Thursday and 2am on Friday and Saturday. The Davie Village and Robson izakayas, including the Guu rooms, are the next-best bet, keeping small-plate kitchens running close to and past midnight. For a real after-midnight meal, book a late table at Oku and order off the robata.
Why do Vancouver restaurants close so early?
Vancouver's best kitchens are built around early, single-turn dinner service, so rooms like Published on Main, Hawksworth and Burdock & Co send their last plates by around ten. The late scene grew up separately, in the Chinatown and Gastown izakayas and a handful of bar-kitchens like Breeze Bar that opened specifically because so little served food past 10pm. The split is why you plan the late table rather than assume it.
Which late-night Vancouver restaurant is best for solo diners?
Oku Izakaya in Gastown is the easiest late seat for one, with counter seating and a kitchen that runs to 1am or 2am. Ama Raw Bar on Fraser Street suits a solo nightcap meal of nigiri and a cocktail until midnight, and the Guu izakayas are built for grazing alone at the bar. All three are comfortable to sit through alone late in the evening.
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