Best Restaurants 2026

If you’re lucky enough to live into your mid-80s, in your adult life you’ll have had the chance to chow down, rush through or dawdle over about 24,470 breakfasts, lunches and dinners — each. If you never skipped a meal and ate leisurely, you could spend four years just eating.

But all of us skip food now and then, and some meals last just a few minutes. Sometimes you linger over meals for a couple of hours, and sometimes nothing hits quite like a fast bowl of pho or a quick smashed burger to perk up a Thursday lunch with your work besties.

We all gotta eat, and we’re made to love it. Thankfully, our city gives us a lot to love. Might as well make sure it’s time well spent. Feast first with your eyes as you read about Edmonton’s best restaurants, then get out there and nosh.