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7 Super Unique Restaurants In Canada That You Need To Add To Your Bucket List

You can eat on a patio with goats walking overhead!
Senior Writer

There are a whole bunch of restaurants in Canada with eccentric dining experiences that will make you want to book a table ASAP.

If you're looking to add some unique eateries to your bucket list, here are seven that offer bizarre foods or have one-of-a-kind locations.

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Old Country Market Restaurant

Price: 💸💸

Cuisine: Casual

Address: 2326 Alberni Hwy., Coombs, BC

Why You Need To Go: You can sit out on the restaurant's seasonal patio and enjoy your meal while goats are roaming overhead on the roof of the market.

Oasis Surf

Price: 💸💸

Cuisine: Beach-inspired

Address: 9520 boul. Leduc, Suite 01, Brossard, QC

Why You Need To Go: This spot takes surf-and-turf to a new level! You can surf as if you were on the ocean and then have food that's inspired by what surfers eat right next to the water.

Downtown Hotel Sourdough Saloon

Price: 💸💸

Cuisine: Bar/American

Address: 1026 Second Ave., Dawson City, YT

Why You Need To Go: The Sourdough Saloon at the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City not only serves food and drinks but is also home to the famous and truly unique Sourtoe Cocktail. Are you brave enough to try it?

The Cave

Price: 💸💸

Cuisine: American/Greek

Address: 2720 Eighth St. E., Saskatoon, SK

Why You Need To Go: This restaurant has such unique architecture and it's like stepping back in time with all the rock formations. While you're here, you can try your hand at the Caveman Pizza Challenge.

The Flying Apron Inn & Cookery

Price: 💸💸

Cuisine: Seafood

Address: 3 Summerville Wharf Road, Summerville, NS

Why You Need To Go: The Flying Apron Inn & Cookery puts on a seafood feast called "Dining on the Ocean Floor" in the Bay of Fundy where you have your meal at a table that's sitting on the ocean floor during low tide.

Ancaster Mill

Price: 💸💸💸

Cuisine: Fine dining 

Address: 548 Old Dundas Rd., Ancaster, ON

Why You Need To Go: This restaurant is located right beside a creek and the dining room overlooks a waterfall with huge windows offering stunning views.

The Grizzly House

Price: 💸💸💸

Cuisine: Eclectic

Address: 207 Banff Ave., Banff, AB

Why You Need To Go: You can try beef, buffalo, chicken, rattlesnake, lobster, shark, cheese and chocolate fondue at this spot. Not only is the food eccentric but the decor is, too. With working phones at each table, a wood-carved bear, totem poles, a buffalo head and bearskin rugs, it's truly something else.

  • Senior Writer

    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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