Where To Eat In Vancouver On 2026 World Cup Match Day
Vancouver has the best sushi in North America. The best dim sum. Seven matches at BC Place. Eat by neighbourhood, watch by team.
Vancouver's Asian food beats Toronto's. Vancouver's sushi beats LA's. The Pacific Rim cuisine here is genuinely world-class — not world-class for North America, world-class by any standard — and the seven matches at BC Place in 2026 make this the most culinarily rewarding host city in the tournament if you know where to go. The key word is Richmond. The second key word is not the All-You-Can-Eat sushi restaurants on Robson Street. Those are for different people.
Seven matches at BC Place including the opening group stage and a Round of 32. The city takes football seriously in a way that its climate, proximity to mountains, and Pacific Rim cultural identity make feel inevitable.
Best Sushi In Vancouver For 2026 World Cup Match Day
Tojo's on Broadway is the beginning and end of this conversation. Hidekazu Tojo invented the California roll in Vancouver in the 1970s and has been running the most important Japanese restaurant in North America for decades. The omakase here is the real thing — seasonal, precise, built on Pacific Coast seafood that has no equivalent in the landlocked United States. Book well in advance. This is not a casual drop-in.
Miku on the waterfront downtown is the aburi sushi reference — a Vancouver-invented technique of finishing sushi with a blowtorch, slightly caramelising the fish surface, that creates a flavour profile that is specific to this city. The aburi salmon oshi (pressed sushi) has been the most photographed piece of sushi in Canada for about five years. Order it and eat it immediately. It does not survive the photo session.
Sushi Mahana in Richmond is the neighbourhood sushi restaurant that serious eaters go to when they want to eat without paying Tojo's prices. The sashimi quality here reflects Richmond's proximity to the fish market rather than any concession to the tourist-facing city.
The All-You-Can-Eat sushi restaurants on Robson Street are technically not illegal. They are also not what Vancouver's sushi reputation is b