Canadian Restaurants in Nanaimo, BC

“Tania's always serves up an excellent breakfast for us with phenomenal service too. We love this place and always stop by when we need brunch!“

“We came on Saturday of the long-term weekend to celebrate 3 things, my girlfriend's birthday, my graduation from college, and my engagement. The waitress, whose name I can't remember, that helped us on the patio was fabulous. Very friendly and excited for our celebration. When the bill came they paid for the first round of drinks to celebrate with us.
Best raspberry Margaritas in town.“

“We just left after celebrating a family member’s birthday. We have been going to Cactus for years at many different locations and have always received great service. Tonight was truly exceptional. Thank you so much Mia! Your drink and food descriptions were great and your recommendations were perfect. You are amazing and we want your managers to know it!!!! Our glasses were always full. The food was delicious. Thank you to your entire team for making it a fun evening. The Parker Family“

“Great diner with excellent prices. Places like this don't get enough credit for being able to compete with the big name restaurants. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to stay a float. Everyone should be trying to support local, especially places like this. Keep up the good work!“

“Best breakfast sandwich ever ( anywhere)“

“A great little get away from the hustle. A short ferry ride from Nanimo. It has a great cafe with delicious food. Beautiful hiking trails, tons of space to picnic and play and miles of quiet Beaches!“

“We are from Red Deer and this restaurant is in my Son's neighbourhood. We dined there and had the bison ribeye and chicken club wrap. Both were truly delicious, the wine and the service was great. Can't wait for a return visit!“

“A great, lively atmosphere with friendly servers! That spicy dill dip was SO good!“

“Wow. This place is something straight out of Hollywood! The atmosphere and air quality is something out of this galaxy, I simply can’t describe it in the English language it was so good. Come here with family, girlfriends or even somebody you don’t like you’ll have a great time!“

“I would consider myself an ice cream aficionado and let me tell you this place has some of the best real gelato and homemade ice cream flavours. It's incredible the owner makes all the flavours themselves, I haven't had them all but I've taste tested plenty along with having quite a few others and never not been impressed, it makes it so hard to choose when there because I promise you they will all taste amazing. Somehow they all taste so real like take the root beer, one of my personal faves, it tastes remarkably like an actual can of root beer down to tasting the carbonation almost somehow through the ice cream. The nanaimo bar gelato is another fave that tastes like nanaimo bars were smashed into the ice cream somehow and that's the theme you'll find with all the flavours.

I first discovered this after moving back to Cedar recently as some family was visiting and we were looking for a good gelato. We mistakenly went into another ice cream shop that's close by a few doors down, thinking it was the right one we had read amazing reviews on, but alas it was not and we were incredibly disappointed. We walked out and we were leaving when we came by this place and quickly realized this was the one we read about, but we didn't want to have another ice cream. We walked in and talked with the owner who was there, she worked her magic and had us tasting every flavour and soon we all just had to try it. It was all incredible, everybody was so happy with all the flavours they got and some nanaimo bars for my brother in law. She just really turned around a poor experience that night and I've been loyal since not only for the incredible service but more importantly the phenomenal gelato

So much so I even order it every year a couple times all the way out to Cedar on door dash and I am so so happy they allow it as an option“