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What to eat in Canada

The 10 best dishes in Canada

French, British, Indigenous and immigrant cooking across a huge country.

1

Poutine

Best: Quebec

Fries with squeaky cheese curds under hot gravy.

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2

Montreal smoked meat

Best: Montreal

Spiced, smoked brisket piled on rye with mustard.

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3

Montreal bagel

Best: Montreal

Honey-water boiled, wood-fired, denser and sweeter than New York's.

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4

Butter tart

Best: Ontario

A small tart with a runny brown sugar and butter filling.

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5

Nanaimo bar

Best: British Columbia

No-bake bar of chocolate crumb, custard butter cream and chocolate.

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6

Peameal bacon sandwich

Best: Toronto

Cornmeal-crusted back bacon on a bun.

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7

Tourtière

Best: Quebec

A spiced meat pie for Christmas Eve.

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8A photo like it

Maple taffy

Best: Quebec

Hot maple syrup poured on snow and rolled on a stick.

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9

Pacific salmon

Best: British Columbia

Wild salmon, grilled or smoked.

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10A photo like it

Bannock

Eaten all over Canada

A simple fried or baked bread made in Indigenous communities across Canada.

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Photos: each dish's lead photo on its Wikipedia article (license and author on Wikimedia Commons); "a photo like it" is a food photo of the same kind, not that dish. Cook it opens a recipe in Chef Amazing, or Chef writes one for you. Picked by Chef Amazing, November 2026.