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02/26/2025

A huge thank you to all the restaurants, chefs, and staffs that brought incredible meals, deals and energy to this year’s Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg festival!
To all foodies, thank you for braving the cold temperatures to savour some incredible dining experiences!

To this year’s sponsor, Travel Manitoba, and the numerous media outlets and on-air hosts who helped us promote this beloved restaurant event, a heartfelt thank you for the support and enthusiasm you show for Winnipeg’s great restaurant scene and Ciao! magazine’s effort to celebrate the best of the city and all things local!!

And, for those who didn’t get out to this year, keep reading Ciao! – and please keep following us here to live your best Winnipeg life.

This community is stronger working together and Ciao! is proud to celebrate the places and people that make this city better!

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02/21/2025

1964 At The Hotel at Falcon Lake

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The weather is lifting, and it is the weekend! It is the perfect excuse to enjoy the outdoors followed by a great meal in 1964 at the Hotel at Falcon Lake! If you have not discovered this gem in Manitoba’s Whiteshell, now is the perfect time for a picturesque road trip with delicious rewards!

This beautifully renovated hotel presents Italian flavours and steakhouse traditions, for a truly unique dining experience in its signature dining room. Enthusiastic diners will also appreciate the extensive wine cellar and crafted cocktails. Dine About Winnipeggers can count on Italian classics and refined elegance from the same team that won our hearts at Little Nana’s.

This year start your culinary adventure with arancini, bruschetta or mussels, followed by divine melt in your mouth Osso bucco, grilled halibut or zingy citrus risotto. A sweet ending that makes a lasting impression may just be enough to book a room. Supper and a sleepover?! Yes please!

Make the reservation to make this weekend memorable! Manitoba Visit Winnipeg The Hotel At Falcon Lake

02/19/2025

Nikos

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Family spirit radiates from every corner of Greek culture, so it’s no surprise Corydon Avenue’s mainstay Nikos has maintained unwavering allure for three decades. Its secret lies in sticking to its identity and playing to its strengths: delivering consistent, delicious comfort food with heart.
Fortunately, this dreamy food is included in Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg’s three course meals this year! Starters such as its legendary calamari - crisp curls of delicately breaded squid are soft, tender, and dissolve on the tongue. Accompanying tzatziki, light as a cloud, adds lemony zing.

True to its Mediterranean roots, Nikos applies lemon liberally. Avgolemono soup teases sour citrus into hearty chicken broth and rice. Each custard-like spoonful delights with textural contrasts. The roasted chicken dinner rewards too, with juicy, lemon infused meat intermingling with oregano-laden potatoes.

Staple dishes such as herbaceous spanakopita and nutmeg-laced moussaka warm the soul, with their comfortable familiarity. Decadent layers of eggplant, creamy potato and ground beef reward comfort seekers!

After the generously portioned entrées, a light and airy tiramisu brings the meal to a smooth, satisfying close.

This is week #2 for Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg – so make that call and don’t miss your chance to nab a table and experience one of Winnipeg’s gems! NIKOS Manitoba

02/18/2025

Chop

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Chop Steakhouse has been a frequent participant perennial favourite among diners enjoying Winnipeg’s delicious winter festival, Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg. And as fans already know, Chop is all about great steaks. This handsome dining room is a magnet for travellers and locals alike for good reason. It combines warm hospitality with a setting that deserves to be called special. Start the three-course meal with an imaginative salad or soup, to whet your appetite for a hearty main. This year, the DAW menu offers diners lots of choice – ranging from prime rib, and sirloin cuts (All Canadian of course!) to signature preparations of chicken and salmon. Whether you take advantage of the sweet deal on prime cuts of beef topped with French sea salt and cracked pepper or venture to try Hunter Chicken draped in mushroom sauce or miso glazed salmon, you can expect a memorable and special dining experience at one of the city’s great destinations. Chop Steakhouse & Bar Manitoba

02/18/2025

Pasquale’s

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Pasquale’s Ristorante Italiano has been a heavy hitter in St. Boniface for more than two decades, keeping attention placed on an abundance of hospitality offered to every guest. In today’s climate, this authenticity feels like a bear hug.
Familiar appetizer staples like antipasto, shrimp and mussels are all menu staples. However, the menu accommodates vegan and gluten free dieters craving comfort dishes too. In fact, the Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg menu offers plenty of choice for vegetarians. Suppli rice balls, bruschetta ala burrata and Caprese Salad, risotto ala rose, fettucine pesto cream and eggplant parmigiana, offer much proof that veg-centric marriages are long term successes in Italian cuisine.
For those seeking the coveted classics of Italy, CDAW entrees bring intense flavour across the board. Vitello Limone combines large slices of veal breast with mushrooms and asparagus in subtle limoncello and garlic cream. Hits of lemon zest brighten the luscious concoction.
Go all in here –it is February after all, and is all about Amore! Pasquales Italian Restaurant Norwood Grove BIZ

02/14/2025

Saddlery on Market

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Part ode to Winnipeg’s industrial past, part contemporary restobar, Saddlery on Market draws diverse crowds to the East Exchange. Saloon-inspired décor nods to the building’s former life as the home of the leather manufacturing company, the Great West Saddlery Warehouse. On any given night, diners are treated to a menu with mass appeal.
Entrées combine variety with familiar comfort. Silky buttermilk mashed potatoes form miniature mountains beneath the meal’s main attraction. New York steak shines with this less-is-more mentality, each healthy portion imbued with smoky, right-off-the-grill taste. Colourful veggies accompany and garlic lemon prawns complete this satisfying spread.
This is but one of the entrees on offer during Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg. Combine it with whipped feta and roasted cherry tomatoes atop a baguette, and a decadent dessert and you are sure to become a converted fan. See the entire menu on ciaowinnipeg.com Saddlery on Market

02/14/2025

Bull and Filly

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Bull and Filly is a welcome addition to Winnipeg’s North Kildonan area, and was Ciao!’s pick for best new restaurant 2024. The name itself reflects a balance of rugged and refined, a theme echoed throughout the space. Set within a vintage 1970s motor hotel, the dining room surprises with its elegant, country inn-inspired décor, from scenic toile wallpaper to antique wooden cabinets topped with tea sets.
The menu strikes the perfect balance between homestyle comfort and culinary sophistication, with dishes that deliver bold flavours. Chef Tristan Foucault, who joined the team after Preservation Hall closed its doors, is rooted in rustic French cooking –a natural fit for the restaurant’s ethos. Duck – breast and confit nuggets both appear on his Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg menu.
The meat and potatoes crowd is well served here too. Bone-In short rib bourguignonne is luxurious main set to be a CDAW crowd pleaser. A slice of sweet passionfruit tart, adorned with strawberries and crème fraîche, caps a dining experience sure to generate encores.
Trust us, this lovely destination is worth a visit, and CDAW is just the excuse you need to make that reservation right now!
Bull & Filly

02/13/2025

Brazen Hall

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More than five years after emerging on the food scene, Brazen Hall keeps the spark kindling with its lively setting and bold, brash food. This bi-focused brewery and spirited gastropub straddles its casual vibes and obsession with details. Décor is relaxed yet smart; finishes and seats are chic and comfortable.
’s playful, enjoy yourself menu has developed a hefty fan base, and the good news is many of its greatest hits are included in this year’s Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg special offers! Now is the time to get acquainted with the uber popular multi-culti grazing faves such as ba bang shrimp, Brazen bacon and mini pretzels on appy trio platters.
Meaty entrées satisfy big appetites. Charcoal fired “Lombardo lamb shank” braised in red wine jus is as succulent as it promises and is only one of the star entrees featured on this year’s CDAW menu! Burger fans can rejoice too, because BH has boundary pushing burger creations– which have earned the restaurant a big fan base and routine wins in the annual “Le Burger Week” promotion. Go to www.ciaowinnipeg.com to see the entire line up, but don’t hesitate, make a reso for one of this year’s prime tables. Brazen Hall Kitchen & Brewery

02/13/2025

Calabria Market
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If you have not been to Calabria Market, you are missing one of Winnipeg’s most charming specialty food and wine boutiques serving up a healthy helping of culture along with Italian specialties. During Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg, Cathy and her team (including famiglia of course!) have two sweet offers sure to convert first time visitors into enthusiastic regulars. Stop by for happy appy hour and enjoy some social time and a generous individual charcuterie board paired with three wines. Offer number two: What better time to try a house made lasagne dinner prepared by people in the kitchen who grew up on the dish? Better yet, start with happy appy hour and stay for lasagne dinner and become an honorary Italian feaster! Tablespace is precious here, so be sure to make reservations early to snag a seat. Calabria Market and Wine store

02/12/2025

Café Carlo

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Avid eaters are always on the look out for the ever-elusive perfect neighbourhood restaurant, the kind of place with stellar food, an intimate, comfortable setting, and service that easily leads to customers developing a “usual”. This winning trifecta is difficult to achieve, but when a restaurant gets it right, like Café Carlo, it is a recipe for success.
Chef David and his kitchen team dishes out the city’s favourite plates - some signatures iron clad on the menu since opening in 1989 (!) along with dishes pushing the boundaries with bold ingredients and global preparations.
The California-Italian fusion this spot is famous for still anchors the menu, with long-time favourites like Fett Chile and house-cut steaks continuing to blow peoples’ minds. But much like California itself, the menu has become a globe-hopping mishmash of flavours, crafting smart fusion out of unexpected pairings. Make Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg your excuse to visit this beloved neighbourhood fave – and an important player in the city’s culinary culture. Cafe Carlo

02/12/2025

Oakwood Cafe

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Oakwood Cafe, where friendly staff and cozy atmosphere are the backdrop to a menu with surprises has been providing guests with fresh and scratch-made food, since opening in 1992. Beet latkes, meatless meat loafs and creative renditions on eggs Benedict, demonstrate this team’s talent for giving classic dishes a modern flair.
Visit during Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg and discover what all the fuss is about. Start with a bowl of borscht (yes, it IS as good as baba’s!) followed by brisket and Dijon mashed potatoes, or perhaps an abundant plate of perogies?
Something sweet is a must here every visit but obviously during Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg. Owner Wendy May’s rotating desserts are renowned for frequenters, one bite of pie and you too will know why! The Oakwood South Osborne BIZ

02/11/2025

Peasant Cookery

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Chef Andrew Mihaychuk relies on simple combinations that enhance the natural flavours of each ingredient at Peasant Cookery. The divine is in the details, like the addition of light whipped goat’s cheese to a flavour bursting spinach and roasted beet salad tarted up with green apple.
Classic French fare melded with rural influences stands the test of time here, and with special offers extended for lunch and dinner, “Dine About Winnipeggers” have lots to choose from. This is a sure bet for French Onion soup lovers – made with classic veal stock housemade croutons, and marvellously melted Swiss. Tourtière represents rustic comfort food, reminiscent of a Thanksgiving feast – and thankfully a dish included in CDAW three course meals! Clove and nutmeg pair well with the savoury spiced meat, creating festive flavours. The flaky exterior adds contrasting crunch to this soft and dense dish.
Hunter’s Chicken Paillard spotlights poultry in all its versatility. Wild mushrooms, arugula, new potatoes and roasted tomatoes come together in hearty mouthfuls of bliss.
With a prime location in Old Market Square and French fare beyond compare, it’s no surprise that the windows into this eatery constantly reveal a lively view of happy gourmands. Peasant Cookery WOW! Hospitality Concepts

02/11/2025

Bonfire Bistro

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A warm, welcoming atmosphere mixed with the fiery aroma of an oak-fired oven lures hungry crowds from across the neighbourhood to Bonfire Bistro’s hearth. But it is the bright flavour combinations and emphasis on locally sourced ingredients that shines through in every bite.
A long list of inventive pasta dishes thrill carb-ivores and Mediterranean flavours define many signature dishes. Both pasta (cannelloni, with braised beef) and a superb cioppino, are fan favourites offered during the annual and sure to turn first time visitors into regulars.
Choose between carrot cake crowned with fluffy cream cheese icing or chocolate crème brûlée as the win/win sweet ending to a memorable meal.
Bonfire Bistro

02/10/2025

529 Uptown

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529 Uptown is living up to its identity at the country’s most iconic intersection – delivering a healthy helping of hospitality, that is indeed successfully “wowing” diners.
Located in the grand lobby of the 201 Portage Avenue high rise, this dining addition ranks in Ciao!’s top best new restos of 2024 with top tier service in a less buttoned up atmosphere than its sister 529 Wellington. Tables are simply dressed, but the tuxedo shaped folded napkin tucking in silverware hints to its polish.
The Japanese inspired steakhouse strikes a balance between proven and modern, even whimsical thinking, where ribeye can be enjoyed with a side of ‘tater tots’ Tempura cauliflower paired with gochujang aioli shows chef Jackie’s affinity for global flavours.
For a truly sublime downtown experience coupled with next level cooking, a table at @529 Uptown is not to be missed during Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg. Opt for an 8 oz California cut New York with lingonberry demiglace and wonton followed by a novel pavlova featuring yuzu curd and striking taste reinforces the appeal of fine dining. 529 Uptown WOW! Hospitality Concepts

02/10/2025

Fusion Grill

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Fusion Grill’s Scot McTaggart and chef Lorna Murdoch are pushing the envelope, creating imaginative Manitoba Regional Cuisine while continuing to get diners excited about eating food grown right here in our own province. In a time when “eating local” couldn’t be more important and beets are as common as French fries on restaurant menus, remains on the leading edge of pioneering prairie cooking, picking up underused ingredients, sourcing seasonally, and partnering with many small farms and suppliers based within Manitoba. The ethos is evident the minute you walk in the door - on its walls hang local artists’ renderings of prairie scenery, awash in sunlight and puffy clouds.
This little dining room hosts guests from around the globe, from adventurers on their way to see polar bears in the north to businesspeople here looking for an authentic prairie meal, continues to lead the way and make an enormous impact on Winnipeg’s culinary scene with revelatory dishes like Olson Fish Hus pickerel ‘en meurette’ with BC red wine, bacon, shallots, mushrooms, hollandaise and ricotta ravioli. Do yourself a big favour by making a Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg reservation here. We’re confident it will change your outlook on food. FusionGrill

02/07/2025

Hermanos Restaurant & Wine Bar
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Hermanos Restaurant and Wine Bar opened to rave reviews in 2009, and today its menu still hops enthusiastically throughout the once Spanish empire, delivering delicacies from all over South America. All of the culinary authenticity is matched with warm, charming hospitality that reminds us why we love dining out with friends!
Visit during Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg and be spoiled for choice. This is the only resto extending special prix fixe three course meals in three price categories during . Choose from selections at $29 (weekdays only), $39 and $49!
There is Argentinean strip—complete with chimichurri— and the spicy paella that has proved a favourite for returning customers. Moqueca, a traditional Brazilian fish stew, offers oceanic bounty in the form of tender morsels of crab, shrimp, and fish, with a crown of clams and mussels topping it off. The spice-tinged coconut broth, served in a rustic casserole dish, whets the appetite with seductive aroma from the moment it hits the table.
Sumptuous desserts cap off a meal with authentic flair. Book a table here and you can expect an evening of stylish, sexy and delicious – what more could one ask for?

02/06/2025

Aroma Bistro
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Thankfully, amid the newfound nods to Asian influences dominating the city’s menus right now, exists laser focused dumpling masters – like the ones in the kitchen at Aroma Bistro – dedicated to creating time honoured specialties that shape what we want to eat all the time.
Each meticulously made, thin skinned pouch filled with savoury pork (some have shrimp and kernels of corn too) is so blissfully moist it strikes the perfect balance between sumptuous and fresh.
The stars of this show are layered in a variety of robust flavours coating every sensational morsel. Signature chilli oil brings spicy heat, black vinegar ginger sauce adds tangy piquancy, and a creamy peanut mixture keeps sweet and spice in perfect balance.
Dumpling devotees along with rice bowl and ramen enthusiasts are already in the know, so planning is wise. To avoid disappointment, make your reservations soon. The sliver of space is perpetually packed at prime hours.

02/06/2025

Bailey’s Restaurant

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Bailey’s is among that elite group of places in Winnipeg that has earned its place in the city’s history for its recipe of quality cooking and exquisite style. From the moment you walk through its front doors, one is embraced by elegance and enveloped in comforting warmth of impeccable service and classic cuisine.
Bailey’s is known for its steak, and for those looking for a classic, marbled piece of meat, it fits the bill. But the hidden gem here is the menu’s seafood. Plump prawns, fresh oysters and escargot are among the luxurious ingredients the kitchen prepares flawlessly.
There are many reasons Bailey’s is one of our absolute favourite places in Winnipeg to dine, and not least of which the fact that it is a perennial participant in Ciao! Dine About Winnipeg. Each year, exquisite dining here is served up at a bargain. This makes it the perfect time to get acquainted with Bailey’s seafood bisque and exquisite lamb shank. This is a perennially hot destination so make reservations now to get the date you want!

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