Blue Water Cafe
A premier Yaletown seafood destination, silver winner for Best Seafood in the 2026 Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, famous for its seafood towers and sablefish.
Located in Yaletown and helmed by Executive Chef Frank Pabst, this seafood restaurant has been open for over twenty-five years and won the silver award for Best Seafood in the 2026 Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards. The magazine highlights its seafood towers and the melt-in-your-mouth Haida Gwaii sablefish, while the raw bar serves rotating oysters and Dungeness crab rolls. Every February, the restaurant launches the "Unsung Heroes" menu, focusing on lesser-known seafood species. Reservations via OpenTable are recommended for dinner. Diners report spending about CAD 90-100 per person, placing it in the high price range. It is a few minutes' walk from the Yaletown–Roundhouse SkyTrain station.
Opening hours
Bar daily from 16:30; Dinner Sun-Thu from 17:00, Fri-Sat from 16:30, until approx. 22:30-23:30 (varies slightly across platforms)
Nearby sights
- Yaletown
- Vancouver Art Gallery
- Vancouver Lookout (Harbour Centre)
- Robson Street
- Gastown
- Granville Island
- Canada Place & Vancouver Harbour
- Science World