For the 2025 Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards, we continued our new tradition of Editors’ Choices: picks from our editorial team which highlight the rooms in the city that serve a specific purpose, in addition to having great food and service.
Editors’ Choice: Best Group Dining
There are plenty of restaurants with private rooms or long tables ready to host a gaggle of buds and their latest plus-ones for your birthday, but there’s a celebratory feeling in this laidback izakaya that makes it the ideal place for getting the whole gang together. (Provided that the “whole gang” tallies up to no more than 10.) Every night, the staff will break out the sparklers and perform a raucous b-day chant at the top of their lungs that the rest of the room can’t help but join in on—a tradition Rajio shares with sister restos including Raisu and Kingyo. But birthday or not, this lively room is built for sharing: order crispy kushi katsu by the piece and then argue with your besties about who ate all the eel skewers.
Rajio Public House
3763 W 10th Ave.
rajiopublichouse.com
