For the 2026 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 Bakeries
Mishmish, 3485 Fraser St., mishmish.ca
Beaucoup, multiple locations, beaucoupbakery.com
A big part of being a Vancouverite is loving a good, cool coffee shop, especially one that’s also quietly holding you hostage with fresh-baked treats. (Anything can be a co-working space if you’ve got the right attitude and a suspicious number of refills.) At Mishmish (pictured), the Middle Eastern bakery-café on Fraser, that “just one coffee” plan tends to collapse somewhere between a sesame ka’ak bagel and a halva cornflake cookie (paired perfectly with your halva latte or the life-choice-in-the-best-way that is the candy bar latte). Over at Beaucoup, the French pastry darling with Kits and downtown outposts, the display case is basically a dare, with buttery, caramelized kouign amann leading the charge. Different neighbourhood energy, same outcome: you came for caffeine and left with a pastry box you’ll “share at home.” Sure.
