The Best Restaurants in Cambridge, Ranked by Locals

One of Canada's 100 Best Restaurants, full stop. A Relais & Châteaux country-house kitchen drawing from its own gardens — the region's one true destination restaurant. Afternoon tea is the affordable way in.

A restored 1860s grist mill hanging over the Grand River, with the region's most requested window tables and a Sunday brunch that books out weeks ahead. The view does half the work; the kitchen holds up its half.

Family-run European fine dining on Hespeler Road for over four decades — schnitzel, steaks and tableside service from staff who remember regulars by name. Cambridge's most dependable special-occasion table.

A tiny Tuscan room where the wood-fired oven does the talking: thin blistered pizzas, handmade pasta and a grilled Caesar locals order on autopilot. Book ahead — it seats fewer people than your office meeting room.

An 1860s corner building on Galt's original four corners: 21 Ontario craft taps and Detroit-style pans downstairs, and the Galt Club — a hidden upstairs cocktail room with live music — for after.

Downtown Galt's modern steakhouse-and-oyster answer to the big-city chophouse, minus the big-city bill. The move: oysters at the bar, then whatever cut the kitchen is proudest of that week.