Silver Dragon Restaurant

Silver Dragon has been a Calgary Chinatown institution since 1966, serving a huge menu of Cantonese and Szechuan cooking from its room on 3rd Avenue SE. Visit Calgary describes a contemporary dining room in warm colours with private rooms and banquet space, and Hong Kong-trained chefs working through more than 200 dishes. Avenue Calgary notes that dim sum runs all day, from opening to close, and that set dinners cover groups from one to ten.

The house ginger fried beef is the dish the Chinese Restaurant Awards chose for its 2026 Canada Signature Dish list: thin strips of beef fried crisp and coated in a fragrant ginger sauce that hits sweet, savoury and spicy notes, part of a Chinese Canadian story that became a Calgary classic. Avenue also points to shrimp toast, oyster sauce fried chicken and Peking duck, and its readers voted Silver Dragon a winner of the magazine's Best Restaurants ballot.