Carlino

Carlino is a MICHELIN-recommended Italian restaurant and lounge on Alberni Street, part of the Ask For Luigi and Farina family of restaurants, and the MICHELIN Guide describes the terrace setting as a verdant sanctuary with a sense of placid elegance. It runs from breakfast through a weekday lunch and an afternoon aperitivo to dinner, and draws parallels between British Columbia and northern Italy's mountains, forests, lakes and coast.

Holder of one Forchetta in Gambero Rosso's Top Italian Restaurants 2026, Carlino cooks from Friuli, with dishes from neighbouring Trentino and Veneto, and MICHELIN notes the Slavic and Germanic accents in plates like braised cabbage agrodolce with pork cutlet Milanese. Pasta is made fresh daily, including the Friulian half-moon cjarsons, which the guide described filled with beet purée under poppy seed butter, and eggs come from black copper Maran hens on the family's Abbotsford farm. At dinner, the family-style "fai tu" option hands the choices to the kitchen.