Given its compact size, Ucluelet offers a good, diverse and affordable casual restaurants catering to a broad range of tastes. Most restaurants are found on or just off Peninsula Road.
To start the day, insiders recommend the Cynamoka Coffee House for hearty breakfast plates and organic espresso. Baked goods, soups and sandwiches round out the selection.
For dinner, Roman's turns out pizza from a real wood-fired pizza oven. The historic, yellow-frame Matterson House gets the nod for its way with halibut, salmon and other swimmers. The Float House (200 Hemlock St), a floating restaurant, delivers fresh fish, organic veggies and an original cocktail, the Octopus.
Fine Dining
Spectacular ocean views and fresh, locally-sourced ingredients are on the menu at Fetch in the Black Rock Oceanfront Resort. This restaurant, along with Tofino's Wickaninnish Inn, offers arguably the most scenic dining in British Columbia.
Many local gourmands - and nearly every online review - swear Norwood's is tops for rich, uncomprised flavours, with fish and seafood the natural priority.
Self-Catering Gourmet
For people with self-catering accommodations, fresh fish, including salmon, halibut, lingcod, sablefish and live dungeness crab, is up for grabs at Fishfull Thinking, Ukee's only fish market, on Peninsula Road.
Ukee Dogs
Don't look for chain-operation sameness here: head to the Village Square for the ultra-casual, lunch-only Ukee Dogs. With eight kinds of hot dog – the chilli dog calls for a body-length napkin – insiders know the real star of the slate is the homemade salmon pie, juicy chunks of fresh salmon with creamy dill sauce in a pastry.
Fish 'n' Chips
No veteran foodie takes fish and chips for granted. Lunch from the fish-and-chip wagon Jiggers brings fresh halibut in a crisp tempura-style batter and golden fries that actually taste like potatoes – and plenty of 'em.
For more information on dining out in Ucluelet, contact the Visitor Centre.
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