17 Best Restaurants in The Fundy Coast, New Brunswick

Chef Luc Doucet creates divine dishes that use the very best local ingredients—a staff member raises pigs for the restaurant's bacon—but will also fly in fresh black truffles from Italy to be generously sliced atop his gnocchi Romano with pickled morels that just came in from British Columbia that morning. There's an a la carte menu, but lingering at this glorious, funky, restaurant over an unforgettable 10-course tasting menu might be the best experience in Moncton. Only serving dinner on Friday and Saturday night, Black Rabbit is a hot ticket, and one worth traveling for. 

So much more than just oysters, this stylish, sophisticated dining room with impeccable service is one of the finest restaurants in Atlantic Canada, despite its unlikely location on a predominantly industrial street. The modern French menu offers complex but perfectly balanced creations based on local seafood, beef, lamb, and poultry, and the daily tasting menu is a delicious and artistic culinary adventure.

Within the lovely Kingsbrae Garden, one of Canada's finest chefs, Alex Haun, offers creative tasting menus—consisting of three or six courses—based on available fresh local ingredients, some of which come right from the garden. One example, Six Wings to Fly, features duck ragout, seared quail breast and braised leg, partridge terrine, roasted potato shell, mushroom demiglace, sautéed carrots, sugar snap peas, chanterelles, and beet ketchup—yes, that's just one dish.

This beautiful French bakery serves beautiful cakes, pastries, and breads made fresh every day. Their sandwiches are excellent, as is their coffee.

Tempting aromas fill this inviting vegetarian restaurant, emanating from the world of flavors offered on the menu. Specialties include Oaxaca deep dish (black beans, grilled veggies, and spicy tomato sauce, baked with cheese), a classic vegetarian lasagna, and vegan desserts.

Celebrating fresh, local ingredients, you should absolutely try their chowder—packed with scallops, prawns, and smoked salmon—but the burgers, pizzas, and steak frites are all fantastic. There's a great selection of local beers on tap, and a fun cocktail menu.

Head here for buttery scones, cookies, cinnamon rolls, and other delicious baked treats. They also offer sandwiches and soups at lunchtime.

Coffee is an art form at this friendly upscale coffee shop. Don't come here with your laptop, but take a seat and converse with locals, or play a board game while you sip on your perfect espresso. 

A relaxing meal with breathtaking harbor views (and fleece blankets available in case the wind comes up) on the outdoor deck of this friendly harborside eatery is the perfect way to end a day of whale-watching or craft shopping. The hearty seafood chowder will warm the heart and soul on a foggy Fundy night, and the lobster club sandwich is a favorite; there are also nonfish dishes on the menu such as steaks—and, of course, the house-made desserts.

This funky doughnut shop makes delicious yeast and cake doughnuts fresh every day. The classics—cinnamon sugar, Boston cream, jelly—are all here but expect over-the-top creations adorned with candy and cookies, too. 

A local institution in the heart of town, Honeybeans serves coffee so good that there’s a regular early morning line of locals stretching out of the door. 

Overlooking the bay with seating inside or out on a rustic deck, this 1926 former meetinghouse now houses a fine restaurant. Everything is top quality, from the simple but expertly produced lunchtime options—seafood chowder, sandwiches, frittata—to more substantial dinner selections such as traditional cedar-planked salmon with a ginger glaze, flank steak with chipotle hollandaise sauce, or herb-crusted lamb loin chops.

Seafood, steaks, lamb, and veal share the menu with pasta and pizzas at this upbeat Italian restaurant where Old World flavors are showcased in a friendly setting. The large portions and the bread bar are almost as popular as the World Wine Cellar, so reservations are advised. .

Stepping through the doors of this restaurant housed inside a pretty standard-looking hotel is to be transported into a sexy, contemporary Italian restaurant that serves excellent pasta dishes and steaks. Seasonal, local ingredients are used where possible, and starters such as crab and lobster arancini (fried risotto balls) showcase seafood in interesting ways. 

Head here for refreshing made-to-order lemonade and small-batch locally made ice cream. Yes, the owner Tom is very tall!

The name of this classy gastropub is a fun play on words, referencing the proximity of Moncton's tidal bore and the seafood and boar on the menu, but it takes its food very seriously, earning a very loyal local following. The menu includes upscale pub favorites and inventive combinations, and the drinks menu is long, focusing mainly on draught and bottled craft beers.

This upscale steak house has long been a Moncton favorite, offering a memorable, pampering dining experience without being stuffy. Menus feature seasonal ingredients from land and sea, and some vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers come from the hotel's roof garden, which also supplies honey from its working beehives.