Rimrock Cafe is a Whistler Creekside dining room built around seafood, oysters, game meats, and a deep wine program. Open since 1986 and now owned by longtime staff Chris McKinney and Steve Maile, it reads as a continuity story as much as a premium dinner choice.

Bearfoot Bistro is Whistler fine dining built around Canadian seafood, wild game, a serious wine cellar, and tableside theatre: butter-poached lobster, Quebec elk, seafood towers, champagne rituals, the Ice Room, and nitro ice cream, with prix-fixe and oyster-hour paths for a premium room.

Araxi is a Whistler Village institution built around seafood, farm-to-table B.C. cooking, a serious wine cellar and current chef Ying Gao's polished dinner menu. The strongest reasons to go are the seafood tower, BC sablefish, oysters, weekend apres and a full-service special-occasion dinner.