
Best Coffee: Caleb and Kitty Leung make exacting coffee in their gorgeous Sought and Found Coffee Roasters in Calgary, Alberta

Best coffee mugs: Katy Fogg’s sublime, hand-thrown mugs, at Tin Town Cafe in Courtenay, B.C.

Best brunch: Deane House, Calgary

Best muffin: La Baguette, Revelstoke, B.C.

Best doughnut: Made-to-order Portuguese-style doughnut at Edmonton’s Ohana Donuterie

Best Bakery: Don Guerra’s Barrio Bread in Tucson, Arizona

Best bakery treat: Focaccia bread at Fol Epi in Victoria, B.C.

Best sandwich: Meat balls on ciabatta at Meat & Bread in Calgary

Biggest Feed. A tie: Sandwiches for three (three days!) at Salt Lake City’s Grove Market

And the Oinker At Bubba’s Big Bites in Chilliwack, B.C.

Best Mexican: Owner James Nelson and his made-to-order corn tortillas at El Norteno in Grande Prairie, Alberta of all places

Best hot dog: Can’t beat the Sonoran hot dogs in parking lot Ruiz in Tucson

Best beer: Belgian-style Townsite Brewery in Powell River, B.C.

Best burger: Chucks Burger Bar, in Sydney, B.C.

Best complimentary breakfast: The Le Creuset pots were the clincher at Hyatt Place Hotel in Edmonton

Best restaurant architecture: ATCO Blue Flame Kitchen Cafe in Calgary

Best farmers’ market: cSPACE in Calgary

Best service: Brande at Market Bistro in Canmore, Alberta

Best gas station experience: Maverick in Fillmore, Utah

Best foraged food: Wild huckleberries on Monkman Pass Trail near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

Best dining experience: As always, incomparable Carmen making fresh tacos in Hamer, Idaho