YAM magazine’s Best Restaurant Awards 2025 celebrates Greater Victoria, B.C.’s exciting food scene, judged by an independent panel of chefs and food experts.
BY JOANNE SASVARI | PHOTO BY JEFFREY BOSDET
Best East Asian – Chobap Sushi Bar
610 Courtney Street | $$-$$$
chobapsushibar.com | Reservations essential
You may have met the talented chef Clark Park before, at Yua Bistro or Marilena Cafe & Raw Bar or across the strait at Miku in Vancouver. But you’ve never seen him like this, conducting a flawless culinary symphony at his beautiful little eight-seat sushi bar. He serves only omakase style (an elevated multi-course experience where the chef decides what to prepare based on what is freshest and most delicious that day), each meal a precise 90 minutes, one meticulously prepared course appearing after another from his deft hands. This is dinner as theatre, but it is also a refined performance honed by years of training in Osaka, Japan, and on this side of the Pacific, too. But what stands out even more than the rare sakes, buttery torched tuna belly and cleverly composed small plates is the warm, sincere and genuinely kind hospitality.
