Vancouver home to Canada's best new restaurant 2016

Kissa Tanto, a Japanese-Italian restaurant in Vancouver's Chinatown, has been named Canada's best new restaurant for 2016 in a newly published ranking.

In the 15th edition of enRoute's Canada's Best New Restaurants listing, first-place honors went to Tannis Ling and Joel Watanabe for showing that "Italy and Japan are natural bedfellows" as evidenced by a tofu, mascarpone, porcini tiramisu "...that could bring a ninja's nonna's to tears."

All told, Quebec is the most represented province on the list, landing four addresses for restaurants in Montreal and Quebec City.

Here are Canada's top 10 Best New Restaurants 2016, according to Air Canada's in-flight magazine enRoute:

1. Kissa Tanto (Vancouver, BC)

2. Alo (Toronto, ON)

3. FireWorks (Bay Fortune, PEI)

4. Agrius (Victoria, BC)

5. Foxy (Montreal, QC)

6. Agrikol (Montreal, QC)

7. Kraken Cru (Quebec City, QC)

8. Le Fantôme (Montreal, QC)

9. Highwayman (Halifax, NS)

10. Savio Volpe (Vancouver, BC)