Cafés/Restaurants for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
Melissa’s Restaurant: Located on Lynx street opposite Banff Park Lodge.
Melissa's is open from 7:00 a.m. daily, serving wonderful breakfasts, lunches and dinners.
With a wide-ranging selection of items, the menus will appeal to all budgets and tastes.

Coyotes: Log beams and warm Santa Fe colours blend the southwest with the Rocky Mountains. Fresh, healthy ingredients are used to create innovative and flavorful dishes.
A great place for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Bruno’s: Casual, upbeat spot with occasional live music. Voted ‘best burger’ restaurant in Banff and located on Caribou St. Recommend more for lunch and dinner.

Restaurants and Pub Food - Lower Priced!
Pad Thai: Cheap authentic Thai cuisine. Low prices and a huge variety of Asian dishes.
It’s like you’re in Thailand. Hidden in the Clocktower Mall (Banff Ave).

Elk and Oarsman: If you love to watch the sports while eating, then you’ll love this pub’s array of flatscreen TV’s playing all latest sporting events. Great selection of burgers (and not just beef ones).

Barpa Bills: Where the locals really eat! Small place but great food. Charbroiled souvlaki, steaks, burgers and chicken. Spanakopita, calamari, salads and poutine.
Take out/counter seats. Located on Bear St.

St James Gate: Irish Pub with 33 beers on tap, 30 single malt scotch, 8 Irish whiskeys.
Mouth-watering Irish meals with that good ole’ Irish atmosphere.

Sushi House: For sushi and railway lovers, this tiny restaurant is a dream come true. Fresh sushi is placed on the model railway cars. Customers pick choices as the train motors by.
Our personal favorite, located on Caribou St next to Bruno’s restaurant.

Wild Bills: For the hoot scooting boot shooting, this bar has a good variety of cowboy pub food for lunch and dinner, and evening entertainment with loads of room for those two-stepping couples. Upstairs on the corner of Caribou St and Banff Ave.

Magpie and Stump: The best Mexican food in the Bow Valley. A rustic step into an old-style Mexican cantina, featuring traditional Mexican and Rocky Mountain grub in a casual, family friendly atmosphere. . Cnr of Caribou and Bear St.

Restaurants - more upscale!
Bumper’s Steak House: IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO BUMPERS YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO BANFF. Bumper's is noted for serving Prime Rib Roasts of Alberta Beef in a variety of cuts, great steaks and a FRESH ' all you can eat salad bar ' which is included with each main course.

Saltlik: You won’t be disappointed with their Steakhouse experience, providing 7oz - 16oz of only the best Canadian beef. Nice ambience and afterwards enjoy a martini downstairs at the Lik Lounge. Located on Bear St.

The Lik Lounge: A great gathering place to enjoy live blues and jazz, watch sports on any of the 6 large T.V's or relax on our sidewalk patio. Also experience the exclusive signature beers and signature martinis. They also have a menu in the Lounge if you are after a more casual drink and bite to eat! Try the Salt & Pepper Calamari for a starter…tasty.

Mapleleaf: A true Canadian restaurant. From West coast seafood to good ole’ Alberta Beef. Enjoy a pre-dinner cocktail in the quiet bar at the front of the restaurant. On Caribou St across from Wild Bills.

Muk a Muk: Located on Norquay Road, this casual but fine dining restaurant has great views
of Banff and excellent food. Remember to take the car or a taxi, as its quite a walk from downtown Banff.

Bow Valley Grill: Located at the famous Banff Springs Hotel. This buffet dinner (or buffet brunch on Sundays) is an adventure in itself! Make sure you go with an empty stomach as you certainly leave feeling the total opposite.

Le Beaujolais: If you want to splash out for a special occasion, French restaurant Le Beaujolais is the place to go. If you want to treat yourself to a special meal in Banff, then try this restaurants “Chef Surprise 6 course meal” with wine pairing. Take at least 4 hours to enjoy every new taste that’s brought to the table.


Looking for a rowdy night out?
Melissa’s Bar: Once every two weeks on Thursday, all the Sunshine staff get paid and head to Melissa's bar, for $ 1.75 high balls (mixers). If you want to hang out with ski instructors, lifties and other young folk you have been seeing all day zooming down the mountain at Sunshine, come early, queues can easily reach down the road as early as 9.30!

Rose & Crown: Always nightly entertainment from Monday night local jam session to weekend bands that come from all across Canada to entertain you. Upstairs on the corner of Caribou st and Banff Ave, across the road from Wild Bills.

The Pump and Tap: is a typical English pub, for the homesick, with cheap drinks, in the basement of Bear Street Mall. A local place to start before hitting the Nightclubs.

Hoodoo's lounge: Mostly cheesy music and good atmosphere downstairs on Caribou st,
next to Subway.

Aurora's nightclub: It’s more of a club scene, located downstairs in the Clocktower mall.

Skiing:
Canmore Nordic Center: The Calgary Olympics facility. Great trails for classic and skating, November - April. Summer excellent for mountain biking.

Mount Norquay: 10minutes drive, offers by the hour skiing and cheap baby-sitting!
Lake Louise: The biggest. For some also the most scenic in North America, 45 min.
Sunshine: No artificial snow making, but as snowy of a microclimate as it gets in the Rockies, 30 min, some flat sections tend to grief the boarders! Shuttle service from Canmore!
Nakiska: Calgary Olympics ski hill in Kananaskis, good after uphill storms, 45min
Fortress: 10 minutes further than Nakiska, a bit of an underdog ski hill, old lifts, cheap!
Kicking Horse: The Golden Ski hill, great for out-of-bounds, 2 hrs drive, big vertical!
Panorama: The Invermere Ski hill, big vertical, bit of a dry spot, 2 hrs drive.

Where to get Gear / Guide Books / Maps:
Mountain Magic: Retail and rental store in Banff. Great place to shop! Has everything a back/mid and front country enthusiast needs. Can help with any repairs or maintenance and helpful staff with 3 levels of gear! Located in the Bear St mall. Good for Guide Books and Maps and some local tips on the best conditions.

Monods Sports: Monods offers loads of gear for purchasing downstairs in their back country section. They have loads of clothing options as well. They have matched all MEC prices.
Located on Banff Avenue.

Tourist Information: Banff's showpiece Banff Information Centre is an excellent joint park/Banff and Lake Louise Tourism Bureau venture at 224 Banff Ave (daily: mid-May to mid-June 8am–6pm; mid-June to early Sept 8am–8pm; early Sept to end of Sept 8am–6pm; Oct to mid-May 9am–5pm; Parks Canada information tel 762-1550
The centre has information on almost any park-related or town-related subject you care to name, including bear sightings, trails and the weather, and all manner of commercial tours and outdoor activities
Among their many free handouts, the Backcountry Visitors' Guide for an invaluable overview of backpacking trails and campsites, and Trail Bicycling in the National Parks for conditions and a full list of mountain-bike trails.

Activities for sunny or rainy days
Sally Borden Gym at the Banff Centre: Full scale climbing wall - also for leading.
Entrance ticket includes the other facilities, such as pool and weight room.

Banff Cinema: Catch a movie! Midday Matinees are available on Friday, Saturday and Sundays. Located on the corner of Bear and Wolf St.

The Vsion: Bouldering Gym in the commercial area of Canmore on your way to the Alpine Club House. Great spirits! Motivated clientele and a super-nice owner!