From fine dining to food trucks, there are so many excellent places to eat in Canmore. While it’s always an enjoyable experience to dine-in at some of Canmore’s best restaurants, sometimes we just want great takeout food. To help you find a great takeout meal, here are some of our favourite Canmore takeout restaurants.
Note: We support local business and do not accept free food in exchange for reviews. Our recommendations for the best Canmore takeout restaurants are places where we love to eat and are based on meals we paid for.
Our 5 Favourite Places for Takeout in Canmore
1. JK Bakery
Oh man, I just love a good sandwich… like a really good sandwich. The JK Bakery in downtown Canmore makes such good sandwiches, that they rank as our favourite takeout restaurant in Canmore.
Established in 1994, the JK Bakery has been a fixture in Canmore for over three decades. With a tempting selection of freshly made bread, savories (sausage rolls, lasagna, meat pies, chili, etc.), pastries, cookies, cakes and sandwiches, you’ll have a tough time deciding what to order.
Our kids like the sausage rolls at JK Bakery, but Celine and I always come back for their sandwiches. Made on freshly baked, preservative-free bread, with generous portions of toppings, I always say that the sandwiches at JK Bakery taste like Grandma would make. With such good sandwiches, it’s no surprise that JK Bakery is also featured in our list of the best lunch restaurants in Canmore.
We like to stop at JK Bakery to grab some takeout sandwiches and cookies before heading out on one of our favourite hikes in Banff, or even for a picnic in Banff. It’s so much better than packing a boring old PBJ sandwich and an apple for a hiking lunch!
JK Bakery has two locations in Canmore – one in downtown Canmore and the other on Railway Avenue. Both locations have seating for dine-in, but the menu at JK Bakery is ideal for those days when you just want takeout in Canmore.
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2. Alberta Wing Shack
We discovered the Alberta Wing Shack has some of the best takeout in Canmore on Super Bowl Sunday. We were nervous about trying a new Canmore takeout restaurant for the big game, but Alberta Wing Shack did not disappoint. Their tasty and unique chicken wings were so good, it immediately landed the Alberta Wing Shack on our list of best takeout in Canmore.
The menu for the Alberta Wing Shack can be found on their website and it’s easy to see how creative their chicken wing recipes are. We ordered many of their flavours of chicken wings that day, but our favourites were the Town of Banff wings (Butter Chicken with Pineapple sauce), the Town of Exshaw wings (spicy peanut sauce) and their Honey Garlic wings.
If you are in the mood for some excellent comfort food, try the Alberta Wing Shack; it’s easily one of our favourite Canmore takeout restaurants. (They have a Banff location too!)
Please forgive the lack of pictures for this Canmore takeout restaurant – it was Super Bowl Sunday after all!
Directions to Alberta Wing Shack
3. Summit Café
We first visited the Summit Café when we were first looking to buy a place in Canmore. We asked our realtor for a restaurant recommendation and he recommended a local’s favourite called the Summit Café. It’s been one of our favourite Canmore restaurants ever since.
Open daily for breakfast and lunch, the Summit Café is a residential Canmore restaurant, well away from Canmore’s busy downtown. We especially love the breakfast menu at the Summit Café, but their baked goods and lunch offerings are especially good as well.
Their standard breakfast and lunch offerings are available for take-out, but the Summit Café also offers boxed lunches for those heading out for one of the great hikes in Kananaskis.
If you are staying in downtown Canmore, you can walk to the Summit Café along Benchlands Trail, one of Canmore’s best walking paths or take the fare-free Roam bus (route 5C). Then you can find out why the Summit Café has been a local’s favourite for Canmore takeout since 1999! It’s also one of our favorite breakfast restaurants in Canmore!
4. Canmore Shawarma
When I lived in Calgary, I regularly ate my body weight in chicken shawarma wraps. Jimmy’s has the best chicken shawarma in Calgary of course, but I also loved my regular visits to Falafel King and Cedars Deli.
Moving from Calgary to Canmore was one of the best things I’ve ever done, but I was saddened when I discovered that there was no chicken shawarma restaurant in Canmore. Thankfully, this changed a few years back when Canmore Shawarma opened its doors on Bow Valley Trail.
In addition to delicious Chicken Shawarma, Canmore Shawarma offers beef donair and falafel. All offerings are available as a wrap or as a platter.
If you have a sweet tooth, pick up a 6-pack of baklava. The sweet baklava from Canmore Shawarma is the perfect companion to the savory chicken shawarma.
If you are craving chicken shawarma, give Canmore Shawarma a try – it’s one of my favourite Canmore takeout restaurants.
Directions to Canmore Shawarma
5. Mii Sushi
We’ve tried several Canmore sushi restaurants, but we always come back to Mii Sushi. Whether we eat in or order takeout, we feel that Mii Sushi has the best sushi in Canmore.
Everyone’s tastes are different, of course, but our favourites at this excellent Canmore sushi restaurant are the tuna sashimi, salmon sushi, the Mii house special roll, the mango salmon roll and the Flames roll. Our kids literally devour orders of yam tempura rolls and the avocado salmon rolls.
If you are looking for great takeout sushi in Canmore, we recommend Mii Sushi. Or, if you are in the mood for more international food, try the best international restaurants in Banff.
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Dan Brewer, a life-long Alberta resident, calls Canmore home along with his wife and two kids. He is the co-owner of Travel Banff Canada, where he gets to share his passion for the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Dan, along with his family, love being outdoors doing one of the many activities they enjoy in the mountains: hiking, mountain biking, paddleboarding, skiing, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.
When he's not in Canmore enjoying one of his favourite local hikes, you can find him hopping on a plane to explore a new country with his family or working on one of their other two travel sites: Family Can Travel and Baby Can Travel.