Cafe Zaffri’s pastry basket, whose wispy, lightweight croissant is similar to the one she serves at Raf’s, is excellent (and at $25, not a bad deal for breakfast for two).

The restaurant is the only Manitoba establishment featured in this year’s Top 100 list. Since reopening following public health restrictions, Cafe Carlo has been as busy as ever.

Jimmy Mah greets customers at the cafe in August 2019. (Matt Meuse/CBC) The diner opened in 1949 to feed workers in the area. Jimmy Mah and his wife Connie took over the business in 2008.