Feast Café brings indigenous food to the West End

A new restaurant in the West End is bringing traditional food to a non-traditional audience.

Feast Café and Bistro will feature locally-sourced indigenous dishes on its menu.

Owner Christa Bruneau-Guenther wants indigenous food at the front of the food scene.

“So much is coming back. The language is coming back, the arts, the music. I think food is kind of left aside and I think food has to be the next thing that we really embrace and remember,” said Bruneau-Guenther.

Bannock, Saskatoon berries and Manitoba bison are featured on the menu.

Bruneau-Guenther expects a pow-wow favourite, the Indian Taco, to be a popular item.

“Traditional, authentic fry bread and then you can choose your toppings, either a bison chili or a maple-shredded chicken and then you just pile it tee-pee high with shredded lettuce and different salsas,” she said.

Feast is located in the old Ellice Café space at Ellice Avenue and Sherbrook Street.

The Ellice Café was opened by Minister Harry Lehotsky in 2005 to help revitalize the West End.

Lehotsky dedicated his life to helping people in the neighbourhood.

He died in 2006 of pancreatic cancer, and the Ellice Café was closed in 2012.

Bruneau-Guenther said the Revered inspired her.

“His story is something that I hold dear to my heart and I just hope that I can pick up maybe where he left off,” she said.

Feast opens on December 10^th with a ceremony and an open house.