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Salmon ’n’ Bannock Bistro
Vancouver

Want to dine on candied salmon, bannock bread pudding or Ojibway wild rice? Step inside Salmon ’n’ Bannock Bistro, Vancouver’s only year-round First Nations restaurant. The intimate dining room and catering service owned, operated and staffed by aboriginal people, and it features a mouth-watering menu of authentic Native cuisine, as well as authentic crafts designed by local artists.“For once, First Nations people don’t have to have their favourite food at home,” says Inez Cook, one of the founding partners. “They’re happy that they can have a lot of traditional flavours in an urban environment.”
Salmon ’n’ Bannock was named #24 in the inaugural Vacay.ca Top 50 Restaurants in Canada. The listing written by Kathleen Kenna said, “There is no other place on the West Coast where you can nibble on candied or smoked salmon under a Haida canoe.” They also received an Aboriginal Tourism Award for Food and Beverage, at the National Aboriginal Tourism Conference gala in Osoyoos in March. When Cook and her partner Remi Caudron opened Salmon ’n’ Bannock Bistro in February 2010, their goal was to “blow the roof off” First Nations cuisine. The menu suggests they are well on their way.
In addition to the Salmon ’n’ Bannock burger ($16) for which it is named, the restaurant serves up mouth-watering selections that include a bison cheese burger on bannock ($16), a wild boar hot dog on rosemary “bannockette” ($14), red seafood chowder n’ bannock ($14) and various servings of cured Arctic muskox, deer stew, bacon-crusted halibut, and sides of Ojibway wild rice, sweet potato wedges, clam fritters and Indian candy, to name only a few.  Salmon ’n’ Bannock Bistro is located at 1128 West Broadway in Vancouver.

For more information, check out www.salmonandbannock.net