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Chef Christa Bruneau-Guenther is passionate about First Nations fare.

A restaurateur’s love of and commitment to her indigenous community has blossomed in Winnipeg. Feast Café Bistro serves native food made with local ingredients, hires staff that can’t find jobs elsewhere, and is a welcoming space to every customer who walks in.

I do love Christa Bruneau-Guenther’s Feast Café Bistro — a celebrated Indigenous restaurant that serves “modern dishes rooted in First Nations foods.”

Chef and owner Christa Bruneau-Guenther opened Feast after noticing a lack of representation for Indigenous people looking to explore their culinary roots.

Pour la patronne du Feast Cafe Bistro, c’est un scandale : «Il n’y a quasi aucun ouvrage de recettes de cuisine Premières Nations !» Il y a trois ans, elle ouvrait le seul restaurant indigène de Winnipeg (dans le pays, il n’y en a pas plus de cinq ou six dans le même genre).

Two Winnipeg chefs are included in the Wall: Feast Cafe Bistro’s Christa Bruneau-Guenther and Deer + Almond’s Mandel Hitzer.

Locally grown veggies available at Red River Co-ops

Chili brings everyone to the table. And Winnipeg eaters can do no better than the Manitoba grass-fed bison version at Feast. It’s loaded with tender bison, beans, veggies, and sweet corn, topped with locally made Bothwell cheddar, and served with toasted bannock.

Manitoba rainbow trout, blueberries and wild rice is on the menu at CBC Cooks Local

Try a buffalo bannock burger in Merritt, B.C. or venison terrine with fiddleheads in Wendake, Quebec. All of these restaurants focus on local, seasonal ingredients.

At the Carcross Learning Centre in Whitehorse, chefs and culinary students prepare for the inaugural First Nations Fire Feast, an offshoot of the late summer Yukon Culinary Festival.

Once overlooked as a “flyover city,” Manitoba’s capital has put itself on the cultural map once and for all.

On a perfect day in Carcross, YT, Indigenous chefs are busy by the grills cooking up fare for the Fire Feast that probably won’t be found on southern grills.

Christa Bruneau-Guenther's restaurant has become a destination for others hoping to learn more about Indigenous food and culture.

I believe Indigenous food, and the spirit behind eating it, is Canadian food

Upon closing the daycare, Christa began to look for more books on Indigenous cooking and found that there was next to nothing. She then attended a conference put on by Food Matters Manitoba where an elder – who Christa would later find out designed Canada’s Food Guide for First Nations, Métis and Inuit People – was speaking about traditional foods.