Due to the success of Thursday’s Ice Cafe held at Wanuskewin Heritage Park, CEO Darlene Brander says they will be doing more of these kinds of experiences.

She says it was one of the innovative ways Wanuskewin Heritage Park continues to share their restaurant services while the kitchen is closed and under construction as its being expanded.

Brander says Executive Chef Jenni Lessard has been charged with exploring the evolution of indigenous cuisine and not to limit the experience to the past, but how does it look in the future. Thursday there was potato salad with an indigenous flair at the Ice Cafe as well as bison smokies, presented among frozen flowers, bison hides and a snow couch.

Darlene Brander says they are very lucky to have Executive Chef Jenni Lessard who was named one of the top five up and coming chefs in Canada last summer. Because of her expertise and innovation, she is also going to Berlin to represent Canada in March and is also recognized among Indigenous Chefs nationwide.