Celebrate Your Hunger
Find the Food
Haida Gwaii offers the most interactive wild food harvesting you can experience. Whether you are exploring with a guide or solo, taste the extraordinary flavour of salmon or chanterelles you have wrangled from the wild.
Get to know the grocers
Go into the places locals are familiar with. Visit hot-spots for cottage bakers and farmers that open the mind into what being a local is all about. (See what's upstairs in the attic!)
Go off the beaten track
Experience the Northwest at its finest by dining in Haida style at Keewaliis' Kitchen in Skidegate. If you are very lucky, you may even get invited to race a war canoe at Skidegate Days
See what the locals do
Okay, so once you successfully raced that razor clam to the bottom, how do you cook it? Susan Musgrave's is the newest addition to a group of wild food foragers' anecdotes and recipes.
Some of the places that specialize in local fare
Some of the specialized local fare
Savour the Haida experience of your life
GROCERIES
North to South
Masset
Hours 10.30-6 Monday through Saturday
Masset
Supermarket
Hours 8.00 am – 5.00 pm Monday through Saturday
Masset
Ethically sourced coffee beans
250-626-8971
Masset
Details
Farmers’ markets produce
Main Street
May thru Sept
Fri 11:00 – :200
Old Massett / Gaw
8 am – 3 pm Thursday through Sunday (breakfast mornings, monte cristo afternoons)
Port Clements / Gamadiis
Supermarket
In store bakery
Bulk foods
Liquor store
10 am – 6pm Monday through Saturday
Tlell
Local produce in season
Local crafts
Bakery
Thursday through Monday 1.30-5.30
Skidegate / HlGaagilda
Supermarket
Reverse osmosis water
9 am – 6pm Monday through Sunday
Skidegate / HlGaagilda
Gas bar and convenience snacks. Propane tank filling *not propane vehicles
08.30 am – 9.00 pm 7d/week
Queen Charlotte / Daajing Giids
Fresh frozen wild seafood
(604) 837-1518
101 Causeway, QC
tandmseafood@haidagwaiifish.com
Daajing Giids
Hours 10.30- 1.00 pm; 2.00pm – 6pm Monday through Saturday
Queen Charlotte / Daajing Giids
Seasonal farm produce
Local meats
Specialty pizzas
Open 365 days, 7 – 11
Queen Charlotte / Daajing Giids
Supermarket
Produce delivery Mondays
10 – 6pm Monday through Saturday
Daajing Giids
10 am – 10pm 7d/week
Daajing Giids
organic produce and meats
local, artisan breads
10 – 5.30 Monday through Saturday
Organic seasonal produce
Arrange for boxed delivery at Farmers’ market
Queen Charlotte / Daajing Giiids
Mushrooms bought and sold
Seaweed drying plant
Daajing Giids
Convenience snacks
9am – 5pm daily; closed Wednesdays
Sandspit / K’il Kun
Specialty foods, wild edibles
250-637-2231
375 Beach Road
Details
Sandspit / K’il Kun
Supermarket, liquor store
343 Alliford Bay Road
250-637-2249
Sandspit / K’il Kun
Local produce, agriculture
250-637-5461
406 Copper Bay Road
11:00 – 1:00
most Sundays in summer
RESTAURANTS
North to South
Food Truck & Physical Location – Main Street Masset
Pizza, fish and chips, milkshakes, burgers, etc.
8am -6pm Tuesday – Sunday
Masset / Gaw
1993 Collison Ave
250-626-3210
Dining Room ,
private liquor store
250-626-3210
1993 Collison Ave.
Monday to Sunday
9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Details
Masset / Gaw
(778) 214-7465
Mobile eatery
Details
Masset / Gaw
(250) 626-5251
1599 Main St
Hours 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Details
Old Masset / Gaw
75 Raven Avenue
(250) 626-7472
Contact on Messenger
Details
Old Massett/Gaw 8am – 3pm Thursday through Sunday (breakfast mornings, monte cristo afternoons)
Port Clements/Gamadiis
Monday – Friday 7.00 am – 3.00 pm (see facebook page Buck Snort Cafe, menu changes daily)
Port Clements / Gamadiis
250.557.4669
Mobile eatery
Summer Hours
12:00pm – 8:00 pm
CLOSED Tuesday & Wednesday
Details
Port Clements / Gamadiis
Haida Gwaii Pride | Port Clements BC | Facebook
specialty baking and event catering – get in touch through the facebook link above! 
Tlell / Tl.aal
2087 Beitush Rd
250-557-4600
Fine cuisine and catering
Open year round
July 1 – Sept
Dinner ∙ Tuesday – Sunday from 5pm
Reservations required
Details
Tlell / Tl.aal
35770 Highway 16
250-557-4593
Bistro
Thurs – Mon
1.30-5.30
Closed Tues & Wed
Details
Skidegate / HlGaagilda
(250) 559-8347
Traditional Haida Dinners for large and small groups prepared by culinary expert Roberta Olson “Keenawaii”
By Appointment Only
237 Highway 16
Skidegate / HlGaagilda
#100 Highway 16
250-559-8826
Bistro
Mon to Fri 7=8am – 2pm
Closed Sat & Sun
Details
604-762-5742
Tue – Sat 5:00 PM to 9: 00 PM
Details
Cafe, Lunch & Dinner, Charcuterie, bulk purchasing
text 778-260-1145
Wednesday through Friday 12-8
Details
Daajing Giids
9 am – 8 pm Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday
9-2.30 Sunday
CLOSED Wednesday & Thursday
Daajing Giids
3223 Wharf St
(250) 559-4204
Open for Lunch and Dinner
Daajing Giids
Wednesday – Saturday 4.00 – 8.00 pm kitchen (pub is open to 2.00 am Friday and Saturday)
(778) 260-0961
Daajing Giids
Breakfast, chinese, and western menu’s
Open 7.00 am – 2.00 pm; and 6.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Sushi, sashimi, tempura, sake
250-559-8855
127 Oceanview Drive, QC
Details
Daajing Giids
Food truck featuring shish kakbobs
250-559-4543
Hecate Inn, 321 Oceanview Drive
Sandspit / K’il Kun
Cantonese and Canadian
388 Cooper Bay Rd, Sandspit
(250) 637-2275
Eat in or Take out
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays 5.00 pm – 10.oo pm
Details
(250)637-2455
Sandspit Airport Terminal, Sandspit
Open Daily
BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Mostly Online
Springbank clover
Silverweed
Full-text, open source
in Island Nature
Licorice fern
Full text, open-source
in Island Nature
Cloudberry
Full text, open source
Photos
in Island Nature
Online Recipe
Salal berry & rosemary jelly
Cavewoman Cafe
Online recipe
Seaweed sprinkles
Cavewoman Cafe
Online cooking advice
Chanterelle mushrooms
RealTree Presents Timber 2 Table
Full-text, open source
By well-known scholar Nancy J. Turner
pp.32-33
Table of traditional foods
Online article
Historical information
BC Food History
Online Database
Free, but requires registration
iNaturalist
These books are available at some local branches of the Vancouver Island Regional Library. If you are resident of BC, you can register as a BC One Library Member, and borrow the books for 3 weeks. If not, you can drop in and browse their contents, and photocopy up to 10 % if you need to take some printed words away. Isabel Creek Second Story Books, and the Queen Charlotte / Daajing Giids Visitor Centre may have copies for sale.
Musgrave, Susan. A taste of Haida Gwaii:Food Gathering and Feasting at the Edge of the World, 2015.
Turner, Nancy J. Plants of Haida Gwaii, 2004.