Along with a pair of Vietnamese restaurants, Yellowknife’s also blessed with a pair of sushi restaurants. Sushi cafe offers a more expansive menu and slightly more elaborate dishes, though it’s also more expensive than Sushi North. As a surprising treat, we’ll recommend the shrimp fried rice topped with crispy deep-fried bits. Hours: Monday-Friday – 11
This comfortable basement bar offers a full menu, as well as the city’s most extensive live music options. Specials are thoughtful, often featuring local ingredients, and soups are from scratch. On Wingless Wednesday, the ribs are worth a bite, though in a meat-heavy market, the menu also offers non-animal eaters a few decent options. Hours:
Arguably Yellowknife’s best fine-dining option, Thornton’s has a great selection of wine and a menu filled with a range of tapas-type options through satisfying mains. Local fish and game are often available and the desserts are generally excellent. The family-style Sunday brunch is tasty and great value by local standards. Check their Facebook page for
Over the weekend, Yellowknife’s Multisport Club got an unpleasant cyber-surprise when its website was hacked by people claiming to be with Islamic State. At the top of the webpage, in red sans-serif type, are the words “Hacked by Islamic State.” There’s a black box bearing Arabic script, and in small type underneath the words: “We
After months of late-night regular-season hoops played at gyms across the city, the YKBA finals are upon us. This year’s match-up pits the talented southern-transplant dominated Fire Prevention against Yellowknife hoops all-stars (past and present) EDGEYK.com. Fire Prevention is the favourite to take home a fourth-straight title, but expect EDGEYK.com to put up a fight
“I think I’m the only guy in Canada, probably North America, who blew up an RCMP house and never spent a day in jail or paid a single dollar in fines,” says Tony Vane proudly. We’re sitting in his cathedral-ceilinged living room on Latham Island, overlooking Back Bay. The carpets are 1970s-style plush. Around us
Specializing in steaks, Coyote’s has nightly specials in both the restaurant and lounge. Northern fare such as whitefish, pickerel and char are on the menu and other seasonal local specialties are occasionally available. Hit the restaurant with your family or drop by the lounge after work for wings deemed best overall by EDGE YK magazine
During the day, the Dancing Moose Cafe serves a great breakfast, as well as homemade soups and other lunch dishes. Fish is a staple on the menu and often a special, possibly because it’s located directly across from the local plant. The new patio is also worth a visit, if you haven’t been down in
Yellowknife’s grandest hotel has a pair of dining options. Floor-to-ceiling windows make the dining room a great place to enjoy a side of natural light with your meal while the dim-lit, fireside-chat feel of the Trapline Lounge make it great for locals to grab a drink away from the intense social spotlight of places like
Perhaps Yellowknife’s most fascinating restaurant offering, One of a Thai has been serving up authentic Thai food from its mobile food truck in summer and out of the Yellowknife Curling Club in fall, winter and well into the spring. Those willing to venture off the well-beaten menu path, past the spring rolls and pad thai,
Newbies find it hard to believe YK has two Vietnamese restaurants. This is the original, linoleum floor, wobbly tables and all. Some people are near maniacal fans, such as Peter Sheldon, who wrote a column about it in magazine, a two-by-three-foot version of which is now proudly displayed beside the restaurant’s front door. The Noodle
Twirling, swooping, and stomping here’s Cree dancer Alex Twin, mesmerizing a small Yellowknife crowd with a traditional Chicken Dance at a house concert on Thursday evening. Alex is a powwow dancer, actor and contemporary dancer originally from Kehewin Reserve, and now living three hours further south in Edmonton. He’s been dancing since he was eight and
by Fran Hurcomb Dog musher Lorraine Tees is hanging fish for her dogs in a pen in the Woodyard. Whitefish caught during the fall run in October were routinely hung to dry and could be used all winter.
Veronica and Dave Johnny want to show Yellowknife some love They may have to wear a few more layers over top of their signature black leather, but The Johnnys promise they’ll bring their high-energy heat to the Snowcastle Friday night, with a few new twists. “We’re accepting donations of fur clothing, or some down, even if
Picture this: mid-winter heating bills under $100; a five-storey greenhouse in Yellowknife heated by the byproduct of methane-driven power turbines; a production plant for an international pipeline manufacturer in Fort Enterprise; and a pipeline, spooled out the back of ships into open water or laid along the ice pans, all the way to the North