Liliget Feast House

Liliget Feast House and Catering was a restaurant in the West End neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, that specialized in Pacific Northwest Indigenous cuisine.

[16] The restaurant's interior contained wooden walkways, beach pebble floors, a system of staircases, cedar-plank tables with sunken legroom,[3] tatami-style benches, and mat seating.

[16][19] The interior featured contemporary First Nations art and Haida prints on the walls,[19][7][18] for ambience, the restaurant played "laughing water", pan flute music,[3][4] and chants.

[2] Food served at Liliget Feast House was typically wild game and seafood prepared in a style by Watts' design.

[5] The most popular dishes the restaurant was known for were the salmon and seafood platters, samplings inspired by food served during the potlatch,[18] with Watts expressing her pride in the wild arctic caribou.

[14] Liliget Feast House was owned by Dolly Watts, a member of the Gitxsan people who was born 1935 in Kitwanga, British Columbia.

[2] Liliget Feast House was preceded by Grandma's Bannock, a small stand outside of the Museum of Anthropology at UBC which was run by Watts while she attended the University of British Columbia.

[8] The majority of the clientele at Liliget consisted of tourists, with Watts noting in her acceptance speech for the BC Achievement Indigenous Business Award in 2010 that "we hardly ever served First Nations".

[2] Schellhaas noted that due to the fact that ordering dishes that Indigenous clients could eat for free at various gatherings and of a style that was unaccustomed to the taste for foods accustomed for home-style preparations, visiting Liliget would be too expensive.

[25] Ulysses Travel Guides' Western Canada and Vancouver and Victoria books stated Liliget Feast House was a "unique dining experience and quiet evening out".

[16] Michael Colombara writing in Langara College's Pacific Rim Magazine stated Liliget delivered a "stimulating dining experience" noting that the "chef has done well".

[4] In ...mmm Manitoba, historians Tabitha Robin, Mary Kate Dennis, and Michael Anthony Hart listed Liliget Feast House, along with La Toundra, the restaurant within the Canadian Pavilion at Expo '67, as part of the legacy of Indigenous restaurants within the Canadian Indigenous culinary experience.