Location: Yellowknife
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Find out what International restaurants to try in Yellowknife. The land of the midnight sun awaits on the northern shores of Great Slave Lake in Yellowknife, a small but diverse city famous for its spectacular wilderness. Sitting on the edge of the Arctic Circle, the city enjoys summer days with nearly 24 hours of sunlight, and dark winter skies lit up by aurora borealis. Once a gold rush town and now a diamond mining town, Yellowknife is the hub of northern activities, ranging from dog sledding and cross-country skiing to backpacking and birding.
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1. Traders Grill
Overall Ratings
4 based on 329 reviews
Reviewed By John H
We ate breakfast three times at Traders Grill, twice in the restaurant and once through room service. The food was good but it seems to be very poorly organized. The first day we arrived at about 10:25. All the signs said breakfast went through 11. My wife ordered the buffet and went through the line. No one said anything. At 10:30, just as my wife sat down, our server came and said the buffet shuts down at 10:30 and they should not have let us order it. We pointed out the book in the room says breakfast goes through 11. She insisted the buffet always closes at 10:30. Since my wife had just sat down, she did not want to go back. I had the bagel and lox, which was OK, but not great. The second day we went at 9:30 and everything was fine. Since they don't open until 8 am on Saturday and our shuttle was leaving at 8am, we ordered room service to be delivered at 7:15 to 7:30. It finally came at 7:45 and my wife's granola yogurt parfait was missing. There was a bowl of yogurt instead. We pointed out the problem and the server left to get the right breakfast. She came back 10 minutes later with another bowl of yogurt, no granola and no fruit. The server insisted that was the granola yogurt parfait. Since we had to go, my wife ate the yogurt. We ended up paying $14 for a $6 bowl of yogurt. Our shuttle was leaving so there was no chance to correct it. All in all, I would not recommend it for breakfast.
2. Thornton's Wine & Tapas Room
Overall Ratings
4 based on 152 reviews
Yellowknifeâs hidden gem. A great wine selection, beer and cocktails, paired with Yellowknife's finest cuisine. New summer sidewalk terrace with southern exposure = sun all day and night. An early bird? Join us on Sunday's for a bottomless brunch like no
Reviewed By taximom5
Based on the restaurants that I enjoyed in Yellowknife, I would consider Thornton's to be more upscale that most of the others I visited. It doesn't look like much from the outside but it had that feeling inside with the low lights and decor. I ordered the blackened whitefish with garlic mashed potatoes and fennel salad....it was all very delicious and well seasoned. The wine selection was great. Service was outstanding. The only downfall was dessert...I ordered a pavlova and it was hard as a rock and lacked flavour....the fresh fruit on top was nice but the pavlova itself was horrible I'm sorry to say so it was a big letdown after an amazing meal. Nice touch to be given a wrapped chocolate mint to end the experience though. I would go back...but just order a different dessert.
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3. Flavour Trader
Travel is the main focus. 'Flavour Trader' is for food lovers who wish to reveal their culinary sense and are impassioned by travel, culture and a country's anthropologic roots. Visit exotic countries through authentic flavours and aromas in all their tra
Reviewed By 40daves
This place was a very pleasant surprise hidden upstairs in the museum. It's a bright and sunny space with friendly, helpful staff. The menu is astoundingly diverse, everything from Asian curries to a veal sweetbreads puff pastry. I had a wonderful maple potted cake. My partner was vegan and celiac and she did really well on both our visits this week. My only suggestion would be to even out the portion sizes -- bowls and things with rice were huge but other items (like my veal and duck dishes) were quite small and left me hungry. The coffee could also be a little better. But overall, this is a funky, cool, friendly, and tasty spot!
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