Feast Cafe Bistro Cooking Workshop — Winnipeg

Feast Cafe Bistro is a Winnipeg restaurant and community space on Pembina Highway specialising in contemporary Indigenous Canadian cuisine, operated by chef Christa Bruneau-Guenther, one of Canada's most prominent advocates for Indigenous food sovereignty and culinary education. The cooking workshops offered through Feast represent a rare opportunity to learn traditional Anishinaabe and broader First Nations food preparation from a professionally trained chef with deep roots in the traditions being taught. The 2.5-hour workshop takes place in Feast's restaurant kitchen, which serves as both a teaching space and a working kitchen that supplies the bistro's menu. Participants work alongside the Feast instructor team to prepare a selection of Indigenous Canadian dishes that reflect the prairie and boreal ingredients of Manitoba and the broader northern plains. Dishes covered in the workshop include bannock — the flatbread with roots in both Indigenous traditions and fur trade history — prepared stovetop or oven-baked and served with traditional accompaniments. Wild game preparations (typically bison or venison) explore smoking, braising, and dry-rub techniques used by First Nations hunters across the prairie region. Three sisters cooking addresses the traditional companion-planting combination of corn, beans, and squash and how these vegetables form the nutritional core of many northeastern woodland Indigenous cuisines. Additional Anishinaabe recipes vary by season and the instructor's sourcing from local Indigenous food producers in Manitoba. Groups are kept small — typically six to ten participants — to allow genuine hands-on engagement rather than demonstration-only learning. The workshop concludes with a shared meal of the prepared dishes. At CAD $75 per person, the price includes all ingredients and the shared meal. The workshop schedule varies by season; advance booking is essential as demand regularly exceeds availability.