Trader’s Grill Menu Prices Canada 2026

What Are Trader’s Grill Menu Prices?

Trader’s Grill Yellowknife menu prices read like a northern fine-dining room, not a chain steakhouse board. Five steaks, seven priced dinner mains, and a whole lounge menu next door in the Trapline Lounge. The range is honest for a Yellowknife steakhouse: $10 at the bottom, $55 at the top. Most dinner mains sit between $41 and $55, which is the heart of this menu. For another Canadian steakhouse to compare cuts with, the Chop Steakhouse and Bar menu prices show what a bigger-city steakhouse charges for a similar plate. And the Trader’s Grill Explorer Hotel steak prices are all Alberta AAA beef, hormone and antibiotic free, aged a minimum of 28 days, served with seasonal vegetables and the chef’s potato. Where the official page lists a dish with no price, I name it and leave it unpriced. No guessing. No filling in blanks from memory. The lounge menu is the same deal: appetizers and sandwiches from the Trapline Lounge, down the hall in the same hotel, with its own prices printed on the official lounge PDF.

Trader’s Grill Menu Card Canada 2026

The menu card below is a render of the current official online menu in CAD, built from the official menu text. No genuine current photograph of a paper menu card was found, and the photos that turn up in searches are food plates and dining room shots, not this Yellowknife menu. So this render is honest about what it is. It is not a photo. Items with no current price are left unpriced, not filled in. Prices come from the official February 2023 dining room and lounge menu PDFs, still live on the official site.

Trader’s Grill Steaks Prices

Steaks are the reason to come here. Five of them, $46 to $55, and every one is Alberta AAA, aged at least 28 days. The 10 oz New York striploin opens the section at $46. The 12 oz rib eye is $52. The 10 oz beef tenderloin is $55. Then the northern one. The bison ribeye Yellowknife price is $55, served with au jus, and in my opinion it is the plate that makes this menu different from every other steakhouse list in Canada. Bison is not a garnish here, it is the point. The Cast Iron Plate Sizzle Steak is $50, an 8 oz bacon-wrapped eye of ribeye on a sizzling cast iron skillet with wild mushroom ragout. If you like theatre with your dinner, that is your order. All steaks come with seasonal vegetables and the chef’s potato. No add-on prices are printed for sides, so I am not inventing any.

Trader’s Grill Dinner Mains Prices

Dinner mains are where the kitchen shows off its northern pantry. Beef and elk pot pie at $45, braised tender with root vegetables in a house made pastry shell, served with salad. Moroccan lamb tagine at $48, slow cooked Berbere spiced lamb with dried fruit, nuts and couscous. Bison and boar cabbage rolls at $45, tomato sauce, house made perogies, caramelized onions, boar bacon and sour cream. Pan-fried white fish at $46, Great Slave white fish with tomato chutney. Stuffed chicken leg at $41, deboned, wild mushroom prosciutto ham stuffing, orange herb sauce. The two lighter plates are the grilled vegetable and goat cheese strudel at $30 and the vegetarian risotto at $21, with chicken $9 or prawns $16 if you want to build it up. Honestly, that risotto at $21 is the quiet value on a menu where everything else starts at $41. A few dinner mains on the official page carry no price at all: the Wagu and Elk Burger (that is the official spelling, Wagu), Beef Filet Mignon Neptune, Steak Diane, Great Slave Lake Trout Gribiche, pan-seared teriyaki Arctic Char, herb and garlic encrusted roasted rack of lamb, Bucatini pasta with lamb ragout, steak and mushroom casserole, chicken Kiev, cannelloni al forno, sweetcorn and butternut squash risotto, cavatappi, and baked aubergines. The Trader’s Grill Arctic char price is one of those: the dish is listed, the price is not printed anywhere, so I give no figure for it. Named, unpriced, on purpose.

Trader’s Grill Starters Prices

Starters on the official page are listed with no prices, so this section has no table and no invented figures. Mozzarella in carrozza, crab beignets, gem tomato galette, escargots a la bourguignonne en croute, elk goulash, New England clam chowder, feature soup of the day, smoked char carpaccio, and avocado crab salad. They are real menu items. They just carry no price on any official source I could find. If a starter is what you are after, ask at the table. I would rather leave a gap than print a number I cannot stand behind.

Trader’s Grill Lounge Appetizers Prices

The Trapline Lounge is down the hall in the same hotel, and its menu says so itself: join us down the hall in Traders Grill. Appetizers here are the cheaper way into the kitchen. Caesar salad at $16, half at $11, with chicken $9 or prawns $16. Mountain of nachos at $18, half at $13, chicken $9 on top. Mixed northern salad at $18, half at $13. Chicken wings, 12 pieces, at $17, half at $11, in hot, BBQ, honey garlic, or salt and pepper. Calamari at $24. Charcuterie plate at $26. Sweet potato fries at $10, the cheapest thing on the whole menu. Salt and pepper dry ribs at $17. For a lighter evening, or a drink with something to pick at, this is the smarter menu. Same hotel, same kitchen, lower bill.

Trader’s Grill Lounge Entrees Prices

Lounge entrees run $21 to $28, and honestly this is where the value lives if you are not set on a steak. Traders steak sandwich at $28, a 7 oz steak on a fresh baguette with rosemary aioli and crispy onions. Vietnamese bahn mi at $26, ginger soy grilled chicken, liver pate, pickled vegetables. Pulled lamb quesadilla at $25. Turkey club at $23. Trapline fish and chips at $26, Great Slave white fish again. Vindaloo curry chicken bowl at $22. Bacon mushroom cheeseburger at $24. Pesto penne at $21, chicken $8 or prawns $16. Reuben sandwich at $27, Montreal style smoked bison brisket. Vegetarian risotto at $21 again, chicken $9 or prawns $16. BLT at $21. All sandwiches come with French fries, garden salad or daily soup. Sweet fries instead for $4, Caesar salad instead for $3.50. All prices are subject to 5% GST, and groups of 8 or more pay an 18% service charge. So a $28 sandwich is really $29.40 before tip. Keep that in mind when you add it up.

What To Order at Trader’s Grill?

My pick, on paper, is the grilled bison ribeye. $55, au jus, and the one plate you cannot get at a steakhouse in Toronto or Calgary. It is the reason to book a table here instead of eating anywhere else in Yellowknife. If bison is not your thing, the 10 oz New York striploin at $46 is the sensible steak order, nine bucks less than the tenderloin for a cut with more flavour, in my opinion. For a second person at the table, the Moroccan lamb tagine at $48 covers the adventurous side without doubling up on beef. And if you are comparing steakhouse value across Canada, the Gotham Steakhouse menu prices give a big-city counterpoint to this northern room. I have not eaten here yet, so take this as a menu-reader’s shortlist, not a tasted ranking. Still, the pattern is clear. Steaks for the occasion, tagine or pot pie for something different, lounge menu for a lighter wallet.

Trader’s Grill Arctic Char Yellowknife

The photo above is the Arctic char plate to picture when you order. Northern fish, clean flavours, no fuss. It is an AI-generated food photo, not a photo from this restaurant, and it sits here to show the dish, not to claim I ate it. One catch: the pan-seared teriyaki Arctic char is listed on the official page with no price printed, so I cannot tell you what it costs. The white fish at $46 is the priced fish on the menu. If char is what you came for, ask at the table before you sit down to a surprise bill.

Is Trader’s Grill Good Value?

Value here depends on which menu you order from, honestly. The dining room is a special-occasion room. $46 to $55 for a steak, $41 to $48 for most mains, and that is before the 5% GST. A February 2023 TripAdvisor review reports prime rib at $50, which matches this price level, and recent reviews from September to December 2025 call the prices fair. So the numbers hold up as a northern fine-dining room, not a bargain. The lounge menu is the value play. Sandwiches and bowls at $21 to $28, same kitchen, same hotel, and a $28 steak sandwich is half the price of the cheapest dining room steak. Compare that with a small-town steakhouse for a sense of how regional pricing shifts: the Mr. Mike’s Steakhouse menu prices show what a casual steakhouse charges for a similar build. And the vegetarian risotto at $21 in both rooms is the cheapest real dinner on either menu. Add GST to everything. A $55 steak is $57.75 before tip. Groups of 8 or more add 18% service on top. So a $55 steak for a table of eight is really $68.31. Worth knowing before you book the big table.

The Story Behind Trader’s Grill

Trader’s Grill is Yellowknife’s fine-dining steakhouse inside the Explorer Hotel, run by Executive Chef Gregor Zundel. Alberta-grown AAA beef, hormone and antibiotic free, aged a minimum of 28 days. Northern specialities on the plate: bison ribeye, Arctic char, Great Slave Lake white fish and trout, elk, wild boar. A large fire pit and views over the Yellowknife wilderness round out the room. Reservations are recommended, and with a room this size, that is not a formality. It is the Explorer Hotel restaurant Yellowknife visitors end up at when they want one proper dinner in town. Is it the best steakhouse Yellowknife has? I will not hand out a crown I have not earned by eating there. What I can say is this: no other room in the city puts bison, elk, boar and Great Slave fish on one menu. That alone makes it the most northern steakhouse list in Canada, in my opinion. No star rating is used in this article, since the review figures seen across listings were inconsistent and no single verified live aggregate was available.

Where Is Trader’s Grill in Yellowknife?

Trader’s Grill Yellowknife is inside the Explorer Hotel at 4825 49 Avenue, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories X1A 2R3, Canada. Phone for reservations is (867) 873-3531, toll free 1-800-661-0892. Trader’s Grill hours are 7:00 am to 9:00 pm. Breakfast runs 7:00 to 11:00 am, lunch 11:00 am to 2:00 pm, dinner 5:00 to 9:00 pm, and Trader’s Grill Sunday brunch Yellowknife runs 9:30 am to 2:00 pm. Breakfast and brunch prices are not published anywhere, so this article gives no figures for them. Reservations are recommended, and the dining room is the hotel’s main restaurant, so a walk-in on a busy aurora night is a gamble. The Trader’s Grill Yellowknife dinner menu is worth checking again before a special trip, since northern menus can shift with supply. Trader’s Grill menu prices were last verified November 6, 2026.

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