Restaurant
The Grizzly House
Wood-paneled fondue den with carved bears, tabletop phones and an exotic-meat menu of ostrich and rattlesnake.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Grizzly House in Banff traces how a nineteen sixty-seven nightclub on Banff Avenue, western Canada's first disco, ended up serving fondue at all. You'll meet Barbara and Peter Steiner, the neighboring Chinese restaurant that fed the club through a hole in the wall, and the liquor law that made food service non-negotiable. It's a story about a business built on borrowed time and Swiss kitchenware. Best heard at a table with one of the original phones, before your own fondue arrives.
This audio guide was created using AI.