Dining Out: Low-key Butternut Tree celebrates Canadian cuisine with inventive dishes

The Butternut Tree succeeds at the elusive task of celebrating Canadian cuisine, not with token glugs of maple syrup and blobs of cheese curds, but with inventive and delicious dishes highlighting the best our country has to offer.
The new fine-dining restaurant from chef Scott Downey is less about the hazy buzzword “local” and more about truly native ingredients — the plants and animals indigenous to this land. Elk, pheasant, bison, rabbit and lingcod are paired with earthy ro