Breakfast at Clayoquot is designed to be flexible – a light bite before heading out on a day’s adventures or a more leisurely affair with full à la carte selection. Highlights on the breakfast menu include Eggs Bedwell with local crab, poached eggs and avocado and buttermilk pancakes by the stack served with maple syrup and salted butter.
A season-led, daily changing lunch menu features bistro-style cuisine. Lunch at Clayoquot is designed to fit in easily around an action-packed day of adventures or one spent lounging by the sound. Dining highlights include freshly caught white fish ceviche and the Bedwell Burger with organic Blue Goose beef.
A celebration every evening, the dinner menu features the very best of the region’s produce. Seafood stars on the starters’ menu, with grilled spot prawns and seared albacore tuna. Mains showcase a single star ingredient with sophisticated cooking techniques such as beef rib-eye fillet from Pemberton Meadows, grilled sablefish produced in partnership with Kyuquot-Checleseht First Nations and slow-cooked Canadian Rangeland bison shoulder. Save room for dessert – a crescendo in the dining experience.
A generous selection of drinks is included in the tariff at Clayoquot and includes wines, local craft beers and ciders, small batch spirits, and non-alcoholic beverages. A cellar master’s selection is additional and features international wines and Champagnes.
Wines include familiar and new wines from the Pacific Northwest, as well as from the Napa Valley in California and the Barossa Valley in Australia. The region’s craft brewing movement brings a selection of bottle and draught beers to the bar, while spirits from more than twenty British Columbia distillers are used to handcraft cocktails with housemade syrups, bitters and tonics.
Reaching eleven feet, floor-to-ceiling glass windows welcome knock-out views of mountains, sky and sound making The Ivanhoe the best place to enjoy a drink and watch the weather and wildlife in action. Upstairs, a rooftop lounge looks straight down to the bottom of the emerald green Bedwell River, while outside a firepit and cedar deck chairs invite lounging well into the evening.
As sunset signals the day’s end and the colours on the sound begin to soften in golden pinks and dusky blues, guests enjoy a drink from the bar, served al fresco on the roof deck or by the warmth of the fire inside. A cocktail? Perhaps a Van-quadra negroni with the west coast’s own Sheringham Seaside Gin, or a Fog Lifter where Ron Zapaca 23 rum marries up with Wayward Distillery honey in a cracking combination.
Executive Chef Ben Godin has a globally seasoned palette having worked in some of the most popular and highly sought-after restaurants across Australia, Europe and Canada. Ben took the reins in the Clayoquot kitchen in 2024, bringing with him a personal approach to food and a fresh drive to create sensational cuisine using local produce. With Clayoquot’s dedication to using the region’s sustainably produced ingredients and to the producers and stories behind them, Ben is all about exploring the connection between produce, people and plate. Ben is an adventurer at heart, having just come from a cheffing role at Last Frontier Heliskiing at Kitimat, so the Vancouver Island wilderness playground is an ideal fit for him.
Ben has travelled the world in his trade and chef, including a stint at Bridgeroom in Sydney and stages at Noma in Denmark, Fariken in Sweden and at WD 50 in New York. Ben draws inspiration from the awe-inspiring wilderness of Vancouver Island to deliver a heartfelt interpretation of the sights, scents, tastes of the region to the table. A keen forager, Ben brings to the menu some of the region’s rarely sampled, hyper local ingredients offering guests a real taste of the wild and pristine nature of Vancouver Island. At Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge, the produce-led, daily designed menu is an essential part of the guest experience and Ben is excited to be part of this big picture.
With its focus on wild, harvested and sustainable ingredients, the restaurant offers a scintillating taste of Vancouver Island.George Epaminondas Travel + Luxury
Over dinner that night we decided we had never had a day like it. Or visited a place so casually abundant in wildlife.Bridget Harrison The Times
I decided that the true luxury of this high-end summer camp is not its control over nature, but the lengths to which it goes to poetically frame it.Zander Abranowicz Travel + Leisure
The temperate rainforests that dominate the landscape and ecosystem at Clayoquot Sound also drive the weather systems. In summertime the conditions are warm and dry, ideal for marine sports and outdoor activities.
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Clayoquot Sound’s protected ecosystem comprising temperate rainforest, lakes, rivers and alpine peaks provides habitats for a vast array of species, many of which are endangered or rare.
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Gloriously remote and set in one of Canada’s wildest and most astounding natural settings, Clayoquot Wilderness Lodge offers guests an unforgettable experience of Vancouver Island, where the landscape and wildlife combine in an enchanting adventure.
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