The Skidegate Lodge was the sole hotel in Skidegate on the Queen Charlotte Islands. Its cliental was mainly those having business with the Navy and by tourists who came to the islands for the hunting and fishing. The hotel had a restaurant, "The Haida Lounge" which was decorated to resemble a traditional Haida longhouse. It served traditional native dishes, both the expected such as venison and halibut and more exotic fare such as seal meat steaks, salmon cheeks and dried herring eggs on kelp.