Dr. Bonnie Henry hasn’t given the go-ahead to reopen restaurants for indoor dining so people who don’t want to cook are still looking for good takeout food.
I have the perfect dish you can order in Burnaby. It’s so good and decadent and perfect to cheer you up when COVID-19 gets you down.
It’s a pie from Peaked Pies in North Burnaby.
When a Peaked Pies customer gets up to the front to order a pie, co-owner Kerri Jones asks them the same simple question.
“Do you want that peaked?”
Getting it “peaked” means having mashed potato, mushy green peas and gravy heaped on.
“People will be standing and line and see it get ‘peaked’ and they’re like, ‘yes please,’” Jones says with a laugh.
Burnaby residents get to say “yes” with the opening of Peaked Pies Australian Bakery Café at 4114 Hastings St. in the Heights neighbourhood.
The new business has about a dozen different pies to choose from, including the traditional Aussie version, beef curry, vegetable, lentil, steak, butter chicken and the “hopper” made from ground kangaroo. Then you just say “yes” to the peaked and away you go.
Peaked Pies also offers breakfast versions, plus an array of freshly baked desserts and coffees. According to the company, the crust for the pie is made from grass-fed butter and the gravy also comes in a vegetarian option.
Peaked Pies started about seven years ago with a location in Whistler before adding one in Vancouver’s West End.
So, now that you have the perfect takeout food, when will restaurants reopen for indoor dining?
Henry told reporters in the daily coronavirus (COVID-19) briefing on Monday (May 10) that indoor dining will resume sometime in the future - but it is still too early to provide a timeline of when that will happen.
While the number of new daily cases of the virus has decreased over the past couple of weeks, Henry said the infection rates are still too high and more people need to be immunized before health officials will consider easing restrictions.
"We will be talking more about when the restrictions that we have in place are going to be lifted and what that will look like in the coming weeks and months, but we're not at that place quite yet," she said.
Henry also mentioned that indoor dining is important for restaurants and that it offers an "important safe place when rates are low in our community."
Public health orders regarding restaurant service in B.C. were amended at the end of March to implement the restriction on indoor dining as part of a slate of "Circuit Breaker" measures.
The current restrictions on indoor dining in B.C. restaurants are set to expire after the May long weekend. However, they were also extended on April 19 when they were previously slated to expire.
With files from Megan Lalonde and Lindsay William-Ross and Elana Shepert, Glacier Media.
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