Everything is serve-yourself, including the coffee, which was not bad at all! We gave it a 3.5/5. It was from Rolly’s coffee service (made in Winnipeg) and had unlimited refills.

I say the breakfast was interesting because they used deep frying as a cooking staple, but to their benefit. They deep fried the potatoes and the meats. I never really appreciate deep frying because it’s a shortcut to good cooking, but it actually was appreciated when they fried the sausages. The usual awful breakfast links were butterflied and deep fried until they were tasty. I love the butterflying technique because it melts all the gribbly bits inside. The potatoes were okay, but at least they were cooked fully and evenly, thanks to the deep frying. The eggs, bacon and toast were all diner-standard – just fine, but nothing spectacular.

The art on the walls was nice – there were a few Bateman-esque nature scenes and some large paintings of fashion. The rest of the décor is sort of like a country kitchen, but not really. It’s a diner, to be sure. The seats were like park benches (very similar to Burger Plus).

If you happen to work within a five minute walk of Peaks, go ahead and go there for breakfast. If you have the time, I’d sooner drive over to Cora’s on Waverly instead. But Peaks is worth it for hot sauce selection alone, at least once.

As of  March 2012 the restaurant has been sold, but is still running under a new owner.

There have been a few changes to the decor and menu.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Peaks Restaurant & Catering

106 Scurfield Boulevard

Ridges breakfast - $4.77 before 11:00am.

Breakfast served all day.

After 11am $6.95.

Formerly known as Peaks and Ridges (which the sign outside still lists it as), Peaks is the brainchild of Debbi Martinuzzi. She started doing lunch catering out of her home, 20 years ago, but once the city told her she needed an actual restaurant, she came to Whyte Ridge for some unknown reason. I had no idea there was a place for breakfast wayyy out in the middle of nowhere. It’s nowhere today, so I can only imagine the nowhere it was back then. There’s lots of office bodies to fill the place though – it’s close to Shaw cable, Winnipeg Technical College and the bio-chem giant Monsanto. Their big deal is lunch, where reportedly the lineup can go out the door, but their breakfast was interesting.

A few notable items – the first thing you see when you walk in is an impressive selection of teas and hot sauces. There were about eight hot sauces; some we knew, some we didn’t. We tried the ones we didn’t, and some were good, some were bad. A lot of them had chipotle flavouring, and we quickly found out that combining chipotle with limon was a bad idea. In the end, we stuck with our favourite, Frank’s.