Foodie Experiences
A small Burnaby Heights brunch room doing towering buttermilk pancakes and a Cajun fried chicken benny, doors at 8am.
The Heights, Hastings St
More infoBurnt Orange is what the Heights was missing: a small, bright room on Hastings where the pancakes arrive tall enough to need a plan, the coffee is 49th Parallel, and the eggs benny turns up under buttermilk Cajun fried chicken. It reads as a proper kitchen that happens to serve brunch rather than a cafe that also does eggs, which is why the line starts before the doors do. Weekday tables can be booked online, weekends are first come first served, and the whole of the Heights is out the front door when the plates are cleared.
Weekday tables can be booked online through the link on their site; on weekends there are no reservations and the queue starts early, so aim for 8am or after 1pm. Order one sweet and one savoury, the buttermilk pancakes and the Cajun fried chicken benny, and you have covered what this kitchen is best at. The room is small and the pass slows at peak, so allow a good hour and a quarter. Step back onto Hastings and you are in the middle of the Heights, so walk it off past the delis, the bakeries and the vintage shops.
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