Fork It

House-cut home fries turn up under nearly everything at Fork It. They anchor the breakfast bowls, sit beneath the Breakfast Poutine, carry the corned-beef hash, and round out the bigger plates — the kind of from-scratch base a kitchen builds around only when it cuts its own. The cooking they hold up is hearty, unmistakably Canadian, and served from morning straight through lunch. This is an all-day breakfast and lunch restaurant on Charlotte Street in downtown Peterborough.

The breakfast bowls are where the kitchen piles on: the Meat Lovers under bacon, ham, sausage, and cheddar; the Vegetarian under grilled peppers, mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, and two eggs; the loaded Fork It Deluxe under all of it plus hollandaise. The benedicts run several ways, from a House Benny with spinach and ham to a Smoked Meat Benny to a Signature Benny laid over bacon, grilled tomato, sautéed onion, and cheddar. Beyond the bowls there are peameal plates and a peameal-and-egg bun, a six-ounce strip loin with the Steak and Eggs, and the Breakfast Feast, which lands with three eggs, three rashers of bacon, three slices of ham, three sausages, beans, home fries, and toast.