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“We were open for about five weeks before we had to shut down,” recalled William “Bill” Nooney. The chef and co-owner of Bur Oak Diner in downtown Yankton had just opened the new restaurant’s doors on February 5 with co-owner and wife, Hannah. I was chatting with the pair at a table in the eatery as their kids played around us on the official reopening on June 15, which was a Monday.
304 W. 3RD ST., YANKTON
At one point Bill realized the opening day sign was still inside. “Oh, I should probably put that outside, huh,” he laughed. Right now Bur Oak is doing a take-out menu that is limited, and they're currently only serving lunch. This was a major bummer, as the restaurant’s breakfast menu looked epic. My eyes bulged when I saw the Breakfast Pot Pie on the normal menu. It has sausage, egg, and hash served in a puff pastry pie and is topped with country gravy. “It’s like a biscuits and gravy pot pie. It has a pie crust with all of your f illings—you know, your country gravy, your sausage, and your bacon,” Bill continued, “and then we took a crispy layer of hash browns and made that the top. There’s lots of nice textures in it.” Another best seller on the breakfast menu was the Desayuno Burrito with chorizo sausage, bacon, egg, hash, and avocado, topped with green chili.
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T H E O U T D O O R I S S U E july 2020
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