If you’ve followed Biggar Bites over the last ten years, you know it has grown and changed—A LOT!!!!
What started with my love of cooking grew into a full on business: catering weddings and corporate events, dragging a food trailer all over Saskatchewan, and then the Eatery. There have been trials and tribulations, along with some incredible successes and opportunities. To which I will forever be grateful for.
But as Biggar Bites grew, running the business took more of my time, while I still needed to be in the kitchen cooking. The menus grew larger, the operation became busier, and eventually, cooking no longer felt like the calm, creative work I loved.
When we rolled into 2025, Biggar Bites had reached its biggest year yet. We were catering a massive number of weddings, hauling the food trailer from job to job and trying to keep the Eatery open as long as possible. Then, just to add to the chaos, the Eatery suffered what felt like a major catastrophe. Equipment started failing one piece after another. One day, I popped in to grab a cup of coffee, but the coffee machine wouldn’t work. A week later, the dishwasher quit. Then, over the next couple of weeks, we lost two coolers, the air conditioner, a freezer and our air exchanger.
We had SaskPower come in and install a recorder to figure out what the heck was happening because, on the surface, everything in the eatery looked fine.
I also have to mention that Adrian deHaan is my superhero. He went above and beyond to help me through all of it, and I will forever be grateful.
During this time, my mom’s health was failing. I moved her into the senior home in Biggar, but her stay was short. We lost Mom on October 25, 2025—the same day I catered my final wedding of the season.
Needless to say, I was hanging by a thread.
Closing the eatery gave me time to step back, rest up and decide how I want Biggar Bites to grow. Since closing the eatery, so many people have told me, “We miss your food.”
The truth is, I missed you. I missed hearing about your kids and grandbabies, your holidays, how harvest was going and everything else happening in your lives.
I want Biggar Bites Eatery to be more than a place to eat. I want it to feel familiar—a place you look forward to walking into, knowing you’ll be greeted by a smiling face and, more than likely, a sassy remark.
When the eatery reopens, the everyday menu will be smaller; pinky promise it won’t be boring. We’ll keep things fresh with weekly features, seasonal specials and take-home meals that are ready to cook or reheat.
A more flexible menu also means that when our wholesalers offer a great deal on a product, we can create a limited-time special and pass the savings along to our customers.
If you know me, you know my brain isn’t hardwired to cook the same menu every day. So you can expect seafood boils, steak nights, Burger Bars, themed meals and whatever else my brain dreams up at 2:00 in the morning.
Our new eatery hours will be 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. We’ll announce the days of operation once the reopening details are finalized.
We’re aiming to reopen in mid-September—after we survive four weddings on September 5, complete our inspections and make sure the equipment is ready. Provided I haven’t checked myself into a mental institution by then, I’ll share the confirmed opening date as soon as I have it.
I also want to be clear: I am not stepping away from catering, and the food trailer isn’t going anywhere. We will continue catering events, and the food trailer will still be rambling down Saskatchewan’s rough, bumpy highways. I absolutely love catering and have no desire to quit. It truly is what fills my cup.
Thank you for supporting Biggar Bites through every version of this journey. You have no idea how much it has meant to me to have people keep asking when the eatery is opening or saying they missed it. I can’t wait to welcome you back.
Marcy