A beautiful mid-April afternoon in Banff would typically see bustling street-front businesses and packed restaurants.
But on this day, the town remained quiet.
Stephane Prevost sat outside one of his two Caribou Street restaurants in the Alberta tourism hotspot while inside a skeleton back-end staff filled a rare takeout order.
On April 6, the Alberta government announced another round of restrictions on businesses and public life amid a third wave of COVID-19 infections.
âWe didnât do very well yesterday; we sold maybe a dozen orders. Obviously, that doesnât cut it, to not even break even,â said Prevost, chef and managing partner at the Block Kitchen + Bar and Shoku Izakaya restaurants in Banff.
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Visitors to Banff will once again get the chance to take in the town’s historic downtown on foot this year, with the Banff Avenue pedestrianization project set to start at the end of the month.
After months of planning with administration, Banff council unanimously approved moving up the project’s start date from mid-June to April 30 to fully pedestrianize the town’s main thoroughfare.
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“My intent is not to create an attraction, this is about safety measures,” Banff Mayor Karen Sorenson said at a special meeting Tuesday afternoon.
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