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4 MAY 2011<br />
Peter Klaus,<br />
pictured here<br />
with his wife,<br />
Paula, owns<br />
Jake Rooney’s<br />
Restaurant at<br />
119 Brooks Road<br />
in Harwich Port.<br />
Peter installed<br />
a new Stonegrill<br />
system at the<br />
restaurant; it<br />
prepares meats<br />
and seafoods in<br />
a healthy way,<br />
customized to<br />
each customer’s<br />
preference. The<br />
couple first<br />
tried food prepared<br />
this way<br />
while on their<br />
honeymoon in<br />
New Zealand.<br />
Visit www.jake<br />
rooneys.com for<br />
hours, early bird<br />
menu times,<br />
entertainment<br />
schedules and<br />
more.<br />
SToNeGRIllING<br />
By Karla Carreiro<br />
The people in Harwich Port know a<br />
good thing when they see it: Peter<br />
Klaus, a fun-filled entrepreneur,<br />
who stops to talk to everyone at<br />
his “very local” restaurant, Jake<br />
Rooney’s. Peter and his family are no strangers<br />
to <strong>Cape</strong> <strong>Cod</strong>. His four children (Kate,<br />
Barbara, Kim and Daniel) sunbathed their<br />
way to adulthood in the hot summers here.<br />
When an opportunity too good to pass up<br />
crossed his path in 1994, he jumped on it.<br />
With the kids grown, he packed the family<br />
belongings, sold his Tewksbury, N.J. house<br />
and the rest is history.<br />
“I used inheritance money to purchase the<br />
business,” says Peter. “We named the restau-<br />
Ta s T e s o f T h e Ca p e<br />
New at Jake Rooney’s<br />
rant for my deceased parents. My mom was<br />
a Rooney and my dad’s middle name was<br />
Jake.” Seventeen years ago marked a brand<br />
new chapter for Peter: an exciting, first-time<br />
run as a restaurant owner.<br />
Why would this Wall Street guy trade-in<br />
dress pants for a pair of Dockers on <strong>Cape</strong><br />
<strong>Cod</strong>? For what else, “a calmer life,” he says.<br />
“It was supposed to be a nice, easy retirement.<br />
It turned out to be harder than anything<br />
I ever did on Wall Street.”<br />
For Peter, town planning for three dining<br />
areas and a tavern bar was like sifting<br />
through pages of a well-written mystery<br />
novel. “I went back and forth to the town of-<br />
ConTinued on page 5<br />
Merrily Cassidy/<strong>Cape</strong> <strong>Cod</strong> TiMes<br />
About the author<br />
Karla Carreiro loves to travel, cook and write<br />
about food. Her work has appeared in the <strong>Cape</strong><br />
<strong>Cod</strong> Times as a restaurant critic. She set off to<br />
explore San Francisco’s slow-food movement and<br />
stayed long enough to graduate from a Professional<br />
Culinary Program. She’s recipe-tested with<br />
America’s Test Kitchen in Boston and interned<br />
with various cookbook authors. Her professional<br />
writing spans a 40-year business career. She lives<br />
in Chatham, personal-chefs for many summer<br />
parties and attends culinary classes at Johnson &<br />
Wales University.
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