Kelowna's Juicy Tips

Hurray for July! This is the time of year (well, now until fall, really) when Kelowna gets to seriously show off… that’s because this city shines when it comes to beautiful fresh fruit. Cherries are the first out of the gate, and I’m here to tell you that it’s Cherry Time! Come out to the [...]

Last Friday evening I felt really proud. That’s because Kelowna was being featured on ET Canada when host Rosey Edeh came to “test” Chef Michael Lyon at the Hotel Eldorado with a food challenge much like the ones he would have on his new Food Network show “Chef*Off!”. ET Canada was in fact also kind [...]

This week I was showing a golf writer around Kelowna, and while he wasn’t much of a wine connoisseur (other than to enjoy wine), he was curious about the wineries in the area. After a round at Tower Ranch, I took him to a great family-owned boutique winery called House of Rose. And that’s what [...]

Imagine that you cannot see, cannot hear, and cannot really speak. This was the reality of Helen Keller, who ended up a Radcliffe College graduate (with honours), a famous author, lecturer on the speaking circuit, and an inspiration to many people with barriers of their own. There’s a theatre  production on in town – until [...]

Kudos to Kelowna Chefs Mark Filatow, Dominique Couton, Ned Bell, and Rod Butters whose restaurants have been singled out as the best in the Okanagan! Vancouver Magazine’s Restaurant Awards for 2010 took place recently, and for the Okanagan Restaurant Category, the Gold went to Waterfront Restaurant, Silver to Bouchons Bistro, Bronze to Cabana Grille, and [...]

I made a great discovery this week that I have to share with you! I had some travel writers in town who wanted to see something new. They’d been here before and seen Kelowna’s iconic wineries – were there any new ones on the scene? Yes, in fact! Quite a few. And many of these [...]

Further to my post of April 23, here is our second focus on Spring Wine Festival on Kelowna’s Juicy Tips from the radio show of April 30. Enjoy!

One of the surest signs that spring is well underway is the arrival of the Okanagan Spring Wine Festival. It’s how we Okanaganites (did I just make up a word?) celebrate bud-break in the vineyard, that magical time when the tiny green buds finally open up into fledgling leaves. I digress. Where’s that glass of [...]