Kelowna's Juicy Tips

With a beautiful sunny weekend coming up, Kelowna will be the ultimate playground for kids. That’s because this weekend there are 2 big events for kids taking place in the city.
 

Performers from Samba Tribe whip-up energy at the Fat Cat this weekend.

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 [...]

Wow – this year is just flying by! It’s already the May Long Weekend this weekend – the traditional kick-off to Kelowna’s high tourism season. This has prompted me to think about unique accommodations – mainly because lots of us are starting to get friends and relatives planning their summer visits, and sometimes it’s nice [...]

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 [...]

Kelowna’s Manteo Resort Waterfront Hotel & Villas has had quite a run lately. Last Fall, the gracious hotel welcomed renowned Chef Bernard Casavant into its kitchen. That was after an extensive reno of the already top-shelf hotel, and after the hotel’s staff raised a record-setting $27,142 at the annual Run For the Cure (which they fundraise for [...]