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Summerland divides cleanly into five: the Victorian downtown, the Giant's Head slopes full of wineries, Prairie Valley's working corridor, rural Garnet Valley and quiet Trout Creek across the water.
Summerland shares a trades market with Penticton but keeps its own rules: orchard competence counts double, the bench decides response times and referrals travel faster than any listing.
Every city in this valley eats in at least two separate places, and the second place is usually better. A working map of Okanagan food: the beach strips, the downtown kitchens, the wine country rooms, and the fruit stands that feed all of it.
Retail in this valley is not spread evenly. It concentrates on a handful of streets and one or two malls per city, strung along Highway 97 like beads on a wire. Here is which street to drive to in each city, and what you will and will not find there.
Tips and corrections
Somewhere I missed, or something I got wrong?
I read everything that comes in. If a place has closed, changed hands, or is simply better than I gave it credit for, tell me and I'll go back and eat there again.