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Bohemian Cafe & Catering Co.
About Bohemian Cafe & Catering Co.
Two trades sit inside the name Bohemian Cafe & Catering Co., and they pull in different directions. A room at 524 Bernard Avenue serves whoever walks through the door in downtown Kelowna, while catering work happens somewhere else entirely, at an office, a hall, a vineyard or a back garden, on a date agreed weeks earlier. Businesses that do both learn to run two calendars at once, and the busy end of one tends to be the busy end of the other.
For anyone thinking about the catering half, the useful questions are all logistical. How far out should an event be booked, what minimum numbers apply, is service and equipment included or is it drop-off only, and does a quote change once you are past the city limits toward Lake Country, West Kelowna or the wineries on the benches. Those answers vary enormously from one operator to the next, and they matter more to the final bill than the menu does. Getting them in writing early is simply good practice.
The Bernard Avenue address puts the cafe side in the middle of the downtown core, a few minutes from the waterfront parks and surrounded by offices, which tends to mean a strong weekday morning pattern and a quite different crowd on summer weekends when visitors fill the street. Enquiries and event information run through bohemiancater.com, which is the sensible first stop if you are planning something rather than just dropping in for a coffee on the way past.
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