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Dragon King
About Dragon King
Highway frontage suits a certain kind of restaurant: easy to reach, easy to park at, and set up so that a takeout order can be collected without a long walk from the car. Dragon King occupies that sort of ground at 2435 97 Hwy, on the Dilworth side of Kelowna where the hillside streets wrapping Dilworth Mountain come down to the commercial corridor on the valley floor.
Restaurants in that position tend to carry a broad menu and run a pickup counter alongside the tables, and the split between the two is the first thing worth establishing when you call. Ordering for a group rewards a bit of planning, so it pays to ask how the menu is arranged, whether dishes are meant to be shared or served one to a person, and how long an order is running at the hour you intend to arrive. If anyone in the party avoids shellfish, peanuts or gluten, raise it at the point of ordering rather than at the table, since sauces and stocks are often prepared in advance and adjustments are easier to arrange early.
Getting there is straightforward by Kelowna standards. The corridor runs across the middle of the city, which puts this address within a short drive of Glenmore, the central neighbourhoods and the hillside subdivisions above, though anyone coming up from the Lower Mission or out from Rutland should treat it as a proper trip rather than a walk. Traffic thickens through the hot dry summer months when the valley fills with visitors heading for the lake and the vineyards, so an evening pickup can take longer than the distance suggests. Phoning an order through before you leave the house is the simplest way around that.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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