Liquor Stores
Metro Liquor Store
About Metro Liquor Store
A liquor store in the Okanagan sits in an unusual position. The valley grows the wine, so shelves here can lean local in a way they simply cannot in most of the country, while beer, cider, spirits and everything shipped in from further afield still have to earn the space they take up. What separates one shop from another is usually how that balance is struck and how much the people behind the counter know about it.
Metro Liquor Store keeps an address at 1175 Ellis St, inside the downtown grid where the offices, the museums and the cultural venues step toward the lake. That puts it within a walk of a good part of the city core, which counts for something in a city that otherwise expects you to drive between districts. Ellis runs parallel to the busier avenues, so the block is generally easier to reach than the main crossing streets in high summer.
If you are shopping with something specific in mind, ask. Staff in this trade can usually tell you which local growers are represented at the moment, what has come in recently, and what will stand in for a bottle they have run out of. Worth asking too whether cases can be ordered in, how mixed cases are handled, and whether there is a chilled section if you need something cold in an hour rather than tomorrow. In a hot dry summer, storage matters more than people expect, so ask how best to keep what you buy if the car is going to sit in the sun.
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In the Downtown neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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