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Naked Cafe
About Naked Cafe
One street back from the main downtown run, at 571 Lawrence Avenue, Naked Cafe works a block that carries a steady weekday flow of office workers, residents from the nearby apartment blocks and people cutting between Bernard and the civic buildings. Cafes do well on that pattern, which is concentrated in the morning and around midday rather than spread evenly across the day.
Cafes cover a lot of ground under one word, and the useful questions are about what a given kitchen actually does. Some are coffee first with a small food case, some run a proper breakfast and lunch service, and the difference shows up most at eleven in the morning when one is quiet and the other is turning tables. Seating capacity, whether there is space to settle in with a laptop, and how a room handles a group of six all vary from one to the next. Calling 778-484-5640 or looking at nakedcafekelowna.com before a first visit sorts most of that out, particularly if you are bringing people rather than arriving alone.
Downtown Kelowna is compact and flat, so almost everything in the core is a walk away, including the waterfront parks, the museums, the offices and the hotels. Street parking on Lawrence is metered during business hours with short limits designed to turn over, which suits a coffee stop better than a long sit. Weekday mornings are the busy window, and summer weekends bring the visitor traffic that fills the whole core. Anyone driving in from the Mission, Glenmore or Rutland should allow more time in July and August than the distance suggests.
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