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Olivia's Oils & Vinegars
About Olivia's Oils & Vinegars
Specialty food shops trade on the difference between an ingredient bought by habit and one chosen on purpose, and Olivia's Oils & Vinegars works that corner of the food trade at 2271 Harvey Avenue in Kelowna. Harvey is the Highway 97 corridor through the middle of the city, and this particular address is a large retail complex shared with well over eighty other businesses. The counter can be reached at 778-484-7255.
Olive oils and vinegars vary far more than a supermarket shelf suggests. Pressing date, origin, fruitiness and bitterness all move an oil around, while vinegars run from sharp and thin to thick, sweet and slow. Shops built around them often let you taste before committing, sell in more than one bottle size, and can point you toward the right pairing for a salad, a marinade or something roasted. If you are buying a gift, ask about smaller bottles and about how long an opened oil holds its character, because heat and light shorten that window quickly through a valley summer.
The Harvey Avenue corridor is the busiest road in the city, at its worst in the late afternoon and across the tourist months, so plan the trip around that and use an interior entrance rather than circling for a close parking stall. This stretch of Harvey sits on the Dilworth side of the valley floor: the drive in from Rutland or Glenmore is short, while anyone coming from the Lower Mission or Kettle Valley faces a longer run up the lake side of town, which makes it a trip worth combining with other errands. Calling first is sensible if you want something specific set aside.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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