Restaurants
Perkins
About Perkins
Restaurants on a busy arterial road serve a different crowd from the ones tucked into a village strip: people passing through, people between errands, and groups who want somewhere easy to find with somewhere easy to park. Perkins sits in exactly that position at 2170 Harvey Ave in Dilworth, on the commercial corridor that runs across Kelowna.
One other business shares the site, which is normal along this road, where plazas and shared addresses are the rule rather than the exception. The city spreads a long way beside the lake and up into the hillsides, so a restaurant on a main route pulls from several neighbourhoods at once, from Rutland in the northeast down to the Mission in the south. Summer is the busy season, both because the valley fills with visitors and because the roads feeding the corridor slow right down, so allow more time in July and August than the distance suggests.
For a group it is worth phoning ahead to ask whether tables can be put together and whether a wait is likely at the hour you have in mind. Menus and hours at any restaurant move around with the season and with staffing, so a look at perkinsrestaurants.com is a fair first step before setting out. If somebody in the party has an allergy or a dietary requirement, raise it on arrival rather than halfway through the meal, since a kitchen given a little notice can usually work with it.
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In the Dilworth neighbourhood of Kelowna.
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