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Tackle Box Coffee Bar
About Tackle Box Coffee Bar
The name gives away the mood before anything else does. A tackle box is a fishing kit, and a coffee bar borrowing the idea is setting a tone rather than describing a menu. Tackle Box Coffee Bar operates from 760 Vaughan Avenue in downtown Kelowna, away from the busiest shopfront blocks near the water.
Coffee counters set inside or alongside a larger business are common enough, and this one keeps its coffee page on the rusticreel.com site, which is a useful hint that it is part of something bigger than a standalone kiosk. That arrangement often works in a customer's favour, since a shared room tends to come with more seating and more elbow space than a takeaway window manages. It also means the coffee side and the rest of the operation may not run on the same rhythm, which a short call settles quickly.
Try 250-862-3737 if you want to check before heading over, particularly outside the summer months when the pace of this part of the city drops off sharply. For anyone coming down from Glenmore or across from Rutland, this side of downtown is generally easier to park in than the waterfront blocks, and it puts you within a short walk of the lake path if you want to carry a cup outside. Okanagan summers are hot enough that an iced order and ten minutes by the water is a reasonable plan on most July afternoons.
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