Cafés
Kool Beans
About Kool Beans
A coffee counter is about the smallest hospitality business there is, and in a village it often does more work than its footprint suggests, being the spot where people stand about for ten minutes before the day starts in earnest. Kool Beans keeps a compact address at 618A 7th Avenue, in the tight centre of Keremeos where the shops and services sit within a few blocks of one another.
Counters like this one vary more than you would expect. Some have a few tables and turn into a meeting place; others amount to a window with a line in front of it. Some open very early for people heading out to work, and others follow the traffic on the street outside. In a valley that runs hot and dry right through the summer, the cold half of the trade tends to carry the busy months and the warm half carries the quiet ones.
Practical advice for a visit: in a village of this size the seasons swing the opening hours far more than they would in a city, so if you are making a special trip in from the farms or off the highway, it is worth checking first rather than arriving to a locked door. If you are travelling with a group and want a large order, giving a small counter some notice is a kindness that gets everyone served faster. And if you are heading up the valley toward Princeton or east over the pass, this is a sensible last stop before a long stretch of road.
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