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Gino's Coffee House
About Gino's Coffee House
The best hour of an Osoyoos summer day is the early one, before the heat settles into the valley and while the lake is still flat. Gino's Coffee House is at 8316 Main Street, in the run of downtown storefronts a short walk from the water.
Coffee houses in a resort town do double duty. Through the summer they serve visitors heading for the beach and travellers stopping between the border and the wine country to the north, and through the rest of the year they act as one of the places where residents actually run into each other. What is on offer varies from one to the next, so it is worth calling 250-495-6652 or looking at ginoscoffeehouse.com if you need to know about seating, takeout or how early the morning starts.
Anyone new to the town should understand how tight the geography is. Downtown Osoyoos runs along Main Street where the highway meets the lake, and the beaches, the motels and the shops all sit within a few blocks of one another. That makes a morning stop easy to fold into a walk rather than a drive. In the shoulder months the pace drops noticeably, and in high summer the same sidewalk carries beach traffic, cross border travellers and everyone else at once, so an early start is its own reward.
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