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Osoyoos Market on Main
About Osoyoos Market on Main
Main Street carries almost everything in Osoyoos: the highway, the border traffic, the shops and the short walk down to the water. Osoyoos Market on Main sits along that run at 8701 Main St, which puts it inside the compact core where the motels, the restaurants and the beach access all overlap. In a town this size the food shops are not scattered across suburbs, they are lined up on one street, which makes working through them a matter of a few minutes on foot.
Smaller food shops fill a different role from the big weekly stock up. They tend to be where you go for the thing you forgot, the cold drink on the way to the sand, and the basics that keep a rented cabin running for a week. What they carry varies a great deal from one to the next, and in a valley that grows so much of its own fruit the seasonal produce is often what changes most from month to month.
Summer alters the rhythm of the whole street. Through July and August the population this town feeds is several times its winter self, and the food shops absorb that surge along with the beaches and the motel strips. The shoulder weeks are quieter, and hours across town tend to move with the season, so a quick check before a long drive in from the benches or across the border is sensible. On foot, this part of Main Street is easy to cover, with the lake at one end and the highway carrying on past the fruit and wine stands at the other.
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In the Downtown Osoyoos neighbourhood of Osoyoos.
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