Restaurants
Smitty's
About Smitty's
Finding a table for a mixed group, some ready for a full meal and others happy with coffee and toast, is a routine problem in a small tourist town. Smitty's sits at 8906 Main St, along the downtown spine where the highway carries border traffic past the shops and down toward the lake. A restaurant on a street like this catches several different kinds of customer in the course of one day.
Restaurants in a spot like this generally handle a wider job than a single specialist kitchen, covering more than one kind of order and more than one kind of table. The practical questions are usually about the room rather than the food. Whether a large party can be seated together, how the wait runs at the peak hour, whether there is outdoor seating, and how easily a stroller or a wheelchair gets through are all things that differ from one place to another.
Timing in Osoyoos is worth some thought. Between July and early September the population this town feeds is several times its winter figure, and Sunday morning is the tightest hour in any restaurant in the core. In the quieter months the same room settles back into serving locals and the wintering visitors who come down from colder parts of the province. Main Street is an easy walk from most of downtown, so if you are staying on one of the accommodation streets near the water you are unlikely to need the car for a meal here.
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In the Downtown Osoyoos neighbourhood of Osoyoos.
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