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Gasthaus on the Lake
About Gasthaus on the Lake
Dining rooms with a lake in front of them are the reason a great many people drive to Peachland in the first place. Gasthaus on the Lake is at 5790 Beach Avenue, on the strip where the shoreline walkway, the beaches and the small pier take up the town's few hundred metres of waterfront frontage.
Dining rooms with a view like this tend to build around a settled repertoire rather than a menu that turns over constantly, which is a virtue when you have been coming back for years and want the dish you remember. What differs between one and the next is scale and season: whether there is seating outdoors, whether a larger group can be seated together, how far ahead a table needs to be held, and how much the room changes between a July Saturday and a quiet week in the shoulder season.
The website at gasthaus.ca is the place to check current offerings and booking arrangements before you set out. If you want a table with the view rather than one further in, say so when you book, because those seats are the first to go anywhere along this shore. The drive down from Kelowna or up from Summerland is short and genuinely scenic, but the final stretch along Beach Avenue is where the summer traffic sits, so allow a little more time than the map suggests on a hot weekend.
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