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Match Eatery & Public House
About Match Eatery & Public House
A pub kitchen carries a wider brief than most rooms in the food trade. It has to feed a table that wants a full dinner, a pair who came in for a drink and a plate to share, and a group watching whatever is on the screens, all inside the same hour. Match Eatery and Public House works that ground at 201-553 Vees Drive, off the Main Street corridor that carries most of Penticton's shopping traffic, so it is worth thinking of the trip as a short drive rather than a walk up from the beach.
The address holds one other business alongside it, which is ordinary in a city this size, where a larger site tends to carry more than one operation under a single roof. Anyone planning something specific should sort the details out on the phone at 778-476-8555 before setting off. The usual questions are whether a table can be held for a group, how a licensed room handles minors and at what point in the evening that changes, how far ahead a larger party should call, and how the kitchen runs on a night when a game is on.
Penticton is the service centre for the whole South Okanagan, and its evening trade reflects that, drawing people in from Oliver, Osoyoos, Keremeos and the small communities between them. Summer stretches the crowd further, since the beaches at both ends of town and the river channel between the two lakes fill the city with visitors from June onward. Peach Festival weekend in mid August is busier still.
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In the Downtown Penticton neighbourhood of Penticton.
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