Restaurants
Kelly O'Bryan's
About Kelly O'Bryan's
Familiar sit down dining does steady work in a small city, because it answers the question of where to take a mixed group without starting an argument. Kelly O'Bryan's is at 4215 32 St in Vernon, along one of the busier commercial stretches running through town.
Rooms of this kind generally run a broad menu across a long day, which is exactly what makes them useful. What is worth checking before you go depends on who you are bringing. Whether the room takes reservations or works from a wait list, what the setup is for a large table, whether there is a patio, and how late the kitchen serves compared with the bar are all fair questions. Families usually want to know about a children's menu and highchairs, and a group planning to watch a game wants to know how the room is arranged. A short phone call settles all of it faster than a drive across town does.
Vernon is the shopping hub of the North Okanagan, and a meal out here often lands at the end of a day that started with errands, an appointment or a drive in from the townships. The city fills up through July and August when both lakes are working and the rail trail brings cyclists to the north end of the valley, so evenings in high summer run busier and later than they do in the quieter months on either side of the season.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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