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Olive Us Olive Oil and Vinegar Tasting Room
About Olive Us Olive Oil and Vinegar Tasting Room
Oil and vinegar do more work in a kitchen than their shelf space suggests, and they are two of the few groceries that genuinely reward tasting before buying. That is the idea behind a tasting room arrangement, where bottles are open, small samples are poured, and the difference between a peppery oil and a mild one becomes obvious rather than theoretical. Olive Us Olive Oil and Vinegar Tasting Room is at 3003A 30 Avenue in downtown Vernon.
Shops in this line often fill from bulk containers rather than selling sealed bottles off a shelf, which means the size you carry home is up to you and refills usually cost less than the first purchase. It is worth asking how a particular shop handles that, since practice varies. Anyone buying for gifts should ask about packaging, and anyone who cooks through a bottle quickly should ask which oils keep well and which are better used fresh. Cooks who arrive knowing the dish they are shopping for tend to leave happier than those browsing at random.
The main street blocks are the right setting for this. Vernon pulls the whole North Okanagan into a compact downtown for the sort of shopping that is not worth a drive to Kelowna, and a specialty food shop lives on exactly that trade, plus the summer visitors working their way up the lake. Parking on the numbered avenues is straightforward outside a Saturday afternoon in high season. If you are assembling a hamper of local food to take home, a stop like this pairs naturally with the bakeries, butchers and farm stands the surrounding district supports.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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