Restaurants
Royal Garden
About Royal Garden
Dinner out in the North Okanagan often means a drive, and a kitchen that handles both a full dining room and a steady stream of takeout is serving two different evenings at once. Royal Garden is at 5280 Anderson Way in Vernon.
Ordering well is mostly a matter of asking. Find out whether reservations are taken for a larger table or whether it works on walk ins, how far ahead a big order needs to go in for a family gathering, and whether there is a set arrangement for groups that saves ordering dish by dish. Spice levels, substitutions and anything to do with an allergy are worth raising when you order rather than when the food lands on the table. If you are collecting takeout, ask how long the wait runs at that hour, because a Friday evening and a Tuesday are not the same question.
Vernon eats out on a local rhythm. The summer months bring people to the lakes and every kitchen in town feels it, while through the rest of the year the trade comes from the city and the townships around it, which is why places here tend to be built around the customers who come back rather than the ones passing through. Winter is the takeout season at this end of the valley, when nobody wants to go out into the cold twice in an evening, and a hot bag on the passenger seat for the drive home up East Hill is the easiest meal of the week.
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In the Downtown Vernon neighbourhood of Vernon.
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