Bars & Pubs
Friends Neighbourhood Pub
About Friends Neighbourhood Pub
Boucherie Road climbs the slope between the shoreline and the vineyard benches, and West Kelowna Estates, one of the oldest pockets of housing on this side of the lake, sits right along that stretch. A neighbourhood like this benefits from having somewhere to end a day without planning it, close enough to walk to and casual enough that showing up alone never looks out of place.
What sits behind that description varies more than the words suggest. Kitchen hours often run shorter than the bar, patios open and close with the season, and whether a room suits a family, a team after a game or a quiet pint on your own depends on how the place is laid out. In British Columbia the licence a room holds also shapes who may be in it and when, which is the sort of thing worth settling with a call before arriving with a group of teenagers in tow.
Friends Neighbourhood Pub is at 2210 Boucherie Road in West Kelowna Estates, one of the earliest subdivisions on this side of the lake and now a settled area of mature trees just above the shore. Boucherie Road threads along the slope between the water and the vineyards, which makes the pub a plausible finish to an afternoon at Gellatly Bay or a slow loop around the benches. For the streets around it, the fact that the walk home is short is a fair part of the appeal.
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