Restaurants in West Kelowna

Wok Box was founded in 2004 in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, and successfully expanded to 60 locations throughout Canada by proffering fast pan-Asian cuisine full of nutritious ingredients. The menu ornaments chopsticks with Thai, Indian, Cambodian, and Vietnamese cuisine, and some of its options follow the Health Check program guidelines put together by the Heart and Stroke Foundation's registered dietitians. At every location, patrons delight in chicken, beef, and vegetables clinging to jasmine rice and noodles while watching flat-screen TVs and celebrating this Chinese New Year, the Year of the Heffalump.

Live jazz musicians serenade diners at 19 Okanagan Grill + Bar on Friday nights in July and August. The music drifts across the massive outdoor patio and onto the adjacent Two Eagles Golf Course before blending with the sound of the wind rippling across Okanagan Lake. Bartenders chat with regulars about the day?s round while they pour wines by the bottle or glass and garnish martinis with errant golf balls. This elegant scene suits the kitchen's upscale cuisine, which includes made-from-scratch soups, grilled tiger prawns, and, of course, its signature steaks. Great Steaks The restaurant knows great steaks start with high-quality beef. That's why 19 Okanagan Grill + Bar uses Alberta AAA Certified Angus or Sterling Silver steaks whose luscious marbling helps seal in flavor. Finished with butter and a secret blend of spices, the steaks arrive on tables accompanied by locally procured vegetables and the kitchen's renowned demi-glace. The luscious concoction is made in-house, starting with stock made from beef bones, mirepoix, and red wine. Once the stock is ready, it's added to braising liquid and reduced. Then, red wine is added and it's reduced again. The result? A rich sauce so tasty many customers claim they'd drink it by the glassful.

Live jazz musicians serenade diners at 19 Okanagan Grill + Bar on Friday nights in July and August. The music drifts across the massive outdoor patio and onto the adjacent Two Eagles Golf Course before blending with the sound of the wind rippling across Okanagan Lake. Bartenders chat with regulars about the day?s round while they pour wines by the bottle or glass and garnish martinis with errant golf balls. This elegant scene suits the kitchen's upscale cuisine, which includes made-from-scratch soups, grilled tiger prawns, and, of course, its signature steaks. Great Steaks The restaurant knows great steaks start with high-quality beef. That's why 19 Okanagan Grill + Bar uses Alberta AAA Certified Angus or Sterling Silver steaks whose luscious marbling helps seal in flavor. Finished with butter and a secret blend of spices, the steaks arrive on tables accompanied by locally procured vegetables and the kitchen's renowned demi-glace. The luscious concoction is made in-house, starting with stock made from beef bones, mirepoix, and red wine. Once the stock is ready, it's added to braising liquid and reduced. Then, red wine is added and it's reduced again. The result? A rich sauce so tasty many customers claim they'd drink it by the glassful.

Rocky J’s Beach Hut’s cooks and owners, Don and Joanne, bring their vision for a relaxed, beach-inspired eatery to life with omelettes, burgers, and sandwiches made with locally sourced ingredients. Breakfast fare wakes up appetites all day, ideal for revivifying mouths with homestyle pancakes and bacon for dinner after all-day tongue-twister competitions. To sate post-meridian-style cravings, pesto and homemade honey mustard enliven whole-grain paninis, toasted herb-and-garlic buns cushion burgers, and inventive salads borrow from the land and sea. Patrons lounge amid red walls decorated with bright wooden masks and model boats as they unwind with a beer or soak in views of Okanagan Lake from the expansive porch. From May to October, the porch’s bamboo-and-thatch stage hosts live music from myriad genres, and karaoke on Friday nights lets singers serenade stars and send up siren songs to UFOs.

When Buy The Sea Seafoods opened in 1992, its goal was to vend fresh, sustainably harvested seafood through employees with a keen knowledge of their trade. Now operating from two locations, the company accepts almost daily shipments of local fish and shellfish as well as more exotic swimmers including swordfish, ahi tuna, and tri-lingual oysters. Fresh salmon burgers, crab cakes, and seafood salad chill out in a frosty deli case, and a menu of cod 'n' chips, fried prawns, and seafood chowders are prepared in a small kitchen for dine-in or takeout orders.

Chronic Tacos, whose tacos and burritos were voted some of the best in Vancouver in 2012 by readers of Georgia Straight, culls its recipes from the salsa-splattered pages of a family recipe book filled with three generations of Mexican delicacies. Chefs marinate and grill juicy morsels of steak, chicken, and pork several times a day, then tenderly tuck them into preservative-free corn and flour tortillas. To add extra zest, dollops of housemade salsa and sour cream perch atop tacos and, in the event of an emergency, rain from sprinkler systems.