Okanagan Grocery

Bakery: Okanagan Grocery 
Address: 2355 Gordon Dr, Kelowna BC
Website: http://okanagangrocery.com/
Style: European, Canadian 
Price: $$ 

Checking to see whether I've done all the bakeries in Kelowna (I haven't!), my first instinct was to overlook this one based on its name. After all, you would assume that this was some sort of market or specialty food shop. That is what grocery means, so it may come as a surprise for those not acquainted with Okanagan Grocery that they're a bakery. Not a deli with a bakery counter, not a display case of sweets sandwiched amid shelves of gourmet products. Nope. It's a real deal of a bakery with shelves of artisan breads and baked goods, along with a small selection of sweet treats right up at the cash. At least, the signs that were there proved that baked goods had been there; they were all gone and sold out baked goods is a promising sign.

With such limited selection, given how many items were already gone, I went with a slice of cherry pie ($2.95). Unlike most pie slices, the top on this featured a granola-like crumble. Pair that with the slightly tart cherry filling with nice big chunks of cherries, though there probably could have been more of it. Delicious, slightly atypical dough, this proved to be a great slice of pie and a good pick.

Don't let the name fool you, Okanagan Grocery is all bakery!

Rating: ***