The Cove Lakeside Resort is hailed as Kelowna’s premium waterfront resort, and Bonfire Restaurant is given equal esteem.  Chef Grant de Montreuil is recognized for helping shape the signature flavour of Kelowna, through his passion for using fresh local ingredients.  As we’re told, he has his own garden on site to grow some of the produce used in his recipes.

The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and has a massive 9 page menu for all of their offerings throughout the day.  It would be difficult to run out of new things to try.

We stopped by on Sunday night, which happened to be thanksgiving, and the place was certainly a popular spot for this occasion.  But rather than go with the special menu offerings for that day, we decided to stick with dishes that would be available all year round.

Selecting from the dinner menu, I had the Yarrow Meadows Duckling Breast with scalloped potatoes, season vegetable medley and stoney paradise organic coronation grape compote; Steve had the Haida Gwaii Spring Salmon Cylinders and BC Spot Prawn Tempura with orange fennel broth and bok choy, shiitake and garlic in oyster sauce, soy ginger sabayon and sesame fried maki.  Both dishes offered some very interesting flavours quite opposite of one another: mine tasted more subtle while Steve’s was bolder.  Meanwhile we had glasses of locally produced Pinot Gris and Pinot Blanc paired with our meals.

For dessert we had the Banana Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding with rum caramel sauce and whipped cream, and the Okanagan Stonefruit Cobbler with vanilla gelato – both were deliciously sweet, and made for a nice finishing touch to our evening.