Features Archives - Naramata Inn

They’re Opening Anyway

by Kate Colley | Sep 25, 2020 | Features

In June, sustainably minded Chef Ned Bell, his wife Kate Colley and two partners opened the Naramata Inn, just outside of Penticton. They’d planned out every detail for the spruced-up 1908 building on the eastern shore of Okanagan Lake, but obviously foresaw the...

Chef Ned Bell returns to his roots, to the place he was born, the place that feeds his soul

by Kate Colley | Sep 25, 2020 | Features

At the Naramata Inn, Ned Bell discovers that his roots go deep in the Okanagan Ned Bell is a pretty happy guy these days. But not so long ago he was lying awake every night, worried about the future, about death and illness and money and losing everything he cherished...

Naramata Inn is back, baby

by Kate Colley | Sep 25, 2020 | Features

It’s Tuesday night and the new Restaurant at Naramata Inn is bumping. Every table in the high-ceilinged dining room is full, as are the tables on the heritage hotel’s covered veranda, which doubles as the restaurant’s patio. Between plating meals in...

RECIPE: Planked Wild Salmon with Nectarines, Thyme, Honey, Almonds, and Ricotta

by Ned Bell | Sep 10, 2020 | Features

Serves 4 Quintessentially West Coast, planking pays homage to the First Nations peoples of North America, who were cooking salmon on wood planks over an open fire long before Europeans arrived. It’s an ingenious way to impart earthy, smoky, and even floral notes to...