It happened on two occasions. I was asking myself “Is it worth it? The time. The gas.
It was out of my way, about 14.2 km, a 12 minute drive from the town of
Hope on TransCanada Highway 1 towards Yale and Boston Bar.
Twice, hesitatingly I decided I should. And you know what, twice (so far) I was glad
I took the detour.
Somewhere Else Café is one of the best diners,
truly Canadiana, in British Columbia.
Run by Gail Marlatt, and assisted by her 90ish
mom Louise, they make and serve their food with that special touch that makes
you want to go back again and again. No wonder
the truckers love them.
Once you see on your west side (if coming from
Hope) a very nondescript (and I mean NonDescript) red and white building/gas
station, veer left towards the potholed spacious parking lot.
Somewhere Else Cafe used to be at the trucker’s
gas station on TC 1 Flood Hope Road Exit on the way from Hope to Vancouver. But the owners of the refilling stop had
other business plans. And Gail and mom
had to move their popular diner somewhere else.
Hence the name. That place was in
the Dogwood Valley between Hope’s town center and hamlet Yale proper. They took over what used to be the Dogwood
Cafe with its 1960s retro diner booths.
The Farmer’s Breakfast with Perogies CAD$ 12.49 was
for a hungry man who has a discerning palate.
Those perogies were good. And in
my most recent quest, the Swedish
meatballs with gravy carpeting a sumptuous bed of spiral pasta
had a twang that made the special of the day special. The meal came with choice of soup, crackers, biscuit, green
salad, garlic toast plus dessert (a tasty butterscotch pie with ice cream) for CAD $12.99.
That is a deal, a delicious dsteal.
Grandma Louise hand makes the pie crust – so you
are really getting home-made pies. There
are a set of pies made by a local – Mary is her name. I didn’t
get to try Mary’s. But Gail and
Louise’s apple crumble pie (which I had a slice to go) was like being
transported to a farm in the 1800s: lumpy, crumbly, voluminous like a hilltop,
and downright Johnny Apple. With cold
vanilla ice cream – it was home sweet home.
Somewhere Else Cafe has a facebook that
intermittently tells the special of the day.
See https://www.facebook.com/Somewhere-Else-Cafe-366178380241963/
If only I live 14.2 kilometers away.
Contact Details:
7 am – 8 pm every day except some holidays
27153
Dogwood Valley Road
Hope
BC V0X 1L3
Tel:
604 869 7082
m.gail11@yahoo.ca
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