A wide range of home-made bagels come with a broad selection of fillings here, making it a great quick breakfast or lunch stop. Most filled bagels cost around $5–8. The coffee’s rather watery though, so you might give that a miss. A second branch of this business lies up at the resort – half-way up the Mighty Moose lift –...
Small central wholefood café where food is generally made with fresh local ingredients and where a relaxed atmosphere reigns. It opens at brunchtime (10am) for breakfast, when it serves good burritos ($8.25) and lighter items. Mexican items also make the lunch menu, but there are plenty of other choices such as a falafel pita ($9.25), wraps, sandwiches and the like....
Tiny, earthy and fun café with a glut of fabulous home-made items including tasty egg (free range) breakfasts, wraps, sandwiches (all $6–11), cakes and smoothies. Most items are available to take away and great for picnic lunches.
Friendly, bright and busy café with light wood décor and healty (often vegan and gluten free) food. Granola-based breakfasts are followed by soups, sandwiches and such, including several great Asian dishes: the tofu, spinach and rice Buddha Bowl ($12.25) is excellent thanks to its tahini and garlic dressing. Good option for indie and folksy live music on many evenings (from...
Cheerful family-oriented place with inexpensive diner food that’s particularly great for full breakfasts (most around $12).
Every year around 9 meters (29 feet) of deep powdery snow settle in Fernie’s many wide mountain bowls, delighting skiers and making snowboarders rave. The terrain ranges from wide and easy green runs to daredevil chutes into lightly-wooded intermediate-level bowls where, on weekdays, you can often still find untracked powder snow at the end of the day. Fernie claims the...
Like Panorama, Kimberley lies in the Purcell Mountains, though the squat foothills that surround the relatively small latter resort are a far cry from their hulking cousins further north. Despite this difference, the resorts compare in many ways, with Kimberley also best-known for intermediate skiing. It’s also particularly great for learning, with ideal wide green runs. And with its collection...
Developed specifically for the 1988 Winter Olympics, Nakiska lies beside Kananaskis Village and around an hour’s drive from either Calgary or Banff. Designed from scratch, it’s a supremely user-friendly resort and since it was intended for downhill racers to fly down, the runs here are mostly smooth and steep, making it a great mountain for intermediate-level cruising or beginner snowboarders....
Cradled in a deep valley in the Purcell Mountains, Panorama’s ski area climbs a massive 4000 feet to offer some of the best seats in the house for views of the magnificent main spine of the Rockies – hence the resort’s name. But Panorama’s certainly not all about gazing into the distance, as below its windswept summit lies a virtual...
Bustling café with a good range of breakfast options, excellent coffee and some huge and delicious specialty wraps for lunch. The Crab and Avocado wrap ($9.95) is fantastic. Also highly recommended are the hiker lunches – packs to take with you for the trail – call a day ahead. At the height of summer the place stays open until 9pm...