The Naramata Inn sits behind a hedgerow on 1st Street, easy to miss if you don't know to peek through the gap. Built by J. M. Robinson, the spiritually-inclined founder of Naramata village, it was home to the first ornamental garden in the area, with flower beds that once ran to the shore of Okanagan Lake.
More than a century later, the inn made a remarkable second act. In 2020, celebrity chef Ned Bell and wife Kate Colley joined a revitalisation effort, and its restaurant quickly earned a place among Canada's 100 best. Bell had previously served a geoduck clam to Princess Kate, biked 8,700 kilometres across Canada for ocean conservation, and founded Chefs for Oceans. In Naramata, he turned his attention to hyper-local ingredients.
VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace the inn's place in village life, connecting Robinson's founding vision to the slow-food culture that defines Naramata today.