Breakfast

A continental-style light breakfast is included with your overnight stay, including coffee or tea, fruit, and yogurt...and perhaps an unexpected treat from time to time :) We would be pleased to serve you a hot breakfast as an additional service added to your stay. A sample menu follows:

~ Breakfast casserole with fresh organic baby spinach, extra-aged cheddar, fresh organic herbs and organic walla walla onions
~ Muffins warm from the oven with homemade organic blackberry confiture
~ Freshly-picked strawberries with natural organic yogurt and homemade granola
~ Freshly-made unfiltered apple juice
~ Freshly-brewed fair trade organic coffee served with warmed milk

Please let us know before you arrive if you have certain preferences or desires. Otherwise your breakfast will be made from the freshest and best in season ingredients available.

Chef Services

For those who wish to dine at the retreat we are pleased to offer chef services for all your meals.

Your enjoyment of fine cuisine is an important ingredient of your eco retreat experience. So, great care is taken to make fabulous food a most memorable part of your vacation retreat.

Meals and Beverages

From tree to table, from quality local suppliers, and from our own hands, we create mouth-watering culinary delights, wrapped in caring and love.

Vegetarians, vegans, and those with special food needs are lovingly accommodated.

Foodies are enthusiastically invited to participate in cuisine creation. Playing with your food is encouraged! Get up-close-and-personal with the food you eat: It is yet another way to connect with the earth, and with your own nourishment. Experience 'digging in the dirt' in our on-site organic garden… harvest fruits, vegetables, and herbs for daily meals, and just enjoy a simple way to bond with our planet.

There are other ways for non-foodies to get connected… you may be a gatherer, or may just wish to sip a glass of fine organic BC wine.

In whatever way, connection with your meal's creation is paramount to the fullness of your enjoyment. You will flush with fulfillment at having joined-in.

Menus change depending on each day, each season, and according to guest desires…with mother nature providing the most basic ingredients at her whim.

Daily Food Experiences at the Retreat

“Morning Indulgence” is brought to your cabin, at whatever time you awaken. Whether you prefer latte, tea, or other hot or cold beverage, it is a gentle way to warm up to your day…along with a little treat that is kept as a secret surprise.

If you aren't a lounge-in-bed-with-your-latte kind of person, watching the sun rise at Sunshine Point with a warm beverage is also a favoured client experience. In addition to warm robes provided by the retreat, extra wraps are available for cooler mornings at Sunshine Point.

Bathrobes and Bed-head are not only acceptable morning attire, they are encouraged. We especially look forward to the many variations of “bed-head” every morning, and sometimes a prize is awarded.

A full Breakfast is served in the Belvedere overlooking the river under the forest canopy surrounded by nature.

Luncheon is generally eaten wherever you desire…riverside, at the beach, on the trail…it depends upon on each day's journey.

Tapas are served pre-dinner with a glass of wine. Depending on the day (how late lunch was consumed, what type and when dinner is served, the type of appetizer), tapas may not always be appropriate.

Fine wine complements your dining experiences. A modest collection of premium organic wines, BC VQA (Varietal Quality Assurance) wines, and other fine wines are always on hand. Organic lagers and ales are supplied for non-wine lovers. De-alcoholized wines and other soft beverages are served to those who so-desire.

Snacks are available whenever requested, as are soft beverages.

Menu samples (just a tiny hint)

Close your eyes and imagine culinary experiences awaiting you.

	Morning indulgence served at your cabin ~ Hot foamed milk with dark-roasted fair trade organic coffee and amber crystal sugar or ~ Slow steeped tea or herbal tisanes served with local farm honey, organic lemon, or milk ~ Served with a little secret surprise
	Breakfast served in the Riverside Belvedere ~ Breakfast casserole with fresh organic baby spinach, extra-aged cheddar, fresh organic herbs and organic walla walla onions ~ Muffins warm from the oven with homemade organic blackberry confiture ~ Freshly-picked strawberries with natural organic yogurt and homemade granola ~ Freshly-made unfiltered apple juice ~ Freshly-brewed fair trade organic coffee served with warmed milk
	Lunch on the trail ~ Crusty artisan bread with choice provolone cheese, fresh organic lettuce, tomato, zesty farmer sausage, served with fresh herbed mayonaise ~ Garden carrots, peppers, radishes, scallions with fresh herb and yogurt dip ~ Custom-created personal trail mix of roasted nuts, dried fruit, and grains ~ Cool well-water from the Retreat; the same aquifer used by Nestle/Perrier
	Afternoon beverage by the river ~ Cool “Kokahito” - a tall cool drink made with freshly-picked organic mint, freshly squeezed organic lemon , organic cane sugar, and cool well water
	Tapas on the deck ~ Tangy olive tempenade with organic homemade crackers ~ West coast mussels poached in white wine and fresh herbs ~ Fresh baby zucchini spears ~ Apple slices with Danish stilton cheese
	Dinner in the Riverside Belvedere Salute to BC Salmon ~ Signature salmon candy chocolates ~ Cedar-planked local wild Fraser River sockeye salmon grilled outdoors with organic Parsley-French Sorrel Pesto ~ Organic french fingerling potatoes grilled outdoors with organic orange olive oil, fresh organic rosemary and lemon thyme ~ Freshly-picked organic green beans with roasted local hazelnuts ~ Wild huckleberry Gerwurtzraminer stained-glass gelatin served with coffee/tea
	Special Occassions Are you celebrating a special occassion? Just let us know and we will make a special culinary treat to match the occassion. ~ Wedding Cake ~ Birthday Cake ~ Special Favourite
	Vegetarians, Vegans, Specialty Diets Vegetarians, vegans, and those with special needs are lovingly accommodated.

Finest and Freshest

Great cuisine commands great ingredients!

Do you know where you food is from? We do.

The on-site organic garden is an important feature at the eco retreat.

Not only does it provide the basis for most of our delicious cuisine, it also provides an important link we miss in today’s world between what shows up on our plates and how it got there. Each minute spent “working” in the garden provides nourishment for the earth, our tummies, our minds, and our souls.

There really is no way to adequately describe the taste of freshly-harvested produce: the incredible mouth-watering flavour of a sun-warmed strawberry… a just-picked tomato eaten like an apple… a carrot still moist with earth.

Fresh from the organic garden, a nutritious variety of seasonal vegetables are experienced in every meal.

Fresh from our small orchard seasonal fruits and berries abound.

Culinary herbs are grown just steps from the kitchen door.

Organically-raised meat, poultry, and eggs come from Decker Farms, a short 15 minutes from the Retreat. Our long-standing relationship with Diana Decker of Decker Farms ensures us the finest possible organic food ingredients.

Calves are raised on fresh milk and field forage…organic chicken feed is supplemented with flax to increase omega “good” fat in eggs, and to provide the finest flavour in poultry.

Fish and seafood are sourced from local fisheries that are proven to be sustainable. Salmon, when ecologically safe to do so, is provided by a local Native commercial fisher from the Fraser River. Shellfish is sourced from reputable suppliers reporting sustainable origins.

Cheeses are sourced from a variety of places, the most local being 30 minutes away at Farm House Natural Cheeses.

Yogurt is from Local Fraser Valley Dairies within one hour of the retreat

Grains, while sourced from Anita's Organic Mill 45 minutes from the Retreat, come mainly from the Canadian Prairies.

Wines, for the most part, are local. One of our main wineries represented in the retreat cellar is Lotusland Vineyards, an organic winery about one hour from the retreat. Other local Fraser Valley Wineries and Okanagan Wineries are well-represented at the table. Occassionally a good organic wine appears from far away lands and we bring it to the table as a rarity.

Beverages – Juices are mainly made on-site, as are Kokahitos, with some organic apple juice from the Fraser Valley or the Okanagan. Beers are sourced from a variety of BC micro-breweries.

While every effort is made to put the most local fresh ingredients into foods created At Kw'o:kw'e:hala, we will not sacrifice “the best” from afar. Examples of these foods are:

Coffee: We cannot grow coffee locally. We do, however, buy fair trade organic coffee in recognition of our sustainability philosophies.
Some cheeses: A fine parmigiano reggiano, comes only from Italy, Denmark, France, and Germany and Switzerland all produce specialty cheeses we love.
Citrus: There is no substitute grown locally so we source mainly from the closest source, California organics.

Until premium products can be found locally, or even on this continent, a small percentage of our foods will continue to be sourced from afar.

Breakfast

Breakfast served in the Riverside Belvedere

Chef Services

Cuisine Philosophies

Meals and Beverages

Daily Food Experiences at the Retreat

Menu samples (just a tiny hint)

Morning indulgence served at your cabin

Breakfast served in the Riverside Belvedere

Lunch on the trail

Afternoon beverage by the river

Tapas on the deck

Dinner in the Riverside Belvedere

Special Occassions

Vegetarians, Vegans, Specialty Diets

Finest and Freshest

Bon Appétit!