Head chef Steel Sigurdson-Wallace at the Prestige Vernon Lodge. (Vernon Matters photo)

By Kevin Rothwell

New menu items

Vernon business ramping up food service after renovations

Dec 19, 2022 | 12:00 PM

The chefs at the Prestige Vernon Lodge are all smiles following a more than two month renovation that saw the iconic hotel’s kitchen completely renovated.

The culinary team serving Don Cherry’s Sports Bar, hotel room service and banquets had to operate from a mobile Atco kitchen parked adjacent to the hotel during that period.

The Atrium Restaurant has also been shut down since before COVID-19.

“In that time, the hotel was doing renovations, the roof had to be redone, all the windows surrounding the plants, the hot tub and swimming pool were redone. So that has all been done in the past three years,” Rick Reichelt of B.R.I.C .said.

B.R.I.C. Hospitality Group handles food services for both Prestige Hotel properties in Vernon.

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The renovations will allow B.R.I.C. to re-open the Atrium Restaurant.

“The kitchen was gutted and redone completely, so what the plan is — sometime in the coming year — is to re-open the atrium area. Right now we are shooting for the spring,” Reichelt said.

The kitchen renovation includes some specialty equipment like a pasta station, which will allow for some new menu items.

“Don Cherry’s menu is going to be redone in January, and the Atrium will have a brand new menu that won’t be coming until later, but we will have new items coming on-board in both,” Reichelt added.

Operating out of a temporary kitchen presented some challenges as the holiday banquet season hit.

“This will get us back on track to handle larger banquets. We had to rent the Recreation Centre kitchen on two separate weekends to do Christmas parties,” Reichelt said.

by Kevin Rothwell

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