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Valley Graze,Merritt BC

So, here’s a photo of the coffee menu at the local Valley Graze eatery and social hub. The restaurant is located off Nicola avenue with city parking on Garcia it is a cozy and bright place rum by locals with a cowboy demeanor or (Conservative Rural).

Genetated bio

**Valley Graze** (also known as the Valley Graze Box) is a highly regarded local café, restaurant, and artisanal catering business in Merritt that has quickly become a community hub for fresh, wholesome food. Located at **2114 Nicola Avenue**, the café features an inviting “Makers Collective” atmosphere that frequently hosts local seniors’ social gatherings and community markets. While it began with a focus on beautifully arranged, colorful grazing boxes and charcuterie trays for events, the storefront menu showcases a broad variety of fresh café and breakfast cuisine. This includes elevated options like their ultimate breakfast sandwiches, wraps, house-made salads, and specialty artisanal pastries and focaccias brought in fresh from the local Petit Creek Bakery. Operating primarily on daytime hours—typically opening early at **7:00 AM until 2:00 PM** (though closed on Mondays and featuring shorter weekend hours)—it provides an ideal morning or midday stop.

Convenient parking is easily accessible right out front along Nicola Avenue and in the immediate vicinity, making it a highly accessible destination whether you are stopping in for a quick espresso or picking up an individual lunch box on the move.

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Rip Hans Kruse

Hans Kruse recently passed from this life and we remember him as the driver literally and figuratively for HK trucking in Merritt BC. And the trucking magnet for this little place took advantage of deregulation in a 1980s that saw  trucking deregulated in BC, licenses were given out but tariffs or rates we’re wide open for competition.

High times

Entrepreneurship was the catchy of the day. Many people held down a full-time job in a mine or a mill + yet there was a Proprietoratory drive that saw small business on the part-time level as well as a small mom and pops  like HK struggle to succeed. More than extra money and the less than economies of scale. But individualism had its way,

However, not without casualties. We won’t go into that right at this point 😞 But you know in life that one’s freedom is often somebody else’s peril.

Good luck no passing in the saints lane.