You never know who you’ll see at this Cherryville, B.C. roadhouse

Boy, you just never know who’s going to pop into B.C.’s Cherryville RV Golf and Roadhouse Café for a bite to eat.

The unassuming café is located on Highway 6, east of the north Okanagan community of Vernon. One day, Roadhouse owner Brian Gatzke and his staff are serving lunch to Academy Award-winning director James Cameron (winner for Titanic, Oscar-nominated for Avatar). He was in the region looking at property with local realtor Pat Duggan.

Another day it’s Canadian actor Kim Coates, who starred as Tig in the FX motorcycle gang series Sons of Anarchy. He’s enjoyed the food at the Roadhouse so much he’s been there twice.

And now, the café’s Perogie Platter could become the subject of another hit record from American country music superstar Dierks Bentley, who stopped off at the Roadhouse with a large group in March.

Bentley and friends had been powder skiing in the Monashee Mountains with Kingfisher Heli-Skiing out of Revelstoke when they headed into Cherryville to get something to eat.

“I know who Dierks is, but I didn’t recognize him,” says Gatzke, who’s owned the RV park, golf course, and restaurant for 18 years. “He was up admiring some of the things on our wall when a husband and wife and their two kids asked if he was Dierks. The cat was out of the bag.”

Gatzke says Bentley was extremely friendly and polite, happily posing for pictures, including one with Roadhouse staffers Meg and Laura.

“He was cool with everyone,” says Gatzke, who had a chance to have a good conversation with the multi-award-winning singer. Gatzke happened to have a couple of his guitars nearby, and he and Bentley chatted about that and other things in the restaurant.

Bentley ordered the 12-piece Perogie Platter, served up by the café’s owner. The delicacies are made with bacon and cheddar cheese, and comes with farmer’s sausage.

“He couldn’t finish it, but he loved it,” Gatzke laughs.

Bentley is a five-time Male Vocalist of the Year winner, and six-time Album of the Year winner from the Country Music Association Awards. He’s also been the Academy of Country Music Awards’ Male Vocalist of the Year three times, a two-time winner of Male Artist of the Year, and a six-time collector of the Album of the Year trophy.

His Broken Branches Tour begins May 29 in Austin, TX, but the only Canadian stop so far is slated for June 12 in Toronto.

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