4 Generations Creations is a Secwepemc-woman-owned, 100% Indigenous-owned shop in Kamloops supplying beading materials, hides, ribbon-skirt kits, and trade cloth for makers, alongside finished art and apparel from Indigenous artists across Turtle Island. The business also curates goods from other Indigenous-owned enterprises, stocking them next to its own craft supplies and books.
Best for Authentic Indigenous art and craft supplies
Hey Neighbour Coffee Roasters names its beans after the growers who supply them, sourcing directly from Honduras, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, and Colombia. Its Good Neighbour Blend currently funds the Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association's adaptive horseback programs.
Best for Farmer-named coffees roasted in Kamloops
Hey Neighbour Coffee Roasters names most of its coffees after the people who grew them — Maria Cáceres, Ashok Patre, Los Nogales Hernández, Elio Diaz, Alejo Castro, Raúl González — rather than hiding behind a generic country label. It's a small choice that puts the direct relationships the Kamloops roastery has built with growers in Honduras, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, and Colombia front and center on every bag, alongside published farmer stories for each origin. The Ethiopian entry, a Yirgacheffe Kochere, follows the same pattern of naming the specific place the beans came from rather than just the country. The roastery's Good Neighbour Blend goes a step further, tying a purchase to a local cause: proceeds currently support the Kamloops Therapeutic Riding Association, which runs adaptive horseback riding programs for children, youth, and adults living with disabilities. Every bag is roasted locally in Kamloops after being sourced directly from the growers whose names it carries, so the roastery's own description of its approach — ethically sourced from farmers around the globe, roasted at home — plays out literally on the label. It's a rare case where the naming convention itself, not just the marketing copy, is the evidence of the direct-trade relationship.
Kamloops Artisans' Bazaar gathers handmade goods from more than 50 local creators inside a Victoria Street storefront that doubles as a gallery and vendor market. Its Mediterraneo kitchen, run by a Puglia-trained chef, serves scratch-made Italian and Mediterranean food alongside the retail floor of gifts and home decor.
Logjam Coffee roasts single-origin lots from Costa Rica, Colombia, and Brazil from its Knutsford hills roastery above Kamloops. Its café occupies the pink building at 437 Tranquille Road and offers roastery tours by request.
Best for Logjam Coffee roasts single-origin lots from Costa Rica, Colombia
Logjam Coffee started in 2020 in a cabin in the Knutsford hills above Kamloops, a beginning the company still points to as the source of its claim to be 'Kamloops' original specialty coffee roaster.' The roastery has stayed up in Knutsford, but the public face of the business is now the café at 437 Tranquille Road, inside what locals call the pink building on Kamloops' North Shore. The single-origin list draws from Colombia (an organic lot from Santander), Costa Rica (a Tarrazu SHB), and Brazil (Sul de Minas Gerais), alongside house blends such as the Knock 'em Dead espresso and a Slo-Mo decaf for anyone cutting back on caffeine without cutting the ritual. Subscriptions run three ways — Roaster's Choice, an espresso-focused plan, and a single-origin filter plan — so regulars can set the format once and let the beans rotate. For anyone curious about how the coffee gets from Knutsford to the pink building's counter, Logjam offers roastery tours by request, tracing the route back to where the company's run actually began.
Monte Creek Winery farms 75 acres of vines on a 1,200-acre property along the South Thompson River, about ten minutes east of Kamloops in the Thompson Valley appellation. The estate uses regenerative farming techniques to produce whites, reds, roses, sparkling wines, and canned formats, pouring them year-round from a tasting room above the vineyard.
Mosaic Books is an independent bookstore in downtown Kamloops that curates its shelves around Canadian literature and hosts regular author signings and readings for local and national writers. The store has become a gathering point for the city's literary community, pairing current releases with staff-chosen backlist and bargain titles.
Privato is a family-owned boutique winery in Kamloops producing reds, whites, and roses under its Privato and Noble Graft labels, alongside Woodward Cider Co. products made on site. The estate pairs its tasting room with a bistro serving lunch daily and hosts weddings and private events across the property.
Red Bridge Distilling holds the distinction of being Kamloops' first craft distillery, producing small-batch spirits from its tasting room at #11 1445 McGill Road. Visitors can drop in during posted afternoon hours or arrange a group tasting by appointment, making the space as much a gathering spot as a production facility.
Sagewood Winery farms a small vineyard on Meadow Lark Road just east of Kamloops, using drip irrigation and organic mulching chosen for the site's terroir. The tasting room pours a wide range, from Trocken Riesling and Gewurztraminer to Merlot and Cabernet Franc, and welcomes walk-ins daily without appointment.
Twisted Goat Coffee Roasters grades every lot at 80-plus points on the Specialty Coffee Association scale and ships within 48 hours of roasting. Its Andover Crescent roastery in Kamloops sources single origins from five countries.
Best for Twisted Goat Coffee Roasters grades every lot at 80-plus points
Twisted Goat Coffee Roasters runs out of a unit on Andover Crescent in Kamloops, and its stated operating rule is speed: every order ships within 48 hours of roasting, straight to the customer's door. That turnaround is paired with a quality floor — the company grades its own beans at 80-plus points on the Specialty Coffee Association scale, the benchmark used across the specialty trade to separate graded lots from commodity coffee. The lineup runs entirely on 100% Arabica, roasted to avoid the oily surface sheen the company associates with over-roasting, and spans single-origin offerings from Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia, Nicaragua, and Ethiopia alongside blends carrying names like Sugarloaf, Battle Bluff, Hoodoo, and Wild West. The Weekend Brew Box and other subscription-style boxes qualify for free shipping once an order clears $65, a threshold meant to bundle a few bags rather than sell single units at a loss on shipping. With more than 4,900 five-star reviews logged on the company's own site, the Andover Crescent roastery has built its reputation less on story and more on the mechanics — grading standard, roast date, and ship time — that it puts front and center for every order.
Wildfire Coffee Roasters takes orders by text message and donates 5% of every bag to wildfire and disaster relief via the Red Cross and SPCA. Its bestselling Initial Attack Medium Roast ships from Kamloops with free in-city delivery.
Best for Wildfire Coffee Roasters takes orders by text message and donates 5%
Wildfire Coffee Roasters skips a conventional storefront and online cart altogether — customers place orders by texting 778-220-9649 with their item, quantity, address, and name, then pay by e-transfer, card, or cash on delivery. It's a direct-to-neighbour model shaped by where the company operates: Kamloops, a region that has lived through repeated wildfire seasons, which is also why 5% of every bag sold goes to wildfire and disaster relief through the Red Cross and the SPCA. The bestselling Initial Attack Medium Roast, a 340-gram bag named for the firefighting term for the first response to a new blaze, sits alongside seasonal releases like the 'Sleighin' It' Holiday Dark Roast and merchandise such as ceramic camp mugs. Orders placed before Wednesday at midnight get free delivery within Kamloops by Friday; anyone outside city limits pays standard Canada Post rates. The company has said an online store is coming, but for now the text-in system is the entire storefront — a small-batch roaster reachable by phone number rather than a checkout page, with its charitable cut baked into every bag rather than treated as a seasonal promotion.