Rivers Restaurant

Yarrow reads as a separate village because it was one. Twelve Mennonite families arrived in February 1928 and bought land that had only recently stopped being underwater; the draining of Sumas Lake and the cutting of the Vedder Canal a few years earlier are the reason there is anything to farm out here at all. The community ran as its own centre for decades before amalgamation folded it into Chilliwack, and Rivers Restaurant is listed on Yarrow Central Road at number 42239.

What the listing does not carry is anything about the food. No phone number and no website are on file, so the menu, the hours and whether a table needs booking are all unknown from here, and for a place this far out from the centre of the city those are not small unknowns. Chains are excluded from this directory, which at least establishes that this is an independent room rather than an outpost of something larger. Beyond that, the honest advice is to ring ahead if you can find a number, and to confirm it is open before making the drive, because Yarrow is far enough from the rest of Chilliwack that a closed door is a wasted trip rather than a minor inconvenience.