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Also this week: Staff reporter Daniel Walters pulls back the curtain on Spokane’s newest police contract (page 10), culture writer Chey Scott explores the MAC’s Downton Abbey-inspired exhibit (page 16) and film editor Nathan Weinbender lists his favorite Oscar-worthy performances that were ultimately snubbed by the Academy (page 28).

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JIM MCDONALD: I wouldn’t go there, and I would not be happy with what it does to parking. Put it out in a nice field somewhere with acres of parking.

CALVIN J. H. BLUM: Here’s a crazy thought: What if we finished the north-south freeway, finished expanding I-90, and proved that we can keep up on maintaining our roads before we try to build something that can cripple traffic for miles?

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n Jan. 6, 2021, an armed mob broke into the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., at the urging of the president of the United States. Whipped into a frenzy by the now-former President Trump’s lies about a stolen election, these insurrectionists attacked law enforcement officers in a violent attempt to prevent the House of Representatives from certifying election results from the states. It was a dark day for our democratic republic that portends future violence from right-wing extremists in the years ahead.

In my last column, which appeared the day after the violence at the Capitol, I called upon Inland Northwesterners to “be like Washington” by getting themselves vaccinated against COVID-19. I hoped that 21st-century Americans could learn from George Washington’s example

by embracing an ambitious inoculation program like the one he pursued with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Trump’s incitement of a mob to attack the Capitol reveals that he, too, could learn a lot from George Washington. While Trump encouraged his supporters to “fight” against Congress in 2021, Washington defended Congress from a potential coup from his officer corps in 1783.

Two years after the American victory over British forces at Yorktown in 1781, the Continental Army was camped outside New York City, keeping watch over the British garrison that

remained there. Great Britain had largely ceased offensive operations on the North American mainland after Yorktown, but the war dragged on in the Caribbean and in Europe as France and Spain both hoped to dismember the British Empire.

After eight long years of war, the soldiers of the Continental Army had time to look to the future in their camp in Newburgh, New York. And in doing so, a growing number of officers grew increasingly resentful over Congress’s broken promises, which included mounting back pay and inaction on veterans’ pensions.

Earlier petitions had failed to bring about any government action, and by 1783 passions were rising. Encouraged by some shadowy members of Congress, a cabal of officers urged the army to present an ultimatum to Congress. The exact nature of this “ultimatum” is unclear, but the officers planned to threaten some form of extralegal action against the government of the United States.

If Washington had wanted to become king, or a dictator, now was his chance. He could have mobilized the discontent of the Continental Army to advance his private ambition. Instead, the general performed a master class in political theater to uphold the rule of law, no matter Congress’s shabby treatment of his officers and men. Washington arrived unexpectedly at a meeting of the discontented officers to persuade them of their folly. With a written address in hand, the 51-year-old general took a pair of glasses from his pocket, noting “Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country.” Many officers were moved to tears

by Washington’s eloquent display of the price he had paid for service to his country. This simple act helped to defuse the tense atmosphere of the meeting, and the officers heeded the entreaty of their commander-in-chief to remain loyal to Congress.

“Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country.”

Shortly after defusing the so-called Newburgh Conspiracy, Washington resigned his commission in the Continental Army.

Washington’s yielding of power earned him the respect of even his archenemy, King George III. When told that Washington intended to return to retire to private life, the British King commented, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

The contrast between our first and 45th presidents could not be clearer. While our 45th president ignited a powder keg of resentment that he himself had helped to fill with his lies about systematic electoral fraud in 2021, George Washington helped to defuse an attempted coup against Congress in 1783. When both had the opportunity to mobilize an insurrection against our elected representatives, Trump’s narcissistic pursuit of power at any price threatened the survival of our democracy; Washington’s selfless dedication to public service meant that he surrendered power to save our fledgling republic.

To celebrate Washington for not installing himself as a dictator in 1783 is, in many ways, faint praise. It is the very least that we should expect more from our military and political leaders.

Nevertheless, despite his many flaws — Washington was an ambitious man who was used to wielding absolute power over the enslaved community on his plantation of Mount Vernon — the first president was a committed public servant. But if there is one thing that we learned about Trump during his tumultuous presidency, it is that he was never able to transcend his innumerable character failings. n

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Readers respond to last week’s story detailing issues in downtown Coeur d’Alene that have been fueled in part by out-ofstaters traveling to the Lake City to party:

GARRY ZIMMERMAN: According to the article, the issue is over-serving and not where folks live. It seems logical to address this, but that would interfere in commerce and we can’t have that.

BENNETT DANELO: Before we put ourselves on a pedestal, Washingtonians, I’d like to see the stats on how many of these people are citizens of Idaho and how many are disgruntled citizens from Washington state.

TRAYVON PARKER: Washington people going to Idaho and starting fights I see.

CHARLIE ZELLER: Idaho gonna Idaho.

SCOTT BAYCROFT: People seem very edgy after reopening. This climate is getting dangerous.

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Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward says the idea of bringing Breean Beggs to the negotiating table came from the police union.

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pokane Mayor Nadine Woodward remembers seeing the police officers’ faces in June when the Spokane City Council struck down their proposed contract with a unanimous 7-0 vote.

“The officers were watching that count happen as I was speaking to them,” Woodward says. “They were completely dejected, frustrated, upset. I got to see that personally.”

The union had gone over three years without a current contract or pay raises. And yet, much of the public had been waiting more than seven years for independent police oversight that they’d voted for in a 2013 ballot initiative and saw that contract proposal as again shortchanging promised oversight.

In the midst of the national flood of activism tied to George Floyd’s death, City Council President Breean Beggs decried the proposal as a step backward. The council was flooded with thousands of emails. Over 20 local Black leaders took out a full-page ad in the Spokesman-Review decrying the proposal.

Contrast all that with what happened last Monday: When the council unanimously approved the latest version of the contract, only a single citizen objected at the meeting. Both Beggs and the Spokane Police Guild publicly touted the result as a victory for both the police and for civilian oversight.

At a time when city councils and state legislatures across the country are trying to turn last summer’s demands for reform into actual policy, it offers proof that agreement is possible. But it also shows just how long it can take to get there.

“I heard of a whiteboard in the police department where officers were tallying every day they had gone without a contract,” Woodward says.

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been reached last month, she says, “that day was 1,500.”

ENTER BREEAN BEGGS

It was the police union, Woodward says, that came to her with a solution: Bring Council President Beggs to the negotiating table.

In one sense, it was a bold move. During the depths of a police brutality scandal a decade ago, Beggs had been one of the department’s biggest critics: He was the one who represented the family of Otto Zehm, a mentally disabled janitor who died after being beaten by police officer Karl Thompson.

“Guild leadership contacted me and said, ‘We’re not going to get any movement on this, unless we do something different,’” Woodward says. “The council president was quite surprised when I called him and asked him if he wanted to be a part of this process.”

Beggs had been partially responsible for the creation of Spokane’s police ombudsman, the figure in charge of providing independent police oversight. He’d even served as the attorney for the commission that hires and oversees the ombudsman.

And since many of the sticking points around the contract concerned the ombudsman, Beggs was a logical choice to represent that point of view.

Woodward says that Beggs “did a great job of explaining what the oversight should look like” while the guild was equally articulate in laying out their concerns.

“When you get to the table, and truly for the first time, people are listening to each other,” Woodward says, “that was the game changer: Each side got to learn from each other.”

In this case, there was an actual table. In a year dominated by glitch-ridden Zoom meetings, these meetings were held the old-fashioned way: Beggs, the mayor,

the police guild, attorneys and human resources staffers all gathered in a City Hall conference room, often for as long as four hours at a time.

Many of those hours, Beggs says, were dedicated to “deep listening,” trying to understand the root of everyone’s concerns.

Beggs is careful not to talk about exactly what happened behind closed doors. Just as Spokane residents voted to support independent police oversight, they also officially voted two years ago to hold these sorts of union negotiations in public. Yet these negotiations were still sealed off under the old set of rules.

But in other contexts, he says, the guild has previously argued that they wanted to write a contract that protected them no matter who the mayor, police chief or ombudsman might be.

“They were kind of living in that world of ‘worst case scenario — what if we have everybody in leadership against us? How are we gonna protect our members?’”

Beggs says.

The trick, Beggs says, was figuring out how to address those fears and provide more oversight at the same time.

“To be able to listen, and learn and find common ground where everybody could agree — it took hours and hours to get to that point,” Woodward says.

Finally last month, they came to an agreement. The police guild did not respond to an Inlander interview request before deadline, but Spokane Police Guild President Kristopher Honaker praised Beggs and Woodward for their involvement in a press conference last month.

“It’s a better product for the citizens of Spokane and for our membership as well,” Honaker says.

It took so long to approve the recent contract, however, that it’s almost time for the city to start negotiating the next one.

A (PARTIALLY) EMPOWERED OMBUDSMAN

The man in charge of police oversight right now, Ombudsman Bart Logue, is a lot more mixed about the new contract. Yes, he sees progress: Unlike last year’s proposal, the guild wouldn’t be able to try to get him fired

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by filing a grievance that he was “exceeding his authority.” He’s happy that the contract lets him share more of his authority with the deputy ombudsman, so his office won’t shut down whenever he’s on vacation.

And he’s pleased that the contract officially grants him the power to write a closing report about what happened in a controversial incident. But he says he’s still limited in what he can say in a way that he believes “crosses the line from what the public expects to read in a report.”

He’s barred from naming specific officers, from agreeing or disagreeing with the police chief’s disciplinary decisions, or writing whether an officer’s actions broke the city’s policy.

The new contract explicitly says the ombudsman isn’t allowed to “criticize an officer or witness” at all.

Still, Logue says he’s a thoughtful enough writer to be able to weave between these restrictions.

He can’t use the phrase “violated a policy,” he says, “but what I can do is write what the policy is, and then describe what happened.”

He’s more concerned about the ways independent investigations are still restricted. If an incident is a “serious matter” — something that could lead to “suspension, demotion, or discharge” of an officer — the ombudsman commission decides whether to approve a request from Logue to conduct an independent third-party investigation.

The trouble is, Logue says, that the contract doesn’t explicitly say who gets to decide whether the incident reaches that level. In the past, a stalemate meant no investigation.

Beggs says the new contract does lay out a way to resolve that or any other unanswered question: Disputes can be taken to arbitration.

Logue is wary that the arbitration process could be used to bog him down in grievances. But he says he can handle it. Ultimately, he sees the agreement as a small step forward.

“If I were a city councilperson, I probably would have voted for it. Because it’s been too long,” Logue says. “And the city owes it to the police to treat their employees correctly.”

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Last June, Beggs published a long list of 17 possible police reforms, including limiting the use of police dogs, neck restraints, rubber bullets and armored vehicles. Yet instead of trying to push the reforms through the council immediately, Beggs chose the slower route. He and the mayor agreed to hold face-to-face facilitated discussions involving community members about police reform.

In part because of COVID, months passed without those discussions taking place.

In the meantime, the state Legislature has already been covering some of the same ground. The state House, for example, passed a bill to ban chokeholds, neck restraints and no-knock warrants and to limit the use of tear gas. The state Senate, almost unanimously, passed a bill to create a statewide database to consistently track when officers use force against members of the public.

The mayor and the council are tentatively scheduled to have their first public police-reform discussion at the end of next month, though the location and topic list still hasn’t been hammered out.

“We anticipate this isn’t just one meeting,” Woodward says.

“These are conversations that will continue throughout the year.”

To Beggs, creating reform that sticks is something that takes time. It’s about listening, about relationships, about tenacity.

He references the old proverb about how “if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together,” and says “we’re planning on going someplace far with police reform.”

But Beggs is nothing if not patient. When the contract passed last Monday giving the ombudsman more investigative authority, he says, his daughter posted to her Instagram: “My dad was working on this when I was in second-grade. Congratulations, Dad.” Today, he says, his daughter is a junior in college. n danielw@inlander.com

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The HalfYear Wait Washington judges are only now hearing unemployment appeals from October as the state addresses a crushing backlog

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magine a global pandemic shutters your work, you apply for unemployment, and for one reason or another, you’re told you don’t qualify even though you’re sure you do.

You can appeal that decision, but now because there are hundreds of thousands of other people applying at the same time — thousands with similar issues — your appeal could take three, four, five months just to get a yes or no.

Appeals that aren’t redetermined internally by Washington’s Employment Security Department are passed on to the Office of Administrative Hearings, where claimants represent themselves in a simple, virtual hearing in front of a lawyer who serves as an administrative law judge.

In normal times, the entire process of an appeal going through Employment Security for review and then to a hearing with a judge is not supposed to take more than 30 days.

But with a current backlog of more than 31,000 unemployment cases, it’s taking about five months before an unemployment appeal makes it to a hearing.

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It’s taking about five months before an unemployment appeal makes it to a hearing.

In some cases, people have to prove their identity, as a result of a massive fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from the system. In other cases, people have been told they don’t qualify and need to pay back hundreds or even thousands of dollars before their appeal is heard.

For all unemployment appeals, the process is taking too long.

The office has already doubled the number of judges hearing unemployment appeals, adding 27 full-time positions to the 30 full-time-equivalent judges they already had, and there are plans to add 45 more if a budget request is approved, says Josh Sundt, deputy chief administrative law judge at the Office of Administrative Hearings. Despite all that, it could still be late this year before the office is again able to move appeals through within a month, he says.

The reason for the backlog is clear. In a normal calendar year, judges would oversee about 30,000 unemployment appeal hearings, Sundt says. But in the six months from July through December 2020, the office received about 45,000 unemployment appeals.

“Currently it is taking way too long — that’s the bottom line,” Sundt says. “It is distressing not just for me but basically everybody in the agency who is working on these cases. We hear in the call center the distressed callers who are desperate sometimes and wondering what they’re going to do.”

Complicated cases are also separated out from simple ones, which are put into what are called “rocket dockets” where judges only need to schedule 30 minutes for each case.

A lot of people are not showing up for their hearings, so the office is working to improve communication ahead of time, Sundt says. Some judges can also use group dockets where people call in on the morning they’re scheduled for and then the judge sets a time for each hearing based on who shows up.

“Currently it is taking way too long — that’s the bottom line. It is distressing not just for me but basically everybody in the agency who is working on these cases.”

IDENTIFICATION, ELIGIBILITY, PANDEMIC ASSISTANCE

Even though the Office of Administrative Hearings has brought on new judges and is hiring more, it can take about six weeks to fully train someone to oversee these types of cases, Sundt explains.

In the meantime, it’s up to the group of full- and parttime judges who are already trained to tackle the backlog.

The office generally deals with cases on a first-in, first-out basis. As of the first week of March, judges were only just starting to hear appeals from early to midOctober.

Appeals are very limited in scope, typically only dealing with whether someone is eligible for unemployment (in normal times that could include proving they are looking for work, and currently often involves proving their identity) and whether they qualify, which typically comes down to whether you quit or were fired, and what happened.

People don’t always understand that administrative law judges do not have access to claimants’ Employment Security accounts, says Christine Weaver, who serves as a part-time administrative law judge hearing unemployment cases. She can only use documents provided by each party and then whatever she can glean during a hearing to make her decision.

“A lot of people think that because we are the appeals judges that we automatically know all the history of their claims. So I have to be very clear with them that, ‘No, I don’t know except what’s in the packet,’” Weaver says “[As] an administrative law judge as opposed to a regular judge … most of the time we ask the questions of the

witnesses, so we can get what we need right away instead of waiting for someone else to ask all the questions.”

Some common issues she sees include: people who have tried to upload their identification but they missed the deadline to do so or Employment Security is still questioning its validity; people who have been required to pay back benefits before an appeal determines whether they’re truly allowed to get benefits; and people who are confused by the process to get expanded benefits being provided during the pandemic.

“Sometimes half of my docket in a day when I do these rocket dockets will be taken up with identification,” Weaver says.

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Send comments to Around October, it became editor@inlander.com. clear that a relatively large number of identificationverification cases coming in appeared to already include adequate proof of identification, Sundt says.

So staff at the Office of Administrative Hearings reviewed about 1,800 ID cases and sent 400 back to Employment Security for review. Most of those cases returned to Employment Security were redetermined without needing a hearing.

“ESD has been getting better at reviewing cases themselves,” says Sundt at the Office of Administrative Hearings. “Last month we reviewed 250 cases and only found 16 that were candidates for redetermination.”

Still, many cases need to go before an administrative law judge, and with the current wait times, that’s resulting in instances where people may have been paid benefits that Employment Security has asked them to repay because they appeared to be ineligible. In some of these cases, when an appeal is finally heard, it turns out they were eligible after all.

“It hurts me, because people are now a year out, and the majority of people deserve these benefits, they need these benefits,” Weaver says, noting that she does sometimes see cases where people clearly aren’t eligible, but it’s less common right now.

In some cases people have told her they were sent to collections and assessed fees, but due to the limited scope of administrative law judges in these cases, she is unable to tell them whether or when they’ll see that money back, as cases are returned to Employment Security for further action.

“I can’t tell you how many claimants I’ve had that are homeless. They’ve lost everything, they worked in the service industry, and it’s so painful,” Weaver says. “All I know is that my order goes back to Employment Security for them to act on.”

One solution that could help would be to simply wait to demand repayment until after appeals are heard, Weaver says.

“That would make sense to me. You would get the opportunity to make your case before you have to pay that,” Weaver says, “because the vast majority of the cases I see are people that desperately need it.”

A spokesman for the Employment Security Department did not return multiple phone calls seeking comment for this story.

Another common issue involves Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, which made previously ineligible people, such as those who are self-employed, eligible for some unemployment benefits.

Many people don’t understand, however, that they need to first apply for normal benefits, get denied for those, and then apply for PUA benefits, Weaver says. Many have appealed the denial for normal benefits, only to sit through the monthslong process and have a judge like Weaver explain that they actually needed to apply for PUA as their next step.

“I spend a lot of time informing people, ‘This is why I can’t find in your favor, because you’re still in the process for state benefits and you need to apply for the PUA,’” Weaver says.

The good news is that current forecasts predict the peak of appeals has likely happened already, so the office should be able to start getting a handle on the backlog, Sundt says.

“We know we need to be getting through the cases faster,” Sundt says. “We’re projecting that it will only get better from here.” n samanthaw@inlander.com

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Commitment Issues With buildings now open for in-person learning, Spokane schools try to provide options for reluctant parents

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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ast week, high school students in Spokane returned to in-person classes, marking the first time in a year that Spokane Public Schools students of all ages had a real live teacher in front of them.

It wasn’t a moment of celebration for everyone, however. Spokane Public Schools says many parents have tried to enroll their middle school and high school students into the district’s virtual program, Spokane Virtual Academy, instead of returning to in-person classes. The waiting list numbers more than 100 students, according to Heather Bybee, the district’s curriculum director. She says students on that list will be enrolled in the virtual school within the next couple weeks.

“We’re currently building out more classes to address those that are now wanting to shift to virtual,” Bybee says.

The situation reflects the difficult positions that school districts and parents are still in, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has urged schools to reopen, citing evidence that they should be safe with proper precautions. But many parents aren’t convinced, so school districts are scrambling to provide the options that families are looking for.

Spokane Public Schools made an agreement with its teachers union that educators can’t teach a class in-person and virtually at the same time. Families, then, must choose an all-virtual option if they don’t feel comfortable back in the school building.

For some parents, that choice can feel paralyzing.

Nikki Easterling says her sixth-grade daughter returned to Finch Elementary School nearly a month ago, but Easterling worries for her safety. Her daughter is asthmatic, and Easterling feels a school environment is putting her daughter at a greater risk of contracting and spreading COVID-19.

The alternatives, however, aren’t much better for Easterling. Remote learning didn’t work, and neither did homeschooling. She doesn’t want her 12-year-old to fall behind.

“It’s irresolvable,” Easterling says. “No matter what decision, there are enormous costs that feel almost insurmountable.”

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t the start of the school year, Mead School District — flouting local health recommendations — opened for in-person instruction. In doing so, the district tried to avoid a scenario where parents were

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locked into in-person or virtual school. Some students were allowed to attend classes virtually.

That meant teachers not only taught students inperson, but also had to be mindful of the students on a laptop at the same time.

That part hasn’t exactly worked, says Toby Doolittle, president of the Mead Education Association.

“It’s not possible to meet the virtual needs of students simultaneously with in-person kids,” Doolittle says.

If one of the students in the classroom raises their hand, for example, the teacher is more likely to call their name. But the teacher may miss another student trying to chime in virtually, Doolittle says.

Mead, however, didn’t really have another way to do it — the district isn’t large enough to create an all-virtual school that would make sense. You could redirect a teacher to an online 10th-grade biology class, but there wouldn’t be enough students enrolled to make it worth it.

Spokane Public Schools, however, already had an all-virtual option.

“That’s where I think Spokane is better,” Doolittle says. “Their singular focus is either in-person or online.”

Jeremy Shay, Spokane Education Association president, says that’s partly why they reached a memorandum of understanding in the summer that teachers can’t do both. It’s a high workload for teachers.

“As I’ve talked to teachers from across the state who tried to do that, I have not heard a single educator tell me it’s working well,” Shay says.

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ast summer, parents in Spokane were asked to commit to one or the other: Stick with your traditional school, or permanently go to virtual school.

But those choices have been hardly locked in. High schools in Spokane say they’re still providing options for parents who change their mind. Steve Fisk, principal at North Central High School, says they’re allowing some kids to stay enrolled at NC under a virtual program

Ferris, along with other Spokane high schools, returned to in-person classes last week. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

or attend in-person only part of the time.

“It’s hard to anticipate all those different changes,” Fisk says. “I also know that families’ circumstances change, whether it’s medical or financial or whatever those variables are.”

Bybee, the school district’s director of curriculum, says district staff, school administrators, teachers and outside experts discussed options for how to reopen in-person safely last summer. They landed on a plan that could offer students the chance to feel like they were given personalized instruction in whatever setting: Students are divided into A and B groups, each of which attends class on alternating days and every other Friday.

On the off days, they spend time on school work.

Bybee says it’s a little like a college schedule. It’s now the schedule students in grades 5-12 are on, after the Spokane Regional Health District in January gave schools the green light to phase in those grades.

But while some parents wanted school to open in-person faster, others thought opening older grades in February and March was too fast. School and health officials locally have said that schools have not been major drivers of COVID-19 spread, but parents like Easterling don’t have a ton of faith that contact tracing is reflecting the amount of spread in schools.

So now, the district is trying to add staffing to Spokane Virtual Academy to accommodate the surge of students.

“We are moving staff from buildings to address this new need,” Bybee says.

Coeur d’Alene Public Schools went through a similar process as Spokane back in the fall when it opened for in-person classes. The district opened an optional online school, called CDA eSchool, for parents who didn’t want to send their kids into buildings, but it filled up fast, says district spokesman Scott Maben.

Adaptability, however, may be one positive that comes out of this experience, Fisk says. Teachers have learned how to adapt to changing classroom environments. And schools have learned how to adapt to student needs. Some students, he says, thrive in virtual school.

“We’re learning new ways to educate and connect with our families,” Fisk says.

Those will be important lessons as school districts plan for next year as well, whether the pandemic continues or not. Bybee says the district needs to listen to families about the upsides and the challenges in order to build the system back in a way that works for all students.

“We need to make sure there are options for all of our students,” Bybee says. n wilsonc@inlander.com

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DOWNTON DUDS The MAC’s spring exhibit of costumes from hit British period drama Downton Abbey includes local tie-ins and a special collab

Clothes featured on Downton Abbey star in a show at the MAC.

BY CHEY SCOTT

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hile it’s not unusual in this work-from-home era to roll out of bed in the sweatpants and T-shirt you’ll wear the rest of the day, protocol was certainly much different 100 years ago, especially for members of the British aristocracy.

As fans know of the acclaimed PBS/BBC historical drama Downton Abbey, set from 1912 to 1925, the Lord and Ladies Grantham often went through more than a few wardrobe changes each day.

A dressing gown worn over sleepwear during breakfast in bed would switch out for a stylish day dress.

If outdoor recreation like horseback riding was on the afternoon agenda, sturdier attire was required. For dinner, men’s formal waistcoats and sparkling beaded dresses worn by the ladies would close out the day.

Reproductions of luxurious early 20th century garments are centerpieces of Dressing the Abbey: The Iconic Wardrobe of Downton Abbey, a traveling exhibit of costumes from the six-season series on display at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, or the MAC. Among the 38 costumes from the show are also outfits worn by actors who played household staff of the titular Downton Abbey, the Crawley family estate.

For those unfamiliar with the show, a quick breakdown: The Golden Globe and Emmy-winning series centers on the fictional Crawley family who reside on a pastoral Yorkshire estate. Robert, the earl of Grantham, is married to American heiress Cora. The show starts as the couple’s three daughters — Mary, Edith and Sybil — begin

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seeking suitable husbands.

Aside from showing the day-to-day drama and elegance of aristocratic life, Downton spends equal time exploring the duties and aspirations of the estate’s staff, from stern butler Mr. Carson to exasperated cook Mrs. Patmore. The series’ aired from 2010 to 2015, followed by a 2019 feature film epilogue.

While most of the costumes in Dressing the Abbey are custom pieces worn by its female cast — exquisitely detailed and lavishly adorned garments emblematic of 1920s fashion — there also are a few uniforms of its kitchen staff, butlers and ladies’ maids.

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f the pandemic hadn’t upended exhibit schedules for museums beginning last spring, the MAC may not have brought this collection of Downton costumes to Spokane.

Museum staff had about three months to prepare for the last-minute booking, Exhibitions Manager Brooke Wagner says. Because of the far future-looking timeline of most exhibits, she says staff usually have a year or more to anticipate what’s coming. And with any touring show the MAC hosts, its curators seek to incorporate regional connections.

“We always try to bring a little bit of our story into anything,” Wagner says. “If you take the Pompeii show, we tied it to the Campbell family going to visit Pompeii on their grand tour. This show lent itself very well to added touches, rather than just being a room full

of costumes, because that’s really all it was — text and costumes.”

Dressing the Abbey’s lender, which also provided last summer’s Pompeii exhibit, likewise encourages hosting museums to give it their own spin.

“Since we already have our own story from the same period going on in the Campbell House, that’s when Wes [Jessup, museum executive director] and I decided maybe instead we take it from the point of view where we build these sets around it,” Wagner says.

“That’s when we decided to partner with Spokane Civic Theatre.”

Wagner worked with Spokane Civic Theatre Creative Director Jake Schaefer to create a series of mini “sets,” like a 16-foot-long formally set dinner table with costumed mannequins in evening attire placed around it.

While some pieces in this vignette are on loan from local antique collectors, or from the theater’s prop inventory, others were pulled from the MAC’s archives. Two such pieces are a pair of ornately carved wooden chairs that were separately owned by Louis Davenport and famed architect Kirtland Cutter.

Another of the more elaborate scenes complements an olive tweed suit worn by Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham. Envisioned as a study or library, the display features a large globe (also from the Davenport estate), framed oil paintings and antique furniture from the museum’s collections. ...continued on page 18

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“This is a different way for us to consider using the collection in terms of atmosphere building,” explains Freya Liggett, curator of history. “It’s usually not the reason we bring things out; usually it’s story-based, and here we were building more of an environment.”

Schaefer and Wagner created a total of 10 miniature sets to display various costume groupings.

“Each has a tone, and we tried to glue together Downton and the assets of the costumes and the history of the Campbell House through a bit of a narrative,” Schaefer says.

Several scenes are placed in front of historical photo backdrops of the Campbell House from the same period as the series’ setting.

For one of these, Schaefer says, “We dressed it as though they were hanging out in Helen Campbell’s room. That was the angle and side story in my mind. Is it in real life perfectly translatable — absolutely not, but the idea totally came from the Campbell House.”

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While most of the costumes were created specifically for the series, its Emmy-winning costume designers based pieces off of authentic 1920s patterns and styles. When appropriate, they also used original fabrics or embellishments. A long, flowy jacket worn over one of Lady Cora’s dresses, for example, was made from a repurposed, embroidered tablecloth from the era.

“I think this show might be a way visitors can understand a little bit better of what museums do on the inside,” Liggett reflects. “If you look at one of these costumes and remember the episode and the situation, that is an example of that item holding a story… That’s what we do by holding onto the stories that go with the objects we care for.” n Dressing the Abbey: The Iconic Wardrobe of Downton Abbey • Through May 2; open daily from 10 am-5 pm • $10-$15, tickets available online • Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture • 2316 W. First Ave. • northwestmuseum.org • 456-3931

In connection to Dressing the Abbey, the MAC is also showcasing some of its own historical garments tied to the Campbell family and other early residents of the region in a separate exhibition inside the Campbell House.

Curator of History Freya Liggett says the early 20th century timelines of Downton Abbey and when the Campbells resided in their opulent mansion, along with the upper-class privilege each family experienced, are complementary.

“This was an opportunity for us to tell stories within the same time period and the same kind of social world,” she says. “These aren’t all folks who had a direct link to the Campbell family, but they would have had some things in common, and it’s a chance for us to delve into some stories that might not otherwise come out in using some of these pieces.”

Among the 10 pieces of historic clothing on display throughout the house are a preacher’s bearskin coat and a young lady’s fur opera cape.

Spinning a Yarn is on display through June 20.

— CHEY SCOTT

CULTURE | TV

Boss Ladies My first time … watching the hit period drama Downton Abbey

BY NATALIE RIETH

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ownton Abbey has been on my watch list for years now — which as a college student is excessively long, yet tackled at the slowest pace imaginable.

Was word of the new Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture Dressing the Abbey costume exhibit the final push I needed to sit down, pop some popcorn and watch the first season? Most likely, but it was the push that I — now a Downton Abbey enthusiast — needed.

Power through those first few episodes, because besides the initial Titanic-related drama, they can be a little boring. The first episode gives a glimpse of the atmosphere of Downton Abbey and early 20th-century England, the family staff and, of course, the Grantham family drama, which rouses as a telegram arrives for Lord Grantham. As the Titanic sank, so did their chance of passing down Downton Abbey to the family’s last two, now late, heirs. In order to keep the estate and fortune within the family, Lord Grantham and Cora Crawley must find a distant suitor for Mary, the oldest of the Crawley sisters, to marry.

The series feels as if there are two separate shows playing at once: Crawley family drama and Downton household staff drama. When they intermix, oh, what a

FROM LEFT: Sisters Lady Sybil, Lady Mary and Lady Edith of Downton Abbey. treat. The show gives a glimpse of British social hierarchy at the time without brushing off characters just as important and fascinating as those with “Lord” or “Lady” titles. Downton Abbey treats its viewers to drama in the lounge with tea and Mrs. Patmore’s scrummy biscuits to compliment, and drama downstairs to balance all the dirty dishes.

For me as a viewer, character development is a big factor in how long my attention span will last. I must say, I have multiple Downton characters tied as my favorite — all powerful, girl-boss women. What’s not to love?

First we have Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery), who is not enthusiastic about her father’s money-driven matchmaking, especially when it comes to his attempt with her distant cousin, Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens). As the season continues, she makes it more than clear that she will not settle for any man with a pulse and a tie to the Crawley lineage. The eventual relationship between her and said person — I don’t spoil — is the slowest of slow burns, but worth sticking around to the end of season one. ...continued on next page

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My enthusiasm for Lady Mary, who I admit can be a bit snobbish at times, may change as I continue watching past season one, but for now I hold her in high regard.

For a majority of the season, Lady Mary is in a bitter rivalry with her younger sister, Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael), who has a spot on my list of least-favorite characters.

Edith is the textbook definition of a middle child. Nonetheless, her childish, vengeful acts immediately cancel any sympathies I feel for her.

Next we have Lady Sybil (Jessica Brown Findlay), definitely the liveliest of the three sisters. She is a passionate suffragette and also known to be one of the kindest and most personable of the Crawley family. Sybil comes hand-in-hand with her

friend, Gwen (Rose Leslie), a housemaid, whom she supports and encourages in her aspirations for a career beyond Downton.

Sybil and Gwen’s friendship is admirable, genuine and challenges the social boundary between the Crawley family and Downton staff. I am most excited to see this friendship develop in later seasons.

And, of course, costumes always catch my eye when watching a new series.

In terms of dresses and formal attire, season one costumes were not my favorite, but they are undoubtedly beautiful in design and detail. My favorite is worn by Lady Sibyl: a flowy turquoise romper with a detailed gold belt and a matching statement headband. In both her political views and fashion statements, Sibyl knows how to

challenge gender norms, and I admire her for that.

I also love the occasional top hat that Downton women fashion. Would it be amusing accompanying a bunch of men and rowdy dogs on a hunting trip? Probably not. But I am inspired to purchase a top hat of my own for a future horseback riding excursion. I think it would be empowering.

I am thrilled to see the ladies of Downton evolve their fashion to a more lavish flapper style, one of the many factors that solidify my dedication to completing Downton Abbey start to finish. Now, it’s time for me to book a ticket to the MAC, and who knows, maybe I’ll be rocking my new top hat. n

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Do you want to stick close to home and support your friendly, neighborhood cafe? Great! There are offerings in every corner of Spokane and Kootenai counties. Do you prefer a tour of, say, the best BBQ or Thai food? No problem, as you can find tons of options in a wide variety of cuisines. And it’s all pandemicfriendly, as you can choose to partake in whatever way you prefer — dine in, takeout, via delivery or outside on a patio.

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NEED TO KNOW  HOW TO ORDER

In the pandemic, ordering food ahead has become a little more complex. Of course you can always call, but more and more restaurants have online ordering systems in place; just follow their instructions. It’s important to start at the restaurant’s actual website, because if you just Google their name, you may get diverted to a third-party app that could charge more fees. Most restaurants offer the ability to choose your pickup or delivery time, and, as always, place your order early enough to give them time.

 KNOW THE GUIDANCE

Even though the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene area really is one big community, there is a state line, with two different sets of safety protocols to follow. As of press time, all of Idaho is currently in Phase 3 of its reopening plan. For restaurants, that means they can offer indoor and outdoor dining where physical distancing and sanitary protocols are in place; guests must be seated except when they are entering or leaving. For more info, visit rebound.idaho.gov. All of Washington is currently in Phase 2 of its reopening plan. Restaurants following all other safety protocols can welcome guests to dine inside with seating capacities set at 25 percent of normal. For more info, visit coronavirus. wa.gov.

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With capacity restrictions in place, getting a reservation is more important than ever. So even if a reservation is not officially required, it’s still a good idea to call and guarantee your spot if you are looking to dine in.

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FAN FAVORITE OR FAMILY FEAST Every participant in the Great Dine Out picked a special dish to feature. Some chose to show off their restaurant’s signature item that represents them best, some picked a fan favorite that everybody loves and some put together a special feast to take care of your whole family.  ALSO TRY…

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RESTAURANT LISTINGS By Area WASHINGTON Spokane - Central/Downtown. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Spokane - North. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Spokane - South. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Spokane Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 West Plains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Liberty Lake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 IDAHO Coeur d’Alene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Post Falls, Hayden, Worley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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During the pandemic, restaurants have found many ways to get their food to you. At the bottom of each listing, you’ll find all the ways you can dine with them, including: dine in, takeout, curbside pickup, delivery, and outdoor dining.

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Tipping has always been a bit confusing. During the pandemic, many people are tipping more generously, knowing that tips can help frontline restaurant workers directly. Anything above standard is always appreciated. Your tip should be calculated before subtracting any promotions or discounts.

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 DELIVERY OR TAKEOUT?

DINE IN TABLE SERVICE: 15%-20%

For convenience alone, delivery is a great option, and there are many vendors that can bring the best food in town right to your door. (In fact, there is one local delivery service, Treehouse, that works with many local restaurants.) You will pay a fee for that delivery — but it costs restaurants, too. Restaurants want you to buy their food however you like, but keep in mind that by just picking up your order as takeout, the restaurant gets to keep more of your money.

TAKEOUT: 5%-10% (on the higher end for curbside or large orders)

 CAN’T DECIDE?

DELIVERY: 10%-15% (most delivery apps have 15% preloaded in their system, so you need to adjust manually if you prefer)

Beyond the three special meal options you’ll see from each participating restaurant, don’t forget that their current full menus are all still available during the Great Dine Out. So just find their menu online and choose whatever looks best to you.

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 DON’T FORGET

For different reasons, not every restaurant was able to participate in the Great Dine Out. If one of your favorite sit-down restaurants isn’t listed in the pages ahead, remember that they need your support, too, so please keep them in your mix of places to order from.

 KEEP IT UP!

Our local restaurants are just coming through the most challenging time in their histories.

The efforts of so many local diners have been crucial in helping them get through as best they could. We’re taking care of our own here — and it’s working — but we’re not out of this yet.

Visit our website to search all Great Dine Out offerings, sortable by neighborhood and cuisine, with links to websites and maps for directions.

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he past year has been a series of pivots: 12 long, uncertain months of constant adaptation to changing circumstances and evolving guidelines. Few industries have felt those fluctuating demands more keenly than the service and hospitality sector, where business tends to revolve around inperson enjoyment and face-to-face gatherings.

Back in December, it became clear that Inlander Restaurant Week would be better moved from its traditional March slot to August 19-28. And so, once again, yet another pivot was in order. An idea quickly started to jell around a more situation-appropriate alternative that would keep pandemic safety front of mind by giving restaurants and diners more flexibility of choice.

That’s how the Great Dine Out came to be. Around 160 restaurants throughout Spokane and Kootenai counties are taking part in the event, which runs from March 12 to 27.

Like Inlander Restaurant Week, the Great Dine Out is about local food. It’s about ordering a delicious meal from the independently owned cafe right down

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the block. It’s about sampling the fare at that trendy new joint you’ve been meaning to check out. It’s about trying innovative dishes and enjoying quintessential takes on familiar ones. It can mean dining in, dining out in the open air or getting takeout — whichever makes patrons most comfortable.

M

ore than that, perhaps, the Great Dine Out is about a community rallying to support its own. And it comes at a time when that support is needed more than ever.

Local chef and entrepreneur Adam Hegsted, whose Eat Good Group includes several area restaurants in both Spokane and North Idaho, was forced to lay off all but 30 of his 175 employees because of the downturn. One of the group’s oldest and most wellknown eateries, the Wandering Table, had difficulty translating to a to-go menu and has since rebranded as the Mediterranean-inspired Baba.

“For our other restaurants, we were managing to

break even because of our customer support. What kept us alive was people coming out and getting takeout and delivery,” he says. The family-style meal kits and handpicked menu options that his restaurants are offering as part of the Great Dine Out could end up giving them another vital boost.

 ONE YEAR LATER

This month marks a year since the start of the pandemic and subsequent restrictions. On March 13, 2020, President Trump declared a national emergency. Ten days later, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declared a statewide shelter-in-place order, and on March 25, Idaho Gov. Brad Little did the same.

“We’re always excited to get people in the door.

Our industry is built to serve. And being able to do that, to make great food for people, is exactly what we love to do.”

MARCH 18 EDITION Don’t miss next week’s Inlander for continuing Great Dine Out coverage and so much more!

Available wherever you get your weekly paper, including all Rosauers, Yoke’s, Albertsons, Safeway and Super One grocery stores.

 THE GREAT DINE OUT: WEEK TWO

We’ll check in with diners and restaurants to see what’s flying out of the kitchen and what you need to try before the event wraps up on March 27.

Ever wonder how they make that Thai Chicken and Shrimp Pizza at Rock City Grill so dang addictive?

The team at the South Hill mainstay will share their Rock City Grill secrets next week.

And meet Jon Green of Wooden City Spokane, one of the newest restaurants to open in the region. He’ll share his thoughts on the state of the scene and why they love Spokane.

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SUPPORTING PARTNERS But restaurants, while the centerBanner Bank, Canopy Credit Union, piece of the Great Dine Out, are just Umpqua Bank, Global Credit Union, one partner in all this. To provide the Wheatland Bank and Horizon Credit financial backing to make the event Union. happen, the Inland Northwest’s credit Supermarkets are pitching in as unions and banks rallied. well. Yoke’s Fresh Market and Rosau“As employers, ers, two grocery the restaurants are store chains  ALL TOGETHER critical to so many with deep local The Great Dine Out is a people,” says Marty roots, agreed to collaborative, community effort, Dickinson, chief distribute tens of led by the Inlander marketing and marketing officer thousands of copbusiness team, supported by 14 at STCU. “At STCU, ies of the Great regional and local credit unions we have a lot of Dine Out’s print and banks, and powered by more people who work guide to their than 160 local restaurants. Now for us who have shoppers. They it’s your turn to join the effort. All partners, spouses, recognized that it takes is a hunger to eat — and kids who are really they, too, could to do some good! dependent on these play an important jobs, and that’s true role in helping for so many local the restaurant infinancial institutions. For this concept, dustry get through what many hope will we thought, ‘How do we bring an be the waning months of the COVID-19 industry that’s typically very competipandemic. tive together for a common challenge’ “The timing of the Great Dine Out — which was lifting up our regional probably couldn’t be more perfect,” restaurants? I just started contacting our says Greater Spokane Inc. CEO Aliregion’s financial institutions and was sha Benson. “We’re now in Phase 2, truly overwhelmed by their generosity, so more of our restaurants have an their willingness to immediately step opportunity to invite guests in as well up.” as continuing their takeout business.

Ultimately, 14 financial institutions There’s a certain level of hope and added their support: STCU, Washington optimism, and I think those things bode Trust Bank, Idaho Central Credit Union, well for engagement.”

BECU, Columbia Bank, P1FCU, ProgresBenson says that the optimism is sions Credit Union, First Interstate Bank, justified. She points to the anecdotal

success of prior COVID-19 relief efforts, like the CARES-funded Back to Business initiative, as an example of how collaboration and awareness-raising can help sustain an economy in difficult times.

Hard data appears to back that up.

According to the Opportunity Insights Economic Tracker, which tracks the COVID-19 economic fallout and recovery nationwide, Spokane County lost 16.6 percent of its small businesses between January 2020 and February 2021.

Compare that to the 30 percent of small businesses lost by the more populous and higher-income King County.

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here’s a state line running through our region,” says Inlander Co-owner and General Manager Jer McGregor, “but as we come back, we will be one region again.

Because that’s what we are. We’re not Washington and Idaho, we’re the Inland Northwest.

“It’s a hallmark of the Inland Northwest to find ways to support each other,” McGregor adds. “We’ve gotten better and stronger at it throughout the pandemic, and it’s what will continue to set us apart from other communities. It’s not just words; it’s about taking action. We work together to get things done.” 

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Inlander.com/GreatDineOut • Visit our website to search all Great Dine Out offerings, sortable by neighborhood and cuisine, with links to websites and maps for directions.

Special thanks to the many organizations who provided support for the Great Dine Out, including Hanna Dot Agency, Rosauers Supermarkets, Yoke’s Fresh Market, Visit Spokane, GSI and many others.

The underwriting and support provided from the partners listed above made it possible for every restaurant featured in this event guide to participate in the Great Dine Out with no participation cost.

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RESTAURANT INDEX

By Area With Cuisine Type

SPOKANE CENTRAL / DOWNTOWN Wild Sage Bistro.....................................[ American ]...... 23 Wiley’s Downtown Bistro.......................[ Bistro ]............ 23 Wooden City...........................................[ American ]...... 23

Rock City Grill SPOKANE CENTRAL / DOWNTOWN Anthony’s at Spokane Falls....................[ Seafood ].......... 8 Austin’s Live Fire Barbecue....................[ Barbecue ]........ 8 Baba Restaurant.....................................[ Mediterranean ].8 Backyard Public House..........................[ American ]........ 9 BARK, A Rescue Pub..............................[ Gastropub ]....... 9 Borracho Tacos & Tequileria...................[ Mexican ].......... 9 Browne’s Boomtown Bistro....................[ American ].......10 Cascadia Public House...........................[ American ]...... 26 Charley’s Grill & Spirits...........................[ American ].......10 Checkerboard Tap Room........................[ American ].......10 Clinkerdagger Restaurant......................[ American ].......10 Cochinito Taqueria.................................[ Mexican ]..........11 David’s Pizza..........................................[ Pizza ]...............11 De Leon’s Taco & Bar.............................[ Mexican ].........27 Durkin’s Liquor Bar.................................[ American ]........11 The Elk Public House..............................[ Northwest ]...... 13 Europa Restaurant & Bakery..................[ European ]....... 13 Gander and Ryegrass.............................[ Italian ]............. 13 Gilded Unicorn.......................................[ American ]....... 14 Globe Bar & Kitchen...............................[ Gastropub ]...... 14 The Grand Restaurant and Lounge........[ American ]....... 14 Heritage Bar & Kitchen...........................[ Gastropub ]...... 15 High Tide Lobster Bar............................[ Seafood ]......... 15 Iron Goat Brewing..................................[ Eclectic ].......... 15

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SPOKANE CENTRAL / DOWNTOWN Italian Kitchen........................................[ Italian ]............. 16 Magnolia American Brasserie at Hotel Indigo...................................[ French ]........... 16 The Mango Tree.....................................[ Asian ].............. 16 Maracas Mexican Restaurant.................[ Mexican ]......... 16 Nudo Ramen House...............................[ Asian ].............. 17 nYne Bar & Bistro....................................[ Eclectic ].......... 17 O’Doherty’s Irish Grille...........................[ Irish ]................ 17 Osprey Restaurant & Bar........................[ American ]....... 19 Palm Court Grill......................................[ American ]....... 19 Park Lodge.............................................[ Eclectic ].......... 19 Queen of Sheba Ethiopian Cuisine........[ Eclectic ]......... 20 Red Wheel Bar and Grill.........................[ Pub Grub ]...... 20 Saranac Public House............................[ Pub Grub ]...... 20 Scratch Restaurant/Rain Lounge............[ Bistro ]............ 20 Shawn O’Donnell’s American Grill and Irish Pub......................................[ Irish ]................ 21 Tamarack Public House..........................[ American ]....... 21 Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar..................[ American ]...... 35 Umi Kitchen and Sushi Bar.....................[ Asian ].............. 21 Uncle Rusty’s Diner................................[ American ]...... 22 Versalia Pizza.........................................[ Pizza ]............. 22 Watts 1903 Spirits & Eatery....................[ Pub Grub ]...... 22 The Wave................................................[ Sushi ]............. 22

SPOKANE NORTH 1898 Public House..................................[ American ]...... 25 Adelo’s Pizza, Pasta and Pints................[ Pizza ]............. 25 Barnwood Social Kitchen & Tavern........[ American ]...... 25 The Barrel Steak and Seafood...............[ Steakhouse ]... 26 Birdy’s Sports Bar...................................[ American ]...... 26 The Boiler Room.....................................[ Pizza ]............. 26 Cascadia Public House...........................[ American ]...... 26 Cole’s Bakery & Cafe..............................[ American ].......27 Das Stein Haus.......................................[ German ]..........27 De Leon’s Taco & Bar.............................[ Mexican ].........27 Dogtown Taphouse and Barbecue.........[ Barbecue ]...... 28 Downriver Grill.......................................[ American ]...... 28 Elliotts an Urban Kitchen........................[ Bistro ]............ 28 Ferraros North Restaurant and Bar........[ Italian ]............ 28 The Flying Goat......................................[ Pizza ]............. 29 Hillyard Pub + Grub................................[ Pub Grub ]...... 29 Hop Mountain Taproom & Grill...............[ Pub Grub ]...... 29 Illinois Avenue Bar and Grill...................[ Pub Grub ]...... 30 Kinja Japanese Restaurant....................[ Sushi ]............. 30 Kobe Hibachi Sushi & Bar.......................[ Asian ]............. 30 Little Noodle...........................................[ Asian ]............. 30 Logan Tavern..........................................[ American ]....... 31 Lost Boys’ Garage Bar & Grill.................[ Pub Grub ]....... 31 MacDaddy’s Pub & Grill..........................[ American ]....... 31 Mamma Mia’s Italian Restaurant............[ Italian ]............. 31 Maple Street Bistro.................................[ Bistro ]............ 32 McClain’s Pizzeria..................................[ Pizza ]............. 32 Mustard Seed.........................................[ Asian ]............. 32 Noodle Express......................................[ Asian ]..............47 Nudo Ramen House...............................[ Asian ].............. 17 Pete’s Pizza............................................[ Italian ]............ 32 Pho Van..................................................[ Asian ]............. 33 Poole’s Public House..............................[ Pub Grub ]...... 33 Prohibition Gastropub............................[ Pub Grub ]...... 33 QQ Sushi & Kitchen................................[ Sushi ]............. 33 Rincon Tapatio........................................[ Mexican ]........ 34 Sushiwa Teriyaki.....................................[ Sushi ]............. 34 The Swinging Doors...............................[ American ]...... 35

Kinja SPOKANE NORTH Tavola Calda by Commellini Estates......[ Italian ]............ 35 Thai Bamboo Restaurant........................[ Thai ]............... 35 Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar..................[ American ]...... 35 SPOKANE SOUTH Allie’s Vegan Pizzeria & Cafe..................[ Pizza ]..............37 Casper Fry..............................................[ American ].......37 De Leon’s Taco & Bar.............................[ Mexican ].........27 Ferrante’s Marketplace Cafe..................[ Italian ].............37 Fresh Soul..............................................[ Barbecue ]...... 38 Gordy’s Sichuan Café.............................[ Asian ]............. 38 Hang 10 Hawaiian Grill...........................[ Barbecue ]...... 38 Huckleberry’s Natural Market 9th Street Bistro................................[ Bistro ]............ 38 Izumi Sushi and Asian Bistro..................[ Sushi ]............. 39 Laguna Cafe...........................................[ Eclectic ]......... 39 Latah Bistro............................................[ Northwest ]..... 39 MacKenzie River Pizza, Grill & Pub.........[ American ]...... 39 Manito Tap House..................................[ Gastropub ]..... 40 Poole’s Public House..............................[ Pub Grub ]...... 33 Remedy Kitchen & Tavern......................[ Bistro ]............ 40 Republic Pi..............................................[ Pizza ]............. 40 Rock City Grill.........................................[ American ]...... 40 Rüt Bar & Kitchen...................................[ Gastropub ]...... 41 South Hill Grill.........................................[ American ]....... 41 South Perry Pizza...................................[ Pizza ].............. 41 Thai Bamboo Restaurant........................[ Thai ]............... 35 Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar..................[ American ]...... 35 The Two Seven Public House.................[ Northwest ]...... 41 SPOKANE VALLEY Ambrosia Bistro and Wine Bar...............[ Bistro ]............ 43 The Black Diamond................................[ Gastropub ]..... 43 Black Pearl Casino.................................[ American ]...... 43 Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar..........[ American ]...... 44 Charlie P’s..............................................[ American ]...... 44 Craft & Gather.........................................[ American ]...... 44 Ferraro’s Homemade Italian..................[ Italian ]............ 44 Fiesta Grande.........................................[ Mexican ]........ 45 Jake & Clay’s Public House....................[ Pub Grub ]...... 45 Longhorn Barbecue................................[ Barbecue ]...... 49 MAX at Mirabeau....................................[ Bistro ]............ 45 Noodle Express......................................[ Asian ]..............47

SPOKANE VALLEY The Ponderosa Bar and Grill..................[ American ].......47 SmokeRidge BBQ...................................[ Barbecue ].......47 Thai Bamboo Restaurant........................[ Thai ]............... 35 TTs Brewery & Barbecue........................[ Barbecue ].......47 Twigs Bistro and Martini Bar..................[ American ]...... 35 AIRWAY HEIGHTS d’bali Asian Bistro..................................[ Asian ]............. 48 EPIC Sports Bar at Northern Quest Resort and Casino.............................[ Pub Grub ]...... 48 FAI’s Noodle House at Northern Quest Resort and Casino.............................[ Asian ]............. 48 Longhorn Barbecue................................[ Barbecue ]...... 49 The Lounge at Masselow’s at Northern Quest Resort and Casino...................[ Steakhouse ]... 49 Noodle Express......................................[ Asian ]..............47 CHENEY Barrelhouse Pub & Pizza........................[ Pizza ].............. 51 Marketplace Restaurant & Amish Country Store.....................................[ American ]....... 51 Rosa’s Pizza............................................[ Pizza ].............. 51 Wild Bill’s Longbar..................................[ Barbecue ]....... 51 MEDICAL LAKE Pizza Factory..........................................[ Pizza ]............. 49 LIBERTY LAKE Ding How Liberty Lake...........................[ Asian ]............. 52 Hay J’s Bistro..........................................[ American ]...... 53 Piccolo Artisan Pizza Kitchen.................[ Italian ]............ 53 True Legends Grill..................................[ American ]...... 53 COEUR D’ALENE 315 Cuisine.............................................[ Eclectic ]......... 55 Anthony’s at Coeur d’Alene....................[ Seafood ].......... 8 Bardenay Restaurant & Distillery...........[ Northwest ]..... 55 Bier Haus................................................[ German ]......... 55 The Bluebird. A Midtown Eatery.............[ Northwest ]..... 56 Capone’s Pub & Grill...............................[ Pub Grub ]...... 56 Collective Kitchen..................................[ Northwest ]..... 56 Cosmic Cowboy Grill..............................[ American ]...... 56 Crafted Taphouse...................................[ Gastropub ]......57 SPONSORED CONTENT

COEUR D’ALENE The Crown & Thistle...............................[ Pub Grub ].......57 Honey Eatery and Social Club................[ American ].......57 Izzy’s Comfort Kitchen............................[ American ].......57 MacKenzie River Pizza, Grill & Pub.........[ American ]...... 39 The Mango Tree.....................................[ Asian ].............. 16 Monarch Ramen + Noodle House..........[ Asian ]............. 58 Moon Time.............................................[ Northwest ]..... 58 Satay Bistro............................................[ American ]...... 58 Seasons of Coeur d’Alene......................[ Bistro ]............ 58 Sweet Lou’s Restaurant and Tap House...................................[ American ]...... 59 Syringa Japanese Cafe and Sushi Bar...[ Sushi ]............. 59 Thai Bamboo Restaurant........................[ Thai ]............... 35 Vicino Pizza............................................[ Pizza ]............. 59 Vine & Olive Eatery and Wine Bar..........[ European ]...... 59 HAYDEN Capone’s Pub & Grill...............................[ Pub Grub ]...... 56 Noodle Express......................................[ Asian ]..............47 The Porch Public House.........................[ Northwest ]..... 62 Radicci Italian Bistro...............................[ Italian ]............ 63 POST FALLS Capone’s Pub & Grill...............................[ Pub Grub ]...... 56 The Filling Station Post Falls..................[ Gastropub ]...... 61 Fleur De Sel............................................[ French ]........... 61 Republic Kitchen + Taphouse.................[ Pub Grub ]....... 61 Teton House...........................................[ Steakhouse ]... 62 WORLEY Chinook Crafted by Chef Adam Hegsted at CDA Casino Resort and Hotel........[ Steakhouse ]... 63 Red Tail Bar and Grill at CDA Casino Resort and Hotel........[ Pub Grub ]...... 63

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ANTHONY’S AT SPOKANE FALLS

SEAFOOD

Located in the heart of downtown Spokane and overlooks the spectacular Spokane Falls. Specializing in fresh Northwest seafood!

SIGNATURE DISH

Spokane

Central / Downtown

Oysters on the Half Shell Sampler* Fresh, local oysters on the half shell, served with our cucumber mignonette and homemade cocktail sauce. $20

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Crispy Oyster Tonkatsu*

Crispy oysters drizzled with Tonkatsu sauce over ginger slaw and almond basmati rice pilaf. $21

Steak & Pan Fried Oysters*

A petite Snake River Wagyu top sirloin paired with pan fried oysters. $34

510 North Lincoln St  Spokane (509) 328-9009 Daily 3-8 pm.

Menu available at other locations

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 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

AUSTIN’S LIVE FIRE BARBECUE

BARBECUE

Central Texas style smoked meats with homemade side dishes, table service and full bar. Located in the heart of downtown Spokane.

FAN FAVORITE

Applewood-Smoked Pork Spare Ribs

BABA RESTAURANT

Baba Restaurant is located in Kendall Yards in the former Wandering Table restaurant. It features modern comfort food with a Mediterranean influence.

FAN FAVORITE

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Smoked beef Brisket

Hummus with Wild Mushrooms

Hawaiian Burger

Lamb Shank Tagine

Garbanzo bean-sesame dip topped with crispy wild mushrooms. $12

1/3-pound burger patty, grilled pineapple and jalapeños, pork belly, and aioli. Served with choice of side. $15.95

Slow-cooked lamb with preserved lemon, spices, olives and barberries, with toasted almonds and couscous. $22

421 W Main Ave Ste 104  Spokane (509) 290-5851 Thu-Sat 4-9 pm (temporary hours)

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

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Turkish Mac n’ Cheese

Shell pasta, labneh cheese sauce, bread crumbs with brown butter and dukkah.

Served with fermented chilies. $14

Half rack apple-wood-smoked spare ribs, house-made barbecue sauce, honeybuttermilk cornbread and choice of side item. $18.95

Eleven-hour smoked brisket, cornbread, and choice of side. $19.95

MEDITERRANEAN

1242 W Summit Pkwy  Spokane (509) 443-4410 Daily 9 am-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

BACKYARD PUBLIC HOUSE

AMERICAN

The Backyard Public House offers upscale pub fare with a foodie twist. Twelve beers on tap, local wine offerings, and a craft cocktail menu.

BARK, A RESCUE PUB

BARK, A Rescue Pub is a restaurant where guests can interact with and adopt shelter dogs and cats either before or after dining or drinks.

FAN FAVORITE

FAN FAVORITE

Handmade salted soft pretzels served with cheese sauce and beer mustard. $10.25

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Loco Joe Burger

Frickle Burger

What is a Frickle Burger?

It’s a delicious hand-pressed patty, pepper Jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion with HOUSEMADE fried pickles and tangy honey mustard.

(With your choice of side dish). $16

Burger topped with caramelized onions, jalapenos, pineapple ring, Swiss, cheddar, bacon, lettuce and creamy ranch on a toasted brioche bun. $16.25

Street Noodles

Family Style Platter Enchiladas 1811 W Broadway Ave  Spokane (509) 822-7338 Daily 11 am-close.

Feed the family with our pulled pork enchilada platter. Comes with sides of rice, beans and Caesar salad. Simply reheat, top with our cilantro-lime sour cream and eat. [Feeds 4] $39.95

905 N Washington St  Spokane

(509) 418-2551 Mon-Fri 11 am-10 pm. Sat-Sun 9 am-10 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  OUTDOOR DINING

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

BORRACHO TACOS & TEQUILERIA

MEXICAN

A local spin to classic Mexican dishes. Borracho is the perfect spot for any occasion whether it be an appetizing meal or a rambunctious night on the town!

FAN FAVORITE

BARK Boards

Choose from our popular shareable BARK Boards including the Fry Board (pictured), Veggie Board, S’mores Board or Waffle Board (Saturday/Sunday brunch only). $16

Courthouse Pretzels

Sauteed onions, peppers, carrots, cabbage and cilantro, tossed with rice noodles and simmered in our house-made secret sauce. Choice of chicken or pork. Topped with sesame seeds and Sriracha on the side. $16.25

GASTROPUB

Birria Tacos

Two fresh corn tortillas dredged in house-made consommé.

Generously filled with queso Chihuahua and signature barbacoa, then grilled to a crispy finish. Served with consommé, infused chili oil and rice. $12

MY MEMORABLE MEAL

“I love, love, love the Signature Fries with Gorgonzola Sauce at Twigs. They are a must for me every time I go there.”

— Susan Vuong President/CEO

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Fajitas for 2

Your choice of chicken and/or steak fajitas with warm golden blend tortillas, sautéed bell peppers, onions, lettuce, guacamole, pico de gallo, rice and refried beans. $26

Wet Burrito

Your choice of signature meat, rice and refried beans drenched in either red or green enchilada sauce. Topped with pico de gallo, sour cream and avocado sauce. Served with warm chips and salsa. $15

211 N Division St  Spokane

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  OUTDOOR DINING

(509) 822-7789 Daily 11 am-11 pm.

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BROWNE’S BOOMTOWN BISTRO

AMERICAN

Indoor dining and upstairs bar with a huge patio, featuring homemade from scratch menu items, prepared with care and served with a smile!

SIGNATURE DISH

Hand Cut Fish N Chips

CHARLEY’S GRILL & SPIRITS

A comfortable, casual “Cheers” atmosphere serving USDA Choice hand-crafted burgers, signature sandwiches and main-dish salads plus full-service bar.

SIGNATURE DISH

Hickory Burger

Daily hand cut and breaded cod filets. Fried to perfection and served with crispy seasoned fries and house-made slaw and tartar sauce. $17

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1/3-pound locally sourced handcrafted beef patty charbroiled to perfection with cheddar cheese, hickory smoked bacon, lettuce, huckleberry barbecue sauce.

Served with soup, salad or crispy fries. $13

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Angel Hair Pasta

USDA Sirloin Steak

Angel Hair Pasta with choice of chicken or shrimp in a garlic wine sauce. Tossed with sundried tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, spinach and artichokes. Topped with Parmesan cheese. $19

Six-ounce USDA sirloin char-broiled topped with savory steak butter. Served with Texas toast and choice of two sides: salad, cup of soup, Caesar salad, crispy fries or roasted potatoes. $15

Salmon Caesar Salad

Classic sausage lasagna or roasted garlic chicken lasagna, Caesar salad, herb-crusted breadsticks plus a baker’s dozen of chocolate chip cookies $45

Our famous Caesar salad topped with fresh Atlantic King Salmon sautéed with onions, tomatoes and mushrooms with our spicy Caesar dressing. $19

Lasagna Meal Kit for 4 1924 W Pacific Ave  Spokane

(509) 315-8861 Wed-Thu 10am-4pm. Fri-Sat 10am-7pm.

Sun 10am-4pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  OUTDOOR DINING  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

CHECKERBOARD TAP ROOM

(509) 328-8911 Tue-Fri 11 am-7 pm.

AMERICAN

Three Pack Tacos

CLINKERDAGGER RESTAURANT

SIGNATURE DISH

Herb Crusted Prime Rib

Slow-roasted herb-crusted Prime Rib served with mashed potatoes, grilled asparagus, spicy horseradish and au jus. $40

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Thai Lime Chicken Wrap

FamilyStyle to-go Chicken Dijon

Diced chicken seasoned with Thai lime Sriracha seasoning, sesame cabbage slaw, red peppers, red onion, cucumber, cilantro and garlic ginger aioli in a spinach wrap. $12

Our signature Chicken Dijon and mashed potatoes. Feeds a family of 4.

Open Faced Crab Sandwich Always a lunch favorite.

Asian Pulled Pork Sandwich

1716 E Sprague Ave  Spokane (509) 242-3402 Daily 12 pm-Close.

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AMERICAN

Classic American Steak & Seafood for over 47 years ! Amazing view over looking the majestic Spokane Falls.

Your choice of any combo served on flour tortillas with a side of tortilla chips: sweet chili chicken, shredded pork and stewed black bean. $11.50

Sweet and spicy Gochujang shredded pork, Asian slaw with cabbage, carrots, red peppers and green onions, cilantro and sesame aioli on a ciabatta roll. $13

801 North Monroe  Spokane

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A local monument and historical business, Checkerboard Taproom is your new favorite hangout in the up-and-coming Eastern University District!

FAN FAVORITE

AMERICAN

$56 $16

621 W Mallon Ave Flour Mill  Spokane (509) 328-5965 Sun-Tue 3 pm-8:30 pm; Wed-Thu 12 pm8:30 pm; Fri-Sat 12 pm-9 pm

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SPOKANE | Central / Downtown COCHINITO TAQUERIA

MEXICAN

Spokane’s original chef-made tacos with fine dining technique, craft cocktails and beers, all located conveniently next to downtown shopping.

FAMILY FEAST

DAVID’S PIZZA

Serving Spokane for over 25 years and voted best pizza by readers of the Inlander numerous times.

FAN FAVORITE

Family Taco Feast

Choose any 12 tacos from our menu with two big sides of cumin/lime rice and two big sides of beans (vegetarian black or pork and pinto). Easily feeds four people. This item available for takeout only! $55 Also Try...

Maple Street Bridge

Pepperoni, sausage, green pepper, mushroom, olive and red onion topped with over a pound of 100 percent whole milk mozzarella cheese $29

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Ceviche

Pesto Cheese Bread

Hamachi, mezcal/green tea agua, candied pine nut, avocado and citrus. $12.50

Fresh baked French bread covered in herb cheese and topped with Parmesan cheese, basil pesto and fresh ground garlic. $8.50

Classic Margarita

Stromboli

Tequila, lime, triple sec and simple syrup. The classic done right. Rotating seasonal flavors also available (available to go). $8.50

10 N Post Suite 14  Spokane

(509) 474-9618 Mon-Thu 11:30 am-9 pm.

Fri-Sat 11:30 am-10 pm. Closed Sun.

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DURKIN’S LIQUOR BAR

AMERICAN

Natty upscale diner serving our unique take on American classics, craft cocktails, with a killer playlist. Featuring a swank and sultry basement bar.

SIGNATURE DISH

PIZZA

Double Bone-In Pork Chop

Brined, grilled double bone-in pork chop. Pecans, pickled Granny Smith apples, shaved Brussels sprouts, pork jus. $27

So big you could split one! You pick three toppings, we assemble and bake with 100 percent whole milk mozzarella cheese and wrap in our famous dough. Our home-made red sauce for dipping included. $13

803 W Mallon  Spokane (509) 483-7460 Mon-Sat 11 am-Close.

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MY MEMORABLE MEAL

“The roast half chicken with wild mushrooms, potato puree and chicken jus at Park Lodge is phenomenal.

If I could, I would eat it everyday.”

— Jack Heath President/COO

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Durkin’s Burger

Two 4-ounce ground chuck patties, Durkin’s American cheese, sliced pickle, red onion, dill mayo, Madeleine’s bun, side house cut fries, garlic aioli. $16

Brussels Sprouts

Fried, then tossed with bourbon, maple, brown sugar, Sriracha and red pepper flakes. $8

415 W Main  Spokane

(509) 863-9501 Tue-Thu 4-9 pm. Fri-Sat, 4-11 pm.

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Downtown Spokane

pokane’s downtown is where it’s at for local diners, offering everything from upscale spots (WILD SAGE, EUROPA, CLINKERDAGGER) to family favorites (THE ELK, VERSALIA PIZZA, THE GLOBE) to multiethnic eats (UMI KITCHEN, BORRACHO, BABA). You could spend days trying to eat your way through Spokane’s core alongside Riverfront Park and never come close to hitting every longtime favorite or exciting new restaurant, which makes an event like the Great Dine Out all the more fun and challenging. Will you go for something tried and true, or introduce your taste buds to something brand new?

Here are some options that look too good to miss: The Dine Out offers a great reason to try something new — and even as the pandemic raged, new restaurants did open. So take this opportunity to wander

by WOODEN CITY and sample their utterly unique Hungarian wax peppers ($14), which come filled with sweet sausage, aged cheddar and chive oil. MAGNOLIA AMERICAN BRASSERIE opened in the new Hotel Indigo and plays with everything from American standards to rustic French

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Magnolia American Brasserie’s chicken piquant with green beans.

fare. Their chicken piquant ($22) delivers pan-roasted fowl alongside potato Lyon and green beans. At BARK, A RESCUE PUB, you could feed a small army with their family-style enchilada platter ($40).

Some of your favorite places are in Dine Out mode, too, and you can never go wrong delving into a lobster roll ($21) at HIGH TIDE LOBSTER BAR in the Wonder Building. It’s pure delicious decadence and worth every penny. Same goes at COCHINITO TAQUERIA, where they’re serving up a family taco feast ($55) that includes a dozen of their world-beating tacos, as well as four large sides of rice and beans. Over at NUDO RAMEN HOUSE, the savory beef ramen ($13) will quickly make you understand how some folks can eat ramen every day. And you don’t get any more “classic Spokane” than the Davenport Hotel, and the PALM COURT GRILL inside is serving two of the hotel’s classic menu items: a prime rib dip sandwich ($24) that puts any “normal” French dip to shame, and a crab Louis salad ($27) made famous a century ago when Chef Edward Mathieu whipped one up for Louis Davenport.

If you love barbecue, there are a few options for you, and you don’t have to wan-

der out to some smokehouse in the sticks.

SARANAC PUBLIC HOUSE is serving up its pulled pork mac and cheese ($18), blending two favorite ’cue flavors into one savory dish. AUSTIN’S LIVE FIRE BARBECUE makes some amazing food, and delving into a half-rack of their applewood-smoked spare ribs ($19) will require napkins for sure, even if you sop up some delicious sauce with the honey buttermilk cornbread served with it.

Sometimes an appetizer is reason enough to hit a spot (not that you’ll want to stop ordering after just an appetizer).

ITALIAN KITCHEN has its utterly craveable calamari ($14) on its menu, while WILEY’S DOWNTOWN BISTRO is presenting its impressive ahi tower ($18), a mix of fish, avocado, pickled red onion, tomato and spicy sauces that two can easily share.

BACKYARD PUBLIC HOUSE is strong in its appetizer game, too, and you can get one of its killer soft courthouse pretzels ($10.25) served with cheese sauce and beer mustard, the perfect accompaniment to watching a ballgame. At ANTHONY’S AT SPOKANE FALLS, an oysters-on the-halfshell sampler ($20) is a distinctly Northwest way to start a great meal. 

SPOKANE | Central / Downtown THE ELK PUBLIC HOUSE

NORTHWEST

Spokane’s original public house serving some of the area’s most cravable food and drinks since 1999 in the heart of Browne’s Addition.

FAN FAVORITE

EUROPA RESTAURANT & BAKERY

Family owned in downtown Spokane for nearly 40 years! Enjoy fresh pasta, pizza and desserts in a cozy and comfortable atmosphere.

FAN FAVORITE

Traditional Reuben

Chicken Gorgonzola Fettuccine

Slow-cooked corned beef, melted Swiss, our house-made sauerkraut and 1000 Island dressing all piled on toasted rye bread. Served with choice of side. $16 Also Try...

EUROPEAN

Sautéed chicken breast, mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes in a rich Gorgonzola cream sauce, topped with crumbled Gorgonzola and walnuts. $25 Also Try...

Bulgogi Beef Tacos

Myropa Red Wine

Thin sliced Korean marinated beef is seared and stuffed into two warm flour tortillas then topped with cabbage, cilantro and spicy pickled ginger sauce. Served with Jasmine rice and cucumber kimchi. $14

A custom red blend by our friends at Coeur d’Alene Cellars.

Cheesecake

Raspberry, white chocolate cheesecake on a cookie crumble crust and topped with raspberry Chambord sauce. $8.25

Sante Fe Chicken

A breaded, pan-seared chicken breast topped with roasted poblano peppers and melted Monterey jack cheese. Served on a toasted bun with honey cream cheese, mayo, lettuce and red onion. $15

Restaurant & Bakery

(509) 455-4051 Tue-Sun 3-9 pm.

Daily 11 am-11 pm

GANDER AND RYEGRASS

Europa 125 S Wall St  Spokane

1931 W Pacific Ave  Spokane

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ITALIAN

In the morning we make sandwiches; at night we go all out with a multi-coursed menu we call Contemporary Italian. We make everything in house!

SIGNATURE DISH

$42

Smokey Beef Crudo

Raw beef preparation with variations of radish and pickled ramps. $13

MY MEMORABLE MEAL “Pho Van is great. Got soup on a cold day! I enjoy getting a large beef pho! They are always quick and the service is great.”

— Clint Gillum SVP, Retail Market Regional Manager

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Tagliatelle & Pork Ragout

Hand-cut tagliatelle with pork shoulder ragout. $15

Steak and Potatoes

This is our take on steak and potatoes.

$31

404 W Main Ave  Spokane (509) 315-4613 Lunch: Mon-Fri 11 am-3 pm.

Dinner: Tue-Sat 5-10 pm.

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GILDED UNICORN

AMERICAN

Located beneath Montvale Hotel is one of Spokane’s most unique craft cocktail bars featuring modern comfort foods and a little magic!

SIGNATURE DISH

Duck Stroganoff

Slow-cooked duck, mushroom gravy, crème fraiche, gronions and egg noodles. $18

Spokane

Central / Downtown

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Notorious P.I.G. Family Feast

Feeds 3-4. Honey-brined pork chops, Gouda mac ’n’ cheese, braised kale, maple mustard, and served with devils on horseback and pea salad. $75

French 74 Cocktail Kit

Serves 4. Prosecco, gin, fresh-squeezed lemon juice and elderberry. $40

110 S Monroe St  Spokane (509) 309-3698 Daily 4-11 pm.

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GLOBE BAR & KITCHEN

GASTROPUB

We strive to create an all-inclusive, safe, fun and welcoming environment for Spokane’s LGBTQ+ community and allies.

SIGNATURE DISH

French Onion Burger

GRAND RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE

When you’re looking for American classics with a modern fresh flair, look no further than The Grand Restaurant & Lounge in the lobby of the Grand Hotel.

SIGNATURE DISH

6-ounce chuck brisket patty, herb salad, provolone cheese, caramelized onions and garlic aioli in an onion bun with roasted au jus dip. Served with house fries or side salad. $13 Also Try...

Birria Quesadilla

Burrata Cheese & Beets Salad

Burrata cheese and local beets, arugula, cherry tomatoes, and aged balsamic reduction salad. $14.95

Family Feast for up to 4

I’m Your Huckleberry

Caesar or garden salad, Grilled Fire Cracker Chicken, and New York-style cheesecake. $41.95

44º North Huckleberry Vodka, fresh-squeezed lemon, ginger beer and fresh huckleberries $8

204 N Division St  Spokane

(509) 443-4014 Mon-Sat 11 am-Close. Sun 10 am-Close.

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Huckleberry Salmon

Grilled king salmon with housemade Northwest huckleberry white wine sauce, fingerling potatoes and herb glaze. $31.95

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Toasted tortilla stuffed with melted Monterey jack cheese, onions, cilantro and pork carnitas.

Served with a spicy guajillo pepper consommé. $12

AMERICAN

333 W Spokane Falls Blvd  Spokane

(509) 598-4300 Breakfast: Mon-Fri 6:30-10:30 am, Sat-Sun 6:30 am-12 pm. Dinner: Sun-Thu 5-9 pm, Fri-Sat 5-11 pm (food service until 10 pm).

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HERITAGE BAR & KITCHEN

GASTROPUB

Elevated bar food served in a fun, cozy environment. Located in the arts and entertainment district, downtown Spokane.

SIGNATURE DISH

Heritage Smash Burger

HIGH TIDE LOBSTER BAR

Chef Chad White brings East Coast flavor to the West Coast with New Englandstyle lobster rolls. Located in the Wonder Building in downtown Spokane.

FAN FAVORITE

Two smash patties made from the freshest local beef available. Served on brioche with American cheese, lettuce, onion, tomato, pickle and special sauce. Comes with choice of side. $15 Also Try...

Pork Tenderloin Sandwich

Family Lobster Box

One pound of Maine lobster meat, four buttered rolls, tarragon mayonnaise, one quart clam chowder with Old Bay seasoning, one wedge of salad, one pound of chips, four netted lemon halves, and oyster crackers. *Preorder online only. $99

The Fancy Nancy

Two of our signature handmade meat pies.

Stuffed with seasoned ground beef, onion, tomato and cheese. Served with choice of side. $17

Wedgie Salad 122 S Monroe St  Spokane (509) 863-9235 Wed-Sat 4 pm-Close.

Iceberg lettuce, green goddess dressing, Gorgonzola cheese, bacon, lemon, pickled onion, green onion, and Old Bay. $12

835 N Post St  Spokane (509) 381-5954 Wed-Sat 11 am-6 pm.

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IRON GOAT BREWING

ECLECTIC

Nothing goes better with craft beer than craft food. Located in the beautiful historic west end of downtown Spokane.

SIGNATURE DISH

Lobster Roll

Maine lobster, split top roll, butter, kettle chips, lemon, and Old Bay seasoning. New England style comes with tarragon mayo; Connecticut style comes with warm butter. $21

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Tenderized pork chop hand-breaded with a cracker crust. Served on brioche with mustard, lettuce, onion and pickles. Simple and delicious.

Comes with choice of side. $16

SEAFOOD

Banh Mi Pizza

Slow-braised pulled pork, mozzarella, house-made pickled vegetables, Serrano peppers, cilantro, and Sriracha aioli. $14.50

MY MEMORABLE MEAL

“David’s Pizza is a favorite place to celebrate my sons’ birthdays and order the Maple St Bridge pizza. We love the happy atmosphere at David’s that creates great memories for our family.”

— Steve Hauschild Market Leader

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Gochujang Pork Burrito Special

Get a gochujang braised pork, jasmine rice, kimchi, american cheese, fried egg, green onion, cilantro, with gochujang aioli burrito and your choice of a crowler of craft beer. $18

Cuban Sandwich

house-made porchetta, carver ham, caramelized onion, b&b pickles, swiss, aioli, and yellow mustard on pressed ciabatta with a side of your choice. $12.25

1302 W Second Ave  Spokane (509) 474-0722 Daily 11 am-11 pm

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ITALIAN KITCHEN

ITALIAN

Authentic, made from scratch cuisine in Spokane’s most charming environment.

SIGNATURE DISH

MAGNOLIA AMERICAN BRASSERIE

A menu that combines American favorites with the unique twist of Country-French cuisine. This is a part of the new Hotel Indigo Spokane.

SIGNATURE DISH

Lasagna from Scratch

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Calamari

Called “the best calamari anywhere in the world.”

14oz Ribeye

Served with wild mushrooms, smashed potato, grilled asparagus and green pepper cream sauce. $36

$14

Pasta Platter

Choose a pasta, choose a sauce, choose meatballs or sausage or combo.

Angel Hair & Prawn Pasta

Shrimp cooked in fire-roasted tomatoes, garlic, and roasted red pepper sauce served on top of angel hair pasta. $20

$22

113 N Bernard St  Spokane

110 S Madison St  Spokane

(509) 363-1210 Mon-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri 11 am-10 pm.

Sat 4:30 pm-10 pm. Sun 4:30 pm-9 pm.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING

THE MANGO TREE

SIGNATURE DISH

(509) 862-6400 Tue-Sat 4-10 pm

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ASIAN

Traditional Indian. Scratch made curries, biryani and naan as well as flatbreads and burgers.

Butter Chicken Curry

MARACAS MEXICAN RESTAURANT

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MEXICAN

Locally owned, family-run. Excited to be open again and able to serve everyone again!

FAMILY FEAST

Chunks of marinated chicken in a traditional tomato sauce.

Served with rice and naan. $15

Fajita Sampler for Two

Yummy sautèed shrimp with grilled chicken and steak served with your own rice and beans, sour cream, guacamole, cheese, pico de gallo and tortillas. $40 Also Try...

Chicken Biryani

Carne Asada

A grilled skirt steak cooked to perfection served with rice, beans, guacamole and a fried jalapeño. $20.99

Rice and chicken fresh cooked in various house spices. $15

Lunch Special

Margarita Kit for Four

11 am-3 pm Mon-Sat. Choice of two daily curry dishes with rice, naan and a small salad. $13

401 W Main Ave  Spokane (509) 242-3943 Daily 11 am-9 pm.

Menu available at other location

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Coeur d’Alene

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Chicken Piquant

Pan-roasted chicken with green beans, potato lyon and red wine vinegar glaze. $22

Our most popular dish made in house, from scratch. Layers of meats, cheeses and spices with Alfredo and Marina. $27

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FRENCH

THE GREAT DINE OUT

Four 16-ounce margaritas ready to go for you to enjoy at home. You can add any flavor as well. $30

245 W Spokane Falls Blvd  Spokane (509) 456-0350 Mon-Thu 11 am-8 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-8:30 pm.

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SPOKANE | Central / Downtown NUDO RAMEN HOUSE

ASIAN

FAN FAVORITE

Beef Ramen

Fresh ramen noodles, beef shank braised in beef stock, with bok choy, corn, inari, nori (seaweed), cilantro, green onion and homemade chili oil. $13 Also Try...

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Almond Chicken Stir Fry (Spicy)

Mango Tango Drink Kit

Classic Chick-fo-Gays Sandwich

Breaded chicken breast on a grilled brioche bun with ranch, American cheese, lettuce, tomato and pickles.

Also available as spicy, honey mustard, barbecue bacon, or chicken Parmesan. Includes a side item. $10

One of many kits we offer. Includes bottle of local Lux & Loaded Vodka, mango nectar, Tropical Red Bull & Sprite, 2 nYne glasses and 1 nYne shot glass. Everything you need to make up to 15 cocktails. $35

Chicken, broccoli, red pepper, carrot, zucchini, onion, chow mein noodle, sautéed with spicy almond sauce, topped with green onion and sliced almonds. $14

Tonkotsu

nYne Nachos

Fresh ramen noodles, BBQ pork, boiled egg, corn, inari, nori (seaweed), fish cake, beansprout and green onion in a pork bone broth that has been cooked down for 15 hours. $13

818 W Sprague Ave  Spokane (509) 290-5763 Daily 11 am-9 pm.

Menu available at other location

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Tortilla chips topped with queso, tomato, olives, cilantro, green onion, Tapatio-lime sour cream and choice of vegetarian refried beans, chicken or ground beef. $12

Spokane-North

232 W Sprague Ave  Spokane (509) 474-1621 Tue-Sun 12 pm-Close.

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O’DOHERTY’S IRISH GRILLE

IRISH

Historic Irish pub across from Riverfront Park.

SIGNATURE DISH

ECLECTIC

nYne is a fun, welcoming spot that serves burgers, wraps, amazing nachos, sandwiches and more. Our vast array of beer and cocktails compliment any meal.

We are local family own. Best ramen house in town.

SIGNATURE DISH

NYNE BAR & BISTRO

MY MEMORABLE MEAL “I love Ambrosia Bistro and Wine Bar’s Chicken

Irish Pub Style Fish and Chips

Alaskan pollock fillet, served with pub fries and house-made tartar sauce and a small side of coleslaw. $12.95

Piccata with the Ambrosia salad and my husband adores the Bistro Burger with fries. We always end our meal with the Chocolate Torte and two cups of coffee. It is perfection!”

— Charlotte Nemec President & CEO

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H&H Corned Beef Reuben Sandwich

Classic New York-style deli corned beef sandwich, served with a choice of pub fries or coleslaw. $14.95

Shepard’s Pie

Ground beef, garden peas, carrots and onions in a seasoned brown gravy, layered with cheesy mashed potatoes. $13.95

525 W Spokane Falls Blvd  Spokane (509) 747-0322 Daily 11:30 am-11 pm.

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Bacon, whipped cream and an egg top this beloved chicken and waffles.

 DECONSTRUCTING THE DISH

Rockafella Y’all CRAFTED TAPHOUSE

523 Sherman Ave. Coeur d’Alene, craftedtaphouse.com, 208-292-4813 Open daily 11 am-close for dine-in and takeout

E

very dish at Crafted Taphouse is named after someone who’s a “master of their craft,” and the Rockafella Y’all is no different.

Named in homage to Jay-Z’s label Roc-A-Fella Records, the downtown craft beer bar and gastropub’s take on classic chicken and waffles has been a bestseller since Crafted’s opening seven years ago.

“It’s a very unique twist on chicken and waffles,” says owner Rob Berger, “and has a strong Pacific Northwest influence thanks to the scratch-made huckleberry sauce we use on it.”

Diners definitely rave about that house-made huckleberry sauce topping the Rockafella Y’all ($18), calling it the perfect amount of sweetness to balance out the savory bacon and juicy fried chicken.

The sweet, tart sauce drips down over the star ingredient of the dish, a chicken thigh that’s sous vide

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cooked before being drenched in a buttermilk breading and deep fried.

The choice to employ sous vide in the cooking process, Berger says, means that the chicken is “cooked to perfection and extremely juicy every time.”

“And the bacon, whipped cream and egg on top create a flavor profile that nobody has ever experienced with chicken and waffles,” he adds.

The masterful entree truly towers once plated.

Alternating layers of the green onion-infused Belgian waffles, bacon and fried chicken are held in place by several skewers, and then topped by an over-easy egg, making for a worthy inclusion on any foodie’s Instagram feed.

While you may be rightfully distracted by the carefully crafted culinary creation that is the Rockafella Y’all, don’t forget that Crafted also boasts a whopping 62 taps of craft beer and cider ranging from “local to very not local.” 

SPOKANE | Central / Downtown OSPREY RESTAURANT & BAR

AMERICAN

Osprey Restaurant & Bar features New American cuisine, craft cocktails and free parking. Pair our delicious blend of traditional and bold flavors with regional wines.

SIGNATURE DISH

PARK LODGE

We are a fine dining restaurant with locally inspired comfort food prepared on a wood-fired grill.

SIGNATURE DISH

Filet Mignon

Garlic mashed potatoes, seasonal vegetables, peppercorn demi-glace, 8-ounce filet.

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Burrata Cheese Caprese

Steak Frites

Fresh burrata cheese, vine ripe tomatoes, red pesto, basil, rustic Italian bread toast points. $13

10-ounce hanger steak, fries, and mustard cream sauce. $31

Pho

Steak Tartare

House-made pho broth, chicken, rice noodles, onions, cilantro. $13

filet mignon, dijon, capers, chives, shallots, arugula, quail egg and grilled crostini. $24

700 N Division St  Spokane

411 N Nettleton St  Spokane

(509) 323-2578 Seven days a week 11 am-8 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

PALM COURT GRILL

(509) 340-9347 Tue-Thu 5-8 pm. Fri-Sat 5-9 pm.

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AMERICAN

Located in the lobby of the Historic Davenport Hotel and serving the region’s highest quality meals in a palatial setting like no other in Spokane.

SIGNATURE DISH

Wood-Fired Roast Half Chicken

Crispy and juicy half chicken, creamy potato puree, wild mushrooms with chicken jus. $36

$34

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ECLECTIC

Crab Louis Salad

The Crab Louis salad was created and made famous a century ago for Louis Davenport

by Chef Edward Mathieu.

Loaded with tender Dungeness crab and still served according to the original recipe. $26.95

MY MEMORABLE MEAL “Longhorn BBQ is a wonderful restaurant with a friendly environment. From the Longhorn Starters to the Texas Style Pit you will have a great meal cooked to perfection that will keep you coming back. Finish up your meal with Grandma’s Bread Pudding and you will head home very happy with your choice for an excellent dinner.”

— Chris Loseth President and CEO

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Prime Rib French Dip Sandwich

Tender slow-cooked prime rib sliced to order piled high on our toasted house-made baguette, aioli, au jus and horseradish cream served with French fries. $23.95

Family Feast for up to 4

Family Feast feeds includes Caesar or garden salad, fall-off-the-bone braised short ribs and New York-style cheesecake. YUM! $41.95 per person. $41.95

10 South Post St  Spokane

(509) 789-6848 Breakfast: 6:30-10:30am Mon-Fri. 6:30am-12pm Sat-Sun. Dinner: Sun-Thu 5-9pm. Fri-Sat 5-11 pm (food service until 10pm).

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QUEEN OF SHEBA ETHIOPIAN CUISINE

ETHIOPIAN

For a true taste of excellent ethnic food, dine with us. We are Spokane’s first Ethiopian restaurant taking great pride in bringing the wonders of these great dishes to you.

FAMILY FEAST

Meat Combination Plate

RED WHEEL BAR AND GRILL

Your local go-to spot for fantastic food, drinks, atmosphere and service every time you visit.

Don’t miss the rotating food and drink specials decided every hour by the spinning wheel!

FAN FAVORITE

Feeds 2 people. Various Ethiopian meat dishes with a veggie side cooked with exotic Ethiopian spices plus house salad with Ethiopian dressing all served on Injera (Ethiopian flat bread) $32.99 Also Try...

Beef Tibbs

Southern Philly

Ye’abesha Gomen

Buffalo Cobb Salad

Collard greens cooked with onions, garlic, a hint of green peppers, and Ethiopian spices. $14.99

Red Wheel Burger

Two 3-ounce beef patties, bacon, American cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, mayo, topped with onion rings and barbecue sauce. $14

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Tender sautéed Beef strips with tomatoes, bell peppers, Ethiopian clarified butter, in a berbere sauce. $15.99

PUB GRUB

Sliced steak, sautéed onions and jalapeños with extra pepper Jack cheese served on a toasted hoagie with ranch. Pick your side. $14

621 W Mallon Ave (in the Flour Mill) Suite 426  Spokane

Comes with blue cheese crumbles, covered in Franks Red Hot, your choice of one protein and one dressing. $13

501 S Thor St  Spokane

(509) 328-3958 T-Th 11:30am - 8:30pm Fri-Sat 11:30am - 9pm

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SARANAC PUBLIC HOUSE

PUB GRUB

Real Food, Great Beer, Fine Wine and Hand Crafted Spirits.

SIGNATURE DISH

(509) 368-9633 Daily 11 am-11 pm.

BBQ Pulled Pork Mac and Cheese

SCRATCH RESTAURANT/RAIN LOUNGE

Located in the heart of the Entertainment District, Scratch strives to create thoughtful, delicious meals utilizing fresh, organic ingredients.

SIGNATURE DISH

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Teriyaki Sandwich

Bacon-wrapped Tenderloin

Homemade Pretzels

Chicken Marsala

Eight-ounce bacon-wrapped tenderloin with chipotle huckleberry sauce, served with Yukon mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus $32

Fresh pretzels with our signature cheese sauce and spicy beer mustard for dipping. $10

Airline chicken breast served on fresh pappardelle pasta with a wild mushroom and Marsala cream sauce $30

21 W Main Ave  Spokane (509) 473-9455 Mon-Sun 11:30 am-Close.

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Honey Lavender Chicken Boneless, skinless chicken breast served with honey lavender sauce, herbed goat cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, arugula and flatbread. $30

Our signature cheese sauce tossed with macaroni. Topped with barbecue pulled pork. $18

Beef, chicken or tofu smothered in teriyaki sauce topped with slaw, pickles, cheese and pineapple slices. $15

BISTRO

1007 W 1st Ave  Spokane (509) 456-5656 Mon-Sat 4 pm-Close.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

SPOKANE | Central / Downtown SHAWN O’DONNELL’S AMERICAN GRILL AND IRISH PUB

IRISH

Experience Irish hospitality and the best dishes of Ireland in a charming, historic pub.

SIGNATURE DISH

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TAMARACK PUBLIC HOUSE

Sophisticated yet fun environment in a beautifully restored 1892 bi-level brick building ... 24 craft tap handles, full bar, wine, and crafted fresh menu.

FAMILY FEAST

Corned Beef and Cabbage Our family’s recipe for slowcooked corned beef, Guinnessbraised cabbage, colcannonstyle mashed potatoes, and a side of creamy horseradish.

Includes Irish soda bread and honey butter. $16.99

Smoke House Platter

Feeds two, with two Big Bad Beef Ribs, two sides of buttermilk slaw and two creamy cornbread. $56

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Shepherd’s Pie

Blue Burger

Chicken Pot Pie

Wild Salmon and Cauliflower Risotto

1/2 pound wagyu beef patty, blue cheese, bacon, sliced apple, tomato relish and drizzle of honey. $15.50

Ground seasoned lamb, carrots, parsnips, peas, corn, celery, onions, shaved Parmesan, and browned colcannon potatoes on top! Includes Irish soda bread and honey butter! $16.59 Shredded chicken breast, peas, carrots, celery, pearl onions and creamy gravy inside a fluffy puff pastry. Includes Irish soda bread and honey butter! $16.59

719 N Monroe St  Spokane (509) 326-7251 Daily 11 am-10 pm.

Six-ounce wild salmon fillet atop risotto of riced cauliflower, asparagus, coconut milk, white wine and fresh herbs, parmesan, hemp seed pesto served with mixed greens and toasted bread. $25

912 W Sprague Ave  Spokane (509) 315-4846 Thu-Sat 4-10 pm.

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UMI KITCHEN AND SUSHI BAR

ASIAN

Asian restaurant specializing in sushi in the heart of the Kendall Yards neighborhood.

SIGNATURE DISH

AMERICAN

Baked Lobster Roll

Crab and avocado roll topped with Maine lobster tail and spicy mayo, baked and finished with a drizzle of eel sauce. $28

MY MEMORABLE MEAL “Clinkerdagger has been my go-to restaurant for years.

I usually find something intriguing on their fresh sheet and I’ve always been impressed with their delicious seafood and wine selections. Of course, their famous prime rib never disappoints and their staff provides delightful service every visit!”

— Jack Fallis President/CEO

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Sea Scallops with Asparagus

Pan-fried sea scallops with gremolata and ginger-lime beurre blanc, served over grilled asparagus and fresh greens. $26

First Love Roll

Special dessert roll with fried banana, cream cheese, mango, strawberry and coconut cream. $12

1309 W Summit Pkwy  Spokane (509) 368-9372 Daily 11 am-8 pm.

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UNCLE RUSTY’S DINER

AMERICAN

We are a family owned and operated diner serving breakfast and lunch in downtown Spokane daily.

FAN FAVORITE

Chicken & Waffle

VERSALIA PIZZA

PIZZA

Versalia Pizza features a unique, wood-fired thin crust. Enjoy our pizza with a view of the Spokane River from our heated outdoor patio.

FAN FAVORITE

Pepe Sal

Our hand breaded chicken breast fried to a golden brown served on a homestyle pecan waffle, with a side of our maple Kahlua style syrup. $13.99

Italian sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and provolone on crushed red pepper infused savory red sauce with our three cheese blend. [gf 10” $13.50] $23

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Breadbowl Scramble

Brussels & Bacon

Bacon, Brussels sprouts, Beecher’s flagship, balsamic reduction on garlic olive oil with our three cheese blend. [gf 10” $13.75] $23.50

We scramble eggs, bacon, green pepper, onion, hash browns and cheddar cheese. Topped with our homemade sausage gravy and served in a bread bowl. $8.99

Family Pizza Night

Jalapeño Ranch Burger

A Jalapeño Pancake served on a hamburger patty topped with cheddar cheese & ranch.

Served on a crisp French roll style bun with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles and a side of fries. $13.99

Feeds 3-4. Quattro Formaggi Breadsticks, large Caesar salad, and our 16-inch pepperoni pizza $49

1412 W 2nd Ave  Spokane

PUB GRUB

Our portions aren’t shy and you shouldn’t be either. Your neighborhood bar and eatery can’t wait to see you for craft cocktails and home-made food!

SIGNATURE DISH

(509) 389-0029 11am-9pm

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WATTS 1903

1333 W Summit Pkwy  Spokane

(509) 474-9214 Daily 7 am-3 pm.

Fried Mozzarella

THE WAVE

SUSHI

The Wave is known for our fantastic sushi and Hawaiian/Asian food, but our menu also offers much, much more. Join us in downtown Spokane.

FAN FAVORITE

Firecracker

Hand-breaded fresh mozzarella with our vodka sauce drizzled with balsamic and pesto. $13

Tuna, salmon, cream cheese, avocado, then tempura deepfried topped with spicy powder, Sriracha, sesame seeds, raw and eel sauce $12

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Watts Wedge

The Ralston

Gluten-free iceberg wedges, spicy candied bacon, boiled eggs, tomatoes, bleu cheese crumbles, shallots, roasted garlic chips and a rich garlic ranch. $11

Salmon, cucumber, topped with more salmon, avocado, lemon, sesame seeds and ponzu. $13

Grilled Teriyaki Chicken

Flame-grilled healthy serving of barbecue chicken thighs glazed in teriyaki.

Korean Bulgogi Fries

Feast your eyes on crispy shoestring fries, smothered in marinated Korean sirloin steak, kimchi and spicy aioli sauce. [ $9 small portion ] $12

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1318 W 1st Ave  Spokane

(509) 279-2334 Mon-Thu 3-9 pm. Fri-Sat 12-10 pm.

Sun 12-8 pm.

$13

525 W 1st Ave Spokane

 We are temporarily located across the street on 1st from our main location.

(509) 747-2023 Mon-Sat noon-9:30 pm. Sun 4-9 pm

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SPOKANE | Central / Downtown WILD SAGE BISTRO

AMERICAN

Downtown Spokane’s destination restaurant for 15 years. We describe our style as “regionally sourced Northwest cuisine.”

FAN FAVORITE

WILEY’S DOWNTOWN BISTRO

We create positive energy through culinary, libation and service experiences in a comfortable, approachable environment.

SIGNATURE DISH

Yukon Taquitos

Yukon Gold potato, white cheddar, chili lime sauce, avocado, and salted cabbage. $14

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Grilled Octopus

Ahi Tower

Sashimi-grade ahi tuna, avocado, tomato, pickled red onion, wasabi tobiko, wasabi aioli, Bragg’s aioli and gochujang. $18

Coq Au Vin

French Martini

Grilled half chicken, red wine jus, yellow foot mushroom, cipollini onion, mashed Yukon Gold potato and pancetta. $32

Vodka, fresh lemon juice, pineapple juice and raspberry liqueur. $11

916 W 2nd Ave  Spokane

115 N Washington St Ste 1  Spokane

(509) 456-7575 Sun-Thu 4-9 pm. Fri-Sat 4-10 pm.

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WOODEN CITY

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(509) 838-4600 Mon-Fri 11:30-2 and 5-Close. Sat 5-Close.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

AMERICAN

Great drinks, comforting American Cuisine & sincere hospitality in the heart of downtown Spokane.

FAN FAVORITE

Beef Wileyton

Gold grade American Wagyu top sirloin, mushroom duxelles, cambazola cheese, puff pastry and rosemary brandy demiglace. $45

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Crisp confit potato, arrabiata sauce, guajillo aioli, micro herb salad, and chimichurri. $18

BISTRO

Salmon Toast

We start by curing fresh salmon in house for 24 hours, sliced thinly and served with whipped crème fraîche, roasted beet relish, creamy egg mousse, pickled red onion, baby radishes and fresh dill on buttered sourdough. $15

MY MEMORABLE MEAL “Dalton, D Street, Kiernan.

Great neighborhood…even better pizza at the Flying Goat.”

— TJ Brill

Market President

Fancy Burger

Two 4-ounce patties of locally-sourced beef, each layered with swiss cheese, topped with sauteed cremini mushrooms, caramelized onion jam, baby arugula, garlic aioli and finished with aged balsamic, served on a house baked bun. $16

Hungarian Wax Peppers

Specially sourced peppers blistered in our wood fired oven, stuffed with sweet sausage, fennel seed, cracked black pepper, aged cheddar, dressed with chive oil and served with a side of toasted ciabatta. $14

821 W Riverside Ave  Spokane (509) 822-7194 Sun-Thu 4-8 pm. Fri-Sat 4 pm-9 pm.

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 DESTINATION

North Spokane

N

Lost Boys’ Garage

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orth Spokane is a big, eclectic place. Sure, it’s mostly suburbs, but there’s a lot of variety to the suburbs. There’s everything from the porch-front community of Garland, to the working-class ’burbs of Hillyard, to the cul-de-sacs of Five Mile Prairie.

So there’s just as much diversity in its eateries. You have pizza places like ADELO’s and McCLAIN’S, barbecue joints like DOGTOWN TAPHOUSE, Mexican restaurants like DE LEON’S and RINCON TAPATIO, and neighborhood bars like the LOGAN TAVERN and POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE. Sure, when you drive down Division Street you see a lot of fast food chains, but you also see Italian restaurants like FERRARO’S and Thai restaurants like THAI BAMBOO. In fact, normally, this would be about the time that Division Street’s PHO VAN would be winning the Best Pho category in the Inlander’s Best Of reader’s poll.

While the paper delayed this year’s Best Of issue due to that whole pandemic thing, you can still take advantage of Pho Van’s award-winning meals.

Go for the Pho Tai Nam Bo Vien ($12) — eye of round steak, meatballs and rice noodles all swimming in a beef broth.

Similarly, a lot of locals consider Audubon neighborhood staple the FLYING GOAT the G.O.A.T of pizza places. Their Kiernan pizza ($17) tops creamy, cheesy pizza slices with Italian sausage, an over-medium egg, and truffle-oil-tossed arugula.

What if your kids can’t stand arugula, preferring to eschew gourmet creations for a trusty box of Kraft mac and cheese?

Teach your children that you reject the false dialectic between fine dining and comfort food, and prefer to seek out the Hegelian dialectical synthesis between

“restaurant dining” and “mac and cheese.” Order MACDADDY’S buffalo chicken mac and cheese ($14.) It features a whopping eight cheeses, and includes bacon, marinated buffalo chicken and blue cheese crumbles.

Heck, make it into a Top Chef-style taste-test competition by pitting MacDaddy’s best macaroni against the DOWNRIVER GRILL’S pork belly mac & cheese ($20). Theirs features bacon too, but with a smoky Gouda cream sauce, Parmesan and a citrus-maple glaze.

The PROHIBITION pub survived a season of Monroe Street construction in 2018 only to be hit with a year of pandemic-related lockdown restrictions in 2020.

But they’re still here, kept alive by their indefatigable quest to serve you plates of their candy-coated jalapeño poppers ($9). If it wasn’t enough to stuff jalapeños with a medley of cheeses and roasted garlic and wrap them in candied bacon, the appetizers also come with a side of huckleberry jam.

Beloved by northside dads everywhere, the MAPLE STREET BISTRO will let you capture the pre-pandemic lazy-Saturday-at-the-cafe nostalgia of a simpler time. Grab their signature “Breakfast Club” ($7) sandwich, which takes your personal homemade bagel selection and piles on ham and bacon, before topping it with an egg, cheddar cheese, Swiss cheese, cream cheese and a honey mustard dressing. Then have a side of applesauce, why don’t you?

Meanwhile, KINJA KOREAN & JAPANESE + SUSHI RESTAURANT, a local family-owned Korean and Japanese restaurant, encourages you to consider their most popular sushi offering, the “Jane Roll” ($13). Picture deep-fried shrimp and spicy crab in a sushi roll with spicy tuna and crunchy flakes piled on top, and the whole thing drizzled with a sweet-andspicy sauce. 

1898 PUBLIC HOUSE

AMERICAN

Experience a menu with a fresh and delicious take on classic dishes, local wines, and craft beers while taking in the best view in North Spokane.

FAN FAVORITE

Pistachio-Sesame Crusted Ahi-Tuna

Ahi-tuna Saku block, jasmine rice, pea puree, soy glaze, pickled daikon and cucumber slaw. $32

Spokane

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Wicked Shrimp

North

Jumbo prawns, mascarpone polenta, harissa sauce and grilled crostini. $15

Honey Stung Fried Chicken

Topped with honey-cayenne glaze, served with garlic mashed potatoes, pan gravy, house-made biscuit and honey butter. $24

2010 W Waikiki Rd  Spokane

(509) 466-2121 Mon-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri 11 am-10 pm.

Sat 9 am-10 pm. Sun 9 am-9 pm.

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ADELO’S PIZZA, PASTA AND PINTS

PIZZA

We are a family-friendly restaurant/bar located in the heart of the Indian Trail neighborhood. We specialize in pizza, pasta and much more.

SIGNATURE DISH

BARNWOOD SOCIAL KITCHEN & TAVERN Spokane’s East Side kitchen, tavern and hideaway!

FAN FAVORITE

Indian Trail Pizza

The Indian Trail features our made daily dough, housemade garlic sauce, mozzarella cheese, sausage, salami, black olives, red onions, sun-dried tomatoes, pepperoncinis, and feta cheese. $20 Also Try...

Fire Pasta

Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich

Garlic Beer Bites

Barnwood Burner Burger

Our most popular appetizer, the garlic beer bites are small bites of dough that we fry and toss in butter and garlic. Also available on happy hour. $6

Mac & Chees Egg Rolls

Loaded with bacon, mozzarella and onions, and served with a side of Sriracha ranch. $9.25

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Our Fire Pasta is a fan favorite. It’s an entree pasta that also comes with garlic bread and a house salad. $15

AMERICAN

Crispy chicken tossed in a house-made Nashville-style hot sauce with garlic aioli, house pickles and slaw on a brioche bun. $14.50

8801 N Indian Trail Rd Suite G  Spokane

1/3-pound beef patty, crispy onion strings, pepper jack cheese, bacon and jalapenos with Backyard Public House’s famous garlic aioli. $16.25

3027 E Liberty Ave  Spokane

(509) 464-0110 Daily 3-8 pm.

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(509) 315-9855 Daily 11 am-close

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THE BARREL STEAK AND SEAFOOD

STEAKHOUSE

We are a locally owned and operated steak and seafood house dedicated to quality and excellence in all we do. North Spokane’s favorite for over 60 years.

FAN FAVORITE

BIRDY’S SPORTS BAR

AMERICAN

Birdy’s is a family-owned business, located in the Wandermere district. We are proud to have a space for you to enjoy your favorite sports game!

SIGNATURE DISH

Coconut Prawns

Bacon Burger

Jumbo prawns pressed in our signature coconut breading, flash fried and served with a side of sweet chili aioli. $17

Colby cheese and two thick slices of smokey bacon & lettuce $14.50

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Filet Mignon

Chicken Strips

Eight-ounce Choice beef tenderloin charbroiled to your liking and finished with our signature herb compound butter. Served with two of our signature sides. $32

Served with fries and ranch dressing!

Wings

1 lb boneless or regular: tossed in your choice of Buffalo, Sweet Buffalo, BBQ, Honey BBQ, Teriyaki, Chipotle Ranch, Carolina Gold Sauce $15

Sea Scallops

Large sea scallops perfectly seared and topped with a light Parmesan cream sauce. Served with two of our signature sides. $32

$13

6404 N Wall St  Spokane

12908 U.S. 395  Spokane

(509) 467-5490 Mon-Wed 11 am-9 pm. Thu-Fri 11 am-10 pm.

Sat 4-10 pm. Sun 4-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

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THE BOILER ROOM

PIZZA

Clever wood-fired pizzas, draft microbrews & classic cocktails served in airy, industrial digs

SIGNATURE DISH

(509) 863-9572 Mon-Thu 1 pm-Midnight, Fri 1 pm-1 am, Sat 11:30 am-1 am

CASCADIA PUBLIC HOUSE

Cascadia is a locally owned and operated Northwest gastropub. We focus on highlighting local farmers and ingredients with an emphasis on sustainability.

FAN FAVORITE

The Godfather

Seasoned ground beef, taco sauce, cheddar and house cheese blend, olives, tomatoes and onion. Finished with shredded iceberg lettuce and sour cream. $19.25 Also Try...

House Pretzel

Oregonzola Steak Salad

Public House

Northwest Dip 6501 N Cedar Rd Spokane 

(509) 863-9213 Mon-Thu 1 pm-9 pm, Fri-Sat 1 pm-10 pm, Sun 1 pm-8 pm

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House-made daily pretzels served with beer cheese or vegan cashew queso $11

Northwest-raised premium Angus steak, organic baby spinach, Montana-raised thick-cut bacon, Rogue Oregonzola crumbles, dried cranberries, apples, candied walnuts, and Oregonzola bleu cheese dressing. $16.50

BBQ Chicken Pizza

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House Pretzels

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Two house-made salted soft baked pretzels warmed in our wood-fired oven. Served with sweet hot stout mustard and parmesan cream. $10.25 House-made BBQ sauce, white cheddar, mozzarella, chicken breast, KC bacon, onions, smoked mozzarella and cilantro. $19.25

AMERICAN

Thinly sliced NW raised premium Angus beef, crispy onions, fontina, house-made horseradish aioli, au jus, served on an Alpine Bakery hoagie. $16.50

6314 N Ash St Suite 1  Spokane

Menu available at other location

(509) 321-7051 11 am-close



Spokane-Central

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SPOKANE | North COLE’S BAKERY & CAFE

AMERICAN

Cole’s is a full-service restaurant and bakery in North Spokane. We offer breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week. 100 percent gluten-free, vegan and Keto.

FAN FAVORITE

DAS STEIN HAUS

Come to North Spokane for authentic German cuisine. Serving Georg’s favorite recipes for 30 years including bratwurst, schnitzels and sauerkraut.

SIGNATURE DISH

Crispy Chicken Sandwich

Brat Combo Platter

A variety of hand-made brats served with traditional spaetzle noodles and specialty sauerkraut. Served with spaetzle or homefried potatoes. $15

Crispy chicken breast on top our house-made gluten-free bun, served with hand-cut fries. $16.50 Also Try...

GERMAN

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Lasagna

Schnitzel

Gluten-free lasagna smothered in meat sauce, topped with mozzarella cheese and served with grilled baguette. $16.50

Our schnitzels are hand cut from lean pork tenderloin, flattened, breaded and baked.

Served with a variety of rich, fragrant specialty sauces. $15

Crab Cake Platter

Kase Spaetzle

Three gluten-free crab cakes served with pesto rice, grilled veggies and toasted baguette. $18.50

521 E Holland Suite 20  Spokane

Home-made spaetzle noodles toasted on the grill, served with creamy cheese sauce, proscuitto ham and green onions. $10

(509) 326-2214 Mon-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri 11 am-10 pm.

Sat 9 am-10 pm. Sun 9 am-8 pm.

(509) 941-3173 Mon-Thu 10 am-5 pm. Fri-Sun 8 am-6 pm.

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DE LEON’S TACO & BAR

MEXICAN

The De Leon family brings you generations of recipes and techniques all the way from the Texas/Mexico border. The food is authentic and so delicious!

SIGNATURE DISH

The Taco Boat

10 soft or crispy tacos on our house-made 4.5 inch corn tortillas with your choice of carnitas, shredded chicken, shredded beef or ground beef. $26.99

1812 W Francis Ave  Spokane

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MY MEMORABLE MEAL

“Wild Sage has been excellent for 15+ years and I’ve always enjoyed the food and service… but I have five words to share: Yukon Taquitos, Coconut Cake, Repeat.”

— Brian J. Read Executive Vice President Head Of Retail Banking

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Baja Burrito

House-made chipotle flour tortilla stuffed with shrimp, black beans, rice, sautéed bell peppers and onions. Topped with our Baja sauce, melted Monterrey Jack cheese, sour cream and avocado slices. $15.99

Cilantro Jalapeño Margartia

We muddle fresh jalapeños, cilantro and lime juice and add tequila (100% agave) triple sec, tres agaves sweet and sour and a salted rim. $12 Menu available at other locations

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

1801 N Hamilton St  Spokane

(509) 863-9591 Mon-Sat 11 am-9 pm. Sun 11 am-8 pm. 

Spokane-South, Spokane-North

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DOGTOWN TAPHOUSE AND BARBECUE

BARBECUE

A hidden gem! This off-the-beaten-path smokehouse serves up delicious smoked food made from scratch in a very comfortable atmosphere.

SIGNATURE DISH

Smoked St Louis Style Ribs

DOWNRIVER GRILL

Located in the cherished Audubon neighborhood, Downriver is a casual fine dining restaurant focusing on fresh, local and seasonal Modern American Cuisine

FAN FAVORITE

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BBQ Platter

Gorgonzola Fries

Criss-cut fries, creamy Gorgonzola sauce, fresh herbs and black pepper. $14.50

House Beignets

Dusted in confectioner’s sugar and served with bourbon caramel and seasonal jam. $9

Dogtown Dip

House-smoked brisket piled on a toasted hoagie with mayo and cheddar. Served with housemade au jus and choice of side. $16

5002 N Ferrall St  Spokane

3315 W Northwest Blvd  Spokane

(509) 868-0385 Daily 11 am-11 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  INDOOR OPEN AIR SEATING

ELLIOTTS AN URBAN KITCHEN

(509) 323-1600 Tue-Fri 11 am-9 pm. Sat-Sun 9 am-9 pm.

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BISTRO

New American fair in the heart of the North Monroe business district.

FAN FAVORITE

Scotch Egg

FERRAROS NORTH RESTAURANT & BAR

FAN FAVORITE

Also Try...

Pork Green Chili

Chicken Parmesan

Two 4-ounce chicken cutlets breaded, fried and topped with mozzarella cheese and marinara, and served with spaghetti. All entrees include your choice of salad or soup, and bread! $18.95

Fried Chicken Sandwich

Hand-dipped beer-battered chicken with housemade aioli and pickled onions. $15

Sirloin Fettuccine

Eight-ounce steak sliced and sautéed with mushrooms tossed with our Fettucine Alfredo! $23.95

2209 N Monroe St  Spokane

(509) 866-0850 Mon-Sat 9 am-9 pm. Sun 9 am-2 pm.

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Cannelloni Sausage-stuffed pasta shell topped with mozzarella cheese and smothered in 1/2 Alfredo and 1/2 marinara sauce. $18.95

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House-prepared pork chili verde with charred tortillas. $12

ITALIAN

We are a family-run Italian Restaurant that has been serving Spokane since 2008.

Locally owned and operated!

Six-minute egg wrapped in house-made chorizo sausage, breaded and fried to perfection. $4.50

 DINE IN

Pork Belly Mac & Cheese Bacon and smoked Gouda cream sauce, citrus-maple glaze, and Parmesan cheese. $20

Fall-off-the-bone, dry-rubbed goodness, served with choice of side and our house-made barbecue sauce. $16

Family style platter feeds four to six people.

Choice of four of your favorite house-smoked meats, served with four of our house-made sides and four deviled eggs. $49

AMERICAN

3022 N Division St  Spokane

(509) 325-7443 Mon-Thu 11 am-8 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-9 pm.

Sun 3-8 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

SPOKANE | North THE FLYING GOAT

PIZZA

The Flying Goat is a craft beer bar and casual eatery located in the AudubonDownriver neighborhood whose specialty is Neapolitan style pizzas.

SIGNATURE DISH

HILLYARD PUB + GRUB House-made pub grub in the heart of downtown Hillyard.

FAN FAVORITE

Kiernan Pizza

Heavy cream, house cheese blend, Italian sausage and over-medium egg with truffle oil tossed arugula. $17

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Roskelley Dumplings

Chili Dogg

Half-pound all-beef foot-long dogg topped with house-made chili, queso and onions. $10

“D” Street Pizza

Italian Sando

Yellow coconut curry, house cheese blend, chicken, potato, carrot, jalapeño, Sriracha, cilantro and lime juice. $15.50

Italian melt piled high with salami, pepperoni, peppers and provolone cheese with a housemade vinaigrette. $11

3318 W Northwest Blvd  Spokane

3020 E Queen Ave  Spokane

(509) 327-8277 Sun-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

PUB GRUB

Locally owned taproom and grill in north Spokane! Twenty-one craft beers on tap dedicated to local PNW breweries.

FAN FAVORITE

Harmond Park Board

Meat and cheese charcuterie board with a giant pretzel, antipasta and pickled eggs. $15

House sausage, roasted jalapeño, goat cheese wrapped in dough and deep fried. $11.50

HOP MOUNTAIN TAPROOM

PUB GRUB

Hop Mountain Burger

One-third pound beef patty topped with bacon, red onion, lettuce, tomato, pickles and your choice of cheddar or Swiss cheese served on a brioche bun with homemade spicy aioli. $15

(509) 290-5419 Mon-Sun 11 am-11 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  OUTDOOR DINING  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

MY MEMORABLE MEAL

“My family loves the great food and friendly environment of Fiesta Grande! I especially love the Arroz Con Camarones.”

— Jeff Adams CEO/President

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Fish and Chips

Three beer battered strips of cod served over a large portion of fries. $12

The Gary

Crispy chicken topped with Swiss cheese, bacon, Black Forest ham, lettuce and tomato served on a brioche bun with honey mustard. $14

14017 N Newport Hwy  Mead (509) 934-1945 7 days a week 11am-10pm

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

THE GREAT DINE OUT IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS

SPONSORED CONTENT

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ILLINOIS AVENUE BAR AND GRILL

PUB GRUB

We are a family owned and operated, neighborhood full service bar and grill, which specializes in delicious American pub food.

SIGNATURE DISH

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Weekend Steak and Bake Special

Charbroiled 8-ounce Top Sirloin with a loaded bake potato and garlic bread. (available Saturday and Sunday) The rest of the week it’s still a great deal at $16.50, and we throw in a dinner salad at that price. $12

The Best French Dip in Town

Our delicious French Dip sandwich comes with au jus and choice of fries or other side. On the last Tuesday of each month we offer this sandwich as our Two for One Tuesday Special.

Don’t worry, we serve our amazing French Dip every day! $12.75

Providing our special Kinja rolls, sushi and Korean food.

FAN FAVORITE

Our most popular roll with deep-fried shrimp tempura, spicy crab with spicy tuna topped, and crunch flakes and spicy sweet sauce added all over. $12.99 Also Try...

Yakisoba Noodles

Our most popular stir-fried noodles with the choice of beef, chicken, shrimp added with assortments of vegetables. $9.99

1403 E Illinois Ave  Spokane

7458 N Division St  Spokane

(509) 482-6033 Daily 8 am-11 pm.

KOBE HIBACHI, SUSHI AND BAR

ASIAN

The only full service Japanese teppanyaki restaurant in Spokane, we also serve boba tea now, which is a really popular type of drink in Asian countries.

Hibachi Steak

(509) 474-9276 Mon-Sun except Wednesday, 11 am-9 pm.

 TAKEOUT ONLY  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

LITTLE NOODLE

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FAN FAVORITE

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Combo C

Pho’-Kit for 4

All the Pho’ fixings kitted up for 4 people.

Includes one choice of protein, broth, noods, jalapenos, basil, cilantro, lime, lemongrass oil, sriracha, and hoisin all on the side. Four drinks included. $69

Love Boat

Japanese Cold Soba

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THE GREAT DINE OUT

The Pho’-rrito

All our fresh fixings that come with the Pho’ wrapped in a soft warm tortilla. Comes with a side of our Pho’ broth for dipping. Please note that it can be made vegan upon request. $12.75

Tuna fan’s favorite! Red dragon roll (shrimp tempura and crab meat inside, and fresh cut tuna and avocado on top with spicy Mayo and Eel sauce), tuna roll and 10 pieces of sushi. $32.50

 TAKEOUT ONLY

ASIAN

Asian-inspired dishes. Fresh ingredients and prime smoked meats.

Japanese-style grilled vegetables and steak per your preferences, served with house salad and hibachi clear soup. $23.95

The perfect size for a couple who wants to have a romantic at-home sushi dinner, this combo includes eight pieces of sushi, eight pieces of sashimi, and California roll, spicy tuna and Alaska roll (each roll eight pieces.) $44

Jane Roll

Our favorite Korean marinated sliced beef served with hot, steamed rice and our House Green salad. $14.99

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

SIGNATURE DISH

SUSHI

Bulgogi

Broasted Chicken & JoJos

A Customer Favorite: Four-piece Chicken & JoJos, broasted to a golden perfection. Served with choice of dipping sauces. Chicken available in 4, 8, 12 and 16 pieces. $12

KINJA JAPANESE RESTAURANT

2819 N Division St  Spokane

(509) 828-2226 Wed-Mon 11 am-9 pm. (Closed Tue.)

Cold buckwheat noodles garnished with fried garlic and green onion. A hot black vinegar broth comes on the side with a small side of our house wasabi sauce on the side as well. $9.50

713 W Garland  Spokane

(509) 598-8635 Tue-Fri 11:30 am-8 pm, Sat 12-8 pm, Sun 12-5 pm

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING

SPOKANE | North LOGAN TAVERN

AMERICAN

Logan Tavern is a cozy restaurant located in the Gonzaga/Logan neighborhood.

We’re known for our friendly staff and creative kitchen!

FAN FAVORITE

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LOST BOYS’ GARAGE BAR & GRILL

Lost Boys’ Garage is a comforting, inviting gathering place where guests are greeted as they walk through the door, with scrumptious upscale pub fare.

SIGNATURE DISH

Buttermilk Crispy Chicken Sandwich

House-made buttermilk crispy chicken, lettuce, tomato, avocado, pepper medley and fry sauce on a house-made bun! Try it original, Buffalo, Cajun honey butter, or Nashville style with pickles! $14

Zag Burger

Our‚ 1/3-pound patty topped with thick-sliced bacon, Gouda and Havarti cheeses, lettuce, tomato, red onion, and bacon aioli. $15 Also Try...

Six ounces of thinly sliced sirloin seasoned with Mark Peterson’s “Extreme“ rub, smothered in mushrooms, seasoned sauerkraut, pepper Jack and Gouda cheese, then drizzled with a balsamic & Cholula™ aioli. $15

Chicken Lil Sammie

Deep-fried chicken patty, lettuce, pickle and fry sauce on a sesame seed bun! $7

Raspberry Cheesecake Chimichanga 1305 N Hamilton St  Spokane

Sweet and crispy tortillas filled with creamy raspberry cheesecake. $9

(509) 474-0584 Mon-Fri 11 am-9 pm. Sat-Sun 10 am-9 pm.

AMERICAN

Locally owned family-friendly restaurant that specializes in gourmet mac and cheese dishes. Who’s Your MACDADDY?

(509) 443-5023 Sun-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri & Sat 11 am-10 pm

Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese

MAMMA MIA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT

SIGNATURE DISH

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Mac Nachos

Rigatoni Alla Vodka

Five Bacon Mac Balls drizzled with house-made bacon cheese sauce. Served with chipotle for dipping. $10.99

Rigatoni with Prosciutto, Tomato, Basil, Olive Oil, Garlic, Parmesan Cheese and Vodka Cream Sauce. Served with your choice of Minestrone Soup or Salad and a Fresh Baked Roll. $23

Pub and Grill 10115 N Newport Hwy Suite E  Spokane

(509) 474-1336 Sun-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-11 pm.

 TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

Chicken Marsala Ravioli

Homemade Chicken Ravioli Smothered in Sauteed Mushrooms and Marsala Wine and Cream Sauce. Served with your choice of Minestrone Soup or Salad and a Fresh Baked Roll. $22

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Deep-fried Bacon Mac Balls

ITALIAN

Mamma Mia’s makes delicious homemade recipes from scratch daily! Come in and experience exceptional customer service and a warm family atmosphere.

Signature eight-cheese Bacon Mac, grilled with marinated Buffalo chicken and blue cheese crumbles. $13.99

Tortilla chips, Doritos, grilled chicken, shredded cheddar Jack cheese, olives, jalapeños, diced tomatoes, caramelized onions, mixed with our Signature Bacon Mac and served with salsa and sour cream. $18.99

6325 N Wall St  Spokane

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  TAKEOUT WINDOW  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

SIGNATURE DISH

Bacon Smoked Gouda Burger

Extreme Steak Melt*

A 3-ounce beef patty, onion, pickle, ketchup and mustard on a sesame seed bun! $7

MACDADDY’S

PUB GRUB

Mamma Mia’s Meal Kit

Meal Kit includes: Original Take and Bake Lasagna (feeds 4 to 6) Salad for 6 with House-made Creamy Italian or Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing.

Six Fresh Baked Rolls Bottle of House Wine $45

420 W Francis  Spokane (509) 467-7786 Daily 4 pm-9 pm

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  OUTDOOR DINING SPONSORED CONTENT

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MAPLE STREET BISTRO

BISTRO

Serving high quality espresso drinks, panini, breakfast sandwiches, and housemade baked goods in North Spokane’s Shadle neighborhood.

FAN FAVORITE

MCCLAIN’S PIZZERIA

McClain’s Pizzeria is a truly local, family and community oriented restaurant with hand-tossed pizza dough, topped with fresh quality ingredients.

FAN FAVORITE

Breakfast Club

Our signature breakfast sandwich featuring egg, ham, bacon, cheddar, Swiss, cream cheese, and honey mustard dressing served on your choice of house-made bagel, plus a side of our baked applesauce. $7 Also Try...

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Chicken Pesto Panini

Buffalo Chicken Cheesy Bread

Seasoned roasted chicken breast, pesto, tomato, provolone and Caesar dressing grilled on our house-made garlic focaccia bread.

Served with chips and a pickle. $9.95

5520 N Maple St  Spokane

 TAKEOUT ONLY  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING

MUSTARD SEED

A 10” hand-tossed pizza dough is stuffed with marinara, pepperoni, black olives and Galbani mozzarella. Folded over, braided and baked to golden perfection. Meat and veggie fillings can be substituted. $11

ASIAN

Shrimp Osaka

PETE’S PIZZA

SIGNATURE DISH

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STARTER: Fresh Green Beans

Breadless Bowl Calzone

Spicy green beans sautéed in a soy sauce glaze with chopped garlic and chili paste. $10.50

ITALIAN

The Original Calzone

Our Original Calzone is loaded with mozzarella, pepperoni, fresh mushrooms & black olives and Pete’s housemade marinara sauce. $13.50

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Try one of Pete’s Breadless Bowls. Each bowl is prepared with your favorite calzone ingredients and topped with a blanket of mozzarella. You won’t find any bread here. $12

ANOTHER FAN FAVORITE: General Mustard’s

Cheesy Bites

4750 N Division St  Spokane

(509) 483-1500 Sun-Thu 11 am-8 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE THE GREAT DINE OUT

(509) 368-9045 Sun-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

At Pete’s Pizza your order is always made fresh, from “Pete’s Secret Recipe” homemade dough and marinara sauce. Spokane’s Original Calzone since 1972.

Delicious shrimp sautéed in a light ginger sauce and garnished with fresh lemon.

Served with a side of our signature Osaka (tangy mustard) sauce. $19.95

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10208 N Division Ste 104  Spokane

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING

The Mustard Seed is a local Asian fusion restaurant that serves delicious, fresh Pan-Asian dishes.

Your choice of protein tossed with stir-fried mushrooms, pea pods, red peppers, bok choy and green onions in a tangy sweet and sour glaze. [Starting at $16.50] $16.50

Feeds 2-3 people. Hand tossed dough with house-made sauce, layered with tons of Canadian bacon, pepperoni, sausage, and bacon, topped with Premio Galbani mozzarella cheese.

Cooked to golden perfection. $25.50

Pepperoni and Olive Calzone

(509) 328-0473 Mon-Fri 6 am-3 pm. Sat-Sun 7 am-3 pm.

FAN FAVORITE

14” Meat Coma Pizza

10” Appetizer: Thick hand-tossed dough covered with garlic butter, tons of chicken, Galbani mozzarella and topped with our Mac Daddy hot sauce. Baked to golden brown and served with ranch or blue cheese. $16

Pecan Sweet Roll

A perfectly spiraled sweet roll with warm nutmeg and cinnamon coating the inside layers, and covered in a caramel, maple and pecan topping. $4.25

PIZZA

Mozzarella wrapped in “Pete’s Secret Recipe” dough brushed with garlic oil and sprinkled with Parmesan cheese, then baked to perfection and served with our marinara sauce. $7

821 E Sharp Ave  Spokane (509) 487-9795 Mon-Sun 11 am-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING

SPOKANE | North PHO VAN

ASIAN

Dine in and enjoy our authentic Vietnamese cuisine where we serve different types of Vietnamese soups, rice dishes, and an assortment of stir-fries.

FAN FAVORITE

Pho Tai Nam Bo Vien

POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE

Family owned and family friendly English style pub! The place to meet friends and family to eat, drink and catch your favorite sporting event!

FAN FAVORITE

Beef broth served with rice noodles, eye of round steak, well done lean meat, and meatball. $11.99

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Com Ga Xa Ot

Scottie’s Favorite Hottie

1/2-pound burger loaded with grilled onions, jalapeños, lettuce, tomato, pepper jack cheese, and topped with peppered bacon. Holy Cow! $14.99

Special Chow Fun

Thick and wide rice noodle, stir-fried with bok choy, bean sprouts, onions, and served with beef and shrimp. $13.99

Fresh Strawberry Chicken Salad

2909 N Division St  Spokane (509) 326-6470 Daily 10 am-9 pm.

PUB GRUB

(509) 413-1834 Mon-Thu, 11 am-8 pm. Fri 11 am-10 pm.

Sat 9 am-10 pm. Sun 9 am-7 pm. 

Spokane-South

Candy-Coated Jalapeño Poppers

QQ SUSHI & KITCHEN

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SUSHI

Sushi kitchen focused on providing fresh fish with traditional sushi techniques.

Sushi is our artistic expression; every plate is its own work of art.

SIGNATURE DISH

Sashimi Dinner

Chef’s choice of 12 pieces of sashimi with rice. $18

Jalapeños stuffed with mixed cheeses and roasted garlic, wrapped in candy-coated bacon and served with housemade huckleberry jam. Four for $9, six for $14, or 10 for $18

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Blue Cheese Lasagna

Heart Attack

Creamy garlic sauce, loaded with chicken, blue cheese and Italian cheese blend, and baked to perfection. Comes with Alpine Bakery sourdough bread. $18

Battered and deep-fried jalapeños stuffed with cream cheese and topped with spicy aioli and eel sauce. $10

The Voot Burger

Eel, crab and avocado roll topped with fresh salmon. Baked and drizzled with eel sauce and spicy aioli. Served with an open flame! $12

Coffee-infused beef patty, topped with candied bacon, lettuce, onion, tomato and a fontina cheese blend. Served on an Alpine Bakery pretzel bun with mushroom aioli. Comes with house-made French fries. $16.50

12310 N Ruby Rd  Spokane

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

Local Monroe Street casual gastropub offering killer pub grub, local draft beer, and craft cocktails with a smile on our faces.

FAN FAVORITE

Fresh spinach leaves topped with grilled chicken breast, fresh strawberries, red onions, blue cheese crumbles, sliced almonds, strawberry vinaigrette dressing and drizzled with balsamic glaze. $15.99

Menu available at other locations

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

PROHIBITION GASTROPUB

Fried Chicken Sandwich

Breaded chicken breast fried Southern style, served on a brioche bun with lettuce, tomato, sliced dill pickles and drizzled with either roasted garlic aioli, Sriracha-honey mustard, Frank’s or BBQ. $14.99

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Chili chicken with lemongrass on steamed white rice. $12.99

PUB GRUB

Fire Lion King

1914 N Monroe St  Spokane

(509) 474-9040 Tue-Sat 11:30 am-Close. Sun 9 am-2 pm (brunch) and 2 pm-Close (normal menu).

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

1902 W Francis Ave  Spokane

(509) 279-2721 Mon-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

Sun noon-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

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RINCON TAPATIO

MEXICAN

We are a family-owned Mexican restaurant bringing recipes from Guadalajara, Mexico, to your plate.

FAN FAVORITE

Carne Asada

Grilled skirt steak served with beans, rice, guacamole and a grilled green onion. $18.95

 BEHIND THE SCENES

Lisa Poole

POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE

S

cott and Lisa Poole turned their lifetime of restaurant and business experience into not one but two restaurants — one on the north side and one on the South Hill.

These longtime Spokane residents have created a place where you can bring the family, cheer on your favorite sports team and enjoy a heartwarming meal from sunup to sundown. Weekly specials include Taco Tuesday, Wine & Whiskey Wednesday, and weekend breakfast with mimosa and Bloody Mary specials, but any day is a good day to enjoy the Poole’s hometown hospitality.  How did you choose the three items for the Great Dine Out? LISA POOLE: We are featuring our fried chicken sandwich and our two alternates are Scottie’s Favorite Hottie burger [a half pound of locally sourced brisket blend, with grilled onions, jalapeños, lettuce, tomato, pepper Jack cheese, and peppered bacon] and our fresh strawberry chicken salad. Back in December, when Chick-fil-A had opened and people were waiting in long lines of traffic to try their food, our GM (Trevor Poole) at our north location decided to promote our fried chicken sandwich on Instagram and Facebook. When we opened for service inside our tent, we actually called it the “Better Than Chick-fil-A” Fried Chicken Sandwich! It has been selling like

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THE GREAT DINE OUT

crazy since then, so we thought it would be great to promote it in your Great Dine Out issue!

 Every restaurant has handled shutdowns, restricted dining and mask mandates differently. What was your plan last year, and how did it evolve?

We didn’t have a choice other than to follow the governor’s mandates. We didn’t want to risk losing our liquor license, and at the same time we wanted to provide the safest environment possible for our customers. We were fortunate to have the PPP loan and also received a couple of the community grants, which allowed us to keep the majority of our staff employed.

 Any upside or good news from this past year?

It did force us to re-evaluate our business model and introduce online ordering and delivery services, which we didn’t have before COVID. It was a very difficult time for our employees; several weren’t able to receive unemployment benefits initially. For some, it took months. We were able to come together and help some of those employees by providing Christmas gifts for their kids.

 How have your customers responded throughout this past year?

We realized how fortunate we are to have such loyal and supportive customers. 

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Crab Enchiladas

Two corn tortillas filled with real Dungeness crabmeat topped with green sauce and Jack cheese and garnished with sour cream, avocado, lettuce and tomato. $18.95

Arroz Con Pollo

Strips of chicken breast sautéed in a special sauce with mushrooms, green peppers and onions served over a bed of rice with melted Jack cheese. $17.96

1212 N Hamilton St  Spokane

(509) 473-9583 Sun-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

Menu available at other locations

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Spokane-North

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

SUSHIWA TERIYAKI

SUSHI

Located in Mead neighborhood, Sushiwa Teriyaki prides itself on offering fresh sushi made especially for you by the owner, Mr Kim.

SIGNATURE DISH

Ocean Roll Inside: Avocado, spicy tuna, two tempura shrimp Outside: Salmon, tuna, Sweet Potato Crunchy and special sauce. $18

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Crunchy Roll with Potsticker

Outside: Sweet Potato Crunchy. Inside: Asparagus, crab, avocado, shrimp tempura $12

Mixed Family Platter

Includes Crunchy Roll, Ocean Roll, Yummy Roll, Rainbow and Las Vegas Roll. $75

603 W Hastings Rd

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Spokane

(509) 466-3436 Mon-Sat 11 am-9 pm. Closed Sun.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT

SPOKANE | North THE SWINGING DOORS

AMERICAN

Family-owned northside restaurant since 1981 serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner with large portions and quality ingredients. Meet, eat, & have fun!

FAN FAVORITE

TAVOLA CALDA BY COMMELLINI ESTATE

At Tavola Calda, or in English “hot-table”, the emphasis is appropriately on the food. We are an informal eatery serving authentic handcrafted Italian.

FAN FAVORITE

Chicken-in-a-Biscuit

Shrimp Scampi

A fried chicken breast topped with a fried egg and cheddar cheese in between our freshmade biscuits, then smothered in sausage gravy and served with crisp hash browns! $13.99

Fettuccini Shrimp Scampi and Alfredo Sauce, fettuccini noodles, our classic white wine alfredo sauce, garlic butter shrimp and freshly grated Parmigiana-Reggiano $17

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Beer Cheese Philly Sandwich

Eggplant Parmesan

Over 1/3 pound of thin-sliced lean roast beef topped with sauteed onions, sauteed green peppers and our house-made beer cheese sauce on an Italian roll. Served with soup of the day, salad or fries. $14.99

Pan-fried eggplant Parmesan baked with our homemade Gina’s vegetable marinara sauce and fresh Parmigiano-Reggiano and mozzarella cheese. $12

Chicken Cacciatore

Lemon Drop Martini

Absolut Citron Vodka and Cointreau shaken with muddled lemons and simple syrup served in a chilled martini glass with a sugared rim. $8

1018 W Francis Ave  Spokane

“Cacciatore” translates to “hunters-style” and is one of the reasons Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio visited our venue in the woods many years ago. Bone-in and braised in red wine. $20

(509) 326-6794 Sun-Thu 8 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 8 am-10 pm.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

THAI

A locally owned Thai and Asian restaurant that brings the very best in healthy, authentic Asian cuisine with four convenient locations.

Thai Red Curry with Jasmine Rice

TWIGS BISTRO AND MARTINI BAR

FAN FAVORITE

Thai Garlic Delight

Grilled Ribeye

Choice of beef, chicken, pork of tofu sautéed in a tasty garlic sauce. Served on a bed of steamed broccoli, zucchini, carrots and cabbage. Topped with toasted garlic and fresh cilantro. $16.99

AMERICAN

Grilled Halibut Tacos

Citrus marinated grilled halibut, flour tortillas, sautéed peppers and onions, guacamole, pico de gallo, cilantro lime crema. $17

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14oz choice center-cut ribeye, roasted garlic butter, seasonal vegetables, chive mashed potatoes. $39

TU Southwest Nachos

Thai Favorites Meal Deal for 2



Spokane

Spokane’s favorite gathering place for chef-crafted food, specialty cocktails, local drafts and martinis. Full menu now available with new items.

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Menu available at other locations

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(509) 466-0667 Wed-Sat 4:30-8 pm

Choice of chicken or tofu simmered in red curry with coconut milk, bamboo shoots, bell peppers and fresh Thai basil. Served with Thai jasmine rice. $15.99

A meal combo for two that includes our most popular dishes. Phad Thai and Golden Cashew served with jasmine rice, four pieces of Butterfly Wontons and four Spring Rolls. $27.99

14713 N Dartford Drive

 TAKEOUT ONLY  CURBSIDE PICK UP

THAI BAMBOO RESTAURANT

SIGNATURE DISH

ITALIAN

5406 N Division St  Spokane (509) 777-8424 Daily 11 am-Close.

Spokane-South, Spokane Valley, Coeur d’Alene

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

Fresh corn tortilla chips, grilled chicken, cheddar jack cheese, poblano queso, black bean corn salsa, pico de gallo, pickled jalapeños, cilantro, cojita cheese, signature guacamole and sour cream. $15 Menu available at other locations

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401 E Farwell Rd  Spokane (509) 465-8794 Sun-Wed 11 am-8:30 pm; Thu-Sat 11 am-9:30 pm

Spokane-Downtown, Spokane-South, Spokane Valley

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE SPONSORED CONTENT

DINE IN. TAKE OUT. DO GOOD.

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If pizza is your thing, you have lots of options, including Republic Pi.

 DESTINATION

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South Hill

hether you’re looking for bistro fare, wood-fired pizza, seafood or delicious deli creations, the South Hill is filled with a variety of casual to fine dining options that span a huge range of interesting and unique flavor profiles.

Whether you want to order a quick lunch to go, or have a little date night out, with current restrictions you can try either option with your loved ones.

On the casual side, you can snag a bite while shopping for groceries at HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET, where you’ll find their featured dish: a fried egg sammy with tasty pesto, melty Gouda, bacon and arugula on sourdough for just $8.

Multiple other places are also featuring their popular handheld options. Hit up MACKENZIE RIVER PIZZA, GRILL & PUB for their Dill With It Chicken Sando ($11) packed with dill flavors and pickle-brined chicken. Or head over to MANITO TAP HOUSE for the Tap House Burger ($16.75) featuring Kobe beef. CASPER FRY also returns with a shrimp po’boy ($16) and the TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE is featuring their salpicon tacos ($15)

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with shredded beef and peppers.

Meanwhile, HANG 10 HAWAIIAN GRILL has their Loco Moco ($13.50) featuring a smash burger patty on rice, with gravy, caramelized onions, green onions and a sunnyside-up egg, and RÜT BAR & KITCHEN has vegetarians covered with their jalapeño mushroom burger ($17), made with an Impossible Burger patty, seitan bacon, cream cheese, crispy onions, and of course jalapeños and mushrooms.

Is pizza more your thing? You have a ton of options, including SOUTH PERRY PIZZA, ROCK CITY GRILL, REPUBLIC PI, and ALLIE’S VEGAN PIZZERIA AND CAFE. Seafood more your style? IZUMI SUSHI AND ASIAN BISTRO has a lobster roll up for grabs ($20), SOUTH HILL GRILL is featuring a pan-seared salmon ($18), and LATAH BISTRO is featuring tuna wraps ($18) with a sriracha slaw, lemongrass aioli and bibb lettuce.

Or consider going to one of the other South Hill restaurants participating in the Great Dine Out, including GORDY’S SICHUAN CAFE, FERRANTE’S MARKETPLACE CAFE, FRESH SOUL, REMEDY KITCHEN & TAVERN, and LAGUNA CAFE. 

ALLIE’S VEGAN PIZZERIA & CAFE

PIZZA

Located on the South Hill, Allie’s has been serving innovative, vegan food to the Spokane community for six years.

SIGNATURE DISH

Spokane

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The Legendary Hot Mess Pizza & Twisters

The Hot Mess is topped with buffalo ranch, mac ’n’ cheese, fried chick’n, red onion, and cashew mozzarella. Twister breadsticks are dusted with a savory seasoning, choice of dipping sauces. $24

Fried Chick’n Sandwich

South

Crowd favorite! Crispy fried chick’n sandwich with spicy mayo and pickles, choice of sides and a chocolate chip cookie. $14

Chocolate Strawberry Cheesecake

Dense and rich! A decadent slice of cashew cheesecake on an almond-date crust. Note this item is also gluten free. $7

1314 S Grand Blvd #6  Spokane (509) 321-7090 Tue-Sat 11 am-8 pm. Sun Noon-8 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING

CASPER FRY

AMERICAN

A Southern-inspired restaurant offering classic Southern dishes and craft cocktails, with a generous and genuine dose of hospitality.

FAN FAVORITE

FERRANTE’S MARKETPLACE CAFE

Fresh Italian! Thin crust pizza, pasta, calzone, gelato & a great selection of local wines. A South Hill favorite since 2004.

FAN FAVORITE

Shrimp Po’boy

Seasoned, deep fried gulf shrimp. Crystal gastrique, hoagie roll. Served with fries. $15

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Shrimp & Grits Entree

Chicken Parmesan

House-smoked Tasso ham, shrimp stock, prawns, fresh organic Red Mule Cheesie Grits from Georgia’s Mills Farm. $19

Gnocchi Carbonara

Tender potato pasta, Cougar Gold creme sauce, ham, fried egg, diced red bell pepper & green onion $14.50

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Crispy fried chicken breast, melted mozzarella on Linguini pomodoro. $15

Loaded Pizza

Fried Chicken Sandwich Entree

Brined, seasoned, dredged in flour and cornstarch, deep-fried. Comeback sauce, pickle, coleslaw, house bun. Choice of classic, or Nashville Hot. Served with fries. $15

ITALIAN

Thin crust, housemade pizza sauce, whole milk mozzarella, salami, pepperoni, Italian sausage & ham, onions, olives, roasted red peppers, mushrooms, garlic, feta $13

928 S Perry St  Spokane

4506 S Custer Ct  Spokane

(509) 315-4153 Tue-Thu 4-8 pm. Fri-Sat 4-9 pm.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT

(509) 443-6304 Mon-Sat 10:30 am-8 pm

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FRESH SOUL

BARBECUE

Delicious soul food with a mission. Barbecue, ribs, fried chicken, collard greens and more served by community youth in our job training program.

FAN FAVORITE

Numerica Special

GORDY’S SICHUAN CAFÉ

South Hill staple serving authentic Sichuan cuisine. Welcome meat eaters, seafood lovers, vegetarians and vegans. Our flexible menu can please you all!

FAN FAVORITE

Three Southern-style barbecue pork ribs, two sides (choose two: baked beans, potato salad, or red bean and rice), one piece of cornbread and a large drink. $19.95 Also Try...

Fresh Soul Special

Breaded fried chicken thigh in a spicy, sweet and sour sauce with toasted red chili pods and sichuan peppercorns. $15

Cashew Chicken

A mild chicken dish with cashews, broccoli, carrots, bamboo, bell peppers and onions coated in a ginger master sauce. $15

Mongolian Beef

Spicy dish with carrots, onions, bamboo and scallions with flank steak in a dry fried, smoky sauce. $17

Family Style: Fresh Soul Family Special

3029 E 5th Ave  Spokane

501 E 30th Ave  Spokane

(509) 242-3377 Tue-Sat 12-7 pm.

 TAKEOUT ONLY  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

HANG 10 HAWAIIAN GRILL

BARBECUE

Hang 10 uses fresh ingredients, prepared daily to build dishes with the “Aloha” spirit. Offering a diverse menu of plate lunches!

SIGNATURE DISH

Loco Moco

(509) 747-1170 Tue-Sat 12 pm-close

 TAKEOUT ONLY  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

HUCKLEBERRY’S NATURAL MARKET 9TH STREET BISTRO

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SIGNATURE DISH

Two over-medium eggs, salty bacon, crisp arugula, melted Gouda cheese smothered in pesto aioli on toasted sourdough bread. $7.99

Salmon Caesar Wrap

Sweet and tangy honey glazed shrimp with pickled onions, roasted jalapeños, diced mango, cabbage and a drizzle of lime crema over a bed of white rice. Garnished with cilantro, sesame seeds and mango salsa. $14

Not your everyday salmon Caesar wrap, made with wild caught Alaskan sockeye from Thunder’s Catch, lettuce, tomato, onion, housemade Caesar dressing, Parmesan cheese on a panini-pressed flour tortilla $12.99

Mochiko Chicken Plate

Southwest Chicken 909 S Grand Blvd Suit B  Spokane (509) 747-7737 Daily 11 am-Close

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP THE GREAT DINE OUT

Fried Egg Sammy

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Island Shrimp Bowl

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BISTRO

Scratch food made daily in house with clean ingredients and organic when possible. Vegan, plant based, gluten-free and always made with love!

Six-ounce all beef smash patty with white rice, topped with caramelized onions, brown gravy, sunny side up fried egg and green onions. $13.50

Scratch made mochiko chicken served over white rice with choice of side and sauce. $12.50

Gan Pung Chicken

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Two Southern-style barbecue ribs, one fried chicken leg, one hot link, two sides (choose two: baked beans, potato salad, or red bean and rice), one piece of cornbread and one large drink. $20.95

(Feeds four) Eight Southern style barbecue ribs, four fried chicken legs, 1 pound of baked beans, 1 pound of potato salad and four pieces of cornbread. $45.75

ASIAN

Certified non-GMO Mary’s chicken breast, sauteed Anaheim peppers & onions, swiss cheese melted on a ciabatta bun layered with honey habañero cream cheese. $10.99

926 S Monroe St  Spokane

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

(509) 624-1349 Daily 7-9 pm.

SPOKANE | South IZUMI SUSHI AND ASIAN BISTRO

SUSHI

Izumi serves high-quality sushi and Asian wok-fried food with full service bar.

Conveniently located on the South Hill.

FAN FAVORITE

LAGUNA CAFE

Laguna Cafe on the South Hill provides an upscale casual atmosphere with our full bar, extended wine list and great covered patio. Lunch/Dinner

Lobster Roll

Lamb Meatballs “Bowl of Balls” Dinner

Whole 5-6 ounces of lobster tail meat baked to perfection and laid on a fresh handcrafted California roll with drizzled eel sauce. $20

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Snow Crab Fried Rice

Laguna Shrooms “Magic”

Tender lamb meatballs, featuring our families Sicilian red wine marinara sauce on a bed of pasta topped with Mama Lil’s mildly spicy pickled peppers (That Peter Piper Picked) sprinkles of goat cheese. $24

Large mushrooms stuffed with Parm, artichokes hearts, spinach and LOVE. Served with housemade focaccia crustini; add a side of marinara for more fun. $10

Fresh mix veggies, eggs and pineapple combined with real snow crab meat that can easily be shared among two people. $18

Cucumber-Lime Sakitini

Chocolate Torte

Fresh cucumber sake made into a martini style drink will bring you true freshness and relaxation any time of the day. $9

4334 S Regal St

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Spokane

Flourless gluten-free 70 percent dark chocolate torte, red raspberry drizzle and dark chocolate sauce. Topped with a Fresh Strawberry. YUM $9

(509) 443-3865 Mon-Fri 11 am-Close. Sat-Sun 12 pm-Close.

LATAH BISTRO

2013 East 29th Ave  Spokane (509) 448-0887 Tue-Sat Noon-Close.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  OUTDOOR DINING

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

NORTHWEST

MACKENZIE RIVER PIZZA, GRILL & PUB

AMERICAN

Located in South Hill. Our menu features an incredible array of delectable dishes, always flavorful and fresh, and served up in heaping portions.

Latah Bistro features Washington-inspired cuisine focusing on seasonal ingredients found right in our own backyard.

FAN FAVORITE

FAN FAVORITE

Dill With It Chicken Sando

Pickle-brined fried chicken breast with garlic-dill aioli, pickles and fresh dill on a brioche bun. Available for a limited time. $11

Tuna Wraps

Tuna Wraps — sriracha slaw, lemongrass aioli, and bibb lettuce. $18 Also Try...

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Pulled Pork Family Pack

Alaskan Halibut

Family-Style: Barbecue pulled pork, four brioche buns, house-made coleslaw, classic mac ’n’ cheese, barbecue sauce and pickles.

(Wednesdays only/Spokane location only) $30

Alaskan Halibut — whipped potato, apple smoked bacon wrapped asparagus, basil tomato relish. $35

Roasted Chicken

Roasted Chicken — cambozola cheese fondue, bacon, green beans, and fingerling potatoes. $28

ECLECTIC

Wings 4241 S Cheney Spokane Rd Suite C  Spokane

Your choice of spicy Buffalo, barbecue bourbon or Thai peanut. Served with celery and ranch. $11.50

(509) 838-8338 Mon- Sat 11:30 am-9 pm. Sun 10 am-9 pm

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

2910 E 57th Ave Suite E  Spokane (509) 315-9466 Sun 11 am-8 pm. Mon-Thu 11 am-9 pm.

Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

Menu available at other location



Coeur d’Alene

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MANITO TAP HOUSE

GASTROPUB

Manito Tap House is a locally owned, eco-friendly gastropub. We pride ourselves on our scratch-made recipes, unique selections and 50 tap beers!

FAN FAVORITE

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6-ounce Kobe beef patty topped with Cambozola cheese, bacon onion jam, with lettuce and mayo on Franz brioche bun and served with your choice of shoestring fries, house soup or salad. (GF upon request) $16.75

Fire-roasted pork shoulder simmered with tomatillos, poblano peppers, onions, garlic and cilantro, served with Spanish rice and corn tortillas and topped with Sriracha creme fraiche. $18.25 Also Try...

Fire-roasted leg of lamb, braised with cauliflower, chickpeas, apricots and warming spices. Served with white rice or couscous. $20.25

Green Chili Mac

Remedy Burger 3011 S Grand Blvd  Spokane (509) 279-2671 Sun-Wed 11:30 am-9 pm.

Thu-Sat 11:30 am-10 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

REPUBLIC PI

Six-ounce ground chuck patty, cooked to order with house-smoked bacon, caramelized onions, homemade American cheese, lettuce, tomato and barbecue aioli on a brioche bun, served with potato wedges. $18.25

PIZZA

(509) 443-3730 Mon-Fri 11 am-Close. Sat-Sun 8 am-Close.

Cannon Pizza

ROCK CITY GRILL

FAN FAVORITE

Thai Chicken and Shrimp Pizza

Chicken, mushrooms, prawns, spicy peanut sauce, cilantro and chopped peanuts. Careful this one is addictive. $18

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Pi Bites

Italian Nachos

Baked and crisp-fried pi dough, sea salt, Perry Street beer cheese sauce and green onion. $9

AMERICAN

Neighborhood bistro with a 60-item menu featuring Woodstone fired pizzas and gourmet pastas. 14 TVs, heated patio and home of the BlueMartiniBar

Rossa sauce, house meatballs, provolone cheese, Mama Lil’s peppers and basil $16.50

A twist on nachos. Crispy pasta chips, a creamy Asiago and mozzarella cheese sauce, fresh tomatoes, Italian sausage, black olives, green onions and pepperoncini. $14

Monroe Chicken Sandwich

Grilled chicken, apple-wood smoked bacon, dried cherry onion-jam, provolone, dijon mayo and focaccia bun. Served with choice of side.$13

Greek Chicken

611 E 30th Ave  Spokane

(509) 863-9196 Sun-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ] THE GREAT DINE OUT

3809 S Grand Blvd  Spokane

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

Wood-fired artisan pizza restaurant and craft beer bar in the heart of the Manito neighborhood.

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Chile Verde

Moroccan Lamb Tagine

Our #1 selling item: buttermilk-soaked cauliflower florets flash fried, tossed in Buffalo sauce and Cotija cheese. (Vegetarian & GF) $11

SIGNATURE DISH

BISTRO

Elevated pub fare and cocktails offered in a modern setting with 24 taps, plus rooftop and patio tables.

SIGNATURE DISH

Tap House Burger

Buffalo Cauliflower

Chicken, bacon, roasted pepper cheese sauce and shell pasta, with jalapeños, cilantro and bread crumbs (mild-med-hot) served with your choice of side. (Vegetarian upon request) $15.75

REMEDY KITCHEN & TAVERN

Tender chicken breast with garlic, kalamata olives, sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts and pesto. Served over angel hair pasta with fresh tomatoes and feta cheese. $21

2911 E 57th Ave

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Spokane

(509) 455-4400 Tue-Sun 2 pm-close

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  OUTDOOR DINING  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]  INDOOR

SPOKANE | South RÜT BAR & KITCHEN

GASTROPUB

Modern American-style gastropub features vegan and vegetarian comfort food as well as some healthier vegan options, alongside craft cocktails.

FAN FAVORITE

Jalapeño Mushroom Burger

SOUTH HILL GRILL

AMERICAN

Family restaurant focused on scratch-made food with a home-cooked feel, fresh sushi, robust yet elegant cocktails, and our cozy neighborhood atmosphere.

FAN FAVORITE

Pan-seared Salmon

Pan-seared salmon fillet over sautéed couscous, red onions and arugula. Topped with a fennel orange salad and blue berry mustard. $18

Impossible burger patty, seitan bacon, sautéed mushrooms, crispy onions, cream cheese, jalapeño relish, and Alpine Bakery bun. $17 Also Try...

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Fried Not Chicken Sandwich

French Dip

Lettuce, onions, ranch-mayo and Alpine Bakery bun. $15

Slow-roasted prime rib sliced thin. Seared with caramelized onions and melted Swiss cheese.

Served on a toasted hoagie with au jus. $15

Truffle Mac

Avocado Boat

Cavatappi pasta, grilled broccolini, coconut bacon bits, bread crumbs, and Aleppo pepper flakes. $14

Baked avocado filled with savory crab and topped with spicy aioli and eel sauce.

$6

901 W 14th Ave  Spokane

2808 E 29th Ave  Spokane

(509) 241-3165 Wed-Mon 11 am-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

SOUTH PERRY PIZZA

PIZZA

Artisan pizza in the historic Perry District. Everything made in-house. The best patio in town and a staff full of pizza geniuses!

FAN FAVORITE

(509) 536-4745 Daily 8 am-9 pm.

THE TWO SEVEN PUBLIC HOUSE

The Two Seven follows the simple concept as our other locations. Great food and drink in a comfortable atmosphere that won’t break the bank.

FAN FAVORITE

Hot Honey Pizza

Garlic olive oil with goat cheese and mozzarella, our signature pepperoni, fresh arugula and a drizzle of spicy honey. One of our most popular creations! $15

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Salpicon

A traditional Texan beef taco with shredded beef, chipotle peppers, jack cheese, red onions, cilantro and roasted poblano peppers. Served with warm flour tortillas, green rice and ancho aioli. $15 Also Try...

Quinoa Arugula Salad

Cuban Pork

A wonderful salad of quinoa and arugula with feta, tomatoes, pickled shallots, dried apricots, pistachios, lemon juice and house-made rosemary garlic vinaigrette. $9

Seasoned pulled pork, sliced ham, mayo, yellow mustard, Swiss cheese and pineapple/pickle relish served warm on a toasted French roll.

Served with choice of side. $15

Tomato, Basil, Balsamic Flatbread

Turkey Gouda Melt

Warm flatbread on our fabulous house-made crust with olive oil, house seasoning, Beecher’s cheese curds, sliced tomatoes, basil and balsamic reduction. $11

NORTHWEST

1011 S Perry St  Spokane

Oven roasted turkey, grilled red onions, Gouda cheese and crisp peppered bacon served on a Telera roll with toasted parmesan aioli. Served with choice of side. $15

(509) 290-6047 Daily 11:30 am-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

2727 S Mount Vernon St #5  Spokane Daily 11 am-11 pm

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Consider MAX at Mirabeau’s cioppino during the Great Dine Out.

 DESTINATION

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Spokane Valley

s far as Spokane Valley restaurants are concerned, you can never go wrong with pub grub, and JAKE & CLAY’S PUBLIC HOUSE is bringing a little bit of Chicago to Spokane Valley with its Southside deli sandwich ($15). It features prime rib, roasted peppers, an Italian relish and cheese sauce, and it comes with a side of au jus. THE BLACK DIAMOND, meanwhile, is serving up bar food from unexpected sources, including its duck club sandwich ($16) and its pan-seared kangaroo medallions ($24), which are served with a whiskey peppercorn sauce.

If you’re in the mood for barbecue, TT’S BREWERY & BARBECUE has two-pound pulled pork ($39) family meals, while SMOKERIDGE BBQ offers up a full pound of smoked meats ($18), including beef brisket, pulled pork and German sausage.

Maybe you’re looking for something on the spicier end of the Scoville scale,

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in which case you’ve got some excellent sandwiches to choose from. AMBROSIA BISTRO’s Sriracha Burger ($16) includes Wagyu-Angus beef, avocado, jalapeño and a creamy sriracha sauce. You also can’t go wrong with the Nashville hot chicken sandwich ($12.69) at BOSTON’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR, which is topped with dill pickle, lettuce, tomato, onion and ranch.

For Italian dishes, check out FERRARO’S, where the signature Dine Out dish is steak and spaghetti ($21), a cooked-to-order sirloin atop a heaping helping of pasta, complete with garlic bread and spumoni.

The MAX AT MIRABEAU bistro’s seafoodcentric menu includes the Italian staple of cioppino ($33.90), a decadent stew that mixes up crab, scallops, prawns and clams into a tomato-based broth.

If it’s Asian cuisine you’re after, consider bringing home one of the family style pan dishes ($35) at NOODLE EXPRESS, where you can choose among various chicken, rice- and noodle-based options.

And for Mexican cuisine, FIESTA GRANDE’s pollo fundido burrito ($17.50) is the way to go — a deep-fried dish filled with shredded chicken, cheese and a jalapeño cream cheese sauce.

Don’t forget a cocktail. One of the menu items at CRAFT & GATHER is a winter bourbon ($9), which is infused with orange peel, clove, vanilla and cherry. It would pair well with their Cubano sandwich ($16), loaded with pulled pork, bacon and jalapeño jam.

And even if you’ve eaten your fill, you can’t skip out on dessert. PONDEROSA BAR & GRILL’s triple chocolate brownie ($7) is just what the dessert doctor ordered, a hunk of decadent chocolate served with vanilla ice cream. The BLACK PEARL CASINO has an ice cream potato ($7) on its menu, which isn’t what you might be expecting: It’s an orb of cocoadusted vanilla ice cream served up baked potato style with fudge, whipped cream and candied pecans. 

AMBROSIA BISTRO AND WINE BAR

BISTRO

Great food, fine wine and special friends... what else is there? Explore our creative menu and award-winning wine list, and experience Ambrosia yourself.

SIGNATURE DISH

Apricot Curry Chicken

Pan-seared chicken breasts over apricot rice and seasonal vegetables, topped with apricot-curry cream sauce and cashews. $24

Spokane Valley

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Prawns and Purses

Porcini-stuffed pasta tossed with prawns, mushrooms and garlic in a Parmesan cream sauce with black truffle essence. $27

Sriracha Burger

Half-pound grilled Wagyu-Angus beef, avocado, jalapeños, white cheddar, fried onion, greens, tomato and creamy Sriracha sauce on a brioche bun served with choice of side. $16

9211 E. Montgomery Ave Suite A  Spokane Valley

(509) 928-3222 Tues-Thurs 11am-8pm Fri-Sat 11am-9pm

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING

THE BLACK DIAMOND

GASTROPUB

Clean. Classy. Fun. Elevated gastro pub style food, 38 beers on tap, 16 pool tables, darts, air hockey and shuffleboard. Family friendly until 9 pm.

SIGNATURE DISH

BLACK PEARL CASINO

Providing excellent food and service with “from scratch” recipes, creative cocktails, and comfortable gaming experiences.

SIGNATURE DISH

Fish & Chips

Come experience a Gastro Pub twist on a classic dish! Beer battered pangasius, Housemade tartar, capers and lemon caviar. Served with Yukon potato wedges. $15 Also Try...

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Duck Club

Prime Rib Quesadilla

Kangaroo Medallions

Ice Cream Potato

You’ve never experienced a club like this!

Skin-on duck breast served medium rare, sliced thin, with lettuce, heirloom tomatoes, crumbled bacon, and bourbon cherry aioli on raisin bread. $16

Hop to it before you miss it! Pan-seared kangaroo medallions (served medium rare only) with whiskey peppercorn sauce, potatoes, and fresh veggies. $24

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

AMERICAN

Black Pearl Mac ’n’ Cheese

Cavatappi pasta tossed with bacon, onions and jalapenos in a creamy cheddar cheese sauce. Topped with balsamic glazed pulled pork, blistered tomatoes, green onions and goat cheese. $15.99

Blackened thin sliced prime rib, yellow onions, bell peppers, and pepper jack and cheddar folded in a grilled flour tortilla. Garnished with shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, sour cream and house salsa. $13.99

9614 E Sprague Ave  Spokane Valley (509) 891-8357 Daily 11 am-11 pm.

Hand-formed vanilla ice cream dusted in cocoa powder, presented in a puddle of hot fudge, and topped with whipped cream and candied pecans. $6.99

2104 N Pines Rd  Spokane Valley

(509) 290-5484 Sun-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat, 11 am-10 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE SPONSORED CONTENT

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BOSTON’S RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR

AMERICAN

American family restaurant featuring pizzas, pastas, burgers, a full bar and more.

FAN FAVORITE

Jalapeño & Onion Straw Burger

CHARLIE P’S

Some of the best damn feel good food in town from your local “five star dive bar!”

FAN FAVORITE

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Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich

The Logroller Sandwich

Pepperoni & Feta Thin Crust

Mozzarella Sticks

Pepperoni, salami, sausage and olives topped with our house-made marinara and a dash of Italian dressing, served on a toasted pub roll. $14.95

Pepperoni pizza sprinkled with mozzarella and cheddar cheeses and topped with feta. $14.19

House-made, fried until golden brown and served with our house-made marinara. $13.95

14004 E Indiana Ave  Spokane Valley

8125 E Sprague Ave  Spokane Valley

(509) 927-4284 Daily 11 am-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

CRAFT & GATHER DINING SOCIAL HOUSE

(509) 928-8600 Tue-Fri, 11 am-Close. Sat-Sun 8 am-Close.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

AMERICAN

Locally owned neighborhood family-friendly restaurant with a great selection of craft beer and cocktails along with chef-driven approachable food.

FAN FAVORITE

Shrimp Scampi

FERRARO’S HOMEMADE ITALIAN

SIGNATURE DISH

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The Cubano

Spaghetti and meatballs

Pulled pork, Kansas City bacon, pickles, Swiss cheese, bacon-jalapeño jam and mustard. $16

Steak and spaghetti

Choice top sirloin cooked to order and a healthy portion of spaghetti with your choice of our famous home-made marinaras. Served with warm garlic bread, fresh salad or soup, and our fan favorite spumoni. $20.95

A generous plateful of spaghetti, two Italian style meatballs, topped with your choice of our famous homemade marinaras. Served with warm garlic bread, fresh salad or soup, and our fan favorite spumoni. $16.95

Winter Bourbon

House infused Easy Rider Kentucky bourbon.

Infused one week with orange peel, clove, vanilla and Bing cherries. $9

Baked lasagna 4403 S Dishman Mica Rd  Spokane Valley

(509) 290-5141 Tue-Sun 3 pm-Close. (Closed Mondays)

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  OUTDOOR DINING THE GREAT DINE OUT

ITALIAN

Looking for hot, fresh and delicious homemade Italian food? Then you’ve come to the right place - nothing compares to Ferraro’s Homemade Italian.

A little spice and all the scampi nice. Sautéed shrimp, angel hair pasta and chipotle butter. $19

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Seafood Fettuccine

Shrimp, scallops and crabmeat, mixed with our house-made creamy garlic Alfredo sauce. $21.95

Topped with cheddar and mozzarella cheeses, lettuce, tomatoes, jalapeño peppers, and crispy onion straws drizzled with ranch dressing. $12.89

Hand-breaded and fried chicken covered in Nashville Hot Sauce. Topped with dill pickles, onions, tomatoes, lettuce and ranch dressing, and served on a toasted bun. $12.69

AMERICAN

Try our delicious handmade lasagna, featuring layered noodles with ricotta, mozzarella, meat sauce and marinara. Served with warm garlic bread, fresh salad or soup, and our fan favorite spumoni. $17.95

11204 E Sprague Ave  Spokane Valley (509) 928-2303 Daily 3-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  OUTDOOR DINING

SPOKANE VALLEY FIESTA GRANDE

MEXICAN

Spokane Valley’s family owned Mexican restaurant, serving flavorful food! Perfect for indoor dining and takeout!

SIGNATURE DISH

JAKE & CLAY’S PUBLIC HOUSE

Specializing in house-made soups, sandwiches and salads paired with craft beer, ciders and wine in a cozy neighborhood hole-in-the-wall.

FAN FAVORITE

Pollo Fundido

Strawberry Bruschetta Crostini

Deep-fried shredded chicken and cheese burrito topped with our in-house jalapeño cream cheese sauce. Served with rice and beans and pico de gallo and guacamole! $17.50

House-made strawberry preserves, goat cheese, fresh basil, spicy honey and balsamic glaze served on a sourdough crostini. $10

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Fan favorite Tres Fiestas

Southside Deli

Inspired by my Great Grandpa and his Chicagobased deli, Southside Delicatessen. Prime rib, giardiniera, roasted red peppers, smoked cheddar cheese sauce served on a hoagie roll with a side of au jus. $15

Charbroiled chicken breast, carne asada and four bacon-wrapped shrimp. Served with rice and beans, choice of flour or corn tortillas, and sour cream and guacamole! $22.95

Leo’s Margarita

Shaken margarita, made with our house tequila and margarita mix, mixed with 1800 tequila, Cointreau, and Gran Gala! Most bang for your buck! $9.95

Over 100 Beers, Wines, and Ciders 13411 E 32nd Ave  Spokane Valley (509) 924-8253 Daily 2-8 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

MAX AT MIRABEAU

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Beef Tenderloin Tips

We keep the front of house stocked with over 100 beers, wines and ciders available for retail and dine-in. We pride ourselves on providing hard-to-find drinks for our patrons. $0

106 N Evergreen Rd Suite B  Spokane Valley (509) 443-3841 Tue-Sat 11 am-Close.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

BISTRO

Max at Mirabeau is an eclectic, bistro-style restaurant and lounge serving up delicious American-style dishes and signature craft cocktails.

FAN FAVORITE

PUB GRUB

Cioppino with Kalamata Olive Toast

Cioppino is a classic seafood stew with a little bit of everything from the sea, such as prawns, king crab, scallops, clams and mussels in an aromatic tomato broth and garnished with Kalamata olive toast. $33.90

MY MEMORABLE MEAL

“It’s hard to beat lunch on Osprey’s sunny patio with friends, enjoying a delicious bacon avocado sandwich and a cup of the Chef’s soup of the day. You’ll leave refreshed and energized for the rest of your day!”

— Susan M. Horton, CPA

President and CEO

Tender beef sauté, mango, lychee nut, and toasted sesame. $18.90

Dungeness Crab, Smoked Salmon and Prawn Louis

Known as the “King of Salads” since the early 1900s, it is served with organic spring mix, Dungeness crabmeat, smoked salmon, prawn, asparagus, avocado, tomato, capers, egg and Louis dressing. $34.90

1100 N Sullivan Rd  Spokane Valley (509) 922-6252 Daily 6 am-10 pm.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING  INDOOR OPEN

THE GREAT DINE OUT IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS

SPONSORED CONTENT

DINE IN. TAKE OUT. DO GOOD.

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Pulled Pork Family Pack

TT’S BREWERY & BARBECUE 4110 S. Bowdish Rd., Spokane Valley, ttsbrewerybbq.com, 509-919-4798 Open Tue-Sat from noon-8 pm for dine-in, takeout and delivery

W

hile any choice off the menu is assuredly going to be a home run for barbecue lovers who visit TT’s Old Iron Brewery in south Spokane Valley, one of the brewpub’s highlights during the Great Dine Out is a hearty, family-style meal kit that makes weeknight dinners a breeze.

The pulled pork family pack special ($39) from TT’s includes two pounds of its locally famous pulled pork, two pints of classic sides, plus pickles, house barbecue sauce and four kaiser rolls, making for a terrific option to feed a family of four (or a household of two for two meals).

Inspired by the barbecue flavors of the Carolinas, the meal pack was designed by TT’s chef and co-owner Chad White alongside resident pitmaster Colin Barker. The ready-to-eat meal not only tastes delicious, but travels and reheats incredibly well.

“Pulled pork was the first dish we did family-style at TT’s, so it surely has the most history for us and our customers,” White says.

The family pack special from TT’s includes two pounds of its locally famous pulled pork.

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“The fact that pulled pork is at the heart of barbecue as a traditional family favorite is very important to the success of this dish.”

When it comes to choosing which two house-made sides to pair with the pork, White suggests TT’s popular banana pudding pie.

Other options include a classic potato salad, mac and cheese, cornbread with honey butter, smoked pinto beans with brisket, and coleslaw. Can’t decide on just two? Add on any extras, from a single serving or cup, up to a pint (8 ounces) or quart (32 ounces).

For the adults, don’t forget some beer, all made on site under the careful watch of TT’s head brewer Rachel Nalley and coowner/brewer Travis Thosath. With a wide selection of easy-drinking beers that perfectly complement its barbecue offerings, choices range from IPAs to ales, ambers to stouts, and beyond. A 32-ounce crowler to go is $8, and a 64-ounce growler is $20. Some brews are also available in 16-ounce can four-packs. Find out what’s currently on tap, and order online for takeout or delivery on TT’s ordering website. 

SPOKANE VALLEY NOODLE EXPRESS

ASIAN

We are a fast-casual Asian Fusion Restaurant located in Airway Heights, North Spokane and Spokane Valley.

SIGNATURE DISH

THE PONDEROSA BAR & GRILL

We are a locally owned bar and restaurant in the Ponderosa area. We have a great menu along with handcrafted cocktails and beer.

SIGNATURE DISH

Chicken Osaka

Cooked in our ginger sauce and served with a side of our lemon mustard Osaka sauce.

Served with Asian Slaw. [Small bowl starting at $6.50] $6.50

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A 6-ounce salmon cooked to perfection, topped with a creamy lemon and dill sauce, and served with Jasmine rice and a seasonal vegetable. $17.99 Pork Sliders

Cooked in our black pepper garlic butter sauce with hints of lemon and ginger. Served with Asian Slaw. [Small bowl starting at $6.95] $6.95

Two slow-roasted pork sliders layered with coleslaw and mayonnaise and served with your choice of side. $11.99

Family Style: Family Pans

Triple Chocolate Brownie

[Each pan serves approximately 5-6 people] Choose from: Rice Pans [Osaka, Teriyaki, Sweet Thai, or Singapore], Sweet & Sour Chicken, Dynamite Chicken, Noodles, or Appetizers.

[Pans start at $35] $35 

707 N Sullivan Rd  Spokane Valley (509) 927-4117 North Spokane and Spokane Valley, Sun-Thu 11 am-9 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm (Airway Heights Only: Daily 11 am-8 pm)

Finish your night with a hot gooey brownie topped with vanilla ice cream and smothered in chocolate sauce. A perfect dessert to share with your loved one. $6.99

SMOKERIDGE BBQ

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  INDOOR OPEN AIR SEATING  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

BARBECUE

A barbecue restaurant in a historic train, wood smoked meats and house-made sides. Enjoy a craft cocktail, cold draft or a flight in the Track 58 Bar car!

FAN FAVORITE

11205 E Dishman Mica Rd #101C  Spokane

(509) 934-1979 Mon-Thus, 11am-8pm. Fri-Sat 8am-10pm.

Sun 8am-8pm.

Airway Heights, Spokane-North, Hayden

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

The Grand Junction

TT’S BREWERY & BARBECUE

BARBECUE

We brew beer here... We smoke meat here... You should eat and drink here!

Serving barbecue lovers in the Spokane Valley.

FAN FAVORITE

Half Rack Of Ribs Plate

Includes a half rack of our smoked pork ribs, plus your choice of 2 sides. Try our new cheesy corn side! $23

Beef brisket, pulled pork and house-made German sausage — a full pound of smoked meats — served open faced on toasted Texas Toast. $18

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Large Family Meal

Wing Wednesday

Every Wednesday we smoke chicken wings and sell until they’re gone. Order by the half or full dozen. $6

One full pound of each brisket, pulled pork and German sausage, a full rack of ribs, three quarts of sides, a loaf of Texas Toast bread and barbecue sauce. $95

Pulled Pork Family Pack

Rib Meal

Two pounds of pulled pork, two pints of sides, pickles, barbecue sauce and four kaiser rolls.

Feeds approximately four people. $39

Half rack of ribs, slaw and an additional side of you choice. $20

11027 E Sprague Ave  Spokane Valley

4110 S Bowdish Rd  Spokane Valley

(509) 710-3426 Thu-Sat 11 am-8 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

Salmon with Creamy Lemon and Dill Sauce

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Fan Favorite: Beef Singapore

Menu available at other locations

AMERICAN

(509) 919-4798 Tue-Sat 12-8 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE SPONSORED CONTENT

DINE IN. TAKE OUT. DO GOOD.

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ASIAN

Southeast Asian Comfort Food

SIGNATURE DISH

West Plains Airway Heights Cheney Medical Lake

Hokkien Mee Singaporean Hawker-Style wok-fired noodles with pork & shrimp, bean sprouts and green onions, served with fresh lime. $15

Photo: Ari Nordhagen

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Indonesian Dinner for Two

Serves two and includes: Otak-Otak Ayam savory steamed chicken custard wrapped in banana leaf; Nasi Goreng Indonesian fried rice w/ shrimp; Sumatran Beef Rendang; and a free dessert to share. $38

d’bali Bowl To-Go

Mini bowl of steamed rice or field greens topped with fresh julienne veggies, and choice of beef, chicken, or tofu; Includes one signature sauce of your choice and add optional items to customize! $8.99

12924 W Sunset Hwy Suite 6 u Airway Heights

(509) 230-8629 Mon-Thu 11 am-9 pm; Fri 11 am-10 pm; Sat 1 pm-10 pm; closed Sundays

y RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED y DINE IN y TAKEOUT y CURBSIDE PICK UP y DELIVERY AVAILABLE

EPIC SPORTS BAR

PUB GRUB

Upscale pub fare, craft beers and cocktails inside Northern Quest. And with our 30-foot LED HDTV, you can enjoy sports for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

FAN FAVORITE

Blackened Salmon with Strawberry Salsa

FAI’S NOODLE HOUSE

A modern take on classic Asian food. Enjoy pho, Chinese noodle and wonton soups. Or sharpen your chopstick skills with plenty of stir-fry options.

FAN FAVORITE

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Spicy Crispy Chicken Sandwich

Smoked Pork Fried Rice

Jasmine rice stir-fried with bean sprout, green onion, carrot, egg and edamame. $15

Brown Butter Cake

Served warm with vanilla bean ice cream and chai tea anglaise. $8

Popper Burger

Bacon, havarti, fried jalapeño poppers, romaine, tomato, red onion, raspberry habañero jam, EPIC burger sauce, served with EPIC fries $15

Northern Quest Resort and Casino 100 N Hayford Rd  Airway Heights

Northern Quest Resort and Casino 100 N Hayford Rd  Airway Heights

(509) 481-2122 Sun-Thu 7 am-Midnight. Fri-Sat 7 am-2 am.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

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Ahi Poke Martini

Ahi tuna, ginger soy sauce, fresh cucumber, avocado, lime, Sriracha aioli, green onion and sesame seed. $12

Cajun seasoned grilled salmon, cheese tortellini tossed with pancetta and garlic, asparagus, topped with strawberry salsa $20

House-breaded chicken breast, dipped in spicy garlic sauce, romaine, tomato, red onion, house aioli on our signature bun, served with EPIC fries $16

ASIAN

(509) 481-6602 Sun-Thu 11 am-11 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-1 am.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

WEST PLAINS | Airway Heights • Medical Lake LONGHORN BARBECUE

BARBECUE

Longhorn has been “Tendin’ the pits since 56” here in Spokane. We are locally owned and operated, specializing in serving Texas Pit Barbecue.

SIGNATURE DISH

PIZZA FACTORY

Family-friendly dining, and a high-quality product make us who we are. We take pride in the smile that first bite of pizza gives our guests.

FAMILY FEAST

Rustler Dinner

Choose three of our legendary meats served with one of our notorious sides. Comes complete with corn muffin and honey butter. $18.95

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PIZZA

Family Style Pizza Combo

XL Specialty Pizza, 10 Wings w/ dipping sauce, Twisted Sticks w/dipping sauce and a 2 liter of Coke Product $39.99

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Substitute Brisket $3.50

Baked Spaghetti

Slow smoked brisket rubbed with our special brisket seasoning and served with our Texas Bold BBQ sauce. $3.50

2 baked spaghetti w/ toasted garlic bread, 2 dinner salads with choice of dressing, 2 20oz Coke product $29.99

Takeout Family Platter

Calzone

Takeout Featured Item: Family Platter - 2 pounds of Longhorn Ribs, complete with a pint of beans, pint of salad (macaroni, potato, and cole slaw).

Served with four corn muffins and honey butter.

Feeds four. $26.95

7611 W Sunset Hwy  Spokane

123 S Broad St  Medical Lake

(509) 838-8372 Daily 11 am-Close.

Menu available at other locations



(509) 299-9100 Sun 12 pm-9 pm, Mon-Thu 11am-9 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm

Spokane Valley

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

THE LOUNGE AT MASSELOW’S

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

STEAKHOUSE

For the ultimate appetizer - or dinner, nosh on creative selections from the Masselow’s kitchen, accompanied by handcrafted cocktails, wine and beer.

FAN FAVORITE

Large calzone, caesar salad, and 2 liter Coke product $19.99

Meatloaf

Fingerling potato, orangetomato glace and mushroom. $9

MY MEMORABLE MEAL

“My wife and I are big fans of Rock City Grill. My favorite is the California BLT Burger with a twist – they gladly replace the patty with a chicken breast. It’s outstanding!”

— Mike Beasley

Senior Vice President & Commercial Banking Division Director

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Prime Ribeye

8-ounce ribeye with balsamic tomato jam. $32

Smoked Salmon Au Gratin

Red bell, spinach, Parmesan, lemon and crostini. $9

Northern Quest Resort and Casino 100 N Hayford Rd  Airway Heights (509) 481-6020 Sun & Wed-Thu 3-10pm. Fri-Sat 3pm-1am.

 DINE IN

THE GREAT DINE OUT IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL BANKS AND CREDIT UNIONS SPONSORED CONTENT

DINE IN. TAKE OUT. DO GOOD.

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Longhorn Barbecue co-owners Zac Smith and Erin Everhart.

 DESTINATION

A

The West Plains

short drive west from Spokane, you’ll find a land filled with purpose. In Airway Heights, it’s a town built next to an Air Force base. In Cheney, it’s a town built around a college.

But after work or school, you need some good food to wind down. It’s possible to pop into Spokane for a bite to eat, but there’s no need. You can get all the fun you need at Northern Quest Resort & Casino. And between barbecue, pizza and Asian food, Cheney and Airway Heights have plenty of variety for you.

At LONGHORN BARBECUE in Airway Heights, check out its Rustler Dinner. For $19, choose three of their meats — ribs, chicken, German sausage and beef brisket — and then a side.

It already comes with a corn muffin and honey butter. If you need to feed a family, try the family platter: Two pounds of ribs with sides of beans, salad, corn muffins and honey butter for $27.

In Cheney, it’s calzone time. For $15, get a giant calzone at BARRELHOUSE PUB & PIZZA. Choose your sauce, cheese, five toppings and admire all of it wrapped up in handmade dough. If you’re not in a calzone mood, then give MARKET-

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PLACE RESTAURANT & AMISH COUNTRY STORE a try. You can stock up for the whole family with a family-style meal kit: Choose from chicken Alfredo, lasagna or cowboy pie, and get a salad, bread and dessert with it. You can pick it up hot if you call ahead, or just pick it up and heat it up at home.

Or head on over to Northern Quest. At THE LOUNGE AT MASSELOW’S, start off with some meatloaf ($9) and a handcrafted cocktail. EPIC SPORTS BAR has the TV for the big game, but why not try their blackened salmon with strawberry salsa ($20) along with it? The salmon is coated with Cajun seasoning, and it comes with cheese tortellini tossed with pancetta, garlic, asparagus and that sweet salsa.

For some Asian flavor, including pho, Chinese noodle and wonton soups, check out FAI’S NOODLE HOUSE, also inside Northern Quest. Be sure to try the Ahi Poke martini, with Ahi tuna, ginger soy sauce, cucumber, avocado, lime and Sriracha aioli for just $12. If that’s not your style, maybe you’d like some fried rice. Their smoked pork fried rice comes with bean sprout, green onion, carrot, egg and edamame for $15. And for dessert, try the brown butter cake with some vanilla ice cream and chai tea anglaise, for just another $8. 

WEST PLAINS | Cheney BARRELHOUSE PUB & PIZZA

PIZZA

Barrelhouse Pub & Pizza is a family-friendly pizza pub specializing in hand-made pizzas, calzones, sandwiches and salads. We also have 16 beers on tap!

SIGNATURE DISH

MARKETPLACE RESTAURANT & AMISH COUNTRY STORE

Enjoy a family friendly restaurant serving old-fashioned, scratch-made homecooked meals while shopping the Amish and locally sourced mercantile.

FAMILY FEAST

Calzones

Try one of our GIANT calzones!

Choose your sauce, cheese, and FIVE additional toppings, all wrapped in our hand-made dough! Sure to feed the biggest appetite! $14.99 Also Try...

Barrel Bites

Rodeo Nachos

Waffle fries piled high with choice of slowcooked pulled pork or smoked brisket then topped with house-made cheese sauce, green onions and barbecue sauce. $14

Barrelhouse Bundle

Heat & Serve Meals

Our delicious Barrelhouse Bundle comes with a 12-inch three-topping pizza, a large house salad, and barrel bites. Feeds 2-4. $30

122 College Ave  Cheney (509) 235-4338 Daily 11 am-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]

ROSA’S PIZZA / CHENEY LANES

Feeds at least two: Choose from a large selection of meals including shepherd’s pie, stuffed shells, jalapeño popper chicken casserole, and beef tips with mashed potatoes and gravy and more. $14

1011 1st St  Cheney

(509) 235-9176 Tue-Fri 11 am-6 pm. Sat-Sun 9 am-3 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

PIZZA

Since 1990 we have been serving Cheney and the surrounding area with great products and service. Give us a try!

FAN FAVORITE

Family Style Meal Kit

Choose from Chicken Alfredo, Lasagna or Cowboy Pie. Comes with salad, bread and dessert.

Feeds at least four. Call ahead to have it hot and ready or pick it up to heat at home, making your house smell delicious. $30

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Scratch-made dough topped with garlic butter and Parmesan cheese, and served with tomato sauce and house-made pesto ranch. $7.99

AMERICAN

Pizza & Bowling Party

WILD BILL’S LONGBAR

A neighborhood country bar serving premium Texas Style BBQ and specialty cocktails. Dine in and enjoy pool tables, music and a friendly staff.

FAMILY FEAST

Cowboy Platters

Includes smoked brisket, pulled pork, baby back ribs, chicken and two rotating sides.

Available every Friday night at 6pm. Feeds two. $30

Two lanes for two hours. Two 16” two-topping pizzas. Drinks and shoe rental. $79.99

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BARBECUE

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Family Feast

Bloody Mary

House Bloody Mary Mix & Vodka topped with bacon, fresh mozzarella & pickled veggies. $5 on Sunday $9

Large two-topping pizza. Cheesebread with dipping sauce. Two-liter soft drink. $19.99

$2.00 Off Any Regular Size Cheesebread

Teriyaki Chicken Bowls

Grilled Chicken on top of rice and cabbage.

Served all day and late night. $10

Customer favourite for over 30 years!

1706 2nd St  Cheney

405 1st Street  Cheney

(509) 235-5678 Sun-Wed 11 am-1 am. Thu-Sat 11 am- 2 am.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

(509) 235-4758 Daily 11 am-11 pm

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING SPONSORED CONTENT

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Liberty Lake

T

hough it lies outside the area’s main urban core, Liberty Lake is much more than housing developments, especially evidenced by its small cadre of locally owned restaurants. Several of these eateries are participating in the Great Dine Out; here’s who and what tasty specials they’re offering.

Longtime sports bar and familyfriendly hangout TRUE LEGENDS GRILL is offering a variety of dining options during the 16-day event, including takeout, delivery, curbside pickup, limited dine-in and outdoor

Rhonda Entner and Patrick Fechser at Hay J’s Bistro

seating under its heated patio tent.

Catch the Zags playing in the NCAA tourney while munching on True Legends’ affectionately named Zag burger ($16), an Angus patty with peppercorn dressing, roast beef, roasted garlic, fresh mozzarella, lettuce, tomato and some aus jus on the side so you, too, can “dunk.”

Other highlights are the kitchen’s Guinness-braised Rueben, a local favorite and perfect snack for St. Paddy’s Day. Heading out with the fam or the crew? True Legends also has a special $40 deal that includes four signature burgers and enough steak fries for the table to share.

Located nearby, just across Mission Avenue, is destination eatery HAY J’S BISTRO, where chef Patrick Fechser and a crew of mostly family, including his mother, Rhonda Entner, have been serving

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up creative New American eats since 2006. While first looks may be deceiving, as Hay J’s is tucked in near a gas station, don’t skip this local culinary gem. Among the offerings on special for the Great Dine Out is its popular Parmesancrusted halibut ($34), topped with a lemon-thyme butter creme and served with basmati rice and veggies. Or try the shrimp Cobb salad ($17) dressed in a Gorgonzola vinaigrette.

Located next door to Hay J’s is sister restaurant PICCOLO ARTISAN PIZZA KITCHEN. Its name, Piccolo, literally means “small,” a fitting description of the cozy eatery serving up Italian-inspired pies and craft cocktails. Try the signature Ladieu ($18), a creative concoction of ricotta cream, herbed chicken, shallot, spinach, red grapes, goat cheese and a port wine reduction. Piccolo is also highlighting its Americana pizza ($17) with pepperoni, black olive, mushroom and mozzarella, alongside its golden beet salad ($9) with pesto sauce, balsamic vinaigrette and port wine reduction.

Over on the other side of I-90 from the aforementioned trio of eateries is the fourth and final Liberty Lake participant in the Great Dine Out, DING HOW. The local spot has been serving authentic cuisine from around Asia — Thailand, China, Japan, Korea and more — to locals for 16 years. Among its many customer favorites is the honey pepper garlic beef tenderloin ($18), served with a garlic honey sauce. Another Ding How must-try is the crispy shrimp ($18) with a sweet-and-spicy dipping sauce. And who can go wrong with pad Thai, a classic noodle dish with peanut sauce, and choice of protein? 

Liberty Lake DING HOW LIBERTY LAKE

ASIAN

We are proud to provide each guest fresh and delicious authentic Asian cuisine for over 16 years.

FAN FAVORITE

HONEY PEPPER GARLIC BEEF TENDERLOIN

Diced beef tenderloin, mushroom, black pepper, garlic sauce and honey. $18

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CRISPY SHRIMP

Fried crispy nine-piece larger shrimp with shell, dry chili, and slightly sweet-and-spicy shrimp sauce. $17.95

PAD THAI

Stir fry with egg, bean sprout, cilantro, spices, a savory sauce and choice of protein. $15

1332 N Liberty Lake Rd  Liberty Lake (509) 921-1901 Tue-Sun 4 pm-9 pm.

 TAKEOUT

HAY J’S BISTRO

AMERICAN

New American fare, craft beer and creative cocktails served in a warm, relaxed space with a cozy bar.

SIGNATURE DISH

PICCOLO ARTISAN PIZZA KITCHEN

Small ‚Äî this is what “piccolo” means. We’re a small casual pizzeria that has a full bar with rad cocktails and rad food.

SIGNATURE DISH

Parmesan Crusted Halibut

Ladieu

This pizza features ricotta cream, herbed chicken, shallot, spinach, red grapes, goat cheese and port wine reduction. $18

Parmesan Crusted Halibut with lemon-thyme butter creme, basmati rice and vegetables. $34

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Bistro Medallions

Americana Pizza

Bistro Medallions with cabernet demi glace, Gorgonzola cheese, sour cream mashed potato and vegetables. $29

Tomato sauce, pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms and Mozzarella.

Pesto sauce, arugula, goat cheese, pine nuts, balsamic vinaigrette and port wine reduction. $9

Mixed greens, poached prawns, avocado, bacon, hardboiled egg, tomato, cucumber, chives and Gorgonzola vinaigrette. $17

21718 E Mission Ave  Liberty Lake

21718 E Mission Ave  Liberty Lake

(509) 926-2310 Tue-Thu 3-8 pm. Fri-Sat 3-9 pm.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  OUTDOOR DINING [ HEATED ]  INDOOR OPEN AIR SEATING

AMERICAN

Liberty Lake’s premier restaurant for a fun dining experience. Great food, family friendly, indoor and patio dining, games and lots of TVs.

SIGNATURE DISH

$17

Golden Beet Salad

Shrimp Cobb

TRUE LEGENDS GRILL

ITALIAN

The Zag Burger

Angus beef patty, peppercorn dressing, roast beef, roasted garlic gloves, fresh mozzarella cheese, lettuce and tomato.

Served with au jus so you can “DUNK.” $15.99

(509) 928-5900 Sun-Thu 3 pm-8 pm. Fri-Sat 3 pm-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  INDOOR OPEN AIR SEATING

MY MEMORABLE MEAL

“Hay J’s Bistro in Liberty Lake is always memorable! I start with their steamed clams and Caesar salad, followed by their amazing bistro medallions.”

— Marty Dickinson Chief Marketing Officer

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Guinness Braised Reuben

Listed as one of Spokane’s best, don’t miss this sliced slow-cooked corned beef with sauerkraut, Thousand Island dressing and Swiss cheese on grilled marble rye bread. $13.99

Burger Royal Platter

Get four of our signature burgers, a flamebroiled Angus beef patty, topped with cheddar cheese, smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato, pickles, onions and Thousand Island dressing.

Also steak fries for four. $40

1803 N Harvard Rd  Liberty Lake

(509) 892-3077 Mon-Thu 11 am-10 pm. Fri 11 am-11 pm. SatSun 9 am-10 pm.

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Cosmic Cowboy Grill’s Power Salad, available during the Great Dine Out.

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Coeur d’Alene

ining in Coeur d’Alene is diverse, with a range of culinary adventures from pub food to international cuisine to fine dining — many within walking distance of each other.

In the Riverstone complex, for example, VINE & OLIVE EATERY AND WINE BAR is an upscale casual spot with cool gray walls and a grown-up feel. Reservations might be a good idea here, as it’s popular for its European-inspired menu and exceptional wine collection. The house-made tagliatelle pasta smothered in a rich meat sauce will transport you to Italy with every bite ($16).

Around the corner, their sister venue called VICINO PIZZA serves up wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizzas like the sweetand-savory sausage and honey pie. Vicino is white walls, bright light and a fun spot to gather, like before or after a visit to the nearby movie theater (which will someday reopen, we hope).

Get a little walk along Riverstone’s manmade lake, where BARDENAY RESTAURANT AND DISTILLERY is anchored.

Have a seat on the patio, at the beautiful bar or near the fireplace as you sip one of Bardenay’s signature drinks, like the sweetand-sour ginger rum cocktail. Perfect with their 8-ounce salmon with sun-dried tomato butter.

The exact boundaries of “midtown”

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Coeur d’Alene might be a matter of opinion — maybe as far north as the freeway and certainly the main Third and Fourth Street thoroughfares — but what’s not up for debate is the abundance of dining options.

CAPONE’S PUB AND GRILL is an allages favorite, especially for its pizzas, like the Hawaiian-style “luau” pizza, which might convince you that ham and pineapple are perfectly paired.

IZZY’S COMFORT FOOD is a cozy corner spot that has you covered when it comes to gluten-free options. Its chicken sandwich includes a maple-whiskey glaze with pickled apple slices, while the chicken dinner is its twist on a Southern classic.

Another cozy midtown eatery is MONARCH RAMEN + NOODLE HOUSE, the sister restaurant to nearby Syringa Japanese Café & Sushi. New to ramen? Monarch’s staff will show you how to build your own or try one of the numerous standard combinations, including vegetarian and gluten-free options.

And for something completely different (than Monarch and Syringa, but from the same owners), try BLUEBIRD MIDTOWN EATERY. It’s only slightly larger than Monarch but with a Northwest bistro vibe and curated wine and craft beer list. The Spanish paella features Alaskan halibut, Washington clams and a spicy chorizo sausage courtesy of another local restaurant: Crown & Thistle.

Located downtown, just off Sherman

Avenue, CROWN & THISTLE is the place to go for all things sausage. Between the eclectic, old world décor and British-forward beer and food menu, you’d swear you were in London. Order a Guinness or Smithwick’s and tuck into the fish and chips with housemade tartar or the bangers and mash, featuring house-made sausages.

Downtown definitely has it going on with must-try places including HONEY EATERY & SOCIAL CLUB, SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, and 315 CUISINE for finer dining and SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAPHOUSE, COLLECTIVE KITCHEN PUBLIC HOUSE and CRAFTED TAPHOUSE + KITCHEN for pub food.

Don’t forget about the edges of town, like the east end of Coeur d’Alene, where MOON TIME has been a local favorite for decades. This sister restaurant to Hayden’s The Porch and the Spokane-based Two Seven, El Que, and Elk restaurants epitomizes the gastropub appeal with dishes like the rosemary-infused lamb burger and Thai-inspired “swimming angel” with spicy peanut sauce and tender grilled chicken.

Head north from downtown for another outlier not to be missed. COSMIC COWBOY GRILL offers fast-casual dining that doesn’t feel like fast food, with a focus on healthy for both veg- and meat-forward foodies. Try the out-of-this-world Cosmic burger with natural bacon, cheddar cheese and all the fixings. 

315CUISINE

ECLECTIC

The 315 cuisine specializes in small plate offerings: Tasty bites from international kitchens. We also offer delicious entrees, all made in house.

SIGNATURE DISH

Black and White Ahi

This long-standing favorite and house specialty features sesame seed and Cajun encrusted ahi, lightly seared and presented with basmati rice, ginger, spicy aioli and soy sauce. $21

Coeur d’Alene

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Cioppino

Delicious summer and winter, our house-made cioppino is served in a flavorful tomato and fennel broth with salmon, shrimp, mussels and clams, served with a baguette and thyme butte. $22

Beef Bourguignon Take Out

Feeds 4: Tender pieces of steak, braised in red wine/beef stock, flavored with bacon, carrots, onions, garlic, mushrooms and pearl onions.

Served with garlic mashers and french green beans, caesar salad, rolls and butter $65

315 E Wallace Ave  Coeur d’Alene (208) 667-9660 Tue-Sat 3:15 pm-Close.

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BARDENAY RESTAURANT & DISTILLERY

NORTHWEST

FAN FAVORITE

Beef Pho

Jägerschnitzel

Traditional schnitzel smothered with mushroom gravy and served with your choice of sides. $15.95

Thin-sliced, locally raised Certified Hereford Beef sirloin, rice noodles, basil, cilantro, scallions and lime. Over star anise-ginger infused beef broth with lemongrass-habañero and hoisin sauces. $14.50 Also Try...

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Charbroiled Salmon Fillet

München Club

Ginger Rum Cocktail

Wurst Platter

Grilled chicken breast, lettuce, tomato, Swiss cheese and Bavarian mustard on a pretzel bun. $11.95

Fresh eight-ounce Atlantic salmon fillet topped with sun-dried tomato butter and served with a side Caesar salad. $16.50 Bardenay Ginger Spiced Rum, a dash of vanilla, Triple Sec and fresh-pressed sweet and sour.

Served up with a ginger sugar rim. $7

GERMAN

Authentic German restaurant serving imported and locally German influenced beers. A genuine experience located in the heart of Coeur d’Alene.

Located in Riverstone, Bardenay Restaurant and Distillery specializes in handcrafted cocktails and scratch made Northwest cuisine.

FAN FAVORITE

BIER HAUS

Pick two of our traditional wursts with a kaiser roll and a choice of side. $10.95

1710 W Riverstone Dr  Coeur d’Alene

515 E Sherman Ave  Coeur d’Alene

(208) 765-1540 Mon-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri 11 am-10 pm.

Sat 10 am-10 pm. Sun 10 am-9 pm.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE

(208) 966-4301 Sun-Thu 11 am-Close. Fri-Sat 11am-10 pm.

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THE BLUEBIRD. A MIDTOWN EATERY.

NORTHWEST

A warm cozy eclectic Northwest bistro featuring a fantastic continuously rotating lunch, dinner, beer and wine menu highlighting the Northwest.

FAN FAVORITE

CAPONE’S PUB & GRILL

Great selection of beer on tap, full bar along with a variety of pizzas, wings, sandwiches, burgers and salads! Over 20 TVs to catch the game too!

FAN FAVORITE

Paella

Philly Steak Deluxe

Alaskan halibut and scallops, Washington clams and shrimp with saffron arborio rice, and Crown and Thistle chorizo.

Served with toasted baguette. $25

Seasoned beef or chicken, grilled with onions, mushrooms, roasted red and green peppers, and provolone cheese served on our homemade hoagie roll with choice of side. $12

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Seared Diver Sea Scallop

Luau Pizza

Continuously rotating beautifully seared scallop topped with delicious sauce and other yummy things. Ask your server for current selection. $13

Ranch base over our award-winning crust topped with whole milk mozzarella, ham, pineapple, onion, jalapeno and bacon; baked to perfection then drizzled with our house sweet hot sauce. Available in 4 sizes. $12-$28

Fried Chicken

Confit and breaded breast, thigh, leg, wing, honey-miso glaze and a pickle. $16

The Roosevelt Salad 816 N 4th St Coeur d’Alene 

(208) 665-3777 Tue-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

Sun 11 am-9 pm.

COLLECTIVE KITCHEN

Mixed greens, chicken breast, caramelized walnuts, craisins, carrots, gorgonzola, and croutons with raspberry vinaigrette. Served with our homemade Parmesan roll. $12 Menu available at other locations

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NORTHWEST

Upscale casual dining featuring local organic ingredients.

Breakfast Burger

COSMIC COWBOY GRILL

FAN FAVORITE

Baby Spinach Salad

Cosmic Burger

PUBLIC HOUSE

(208) 930-4762 Daily 11 am-9 pm.

THE GREAT DINE OUT

1/3 pound Country Natural Beef patty, uncured bacon, cheddar cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickle and garlic aioli on a Tuscan bun. Served with your choice of 1 Cosmic Cowboy Grill side. $13.95

Power Salad 501 E Sherman Ave  Coeur d’Alene

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Tri-Tip Steak Plate

Certified Angus Beef tri-tip marinated and grilled to perfection. Served with your choice of 2 Cosmic Cowboy Grill sides. $16.95

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Fresh spinach topped with house-made pomegranate vinaigrette, brie, bacon, apple and candied walnuts. $9

AMERICAN

Cosmic Cowboy Grill is a quick spot serving healthy, scratch-made food for veggie-loving Cosmics, meat-eating Cowboys, and everyone in between.

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(208) 667-4843 Daily 11 am-10 pm

Cd’A, Post Falls, Hayden, Ponderosa Springs GC

House-ground burger topped with cheddar, Swiss, American, bacon and fried egg on a house-made bun. $15

Bacon-wrapped figs with charred goat cheese and cucumber salad. $10

751 N 4th Street  Coeur d’Alene

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Bacon Wrapped Figs

PUB GRUB

Organic spinach, kale, chickpeas, parsley, almonds, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, celery, quinoa, blueberries, dried cranberries, goji berries and house-made lemon chia vinaigrette. $9.50

412 W Haycraft Ave  Coeur d’Alene (208) 277-0000 Sun-Thu 11 am-8 pm; Fri-Sat 11 am-9 pm

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COEUR D’ALENE CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN

GASTROPUB

Crafted features a sophisticated gastropub menu with all items and ingredients made from scratch daily, handcrafted cocktails, and 62 rotating taps.

FAN FAVORITE

THE CROWN & THISTLE

An authentic British pub in the heart of downtown Cd’A, serving delicious pub food, traditional cask ales, and an amazing selection of European beers.

SIGNATURE DISH

Rockafella Y’all

Green onion, Belgian waffle, buttermilk fried chicken (thigh meat), black pepper bacon, perfect egg, whipped cream, huckleberry fool sauce, blueberry fennel; seed & black pepper syrup. $18 Also Try...

Two flaky filets of haddock, hand-dipped in our secret recipe beer batter and fried.

Served with chips, mushy peas, malt vinegar, and our housemade tartar sauce. The best this side of the pond! $13 Bangers and Mash

1/3 pound Impossible burger, plant-based American cheese, crafted sauce, shredded iceberg lettuce, grilled red onions, tomato, “bread & butter” pickles, crafted bun. Choice of fries or salad. $17

Choose from our rotating selection of housemade sausages created by our in-house wurstmeister Ben! Two bangers served with mashed potatoes, brown gravy, and onion marmalade. (gf) $13

Bono...Because He Said it was Good

Potato Leek Pie 523 Sherman Ave  Coeur d’Alene (208) 292-4813 Daily 11 am-close

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

Potatoes, leeks, carrots, celery, and corn cooked in a creamy cheddar sauce, then baked in a pastry crust. Served with classic mushy peas. (v) $12.50

107 N 4th St  Coeur d’Alene

(208) 758-8357 Sun-Thu 11 am-10 pm; Fri-Sat 11 ammidnight

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

HONEY EATERY AND SOCIAL CLUB

AMERICAN

In the heart of downtown Coeur d’ Alene featuring modern brunch foods all day upstairs in the eatery and craft cocktails downstairs in the social club.

SIGNATURE DISH

Haddock Fish ’n Chips

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Baboumian Snack

De Leon’s corn tortillas, slow-roasted pork, sesame dressing, pickled red onions, cilantro slaw, sriracha mayo. Choice of fries or salad. $15

PUB GRUB

Honey Fried Chicken

IZZY’S COMFORT KITCHEN

Scratch-made, elevated comfort food in a quaint atmosphere featuring a nearly exclusive gluten-free menu.

FAN FAVORITE

Double crispy fried chicken with warm red potato salad, local honey, jalapeños and coleslaw. $17.89

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Kalbi Shortribs

AMERICAN

Izzy’s Chicken Dinner

Apple Whiskey Chicken Sandwich

Gluten-Free crispy chicken breast drizzled with a maplewhiskey glaze, ginger and jalapeño aioli, bacon and red onion jam, pickled gala apple slices, and bib lettuce on a toasted brioche bun. (Swap the bun for GF) $15

Sweet tea brined bone-in chicken, fried crisp and drizzled with our signature sweetheat honey sauce with lemon green beans, cornbread and your choice of soup or salad (GF) $22

Marinated, cross-cut ribs, grilled with fried rice, sunomono, honey chili and poached eggs. $19.99

Buddha Bowl

Marinated grains with a poached egg*, mushroom confit, feta, greens, avocado and seasonal veggies. $13.99

Mac & Cheese 317 E Sherman Ave  Coeur d’Alene (208) 930-1514 Daily 8:30 am to 8:30 pm.

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Three cheese sauce blend tossed with elbow pasta and smoked bacon, topped with a parsley crumb and finished with pickled red onions (GF) $15

726 N 4th St  Coeur d’Alene

(208) 930-0930 Sun-Thu 11 am-8 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-9 pm.

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MONARCH RAMEN + NOODLE HOUSE

ASIAN

A nontraditional Japanese ramen + noodle shop featuring all things noodley and brothy.

FAN FAVORITE

MOON TIME

Serving some of the best food around in a comfortable pub-style atmosphere makes this the kind of place you’ll want to visit as often as possible.

FAN FAVORITE

RAMEN

Everything from tonkotsu (rich pork broth) to vegetarian.

Gluten-free noodles available.

We specialize in Build-YourOwn-Ramen. $15

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Buddha/Poke Bowl

Fried Pork Sandwich

Okonomiyaki

Swimming Angel

Savory pancake with octopus, cabbage, green onion, topped with Kewpie mayo and okonomiyaki sauce. $11

Buttermilk marinated pork loin is breaded, panfried and served on a toasted bun with iceberg lettuce, American cheese and bread with butter pickle tartar sauce. $15

1401 North 4th St  Coeur d’Alene (208) 966-4230 Tue-Sun 11 am-8 pm. Closed Mondays

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A traditional Thai dish featuring steamed spinach, a grilled chicken breast and our spicy peanut sauce served over rice. Accompanied by grilled bread and a sweet and sour cucumber salad. $14

AMERICAN

American Fusion dining. Join us for lunch, dinner, underground wine cellar & sipsational cocktails.

Daily 11 am-11 pm.

SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE

SIGNATURE DISH

Filet Mignon

Seasons’ Mushroom Risotto

Seasonal selection of forest mushrooms, garlic, onions, vegetable broth, Parmesan, arugula pistachio gremolata, and Romanesco cauliflower. $24.50

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Ahi Tuna Tatare

Street Tacos

Blackened Fish – taco slaw, pineapple-mango salsa and Sriracha aioli. Chicken – taco slaw, roasted chicken sauce, pico and Sriracha aioli.

Steak – taco slaw, cucumber kimchi, pico and Sriracha aioli. $18.50

Ponsu infused Ahi Tuna, red onion, cucumber, avocado, tomato, wasabi salad, soy glaze & wasabi whip $14.95

Strawberries Dipped in Chocolate

Apple Almond Salad

White & dark chocolate dipped berries infused with Chambord Royale $4.95

2501 N 4th St

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(208) 765-2555 Lunch Monday-Friday 11:30 am-3 pm, Dinner daily 4 pm-close

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BISTRO

We are a fresh grill and bar that offers friendly service, fresh food and amazing craft cocktails!

House marinade, rosemary yukon potatoes, baby vegetables $38.95

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1602 E Sherman  Coeur d’Alene

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SATAY BISTRO

SIGNATURE DISH

Mediterranean Lamb Burger

A rosemary infused lamb burger char-grilled and served on a toasted bun with melted goat cheese, oregano pesto mayo and grilled vegetable relish. $15

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Build your own Buddha/Poke Bowl. Choose from a selection of pre-constructed bowls or be the master of your destiny and choose from a large selection of fresh ingredients. $16

NORTHWEST

Kale, Fuji apples, dried cherries, toasted almonds, honey lemon vinaigrette and crumbled Feta cheese. $15.50

209 E Lakeside Ave  Coeur d’Alene (208) 664-8008 Sun-Thu 11 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT

COEUR D’ALENE SWEET LOU’S RESTAURANT AND TAP HOUSE

AMERICAN

Sweet Lou’s offers an American fare experience with fresh ingredients and creative twists. We have 32 beers on tap and a view of beautiful Lake CDA!

SIGNATURE DISH

SYRINGA JAPANESE CAFE AND SUSHI BAR

Japanese restaurant specializing in traditional and nontraditional cuisine from sushi and sashimi to noodles and teriyaki.

FAN FAVORITE

Bison Ribs

Three large, tender bison ribs glazed with our homemade bourbon barbecue sauce, served with the side of your choice $21.99

Also Try...

Blue Cheese Mushroom Sirloin

Sushi or Sashimi Assortment

A chef’s selection of fresh fish over rice, or skip the rice and do just the fish. Both assortments available small or large. $25

Makizushi (Rolls)

60/40 Burger

We grind Certified Angus Beef and bacon together in harmony for the ultimate bacon cheese burger, topped with cheddar, lettuce, tomatoes and onions. Pair it with fries for the complete experience. $13.99

601 E Front Ave #101  Coeur d’Alene (208) 667-1170 Sun-Sat 11 am-10 pm.

Menu available at other locations

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Everything from traditional to nontraditional.

All the stuff — seaweed, soy paper, raw fish, cooked fish and love (most important ingredient of all) — fried, not fried, saucy or not saucy. $8

Ponderay

VICINO PIZZA

PIZZA

Neapolitan style pizzeria in Riverstone serving wood-fired pizzas, salads and the best meatballs in town. CDA’s only all-Italian wine list and six draft beers.

Sausage & Honey Pizza

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN  TAKEOUT

VINE & OLIVE EATERY AND WINE BAR

EUROPEAN

A European inspired menu executed with Northwest flair in a warm, inviting atmosphere and industrial-chic decor in the heart of Riverstone.

SIGNATURE DISH

House made sausage, jalapeño, honey, tomato sauce, mozzarella and oregano. $17

Crispy Pork Shank

Creamy polenta and spicy mustard jus. $25

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Polpette

Acorn Squash Frites

House-made meatballs, nonna sauce and Parmigiano-Reggiano.

1710 North 4th Street #2  Coeur d’Alene

(208) 664-2718 Tue-Thur 11:30 am-9 pm. Fri-Sat 11:30am -10pm. Closed Sun-Mon.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP  DELIVERY AVAILABLE  OUTDOOR DINING

FAN FAVORITE

BENTO

An assortment of various Japanese dishes all in a great sample platter “BOX” Your choice: Sushi, teriyaki or vegetarian. $22

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Hand-cut six-ounce Certified Angus Beef top sirloin topped with melted blue cheese crumbles and sautéed mushrooms. Served with a choice of two sides. $19.99

SUSHI

We turn acorn squash into frites and serve with spicy mayo. $7

$9

Il Norcini (The Butcher)

Tagliatelle Bolognese

Spicy coppa, house-made sausage and speck, meat sauce, and mozzarella. $21

House-made egg pasta in our 12 hour meat sauce and Parmigiano. $16

2385 N Old Mill Loop  Coeur d’Alene

2037 N Main St  Coeur d’Alene

(208) 758-7997 Daily 11 am-Close.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT  CURBSIDE PICK UP

(208) 758-7770 Daily 11:30 am-Close.

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ike most places, the dining scene took a dip in North Idaho last year but has rebounded strongly with plenty of places open for dine in and takeout and happy to have your patronage.

In Post Falls, it’s all about the pub grub, from steakhouses to true taphouses. New to the scene is TETON HOUSE, which is an old hand at the restaurant biz. This is the second location for the owners, whose original spot was in southern Idaho’s Snake River Valley. If you’re into meat, Teton House has you covered with smoked, grilled, fried and roasted. For the Great Dine Out, they’re offering their signature 16-ounce prime rib, slow-roasted and tender, with cheesy au gratin potatoes, and a choice of soup or salad ($30).

Tucked into a small strip mall off Spokane Street, THE FILLING STATION is a Post Falls holein-the-wall that just happens to have a knockout selection of craft beers, from barrel-aged, hoppy and stouts to sours and ciders. Pop in for pizza Chicago style, deep dish with your choice of toppings, from sausage and pepperoni to pulled pork, chicken or veggie. ...continued on page 62 Chef and Owner Laurent Zirotti at Fleur de Sel.

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THE FILLING STATION POST FALLS

GASTROPUB

A pub style menu with an extensive craft beer list to complement it.

FAN FAVORITE

Chicago Style Pizza

Pizza dough, house-made San Marzano sauce, pepperonis, Italian sausage, bacon and Mozzarella. $18

Post Falls Hayden Worley

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Loaded French Dip

Philly steak meat, red peppers, white onions, mushrooms, Swiss cheese, Aus Jus, Parmesan Bread, Creamy Horseradish and choice of side . $14

Jalapeño Burger

Half-pound burger patty, jalapeños, pepper Jack, spinach, tomato, onion, pickles and choice of side. $14

306 S Spokane St  Post Falls

(208) 981-0444 Mon-Fri 12-9 pm. Sat-Sun 8 am-9 pm.

 DINE IN  TAKEOUT

FLEUR DE SEL

FRENCH

Fleur de sel is a French restaurant in Post Falls in a beautiful setting where you will enjoy celebrating with your loved ones.

SIGNATURE DISH

Confit de Canard “aux âpices”

REPUBLIC KITCHEN + TAPHOUSE

Located in one of the oldest and most charming houses in Post Falls on Spokane and Fourth Street featuring delicious brews and pub food.

SIGNATURE DISH

Duck confit - grilled duck sausage - fennel, bell peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, potatoes fricassee-balsamic and green peppercorn demi-glace. $26 Also Try...

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Poulet aux Truffes

Twice Fried Chicken Sandwich

Extra crispy double fried chicken on a brioche bun. Choose Southern style (beer mustard, house-made pickle and slaw) or Korean style (honey butter, green apple kimchi, pickled jalapeño and garlic aiolo). $14

Pork Belly Fried Rice

Airline Chicken breast (breast with drummette attached) grilled (non-GMO, free range), mushroom duxelles ravioli, and Italian black truffles cream sauce. $25

Kimchi, celery, onions, carrots, chilis, Togarashi, egg, fried garlic, chili sauce and chili mayo.

Topped with glazed pork belly. $18

Foie Gras Panna Cotta

Crispy fried cauliflower tossed in local hot sauce and served with pickled carrots topped with Brush Creek blue cheese. $11

“La belle farm” foie gras, FDS spiced rhubarb jam, Italian black truffle and house brioche. $11

PUB GRUB

Popcorn Cauliflower

4365 Inverness Drive

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Post Falls

120 E 4th Ave  Post Falls

(208) 777-7600 Tue-Sat 5 pm-Close.

(Reservations highly recommended.)

 RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED  DINE IN

(208) 457-3610 Daily 11 am-9 am.

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TETON HOUSE POST FALLS

STEAKHOUSE

We are a casual American steakhouse featuring a Northwest flair. Our standard menu is traditional, while our specials let us go beyond traditional.

SIGNATURE DISH

16-ounce Prime Rib

Juicy, tender Angus slowroasted over hardwood for a smoky flavor. $30

Also Try...

Republic Kitchen + Taphouse’s chicken sandwich.

Family Style Tomahawk

Post Falls, Hayden & Worley, continued...

Just down the street, REPUBLIC KITCHEN + TAPHOUSE will get your vote for great food and atmosphere. Located in a refurbished 1910 home, this charming local fave does offer dining outside on the patio (fingers crossed the weather warms up… soon!).

Good luck choosing between its featured dishes, including the pork belly fried rice and twicefried chicken sandwich.

If you’ve been following food news, you know that Republic is one of several restaurants created

by James Beard finalist and busy chef Adam Hegsted. Head to the Coeur d’Alene Casino for one of his latest projects: CHINOOK CRAFTED (formerly Chinook Steak, Pasta & Spirits). This is the second time Hegsted has been at the helm of this casual fine-dining locale, which has a long history of being the go-to for great meals and Coeur d’Alene hospitality.

Have the mesquite bone-in pork chop, which has been molassesbrined for a sweet note and is served with several sides. Team up with your tablemates for an extra-special dessert treat: a creamy, frozen scratch-made custard served tableside with your choice of toppings.

Looking for a more casual dining spot at the casino? Head

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to RED TAIL BAR & GRILL and settle into a booth for a bite and a bev. The seasoned sirloin Red Tail Philly cheesesteak sandwich is a favorite, or spice it up with the chili-braised beef chimichanga smothered in cheese, salsa and sour cream.

Hayden has two participating restaurants in two equally charming locations. RADICCI ITALIAN BISTRO feels upscale yet friendly.

Try their unique Chilean sea bass with black squid ink pasta and a savory bouillabaisse or go traditional with their hearty sausage and cheese lasagna topped with la nonna’s (grandma’s) spaghetti sauce.

Looking like a vintage cabin and located along the edge of Hayden Lake Country Club’s beautifully manicured greens, PORCH PUBLIC HOUSE is going on 18 years of being a favorite watering hole for golfers and locals alike. Another favorite? The Idaho ruby red trout topped with tangy beurre blanc sauce and served alongside bacon and smoked cheddar potato cakes. Or try the Santa Fe chicken sandwich with roasted poblano peppers for a spicy kick. Order a proper cocktail from the full bar and — weather permitting — take advantage of their cozy patio. 

Tomahawk steak dinner for two. Choose soups or salads, and get sides fit for two. It is a long dining experience but a worthwhile one to tell friends about. $95

Prime Rib Teton Dip

Our twist on the classic dip with melted Swiss and a coleslaw garnish crunch. Comes with piping hot Au jus and horseradish. $16

1901 E Seltice Way  Post Falls (208) 967-4066 Tue-Sat 11 am-Close.

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Sante Fe Chicken Sandwich

A six-ounce breaded chicken breast topped with roasted poblano peppers and melted Monterey jack cheese. Served on a grilled bun with mayo, honey cream cheese, red onion and lettuce. $14

Idaho Ruby Red Trout

Lightly breaded and pan seared then topped with lemon beurre blanc and served with bacon/ smoked cheddar potato cakes. Garnished with fresh parsley and a lemon wedge. $17

French Dip Royale

Thinly sliced top sirloin piled high on a toasted La Brea baguette with caramelized onions, Swiss cheese and horseradish mayo. Served with a side of au jus. $15

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POST FALLS • HAYDEN • WORLEY RADICCI ITALIAN BISTRO

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Radicci is a family owned Italian bistro in Hayden serving family style pastas, house-made soups, breads and specialty pizzas.

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Casual finer dining steakhouse with steak, pastas, craft cocktails, beer and wine offered inside of the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel.

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Chilean Sea Bass

Chilean sea bass with black squid ink pasta, and a bouillabaisse sauce $32

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Snake River Top Sirloin

Eight-ounce tender and juicy top sirloin cap steak served with smash fried potatoes, chef’s choice of vegetables and a mixed greens salad. $27

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Cheese and sausage lasagna topped with Grandma’s Spaghetti Sauce

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Casual atmosphere with delicious array of large portions for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Featuring Franks’ Omelet Bar on the weekends at the CDA Casino.

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Table side dessert for two. House-made anglaise frozen at your table with an array of different flavor variations of your choosing. Scooped at your table and topped with your choice of toppings. $16

Red Tail Philly

Seasoned sirloin topped with grilled peppers, onions and our house-made creamy Queso.

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“There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.”

Margaret J. Wheatley

American Author, Who Do We Choose To Be?

In this most difficult of years, we’ve seen very clearly what we care about. Local businesses have been threatened, our way of life upended. We’ve had to dig deep into our community spirit to defend these precious things — to lend our support, in ways big and small, to the greater good. And the work is paying off, as every day we grow stronger, a little closer to normal.

Here in the Inland Northwest, working together is what we do — we celebrate together and we face challenges together.

The Inlander is proud to have been right in the middle of it all for more than a quarter century. We’re also proud to be part of the remarkable partnership that’s brought the Great Dine Out to life. Our partners in this effort put aside their natural competitiveness as credit unions and banks serving our region, and came together to support their community.

And what an amazing community we have!

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CULTURE | DIGEST

NOT SO SCARY Stage Fright will never rank higher than being the Band’s third-best album after Music From Big Pink and their self-titled set. But a new 50th anniversary special edition makes an emphatic case for it being close to those two classics. It’s home to some of their best songs (“The Shape I’m In,” “Time to Kill”), and this reissue really puts a spotlight on their vocals. Guitarist Robbie Robertson rejiggered the tracklist to what it was originally “supposed” to be, and it flows really well. Best of all, this set includes a brilliant previously unreleased live set recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in 1971, a show that includes basically everything you’d want to hear from their first three albums. That set (included on both CD and Blu-Ray here) is worth the price of the new Stage Fright by itself. (DAN NAILEN)

Free Britney

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BY SPENCER BROWN

grew up loving Britney Spears’ music. There’s something about early 2000s pop mixed with videos that didn’t make sense that really made me come back for more time and again. And like a lot of people, I didn’t know the specifics of her life or breakdown — blindly believing when everyone said she’s “crazy.”

There is much more to the story, though, yet we still treat her like a commodity instead of a human being.

Framing Britney Spears, streaming on Hulu, is part of The New York Times Presents documentary series and dives into the personal life of Spears from the beginning to her 2007 breakdown and court-ordered conservatorship, which remains in effect today.

Under a conservatorship, a judge-appointed guardian manages the finances and/or daily life of another due to physical or mental limitations. For adults, they’re mostly for older seniors incapable of taking care

THE BUZZ BIN

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST There’s noteworthy new music arriving in stores and online March 12. To wit: VALERIE JUNE, The Moon and Stars: Prescriptions for Dreamers. Go listen to “Call Me A Fool” and give up all resistance to her soulful charms.

LAKE STREET DIVE, Obviously. These rootsy musical polymaths team up with hip-hop songwriter/ producer Mike Elizondo for their latest.

ROB ZOMBIE, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. I am never less than entertained by Zombie’s album titles. (DAN NAILEN)

of themselves. They’re not, generally speaking, for a capable 39-year-old still seemingly being punished for a long-ago breakdown.

Yes, she publicly shaved her head, attacked a car and started fighting with everyone around her.

Wouldn’t you if the entire world was saying you were a slut and a bad parent? While she was struggling and some action was needed, a permanent conservatorship is unfair. Since Spears originally agreed to it in order to see her children, it makes it hard for it to be dissolved completely. But at this point it seems more like a cruel punishment than a safety measure. Not surprisingly, the only people in favor of this conservatorship are the people who benefit from her money — her family, particularly her father who controls everything.

The documentary contextualizes Spears’ life with what was going on in other aspects of American society, from the Monica Lewinsky scandal to the intense paparazzi culture that led to photographers stalking her every move.

I wish the documentary was longer and provided more information. I still can’t get it out of my head, and I watched it more than a week ago while bingeing her music. If you ever questioned whether misogyny remains in our 2021 world, just watch this 75-minute documentary and you’ll wonder why we can’t help this person obviously being taken advantage of and abused.

Before watching this I supported the “Free Britney” movement just because I was a fan, but this documentary makes you feel a sense of outrage whenever you hear her name or one of her songs. Even seeing a plaid skirt is enough to knock you into a fit of furious ranting.

No, Britney Spears was not born to make you happy. But she really did try. n

FANTASTIC FOLKLORE Those who enjoyed the breathtaking 2009 indie animation The Secret of Kells will be elated to discover the latest installment from its two creators. Wolfwalkers on Apple TV+ is the third (unrelated, plot-wise) installment of the duo’s Irish folklore trilogy, along with 2014’s Song of the Sea. Wolfwalkers is a heartwarming story of friendship, trust and magic. Robyn, whose father has been sent to eliminate a wolf pack in rural, 1650s Ireland, befriends Mebh, a wild girl of the forest who transforms into a wolf while she sleeps. The film’s wood-block inspired art style and voice acting are top notch. (CHEY SCOTT)

UNWORTHY WINNER You might be tempted to fire up Netflix and delve into I Care A Lot after Rosamund Pike won a Golden Globe for her role as a shady court-appointed guardian who bilks old folks out of their money. Let me save you two hours. I love dark comedy and vicious satire, and this flick purports to be a takedown of for-profit elder care and American health care. Those areas are certainly ripe for the right movie, but you’d be hard-pressed to find many laughs in this inept bit of storytelling. (DAN NAILEN)

GONE GIRL I’m usually a year or two behind when it comes to TV, so it’s fitting that I’m just now catching up with Search Party, a truly eccentric mystery sitcom that debuted in 2016. It starts off in satirical mode as a quartet of self-absorbed millennials, led by Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat, hunts for their missing college classmate, but it has mutated over the course of its four seasons into a Hitchcockian paranoid thriller, a twisty courtroom drama and an intense psychological study. In all modes, though, it’s always compulsively watchable, punctuating its serious questions about trauma, media scrutiny and sociopathy with big, broad comedy. The entire series, including its 2021 season, is streaming on HBO Max. (NATHAN WEINBENDER)

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Streaming Backwards Paramount+ enters the streaming fray with a slew of quality comedy worth revisiting

BY BILL FROST

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lease welcome to the ever-bloodier Streaming Wars: Paramount+.

Before you go on an inner-monologue rant about “these new damned streaming TV thingies popping up all the damned time,” know that Paramount+ (yeah, another +) isn’t “new.” It’s just 7-year-old CBS All Access with a new paint job, so relax.

The CBS All Access name did the service no favors.

It sounded like Boomer backwash aimed at the 60-toDead demographic looking to binge the entire NCIS franchise before ascending to that great “Whites Only” diner in the sky. Paramount+? It’s sleek! It’s hip! It’s now!

It’s also way more inclusive, with a catalog of classic content that extends beyond just CBS: Comedy Central, BET, MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon are in the mix, too.

For ’90s kids, that means hours of retro-lounging with Beavis & Butt-Head, Invader Zim, and Ren & Stimpy (the Gen-X Mount Rushmore).

Here are 11 more comedies, from the ’00s and the ’90s, that you may have missed the first time around to check out now on Paramount+. Or get your NCIS on — you do you.

ANOTHER PERIOD (3 SEASONS, 2015-18)

Natasha Leggero and Ricki Lindhome created and star in a mashup of Downton Abbey, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Drunk History that sounds ridiculous in theory, but is hilariously ridiculous in execution. Leggero, Lindhome and a sprawling comic cast double down on the class discord and casual misogyny of 1902 Rhode Island aristocracy, going for taboo laughs where straight period pieces just swell the forlorn music. Another Period could not be made in 2021.

DETROITERS (2 SEASONS, 2017-18)

Best friends Tim (Tim Robinson) and Sam (Sam Richardson) are creatives at Tim’s father’s Detroit ad agency, producing cheap-o TV commercials for local businesses.

Detroiters has a warmth and goofy zing missing from most Comedy Central series, and the guest stars are left field AF (including Jason Sudeikis as a Chrysler exec, wrestler Kevin Nash as Tim’s dad and Detroit newscaster Mort Crim as himself). Way better than Robinson’s I Think You Should Leave.

CORPORATE (3 SEASONS, 2018-20)

The exact opposite of Detroiters, Corporate is a cold, dystopian wallow in the mundanities of office life that’ll make you reconsider ending your work-from-home exile. Desk drones Matt (Matt Engebretson) and Jake (Jake Weisman) work at megacorporation Hampton DeVille, constantly under the heels of micromanagers and a magnificently malevolent CEO (Lance Reddick). Somehow, Corporate is as funny as it is brutal, nihilistic and well-dressed.

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Another Period

REVIEW (3 SEASONS, 2014-17)

BRAINDEAD (1 SEASON, 2016)

MOONBEAM CITY (1 SEASON, 2015)

THE STATE (4 SEASONS, 1993-95)

BROAD CITY (5 SEASONS, 2014-19)

DARIA (5 SEASONS, 1997-2002)

TIME TRAVELING BONG (1 SEASON, 2016)

CLONE HIGH (1 SEASON, 2002-03)

Professional critic Forrest MacNeil (Andy Daly) “reviews” life experiences on a five-star scale for his showwithin-the-show, Review. The reviews begin benignly (eating 15 pancakes, going to prom) but then get weirder and darker (trying drug addiction, leading a cult, putting a pet to sleep — four stars for that one, surprisingly). Underrated comic actor Daly sells the concept with subtlety and sincerity, and Review surprises at every turn (half-star for proms and drugs, BTW).

Moonbeam City was a neon-saturated anomaly among animated Comedy Central series in that it actually looked good and had an all-star voice cast. In this sendup of ’80s cop dramas (very specifically Miami Vice) colorfully splashed like Nagel pop art gone anime, MCPD detectives Dazzle (Rob Lowe), Pizzazz (Elizabeth Banks), Chrysalis (Kate Mara) and Rad (Will Forte) … well, suck. Given more seasons, maybe Moonbeam City could have been the next Archer. Maybe.

Just because Broad City was a big hit for Comedy Central doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be revisited — or experienced for the first time. Twentysomething New Yorkers Abbi (Abbi Jacobsen) and Ilana (Ilana Glazer) joke and toke their way through misadventures of daily minutiae. Like a two-woman Seinfeld with subtle layers of feminism and overt layers of 420 enthusiasm, Abbi and Ilana never really learn anything, but their friendship is pure Goals material.

Speaking of 420 enthusiasm, this Ilana Glazer solo album is as gloriously weird and stoopid as any Cheech & Chong classic, with a side of Bill & Ted timeline jumping (or stumbling). Cousins Sharee (Glazer) and Jeff (Paul W. Downs) discover a bong that, when smoked, sends them back in time. From the Salem witch trials to caveman times to ancient Greece, the lessons here are: Weed is cool, no time period was great for women, and attending an orgy with your cousin is a bad idea.

Political satire BrainDead, which inexplicably aired on CBS broadcast TV, laid out a comic sci-fi tale that had the brains of D.C. congressmen and staffers penetrated and controlled by alien bugs — months before the 2016 election. It’s not a documentary, but a documentary filmmaker (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is the first to discover the alien plot, and few believe her because it’s bizarro biz as usual on the Hill. BrainDead just may have been as prescient as Idiocracy.

Like an American answer to Canada’s Kids in the Hall, MTV’s The State uncorked a firehose of Gen-X sketch comedy and a troupe that went on to dominate underground and mainstream comedy for decades (most notably with Reno 911!). It’s impossible to believe when looking at the Teen Mom/Floribama Shore reality shitshow it is now, but MTV was a citadel of creativity and experimentation in the ’90s — and no, we’re not doing the “when it played music” thing.

Beavis & Butt-Head isn’t the ultimate ’90s MTV animated series — its spinoff Daria is. Everything from the dissonant opening chords of “You’re Standing on My Neck” to news-show-within-the-show Sick, Sad World still feels fresh.

Terminally unimpressed high-schooler Daria Morgandorffer carried the weight of the D-U-M-B world on her slouched shoulders for all of us. Sure, the animation and pacing are stiff, but there’s no snarky power couple like Daria and Jane.

OK, MTV’s creative streak didn’t completely end with the ’90s: Early-2000s cult hit Clone High satirized teen dramas though the animated angst of the young clones of Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Cleopatra and John F. Kennedy — it’s like Dawson’s Creek, but not shit. An HBO Max revival of Clone High is in the works, but the 13-episode original is pretty much perfect as is, and Abandoned Pools’ terrifically tormented theme song will never, ever be topped. n

DINE OUT, THE GREAT DINE OUT

DO GOOD Area restaurants look forward to a boost in business during the Great Dine Out March 12-27

BY CHEY SCOTT

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ith few students on campus and no spectator sports events at Eastern Washington University for the past year, Barrelhouse Pub and Pizza in Cheney has acutely felt the economic pain brought on by COVID-19.

That’s why owner Mike Lyons is hopeful that the Great Dine Out will help give his restaurant a boost.

The new Inlander-created event, backed by local financial institutions, is encouraging diners to safely patronize local restaurants March 12-27 — one year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s great we have so much support and that the community and banks and everyone are able to put this on, and are supporting and aware of how bad everyone’s been down,” Lyons says. “There are a lot of costs we’re having to bear that we’re not used to.”

Takeout sales and limited seating on its small patio this winter helped some, Lyons says, but he’s most grateful for the ongoing support of the Cheney community.

“Local Cheney has saved our bacon for sure this year,” he says. “It’s been great to us.”

For the event, Barrelhouse chose to spotlight its massive calzones ($15), Barrel Bites appetizer ($8) and the family-size Barrelhouse Bundle ($40) that includes a 12-inch, three-topping pizza, large house salad and Barrel Bites.

In downtown Spokane at Europa Restaurant, operating for nearly four decades now, owner Aja Engels is also looking forward to seeing the return of regular customers and new faces alike during the Great Dine Out. ...continued on next page

Europa Restaurant & Bakery co-owner Aja Engels.

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“Obviously this last year has been challenging for everybody, especially so for hospitality and restaurants,” Engels says. “Not really knowing what is coming next was the hardest part, but now it seems like we’re turning the corner and moving forward.”

At a quarter of its usual indoor-only capacity, she says Europa can seat about 40 people max, and thus guests are encouraged to make reservations to dine in. Takeout and easy curbside pickup are also offered.

Europa is showcasing three customer favorites for the 16-day event: its decadent chicken Gorgonzola fettuccine ($25), custom-blended Myropa red wine ($42/ bottle) made in partnership with Coeur d’Alene Cellars, and house pastry chef Christie Sutton’s famous raspberry white chocolate cheesecake ($8.25). Order all three for an easy, complete meal.

Across town in East Central Spokane, staff at the recently opened Red Wheel Bar and Grill are also eager to introduce its relaxed atmosphere and pub-style grub to new patrons during the Great Dine Out. “We’re excited for things to start getting back to normal and as people feel comfortable coming out, we’d love to have them here,” says Red Wheel operations manager Jason Martinez.

Red Wheel opened last June, although its debut was initially planned for March 2020 until the coronavirus pandemic shut everything down. The bar on South Thor is part of the Social Provisions restaurant group, which also has Borracho, Fast Eddie’s, Boombox Pizza and River City Brewing in its portfolio.

For the Great Dine Out, Red Wheel hopes guests will try the classic Red Wheel Burger ($14) which Martinez

The Red Wheel Burger says rivals the area’s most popular gourmet burgers. The Buffalo Cobb salad ($13) and Southern Philly sandwich ($14) are also showcased.

Martinez says Red Wheel has already become a neighborhood hangout for residents of southeast and East Central Spokane. Being located on a main corridor to the South Hill also makes it a convenient stop for din-

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Fortunately, he says, the bar has been able to utilize space in its parking lot to set up large patio tents this winter, and they will be an option for diners during the Great Dine Out. The tents allow the all-ages restaurant and bar to expand its total seating up to 100 diners even at the current capacity cap.

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id-March usually falls just a few weeks after the conclusion of Inlander Restaurant Week, the annual 10-day dining celebration during which restaurants spotlight their best cuisine and culinary talent via fixed-price, three-course menus. Right about now is also when we’d normally be celebrating regionwide excellence in food and many other categories with the Inlander’s yearly Best Of readers poll. But like 2020, 2021 still isn’t “normal,” at least not quite yet.

out to create an event that was more flexible for the restaurants and diners. It’s been truly moving to work alongside 14 of our region’s banks and credit unions to make this event possible. It’s inspiring to see these organizations pull together to support another industry in our community that’s been so profoundly impacted by the pandemic.”

All 160-plus restaurants in the Great Dine Out are participating at no cost to them, thanks to that collaborative support of regional financial institutions, including STCU, whose team helped coordinate those efforts.

“Since the pandemic started, our focus has been on helping our staff, helping our members and helping the community at large with both their immediate needs, but also looking beyond so that when it’s over we’re all still standing and the community is in the best possible shape,” says STCU spokesman Dan Hansen.

“So supporting efforts like the Great Dine Out is all part of that,” Hansen continues. “It’s true that we’re all competitors, but when it comes to supporting the community, we know it’s important to all work together.” n

“We’re excited for things to start getting back to normal and as people feel comfortable coming out, we’d love to have them here.”

While both of these annual Inlander events are coming later in 2021 — Inlander Restaurant Week is rescheduled for Aug. 19-28, and will return again in 2022 from Feb. 24 to March 5 — the Great Dine Out is an alternative to Restaurant Week better adapted to the current pandemic state.

“With so much uncertainty for restaurants, it was clear we needed to move the traditional Inlander Restaurant Week until later in the year,” says Inlander co-owner and general manager Jer McGregor.

“At the same time, it was also clear our region’s restaurants needed help now, so we set

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Pi Day Treats Bean & Pie has fun in store for 3/14; plus, local St. Paddy’s Day specials

BY CHEY SCOTT

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how off your mathematical memorization prowess at Bean & Pie’s annual Pi Day celebration this Sunday, March 14. In shorter notation the date is 3/14, which are the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi.

The socially distanced celebration’s pi-reciting contest starts at 2 pm, with sign-ups at 1:30. If memorizing numbers isn’t your thing (all participants get a 6-inch pie, and the winner a 10-inch pie), then sweet treats certainly must be.

Preorders are being accepted online at beanandpie. com for Pi Day specials, among them three-for-$14 hand pies in all flavors, including some spring and summer season previews in the form of s’mores, strawberry lemon basil, orange creamsicle, key lime and huckleberry cream.

Bean & Pie is located at 504 E. Sherman Ave. in downtown Coeur d’Alene.

TASTE O’ THE IRISH

St. Paddy’s Day is upon us, and while celebrations are dimmed due to the need still to socially distance, a couple area restaurants are amping up festivities with plenty of tasty Irish eats.

O’Doherty’s Hooligan & Hannigan Rueben.

Among them is Shawn O’Donnell’s, whose multiweek celebration includes daily specials, as well as family platters. Both rotate daily, but coming up next for its “17 Days of St. Patrick’s Savings” is $12 whiskey mac and cheese on March 12, $13 Guinness beef stew on March 13, $14 shepherd’s pie on March 14 and so on and so forth through March 17.

For the pub’s take-home family platters, available March 12-17, meals are made to feed four to five people for $69 and come with house soda bread. The classics are all on daily rotation, from corned beef and cabbage to shepherd’s pie. Preordering for St. Patrick’s Day isn’t needed, simply stop by for walk-up ordering on the restaurant’s patio, and don’t forget to add some Irish

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whiskey or beer. Find complete details and special dates (there’s also a few virtual events) on Shawn O’Donnell’s Facebook page and website, shawnodonnells.com/stpatricksday2021.

For those hoping to visit longtime local Irish pub O’Doherty’s this St. Paddy’s, reservations are required March 17, offered in five, two-hour blocks throughout the day for guests ages 21 and up only. Tables are available for four to six and require a $25 nonrefundable deposit that applies to the table’s final tab. On the menu are a host of classics: corned beef and cabbage, fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, and O’Doherty’s famous Hooligan and Hannigan Reuben. Live entertainment and raffles are also planned. Call 509-990-8888 for reservations. n

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Fool’s Gold From Marilyn Monroe to Malcolm McDowell: Great performances the Oscars ignored

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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he 2021 batch of Oscar nominations are announced March 15, and as is the case every year, there are a few names that are certain to make the list — Chadwick Boseman, Carey Mulligan, Frances McDormand, Daniel Kaluuya. But it also means that some of the best acting work of the year is going to be completely ignored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, either because it didn’t get enough publicity or because buzzier names took precedence.

But those folks will be in good company, because some of the greatest and most influential actors in film history have gone ignored come Oscar time. And there have been a lot of those performances, so I narrowed it down to a dozen of my personal favorites.

ROBERT MITCHUM

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955) Now considered one of the finest American films, Charles Laughton’s sole directorial outing was ignored at the time of its release — by critics, audiences and awards voting bodies. As murderous Southern preacher Harry Powell, Robert Mitchum attacks the material with relish, and his chilling charisma inspired countless dastardly villains in years to come. He’d later be snubbed playing another killer creep, sociopathic ex-con Max Cady in 1962’s Cape Fear.

MARILYN MONROE

SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) She’s arguably the most iconic performer to ever be projected onto a movie screen, and yet Marilyn Monroe was never nominated for an Academy Award, no doubt because Hollywood gatekeepers saw her as little more than a sex symbol. She was famously difficult on the set of her greatest film, Some Like It Hot, which may be why her effortless performance isn’t often praised like those of Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. But she deserves as much credit for the movie’s clockwork brilliance as they do.

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ANTHONY PERKINS

PSYCHO (1960) When he was cast as twitchy motel proprietor Norman Bates, Anthony Perkins was best known for his Oscarnominated turn as the meek son of a Quaker farmer in 1956’s Friendly Persuasion, and his reputation as a nice guy was key to hiding Norman’s true nature from audiences.

Though both director Alfred Hitchcock and his doomed star Janet Leigh were recognized by the Academy, Perkins was ignored. Joke’s on them, though, because his nuanced take on the prototypical slasher remains a watershed of the genre.

GEORGE C. SCOTT

DR. STRANGELOVE (1964) Fewer actors had more antipathy for the Oscars than George C. Scott: When he won for 1970’s Patton, he refused the award. He probably wouldn’t have wanted to be included in this list (apologies, Mr. Scott), but it’s insane to me that his ingenious performance in Stanley Kubrick’s Cold War farce Dr. Strangelove didn’t get any Oscar love. Kubrick was nominated, as was chameleonic star Peter Sellers, but Scott’s toothy, bloviating turn as Gen. Buck Turgidson is maybe the best performance in a movie that is overflowing with riches.

MALCOLM McDOWELL

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) I could make a list strictly composed of Oscar-neglected performances in Stanley Kubrick movies (the only actor to win for a Kubrick film was Peter Ustinov in Spartacus).

While the Academy loved his controversial dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange — it got four nominations, including best picture and director — they bafflingly ignored its central performance: Malcolm McDowell as leering teenage sociopath Alex DeLarge. You’d think the Oscars might have corrected that slight later on, but McDowell has yet to be nominated.

GARY OLDMAN

SID & NANCY (1986) Decades before he’d win an Oscar for a prosthetics-dependent portrayal of Winston Churchill, Gary Oldman similarly disappeared into a much less demure historical figure.

Perhaps his best on-screen performance is one of his first, a furious, piss-and-vinegar take on the Sex Pistols’ tragic Sid Vicious in Alex Cox’s punk rock biopic. It was a revelatory piece of acting, and maybe it was his lack of name recognition that resulted in the Academy overlooking him. Regardless, it was the first big step in a long, illustrious career.

ALEC BALDWIN

GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (1992) One of the great single scene stealers in film history, Alec Baldwin’s anti-motivational speech near the top of Glengarry Glen Ross only runs seven minutes but is overloaded with quotable lines. “Always be selling.” “Coffee’s for closers only.” “Third prize is you’re fired.” The scene wasn’t in Mamet’s original play, written specifically for the film and with Baldwin in mind, and the relatively young actor stands out among a cast of legends. Despite buzz at the time, Baldwin was snubbed at the Oscars, and Glengarry’s only nomination was for Al Pacino.

PAM GRIER

JACKIE BROWN (1997) Quentin Tarantino is as synonymous with writing incendiary dialogue as casting old pros in comeback roles, and his Jackie Brown features two: blaxploitation icon Pam Grier as a flight attendant caught up in a smuggling operation, and Robert Forster as the bail bondsman who falls for her. While Forster’s work rightfully received a nomination, Grier’s didn’t. It makes no sense, especially since the world-weary sweetness of Forster’s performance is effective because he’s working against Grier, who delivers one of the most assured, quietly confident pieces of acting in Tarantino’s entire oeuvre.

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ELECTION (1999) It’s somewhat ironic that a try-hard like Tracy Flick would get passed over by the Academy. In Alexander Payne’s high schoolset political satire, Reese Witherspoon plays the most tenacious candidate vying for class president, and she’s such a relentless striver that Matthew Broderick’s resentful teacher does everything possible to kneecap her campaign. Witherspoon’s is one of those rare performances that’s both broadly comic and disarmingly human, and though she’d later become an Oscar favorite, Tracy Flick remains her best character.

NAOMI WATTS

MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) David Lynch is one of the few out-there auteurs that the typically straight-laced Academy loves to recognize, though his best director nod for 2001’s mindbender Mulholland Drive was something of a surprise. Even more shocking: The total shutout of that film’s star, Naomi Watts, playing a sunny aspiring actress whose innocence and identity are swallowed up by Hollywood depravity. It’s a harrowing, out-on-a-limb performance that is perhaps the quintessential summation of all things Lynch, a seemingly innocent facade masking a void of darkness.

CHADWICK BOSEMAN

GET ON UP (2014) Chadwick Boseman will surely win a posthumous Oscar this year for the August Wilson adaptation Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and it’ll be deserved. But he should have been up for the same award a few years ago for the James Brown biopic Get On Up. Not only does the Academy love rewarding this kind of work — Jamie Foxx, Rami Malek, Renee Zellweger and the aforementioned Reese Witherspoon all won playing famous musicians — but Boseman is eerily convincing as the Godfather of Soul.

TONI COLLETTE

HEREDITARY (2018) Horror isn’t often rewarded come Oscar time, but one of the Academy’s biggest oversights in recent years was ignoring Toni Collette’s bravura work as a traumatized, possibly possessed mother in Ari Aster’s Hereditary. It’s one of those performances that could easily turn into camp or unintentional comedy, but Collette’s mastery of tone and technique keeps it in line. She has only been nominated once before (funnily enough, for a horror film — 1999’s The Sixth Sense), and her snub for Hereditary was so blatant, it’s scary. n

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R.E.M. hit a commercial peak and creative crossroads with their Out of Time album

BY DAN NAILEN

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t’s not often that a band’s most commercially successful album bisects a career as cleanly as R.E.M.’s Out of Time does.

That monster release, celebrating its 30th anniversary this week, took an emphatically indie band that had slowly worked its way up to becoming arena-sized rock stars and made them a full-blown global phenomenon.

Out of Time sold more than 18 million copies worldwide and became R.E.M.’s first No. 1 album in America, selling more than 4 million copies in the states. It won three Grammys, the single “Losing My Religion” became an iconic MTV and radio staple (and soundtracked the epic Brenda/Dylan breakup on Beverly Hills 90210), and even landed the band on Sesame Street, where they turned the obnoxiously buoyant single “Shiny Happy People” into “Furry Happy Monsters.”

Out of Time’s popularity could be seen as a natural next step for a band that had been on a constant upward trajectory both creatively and commercially since their brilliant 1983 debut Murmur. In the context of the time, though, R.E.M.’s bum rush of the pop music spotlight was a little jarring. That’s especially true for the megafans who’d been worshipping at their jangle-rock altar from the time the quartet stumbled out of Athens, Georgia, with a sound unlike anything else going on at the time.

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In fact, Out of Time was the beginning of the end of one of America’s greatest-ever rock bands, sales figures be damned.

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f a band was actively trying to alienate its reverential fan base, they couldn’t do better than R.E.M.’s activities around Out of Time.

Start with the timing of the thing. After releasing an album every year between 1983 and 1988 — an unparalleled run that includes Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Lifes Rich Pageant, Document and Green — they dared take a three-year pause. Certainly they’d earned it after packing arenas on the tour for Green, their first album after jumping to Warner Bros. from I.R.S. Records, but you rarely hear of a label letting a band cool off that long when they’re at their commercial peak. For fans, that pause seemed endless.

Then look at what the band delivered when they did return. Gone were the chiming Rickenbacker guitars from Peter Buck and much of the driving rhythms of bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. The sound had taken a decidedly acoustic turn, prominently featuring Buck’s new interest in mandolin. And singer Michael Stipe was suddenly penning love songs in place of the political polemics and murky, impressionistic word

jumbles of their previous albums. Out of Time opens with “Radio Song,” a catchy-enough tune, but when rapper KRS-One jumps in to trade verses with Stipe, you know the band isn’t concerned with what old fans think. They are emphatically following their muse.

Clearly, it worked for a lot of people. While the 1991 album charts were filled with really loud bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Guns ’n’ Roses, the softer brand of R.E.M. was right there with them. Hell, they didn’t even tour in support of the Out of Time (another off-putting move for old fans), instead moving right on to write and record their next album, Automatic for the People.

They didn’t tour for that one, either.

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istening to Out of Time now, it’s pretty packed with great songs (“Near Wild Heaven,” “Country Feedback” and “Me in Honey”). And given what would follow in the band’s sonic journey — the muted approach on 1992’s Automatic and 1996’s New Adventures in Hi-Fi, the electronics and chamber-pop that crept in after drummer Berry left the band in 1997 — the sounds embraced by the band on Out of Time are certainly less jarring in retrospect.

For legions of hardcore R.E.M. fans who grew up in the ’80s, though, it’s difficult to hear Out of Time without considering it the beginning of the end. Some of that can

be attributed to bitter fans who didn’t want to share their band with a bigger audience. I didn’t feel that way when R.E.M. went to the big record label or played arenas; in fact, I cheered their growing popularity at every step until Out of Time. But the mainstream’s embrace of the band 10 years into their existence ultimately pushed me away for their next 20.

I know I’m not alone.

The band’s record sales suggest as much, because they steadily declined after Out of Time (although both Automatic and 1994’s glam-rock Monster went multiplatinum). They still had some huge successes, creatively and commercially, but especially after Berry left the band, they struggled to stay relevant. Even the band members admit to being bored making 2004’s Around the Sun album, something anyone who’s heard it can definitely relate to.

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THE FIVE R.E.M. ALBUMS EVERYONE SHOULD OWN Murmur (1983) Reckoning (1984) Lifes Rich Pageant (1986) Document (1987) Automatic for the People (1992) Thankfully, though, R.E.M. had a creative renaissance on their last couple of albums; both 2008’s Accelerate and 2011’s Collapse Into Now (celebrating its 10th anniversary this week) captured some of the energy of the band’s early days with the boundary-pushing approaches of some of their latter work.

The band broke up six months after Collapse Into Now, and the album warrants a listen if you haven’t in a while, or if you’ve never heard it at all. Like the best R.E.M. albums, it touches on all the band’s influences, from punky rave-ups to delicate ballads, on songs like “Discoverer,” “Mine Smell Like Honey” and “Blue.”

And for the folks who regard Out of Time as the band’s peak, there’s plenty of mandolin to go around, too. n

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St. Patrick’s Day festivities won’t be the same as you might be used to, as Spokane’s ribald parade is canceled for the second year in a row thanks to the pandemic. But there are signs of life for those who want to enjoy a pint of Guinness, some corned beef and cabbage, or a little Celtic music. Local Irish-themed restaurants and beverage houses like O’Doherty’s Irish Grille and Shawn O’Donnell’s have special menus and music, but be sure to hit them up for a reservation or get there early March 17 due to limited capacities. If you want to get in the spirit of things a wee bit early, join the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center’s Green Room series March 13 online show for HighTime. Nope, not a Snoop Dogg supergroup, but a trio of Irish musicians from Connemara on the country’s west coast who throw a bit of Irish dance in with their wily way of energetic traditional Irish music.

— DAN NAILEN Green Room Series: HighTime • Sat, March 13 at noon • Free • Online; details at bit.ly/MWPACGreenRoom

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Follow the River: Portraits of the Columbia Plateau • March 9-Aug. 14; open Tue-Fri from 1-4 pm, Sat from 10 am-4 pm • Free • museum.wsu.edu

Everybody • March 12-13 at 6 pm; March 13-14 at 2 pm • $10$20; free for University of Idaho students • Online; details at uidaho.edu/theatre

Among the many new spring exhibits at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU is a retrospective that reframes the work of artist Worth D. Griffin. While serving in 1936 as the fine arts chair of the then Washington State College, Griffin set out to paint a series of portraits of the “Indians of the Northwest tribes and other historic characters.” The resulting oil paintings are beautiful and poignant, but alone, they lack needed historical context. Guest curator Michael Holloman, WSU fine arts professor and enrolled member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, has created an exhibit that tells a more complete story of the Palouse and Nez Perce who once inhabited the land on which WSU sits. On Thursday, March 18 at 5 pm, Holloman is giving an online presentation on photos from the Colville Reservation captured around the same time as Griffin’s paintings.

— CHEY SCOTT

You could argue that every piece of art is about the meaning of life, but Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play Everybody takes that notion to the nth degree. The show, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, premiered off-Broadway in 2017, and is now being presented as a virtual livestream courtesy of the University of Idaho theater department. It’s an allegory inspired by a 15th-century morality play that centers on a group of characters who represent complex ideas and concepts — time, beauty, strength, God — in an impressionistic tale that tackles everything from racism to capitalism to the afterlife.

Taking cues from the original production, the roles in the show are doled out via lottery for each showtime, so you’re unlikely to see exactly the same grouping of actors twice. Each performance streams live via Zoom, and you’ll need to register to gain access.

— NATHAN WEINBENDER

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Seattle comedian Josh Firestine is taking over Honey’s basement stage in downtown Coeur d’Alene for two nights this weekend. The San Diego-born, Seattle-based comedian draws from his experiences as a husband, father and veteran while giving his hilarious takes on everyday life. After joining the Army in 2007, Firestine started doing standup on the side in 2014, eventually leaving the Army to pursue comedy full time. Firestine performs regularly at comedy clubs, theaters, casinos and festivals around the U.S., and his recent album Needless To Say was No. 1 on the iTunes charts. Firestine also hosts Roastbusters, a comedy podcast in which he and co-host Narin Vann roast each other, their guests, their friends and everybody else. Vann is opening for Firestine at Honey both nights.

— SPENCER BROWN

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Josh Firestine featuring Narin Vann • Fri, March 12 and Sat, March 13 from 8-10 pm • $15 • Ages 21+ • Honey Eatery & Social Club • 317 E. Sherman Ave., Coeur d’Alene • brownpapertickets.com/event/5067402

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Washington State University’s English department is hosting creative nonfiction writer Catina Bacote for its annual Visiting Writers Series; she’ll be giving her talk “Against Erasure: Reclaiming Our Stories.” Bacote is an assistant professor of English at St. John’s University and a writer specializing in nonfiction, and her stories combine her personal experiences and social history. Her in-progress book research is focused on the lasting impact that the illegal drug trade has had on both her community and her family. Bacote also strives to shed light on the impacts of racism, segregation and economic oppression on communities and families. Bacote has been honored with multiple fellowships and has been published in numerous outlets, including Tin House, Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, and the anthology This is the Place: Women Writing about Home.

— NATALIE RIETH WSU Visiting Writers Series: Catina Bacote • Tue, March 16 at 6 pm • Free • Online; details at english.wsu.edu/visiting-writers

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up next to me. I was in the handicap spot but hadn’t put my placard on yet; I was trying to wipe my eyes and nose so I could put on my mask. I caught a glimpse of your son (?) flipping me off. I could be wrong. Watering eyes are just one of many issues. Anyway, when I got back to my car, my eyes were going crazy, and I was having a hard time seeing. You pulled out, rolled down your window and told me to have a nice day. I didn’t hear you so I said, “What?” You said, “Have a nice day.” I got in my car and cried. People think because you park in a handicap spot you have to be old or use a cane, etc. It’s hard for me to walk; I have neck, shoulder and back problems.

And the watery eyes. :) You never know what someone is going through.

I don’t know if you read the Inlander, but I wanted to say thank you. It still makes me cry because kindness is hard to come by these days. So, thank you to the lady in the white car next to the silver car at Rosauers on 14th today, March 4th. Bless your heart.

I SAW YOU REDHEAD CUTIE AT MOD PIZZA I saw you at Mod Pizza Wednesday, 3/3, about 1:00, and I know you saw me.

You were wearing hot pink, sling back pumps, and I was behind you in line. I complimented you on your hot pink bag, and before I left I mentioned how much your outfit would benefit from a nice manicure. I don’t often meet a lady like me and would love to chat.

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in Mission Park last weekend who appeared to be on a hammock date!

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GOT JUMPED! To the kind couple who offered to jump-start my dead-battery car on Thursday the 25th in the parking lot at Pines & Trent: Thank you for

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SORRY I EMBARRASSED YOU I was always happy to be seen with you. I’m sorry if I ever gave you reason to be embarrassed or ashamed to be seen with me.

COULD NOT BE MORE INSENSITIVE! Lost on the general public is the new found knowledge by people in Government that under a crisis the general public can now be forced to put up with Any hardship asked of them without question. Completely lost on Both groups is how brain dead the public is and how completely insensitive to the economic hardship City Hall is to the impact on the average person. (The rent delay not withstanding as that is going to come back with a vengeance.) Case in point. Full splash front page article recently by the Mother ship of news as to how far behind at roughly $90K/yr our local police officers are when it comes to pay. Yes, some of us older folk can remember when working for the City or County was pitied by the working class as a second-at-best-tiered job.

Low pay, menial tasks, etc. Boy have those days gone by the wayside. The paycheck-for-life folks are now the

ENTWINED IN THANKS Cheers to those who will stand up for others when disrespect and injustice presents. Cheers to those friends who are the voice for those who cannot speak for themselves. Cheers to those who see the good in all and the opportunity/hope for betterment in others.

Cheers to the friend who would support without self-thought, and love without self-doubt. This family thanks you. We are entwined together, as humans, and as family. Signed T. Panda fan club

CHEERS KENNY RUNKLE Happy Birthday to you... And many more. We love you xoxo Hope your wish comes true. Love Brooke n Danielle, oh & Lucky too!

BLESS YOUR HEART To the woman in the car next to me at Rosauers on 14th today, March 4th, around 11. You pulled

their pay package. NONE of the public servants give ONE INCH in having NO ONE that is actually paying them observe their behavior on the job. To say that the timing of this provocative position is Insensitive is such an understatement that it defies response. Yes, there are people that are having the best economic times they have EVER had. THAT is NOT the norm. Heh, City Hall you insensitive SOBs, get your heads out!

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NEIGHBORLY Cheers to my socially responsible neighbors who held a masked-up, physically distanced gettogether in their front yard last weekend. Looked like fun!

SWING TIME Cheers to the couple

between COVID, malaria and heart disease: COVID is the only one of these that has the potential to evolve the ability to avoid detection and destruction by the human immune system, which means it poses a threat to the survival of our species.

Cheers to those who will stand up for others when disrespect and injustice presents.

getting me going. You were perceptive in noticing my plight and so generous to take time and energy to help. I was running late and forgot even to ask your names — but I remember your smiling faces!

CHENNY To the the kids who helped me get home to Spokane... Thank you...from me and Loki

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envy of most and, if not, they should be. Do you think ANY city employee has missed a paycheck during Covid?

“Working” primarily from home? Any loss in insurance? The obvious answer is NO. Now they want us to believe that the public is taking unfair advantage of the public servants and need a raise in

FAMILY TIES Dear “sibling,” Tsk tsk.

The audacity of complaining about nobody wanting to give you free labor when you and your partner are the most two-faced drama queens in that ridiculous “family.” It is baffling how you would abuse me for *decades* for anything you could, then tell other people years later that you never meant it. Why even be mad? You got the entire net worth of every single thing you could, and, to be frank, nobody expects you to honor our parents’ wishes TO THE DEADBEAT Dear Shmiley Face. $8,823.56. Pay your bills before people figure out why you can’t get a driver’s license. Sincerely, Your Victim.

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FIRED EMPLOYEE You didn’t get fired over a “fake” bad review; you were fired because you’re a terrible employee. Lady you’re almost 40, and your life is a mess — yet you take no accountability. Your life will always be a mess if you never own anything and learn from it. Spokane is small. You’re running out of options and time.

NO MORE PICTURES OF ME! To the photo department at the Spokane Valley Costco. It breaks my heart that you no longer have the tools to print pictures at your business. It hurts my heart, because I loved your ability to make me look good! I mean, during covid-19. I was able to go through that pile of pictures, and make my kids their photo albums that I forever needed to get done! You’ll truly be missed!! n

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WHITE WIDOW

Another well-known strain, White Widow is a relatively low-THC hybrid that truly delivers the best of both worlds. Leafly’s user reviews put it on the energizing side of things, though not quite as far as Sour Diesel. That’s likely because of the dominant presence of myrcene among the strain’s terpenes. Myrcene is present in many plants and preparations used for relaxation among herbalists and in folk medicine traditions. Don’t be fooled, though; a few puffs of White Widow won’t lead to

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Not as popular as the other two, Candyland might be the best of the bunch for getting up and out. The colorful buds with almost equal parts green and purple interspersed with bold orange trichomes are the perfect pairing for a season that brings flowers and plants back after the long, gray winter. Perhaps the best attribute of this energizing sativa is that, based on Leafly’s user reports, it’s among the least likely strains to cause dry mouth. Which is a massive deal if you aren’t looking to lug a gallon of water around with you.

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Advice Goddess OLD IS THE NEW BLACK

What are your thoughts on women who are involved with much younger men? A friend who’s my age, 58, is dating a 23-year-old guy. She started seeing him when he was 18 and refers to him as her “husband.” I went on a day trip with the two of them, and it honestly felt like we had a child in tow. He whines and pouts to get his way, feels a need to one-up everybody in conversation, and says and does weirdly inappropriate things (like skipping through a graveyard and talking openly about AMY ALKON his sexual prowess). They profess their love to each other often, and I guess if it’s working, it’s fine, but I just don’t get it. —Baffled Dating somebody 40 years younger can make for awkward silences at dinner parties, like when somebody asks one’s boyfriend, “What were you doing on 9/11?” and he says, “Um, teething?”

Of course, there are some constants in life, and one of them is how men, no matter how old and geezery, are most attracted to women in their early 20s. (Think Hooters hiring pool and 70-something grandpas with self-inflicted whiplash.)

Women, on the other hand, tend to go for slightly older men throughout their lives, until they’re in their 70s, when they dip down a bit — though typically a handful of years, not four decades.

However, within every “men tend to” or “women tend to,” there are individual differences; for example, a woman bumping up against 60 who’s dating a guy who probably remembers preschool like it was yesterday — because it kinda pretty much was.

Older women who date downward in age eight or more years (or try to) get called “cougars,” sneering slang for sexually hungry older women hunting for younger man prey. The term is said to trace back to the Vancouver Canucks hockey team in the ‘80s: the players’ label for older, single, hetero female groupies who frequented their games and tried to score sex with them. However, “cougar” didn’t go wide till 2003, when Demi Moore, at 40, started dating the 15-years-her-junior Ashton Kutcher, then 25, whom she later married and divorced. There are now cougar reality shows, dating sites, blogs, and books, and there have even been cougar beauty pageants.

This makes it sound like there are hungry cougar-inas lurking around every corner. However, an analysis of census data by public policy researchers Zoe Lawton and Paul Callister in 2010 suggests the extent of this is “exaggerated by the media.”

They likewise suspect (and more recent survey data bears out) that the number of these older woman/much-younger man couplings that turn into long-term relationships is “considerably smaller” than those that wind up as short-term flings.

Younger men are sometimes a workaround for older women experiencing a man famine: a shortage of men close to their age, who tend to date younger women. But a younger man can be (or turn into) a preference — maybe because he’s more fun and makes an older woman feel young again and probably because he’s a sex machine that does not require pharmaceuticals or batteries. A muchyounger boyfriend is also a status symbol of sorts, showily breaking the mold of being a sexually ignored aging woman. And maybe, just maybe, there’s sometimes a connection that makes the guy’s age and any related incompatibilities unimportant — sometimes because an older woman is secure and happy enough on her own that she doesn’t require a man to be a human Costco to fill her every need.

Though people point and laugh at older woman/younger man couples, the joke might be on the jokers. Social psychologist Justin Lehmiller surveyed around 200 heterosexual women in relationships: women with male partners close to their age, women significantly younger than their male partners, and women significantly older than their male partners (22 years older on average). He found that women 10 or more years older than their male mate were the happiest: the most satisfied with their relationships and committed to their partners.

The fact that your friend’s been with this guy for five years suggests this is more than a Boytoys R Us phase. Ask her what she sees in him, and listen with an open mind. You might find your way to a little more compassion and understanding. That said, it’s probably best to avoid being around the two of them and instead see her alone, because, well, adulthood can be overrated -- except when you want to have a conversation. Even if you never quite get what the attraction is, you might just resolve to be happy that she’s happy. She’s having fun; she’s in love at nearly age 60; and sex for her is smokin’ -- and not because her partner’s pacemaker catches fire midway through. n ©2021, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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