Sippin’ suds at City Beach
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff In a time marked by so much divisiveness, it is good to remember something that many Sandpointians have in common: a love of beer. The Greater Sandpoint Chamber of...
Category: Eats & Drinks
The Sandpoint Eater: Baking for brides (and grooms)
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist June brides have been a-blooming, and this month I was fortunate enough to witness the unions of two of them. More than 2,000 miles apart, a couple of my...
Bite-sized bliss
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s one thing both visitors and Sandpoint locals can always agree on: our restaurants are top notch. There is no better — or cheaper — way to taste morsels...
Big sky beers
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff My husband Alex and I did not go on a honeymoon immediately following our wedding in July 2021. Having hosted the ceremony and reception at our home — and...
New life on Pine and First
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff The building at 102 S. First Ave. in downtown Sandpoint — known so long as the home of Ivano’s Italian Ristorante — is launching into a new era this...
‘Pickles are a safe bet’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s hard to understand how the phrase “in a pickle” came to signify an unpleasant situation. There’s nothing unpleasant whatsoever about a pickle — or anything that’s been pickled,...
The Sandpoint Eater: Chowder chatter
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist The far side of three long-delayed, back-to-back international trips feels indescribable. Some long days were filled with uncertainty in these past two years. It seemed no one would ever...
The Sandpoint Eater: The edible journey
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist The last month has been a whirlwind of travel. I’ve been preparing for these trips for what has felt like a lifetime (in COVID years, that’s two years). I’ve...
Passing the pint
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey Reader Staff When Erin Brannigan heard that Idaho Pour Authority owners Ben and Jeannie Higgs might be looking to sell the craft beer store located on Cedar Street in downtown Sandpoint,...
The beets are back in town
By Ben Olson Reader Staff With the onset of sunny spring days, a big part of Sandpoint’s seasonal transition returns this weekend, with the kickoff of the 2022 Sandpoint Farmers’ Market on Saturday, April...
