In the thick of it
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Tucked beside the busy Sandpoint Post Office parking lot and always wafting the scent of roasting coffee, Monarch Mountain Coffee has been known to sling tasty drinks and offer...
Category: Eats & Drinks
Soup-er Heroes
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor It may be just another cold Wednesday in Sandpoint, but in the basement of the Gardenia Center it is feast day — for some, a celebration. Free hot soup...
Four breweries a brewin’
MickDuff’s Brewing Company Brothers Mickey and Duffy Mahoney were early adopters in the Sandpoint brewery scene, opening their brewpub on First Avenue in 2006. They were only 20-somethings then, but in the intervening years...
Heart healthy
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There is a misconception that healthy food sacrifices taste for nutrition. Let’s agree to dispel that myth — especially after eating from the menu at Sandpoint’s unique food truck,...
The Sandpoint Eater: Boxes and biscotti
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist ’Tis the season for time honored traditions, when we set the ladder and reach high into the rafters seeking out the holiday boxes, brimming with carefully wrapped ornaments, childhood...
A delicious decade
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff As the Dish at Dover Bay restaurant enters its 10th year in business, owner Gary Peitz and executive chef Eddie Sneva have plenty to celebrate. For one thing, rarely...
‘The saloon will never come back’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It is a well known fact that Sandpoint’s early history was rough and tumble. When researchers excavated the original townsite on the Sand Creek peninsula preceding work on the...
The Sandpoint Eater: Kitchen comfort
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Columnist As much as I love my travels to foreign destinations, exploring fascinating new (to me) cultures and sampling unknown foods that amuse my palate, our old friend Dorothy from...
Mad About Science: Medieval cuisine
By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Movies, television and film have given us an idea on what medieval food must have been like: slop and watery gruel for the peasants while the aristocracy bathed in...
All the fixings
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Most people would agree that the desire to help our neighbors reaches its peak this time of year. As snow settles in the valleys of the Idaho Panhandle and...
