Feel-good beach fiesta
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When it comes to describing this Sunday’s Cinco de Mayo fundraiser at Trinity at City Beach, Cami Murray keeps it simple: “food, booze and a good cause.” Murray is...
Category: Eats & Drinks
Back for the season: The Sandpoint Farmers’ Market celebrates opening day May 4
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff With the spring weather (hopefully) here to stay, North Idaho’s produce growers are readying their harvests for the first day of the Sandpoint Farmers’ Market. Saturday, May 4, marks...
The Sandpoint Eater: One sweet trip
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist As the westbound Empire Builder ground to a halt at the Williston, N.D., train station, Miley, my 11-year-old granddaughter, gave me one last hug on the vestibule of...
Still weird after 25 years
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s just something about Eichardt’s. Whether you’re a fan of the food, the cozy atmosphere or the social discourse over pints and plates that occurs every day, it’s just...
The Sandpoint Eater: In a Jif
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist One of the first recipes I recall mastering was peanut butter-potato pinwheels. Stirring powdered sugar into leftover mashed potatoes created the base dough, which was rolled thin (more...
Garden Art
By Ben Olson Reader Staff When local farmer Lisa Troutner needs a new color for her palette, she doesn’t squeeze it from a tube of paint – she grows it in the ground. Troutner...
‘Bound to find a friend’
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff About six years ago, Jillian Klaucke joined a group of female physicians in Baltimore who met for dinner once a month. It’s a routine she’s kept in her life...
Cookin’ up commerce
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Oftentimes, the only thing standing between a food-based entrepreneur and success is access to a commercial space where their business dreams can be realized. For locals, that was the...
View Cafe set to reopen after fire last year
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Nearly a year after The View Cafe was gutted in a fire, the business is building a second life from the ashes. The Cocolalla restaurant reopens this Monday after...
Farmers’ Market seeking 2019 vendors
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Sandpoint Farmers Market was first launched 30 years ago, when local businesswoman Lois Wythe distributed flyers around town asking locals if they would be interested in having “high...
