The Sandpoint Eater: Miodh for Mogue
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist It is just a few days short of St. Paddy’s Day, and I haven’t made even a wee bit of a plan to celebrate. I’ve been known to...
Category: Eats & Drinks
The Sandpoint Eater: Lessons (and lagana) for Lent
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist Lent, the solemn religious period observed by Christians around the world, comes late this year. In these parts, it’s a good thing because maybe we’ll finally see some...
The Sandpoint Eater: A taste of Cuba
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist All I can think about, since returning from a recent trip to Cuba (I traveled on an Educational, People-to-People visa), is a repeat performance. Cuba was everything I...
The Sandpoint Eater: It’s chili out there
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist It’s cold outside, which means every town worth its weight in snow, including Sandpoint, is gearing up for their annual frosty festivities. Call it what you wish, winter...
The Sandpoint Eater: Ethnic eats
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist The last bits and pieces of Christmas have been carefully packed away for another year, and so far my much-needed two-day old diet has yet to be compromised....
Commercial kitchen to open in Ponderay
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff For culinary artisans, the loss of the Bonner Business Center industrial kitchen in 2014 was a serious blow to their livelihoods. More than four years later, they have a...
The Sandpoint Eater: It’s Poh-TEET-sah!
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist Recently, I unrolled and floured the old, white cotton sheet I use to cover my table for pastry projects. This time, I was making povitica, the holiday bread...
Understory Coffee to open second location
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Understory Coffee and Tea — downtown Sandpoint’s often sunflower-clad coffee stand at the intersection of Second Avenue and Cedar — is opening a second location in Ponderay and kicking...
Utara Brewery commits to the craft
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Sometimes big dreams come in small packages, and for brewer Dave Kosiba, that’s exactly what Utara Brewing Company is to him. While the idea of large-scale breweries with massive...
Arlo’s reopens in new location
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Arlo’s Ristorante is open for business in their new location, after the building they had rented for almost two decades was condemned in September. The Italian eatery opened last...
