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Thursday, Jan. 17
Food

Spokane Restaurant Week is getting closer

Posted by Lisa.Waananen at 04:34 PM on Thu, Jan. 17, 2013

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Spokane Restaurant Week is getting closer, and a whole bunch of the area’s finest restaurants have signed up to serve you delicious meals. Now Spokane Restaurant Week is on Facebook and Twitter (hashtag #SpokaneRW) so you can see what’s new and what restaurants are saying about it.


The whole idea is that restaurants create a fixed-price menu — either $18 or $28 — for a multi-course meal with three options for each course. A quick primer:

When is Spokane Restaurant Week?
Feb. 22 through March 3, which is less than five weeks away.

Isn’t that more than a week?
Yes. But would you really want it to be called “Spokane Restaurant Ten Days”?

Why should I go? Where am I going?
It’s a good opportunity to try out local restaurants you’ve been meaning to visit, and to see what kind of menu your favorite places put together. You can make reservations at any participating restaurant you want.

Why do restaurants participate?
Late winter is usually a slower time of year, and the fixed-price menu can bring in new diners who’ve never stopped in before. Plus, it’s fun to show off what they can do.

How do I know which restaurants are participating? What’s on the menu? When should I make reservations?
A lot more information is available now on the Spokane Restaurant Week website, and as it gets closer you’ll get the best updates if you “Like” Spokane Restaurant Week on Facebook and/or follow @SpoRestWeek on Twitter. 

 
Friday, Jan. 11
Food

The History of the Park Inn -- At the Park Inn

Posted by MIKE.BOOKEY at 04:40 PM on Fri, Jan. 11, 2013

If you haven't seen it yet, here is The Inlander's documentary about the history of the Park Inn -- one of the oldest continually operating restaurants in all of Eastern Washington. The piece was painstakingly put together by our video intern, Nathan Brand and, if we do say so ourselves, it's kind of awesome.

Take a look OR you can come to the Park Inn (107 W. 9th St.) on Sunday night at 8:30 pm and watch a screening of the film inside of the bar it's about.

Tags: documentary, bars
 
Tuesday, Dec. 18
Food

Perry Street Cafe closes its doors

Posted by LEAH.SOTTILE at 11:30 AM on Tue, Dec. 18, 2012

art17519widea.jpgRough news from the South Perry District: after six years in business, the Perry Street Cafe closed its doors for good on Sunday. Owner Debbie White broke out in tears when we called her to confirm the news.

"We worked Sunday and we just closed the doors. I really couldn't tell anybody because it makes me cry," she says.

She says the upswing in foot traffic and new businesses in the burgeoning South Perry District definitely helped the diner's business, but not enough to keep them going. For a period last year, the diner experimented with doing dinners — but discontinued those in June.

"Food costs have gone up so much in the last few years, and our rent and our Avista bill. It just all eats away," she says. "My guess would be because of the economy. Where we used to have a full dining room every Saturday and Sunday, it just hasn't been."

White is continuing to operate the Perry Street Cafe location that she opened in June of this year in Cheney. She says business hasn't been great there either, but that "it's smaller. And so it doesn't cost as much to run."

She gets choked up again as she says she will make personal arrangements for anyone who wants their personalized Perry Street Cafe mug — something customers have come to love over the years. "If they email me I'll make arrangements for them to get their cup," she says. "When people would die, their families would come in and want their mugs."

Visit the cafe's Cheney location at 24 W. First St. White can be reached at the cafe at 535-4949 or perrystreetcafe@aol.com.

Tags: closures, dining
 
Monday, Dec. 17
Food

An even harder beer to find in Spokane

Posted by Lisa.Waananen at 04:49 PM on Mon, Dec. 17, 2012

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The best kind of visitor stopped by the Inlander office today: a visitor bearing beer.

Don Walsdorf came by this afternoon to bring me a bottle of Leinenkugel's Original. He'd read my story about less-common regional seasonals and wanted to make sure I'd tried this "real beer."

If you do most of your beer-drinking in the Inland Northwest, you probably haven't. The "Leinie" is a very popular beer with a long tradition in the Upper Midwest, but Walsdorf has been trying to find it in Spokane for years with no luck. 

He grew up near Chippewa Falls, Wisc., where the Leinenkugel Brewing Co. has been brewing beer for generations. His grandfather was a distributor, so he got to ride around in the truck and drink all the soda he wanted.

Walsdorf points out that it's been brewed there since 1867, as the label says — back when Washington and Idaho were barely territories. Wisconsin may have its beer reputation tied with PBR and Miller Lite, but that state takes beer very seriously. I grew up in neighboring Minnesota, and Wisconsin was known as the place where kids could drink a beer at the bar with their parents so long as Mom or Dad said it was fine. 

There are some Leinenkugel's beers theoretically available in Spokane. Odom Corporation, one of the main distributors here, does carry some Leinenkugel's products. The new Total Wine warehouse up north on Newport Highway lists of a number of Leinenkugel's beers on its site, but no Leinie Original.

So where'd this bottle come from? On a recent road trip, Walsdorf's son took a detour to the Minnesota border so he could pick up a few cases to bring back. I wouldn't blame Mr. Walsdorf if he didn't want to share, but I am very appreciative that he did.
 
Friday, Nov. 16
Food

CLARIFICATION: Anthony's isn't going anywhere

Posted by MIKE.BOOKEY at 02:13 PM on Fri, Nov. 16, 2012

In this week's Entree — our email food newsletter —we stated that the fate of Anthony's location overlooking the Spokane River was still up in the air.

That was incorrect: Anthony's has purchased its previously city-owned spot and isn't going anywhere, nor is their much-loved seafood.

We regret the error. 

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