When the restaurateur’s daughter flew in for a special occasion recently, the pair decided to stop at one of our favorite spots, Anthony’s patio, to catch up while enjoying a glass of wine and an appetizer. Had they arrived an hour earlier they would have witnessed the story they instead heard when the manager on duty stopped by their table to say hi.
Time to paraphrase The Slice, which annually, when you might expect to encounter visitors from out of town, wonders how you would describe Spokane – in various ways – to those visitors. Our entry to the discussion: If a visitor stopped you to ask for a great local place to eat, how would you answer?
As we neared our destination, we realized we had never traveled so far to just have pizza. And as we arrived at Embers by the Lake and a jam-packed parking lot, we wondered if we should have made reservations to just have pizza.
It’s not every day you can go into an everyday restaurant and find something unique. GW Hunters Steakhouse in Post Falls certainly qualifies as an everyday restaurant, serving up mostly traditional meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner in a building that obviously housed a chain long ago.
When facing Gonzaga Prep’s girls basketball team, opponents have to pick their poison. Usually that means trying to take away Otiona Gildon inside or Laura Stockton outside and try to keep Oona Harrington in check.
Lisa Fortier may be a rookie head coach but she handled her first halftime like a seasoned veteran. Of course, it helped that she had some seasoned veterans to lean on.
