Jungle Pizza opening next Saturday

Ah, it’s Christmas week, so let’s have the theme be for kids.

Food and features to keep children busy are the aim of Jungle Pizza, which is celebrating its grand opening next Saturday. Video games and entertainment, arcade games, air hockey, Skee-ball and candy machines with prizes awarded to winners help fill the 10,000-square-foot eatery at 503 E. Seltice Way. Previously the home of the Post Falls Auction Center, Jungle Pizza is next to the My Favorite Things store.

Life-size leopard and gorilla replicas greet the customers, and a stage for performance space is in a separate room for private parties. A large window looks into the kitchen where pizza chefs toss the dough and use a large Wood Stone pizza oven. The restaurant seats more than 100 customers.

The menu includes pizza, calzone and stromboli sandwiches and an all-you-can-eat salad bar with beer and wine available soon. Owner T.J. Culhane and manager Kelly Martinelli employ about 30 people. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 to 11 Fridays and Saturdays. Phone 773-1500.

CdA Pediatrics opens Hayden office

Coeur d’Alene Pediatrics has opened its third office in a new 8,500-square-foot building at 9095 N. Hess St. The two-level facility is off the northwest corner of Highway 95 at Honeysuckle Avenue.

The 6,000-square-foot medical offices include 12 exam rooms and a spacious break room and exercise facility (with showers and lockers) for the employees. An additional 2,500-square-foot space on the upper level is available for lease.

With its facilities in Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls, the business includes six pediatricians, three nurse practitioners and 32 employees. The facility offers same-day appointments, evening clinics and Saturday hours. Phone 667-0585.

Dentistry for Kids also in Hayden

Dr. Thomas Dance decided he wanted to be a dentist when he wrote a book report on “Happy Teeth” in the second grade in Seattle. Now he uses what he calls “the gentle approach” in his Dentistry for Kids office at 1027 W. Prairie Ave. The facility is across from Prairie Animal Hospital in Hayden.

Dance graduated from dental school at the University of Washington and completed his residency at Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City. His studies include anesthesia and conscious sedation and child behavior and development. He has four employees in Hayden, where hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and some Thursdays. Phone 772-2202.

Cafe Courier delivers food, catering

Cafe Courier is a new business delivering food and catering services to business, hotel and residential customers. With the list growing, restaurants the business delivers for include Elmer’s, Schlotsky’s, Fiesta Mexicana, Brycie’s, Chicken Basket, Sunshine Trader, Tomato Street, Chili’s, Fisherman’s Market, Crickets and Wing Stop.

To order call 667-8877 or go online to www.cafecourier.com with your name, address and meal desired. Orders usually are delivered in 45 to 60 minutes with a $3.95 fee.

Owner John Allen started the company in 1989 in Columbus, Ohio. He later moved to Montana where he has Cafe Couriers in Bozeman, Billings and Missoula. With seven employees serving the dispatch center at 6612 E. Seltice Way, hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays and 4 to 9 p.m. daily.

This week’s tidbits

•Red Oak is closing its 30,000-square-foot store in Silver Lake Mall by Jan. 15. After the closing sale, items will be transferred to other stores owned by Dave and Barb Knoll, including the Black Sheep and its neighboring Carhartt store and Jake’s Dry Dock in Coeur d’Alene. They’ll also continue the winter sale at the 80,000-square-foot former Kmart north of Sandpoint. The Red Oak has 20 employees. Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 to 6 Sundays. Phone 762-8960.

•Add your “too-noisy restaurants” to an e-mail list we’re compiling. The responses have been consistent and interesting.

•Last Thursday I Christmas shopped. Responding to ads: I was the only customer in Macy’s at 8 a.m. for an early-bird sale. The 10 lonesome sales ladies were very nice. That evening I was the only male at a sale catering to men (even with a free beer ticket) at the Plaza Shops in downtown Coeur d’Alene. Only three of the 10 stores in the ad were open, and the sidewalk was not shoveled. Those lady clerks also were very nice. I bought stuff on both outings.