Inlander: Parkside Bistro’s Last Call

Parkside Bistro owner Kevin Eskelin recalls the good times. [Photo: Young Kwak]

Dollar  bills once decorated the walls and ceiling of the small but popular Parkside Bistro and Pub in Coeur d’Alene. To customers, each bill, signed by those who left it, represented a memory made at the pub: a couple on a first date, a family who came in for burgers, North Idaho College students on a pub crawl, a softball team celebrating a win with a round of beers. “It’s such a unique gem,” says owner Kevin Eskelin. “The character of the place is like none other.” But Parkside, which has been around as a hamburger joint under different names since the 1950s, will soon be history, a memory, and a stack of 728 signed bills will be one of the few things Eskelin has left of the pub he owned for nearly 14 years/ Natalie Johnson , Inlander. More here .

Question: Are/were you a regular customer of Parkside Bistro?