OTV Review: Side Street Place

To the credit of the sociable waitstaff and the mighty kitchen wizards at Side Street Place, the name is fortunately the only thing unremarkable about this new entry into the Post Falls diner scene. Housed in the shell of a former Wingers fail, new owner Betty Romps has kept the menu nearly identical as that of as the restaurant’s most recent former incarnation, The Breakfast Nook. Nothing wrong with that, really - why get artsy fartsy and mess around with a line up of breakfast and lunch items that’s perfectly classic and complete already? And there was no reason to take out the original Wingers interior decor situation of dark green and off-white checkered tile, a fifties style open kitchen and bar-stool lunch counter, and an eye-dazzling ceiling of faux-retro shiny silver hammered pattern squares. It still works/ OrangeTV , Get Out! North Idaho. More here.

Question: My favorite all-time breakfast place in Kootenai County was Rustler’s Roost, when it was down on Sherman (don’t get to the one in Hayden much), and Franklin’s Hoagies, under Larry & Pauline Anderson. How about yours?