Get up early and drink your Doma

Those who move to Spokane and complain about the lack of decent restaurants and coffee shops have no clue. These days I live no more than 15 minutes from a half dozen restaurants that I would rate as good as anything in Seattle and a dozen coffee shops that, even if some lack for ambience, serve some of the best espresso the Northwest has to offer — and that doesn’t include the various Starbucks stores that I frequent.

Case in point: Lindaman’s , which sits atop the South Hill just a block from St. John’s Cathedra l (or, as my granddaughter might call it, the Batman church). When the eatery opened in 1984, Spokane had nothing else like it — edible, innovative food and pastries that you could take out or enjoy in-house. And despite the failure of a number of other similar efforts, and a few rough times, Lindaman’s has endured. And the coffee? It serves Doma, another of those regional roasteries that makes coffee people are willing to drive miles to enjoy.

Or, following the directions on the Grand Boulevard sign, rise at 8 a.m.