Another MoonDollars set to open
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and more will be available at MoonDollars Restaurant when it opens May 1 at Twin Lakes Village Golf Club. In the renovated space that formerly was Bunkers Restaurant, MoonDollars will feature fresh-baked rolls, buns and pizza crust made from wheat grown on the Rathdrum Prairie.
The menu will include signature omelets, gourmet burgers, hand-cut fries, salads, soups, sandwiches, pizzas, desserts, fresh-baked goods and a full bar. With patio viewing of the golf course, MoonDollars will be open year-round and offer golf-event catering and some live entertainment.
"We're excited because this is home for us," said JD Dickinson, one of several owning partners. "This is where we choose to live. Our kids go to Twin Lakes Elementary."
Joining him are his wife Tracy, Walt and Valerie Meyer, Angie and Rick Demmig and Randy and Harmony Oaks. The owners are life- or long-time North Idaho residents, and several have restaurant or business experience. General Manager Leland Henderson has 17 years' experience in French and Italian cooking and will have 15 employees.
Breakfast will begin daily when the golf course opens and dinner will end at 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and later Fridays and Saturdays. MoonDollars also has been a restaurant in Post Falls since 2007. Check www.moondollarsrestaurant.com.
Sandy's Take & Bake Pizza open
Twelve specialty pizzas and salads are offered at Sandy's Take & Bake Pizza, now open in the Fairway Grocery mini-mall in the northwest corner of Ramsey Road and Kathleen Avenue. Next to Lil Polpetta's, the space formerly housed Extreme Tan.
The build-your-own pizzas are made by Sandy and Ron Riggs, who had the original Blondee's eatery on Northwest Boulevard. With hours of 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, orders also may be phoned in. Call 765-0888.
Cd'A Swap Meet to open April 30
An outdoor Coeur d'Alene Swap Meet will be open Saturdays starting April 30 at the Art & Home Center area, 1619 W. Lee Court (property bordered by Interstate 90, Ramsey Road and Appleway).
Open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weather permitting, admission will be $1, and parking is free. The market will include second-hand goods from junk to treasures. Vendor space is $20 first-come, first-served from 6:30-9 a.m. The first 10 are free in April and May. No food, beverages, animals or adult-oriented items are allowed.
John Motley is swap meet director. Phone 771-0515. Check www.cdaswapmeet.com.
Here's this week's tidbits:
• Things to watch for on Sherman Avenue this summer: a brick-oven pizza shop and a decorative housewares shop between Fifth and Sixth streets and a mini-mart between 13th and 14th.
• Boulevard Food Mart at 1801 Northwest Boulevard is now Gary's Gas & Food Mart.
• A correction: The McEuen Field survey mentioned here last week allows just one response from each participant.
• A carload of NIC journalism people stopped for dinner in downtown Ritzville last week. Of several restaurants outlined on the Internet, only one was open on a Saturday evening. The others and about two-thirds of the downtown businesses were boarded shut. Our server said it's because the once-smaller farms are now combined into huge places with large machines that do the work of former employees.
• A comment last week on the unflattering uniforms college women basketball players wear actually originated from a female from a family of athletes. An email said it can go too far, such as the women's lingerie football team in Seattle.
• Contact Nils Rosdahl at nrosdahl@cdapress.com.