Collective Kitchen opens Friday
Collective Kitchen Public House, formerly known as Scratch Bistro downtown at 501 Sherman Ave., is scheduled to reopen Friday with a new menu and new look.
Owner and chef Jason Rex recently remodeled the place and promises this new version has a refined, casual community feeling.
“Every-thing will still be made from scratch,” Rex said. “We have exciting flavors on the menu, and we’re adding many small-plate offerings.”
The old building previously was a drug store. It has housed five restaurants since the 1970s.
Collective Kitchen hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily with Happy Hour 2:30-5 p.m. Attached to the restaurant is the Filling Station, a small bar that includes 23 rotating local, domestic and import beers on tap. They also do full-service catering. Phone 930-4762.
4-Wheel Parts opens in Post Falls
“Quality parts, low prices, fastest service and fully guaranteed” are pledged by 4-Wheel Parts, a truck and Jeep accessory store now open at 5405 W. Riverbend Ave. (Suite 101), Post Falls. Take Exit 1 off Interstate 90.
Installing everything they sell, hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays and 9 to 3 Saturdays. The company opened in 1961 and has 72 stores. Phone 618-4501. Check www.4wheelparts.com.
Starbucks revamping in Riverstone store
Adding seating, service and products, Starbucks is renovating its store near the east entrance of Riverstone.
The store will be closed this Monday through Thursday for the renovation. Hours afterward will be 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.
Now for the Tidbits
- Watch for news on Chipotle Mexican Grill opening Feb. 4 on Appleway, Grill from Ipanema and Beyond Bones Family Chiropractic in Riverstone, Ace Hardware in Rathdrum, Domino’s Pizza adding a dining room on Neider Ave., Xcraft (with drones) at 313 Sherman, Monet Floors & Home Design on Government Way, Real Deals on Home Decor on Fourth Street and Peak 1 Administration on Northwest Boulevard.
- Coeur d’Alene Chocolates at 3650 Government Way will close Feb. 13. Owners Adena and Tim Yeager are retiring after eight years with the business. Hours until then are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Phone 667-6094.
- Government Way Tire, Battery and Used Tools at 2420 Government Way will close Feb. 29. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 8 to 4 Saturdays.
- Porky G’s on Northwest Boulevard has closed. So have Kyle Rutley Fitness on Sherman and Fitness on Fourth Street.
- The governor may state the state of the state.
- This 50th Super Bowl is pretty special as my cousin Hatch Rosdahl was a tackle with the Kansas City Chiefs (losing to Green Bay) in Super Bowl 1.
- During halftime of a North Idaho College men’s basketball game (20 wins and 0 losses then) I saw a girl with a pink shirt with “Pink” (for fighting breast cancer) on it. But the “P” had a huge loop, and a little girl asked, “Why does your shirt say “Oink?”
- At a yardsale I found a large book of “Spokesman-Review Cartoons” by William Morris. Although dated 1908, some of the editorial cartoon topics included race relations, universal peace, oil pollution, limiting immigration, education funding, limiting firearms and brutality in football. Hmm. Not much has changed.
- A cross-eyed teacher lost his job because he couldn’t control his pupils.
- A real headline: “17 dead in morgue shooting spree.”
- When using a colon (for introducing what follows) in writing: If what follows is a sentence, capitalize the first word. If it’s a list without a subject and verb, lowercase the first word.
- Contact Nils Rosdahl at nrosdahl@cdapress.com.