Stories

Join the Roosevelt Grille this Saturday in celebrating the ERC's Clean Sweep! We're excited to be celebrating our 10th year serving lunch to the great volunteers who commit to making our valley beautiful each spring. After your hard work cleaning up, stop by the Roosevelt where all volunteers will be given a free lunch from 11:00am-1:00pm. And remember-every time you come to the Roosevelt, you'll be given a coupon for a free dinner at the Sawtooth Club. Hope to see you this Saturday at the Ketchum Clean Sweep!

Come celebrate one of the greatest holidays, right behind St. Patrick's day and October Fest, it's Cinco De Mayo this Saturday at Lefty's Bar and Grill!  We have Buckets of Beer specials on Tecate, Corona & Pacifico! Quesadillas and South of the Border Burgers!

Don't miss the Kentucky Derby on one of our 6 flat screens, race starts around 4PM.

Check out Leftysbarandgrill.com for more info and daily specials.

By John Pluntze

If you ever wondered what happened to the owner-operators of the very popular -- and justly-celebrated -- Ketchum restaurant-bar, Papa Hemi's Hideaway (namely, Lynn Sheehan and Matt Vandernoot), they have taken their unabashed love for terrific food and transported it to Twin Falls ... first at a rather small location on Blue Lakes Blvd. and now, more recently, at a considerably larger space located in Twin Falls' historical warehouse district (at 233 5th Avenue South/ 735-1228).

Open from 11am on every day except Mondays, Cucina Gemelli (Italian for "twin kitchens"), the restaurant is located in the same building that once housed that rather quaint movie theater/video store .. a location that Vandernoot and Sheehan have superbly transformed into an extremely inviting and lovely space all their own.

If you type in "Cucina Gemelli" into your search engine, you'll find links to  their restaurant-bar's Facebook page (which features a number of extremely mouth-watering photos of a number of... (more)

This spring when you dine at the Roosevelt Grille, you'll receive a coupon for a FREE entree at the Sawtooth Club! And when you dine at the Sawtooth Club, you'll receive a coupon for a FREE entree at the Roosevelt Grille! Plus...you'll also receive a coupon for 1/2 off your 2nd entree at our sister restaurant, Elevation 486, in Twin Falls. All coupons are good through May 24th, so we hope you'll come in and see us soon.

Buy a Beer, Keep the Glass!  Join us from 6PM to 8PM to try some new beers from Sierra Nevada Brewing Company located in California.  There will be a Swag raffle as well!

Lefty’s will raffle off a Kokanee Snowboard at halftime of the Championship game on Monday April 2.  To enter, all you need to do is fill out a ticket every time you buy a Kokanee during any of the games.  Sweet 16, Elite 8 and the Final Four are yet to be played.  If there is a game, there’s a chance to enter.  So catch all the games at Lefty’s and try a cold Kokanee at a great price and maybe you’ll walk away with a custom snowboard.  Need not be present to win.

St. Patty's Day Celebration at the Roosevelt March 17th all night long!
Great specials on Irish drinks and beer!
Traditional Corned Beef & Cabbage dinner special.
We'll be playing Tom's amazing collection of traditional Irish music all night long!
We open for dinner at 5:00pm.

The Roosevelt is the place to be seen green on St. Patrick's Day!

And we're excited to be the host of the Sun Valley Film Festival's Lionsgate Awards Ceremony that night. After announcing the winners of the Vision Award and the One in a Million Award, the festival presents the Marcus Eaton Band beginnging at 10:00pm. Beginning at 9:00pm, festival stub and pass holders are free, all others $5.

Shawn and Alyson Tierney are proud to announce the grand opening of Ketchum’s newest restaurant, Boca. The upbeat “Latin Freestyle” restaurant is open for business starting on February 29th at 131 Washington Avenue South, the stunning space that previously housed Sego.  A dramatic interior re-design by Charles Stuhlberg Gallery combined with art on display from Gallery de Novo has created an atmosphere that is fun, vibrant and energetic. Katie Sanford, Boca’s Floor Manager, is thrilled to bring her passion for refining the dining experience to a restaurant that she believes Ketchum has been waiting for.

The Tierneys are describing Boca as Latin freestyle - a concept that pulls from the distinct flavors, colors and sensations of the Latin world, including Spain and Portugal, South and Central America, Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico - without restrictions.  To Shawn, the name Boca goes further than the simple meaning (mouth in Spanish) to encompass the tingling sensation of heat... (more)

Tis' the season of giving and there is nothing better than giving yourself a break from all the Christmas dinner mayhem and let the magical  baking elfs at Perry's  help sprinkle a little holiday joy on your Christmas dinner by creating the most amazing, traditional and delicious holiday desserts your little sugar plum eyes have ever seen!

So remember when working on your wish list for Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, #1 top of the  list better be one of the amazing, incredible, obviously created by magical baking elf's recruited by Paula and Keith Perry for the sole purpose of making Perry's Holiday Pies with love for all the lucking people of a our magical valley!

How about a little Deep Dish Apple under that mistletoe? $20 for the 9" tin or $25 for the 10" glass.

Or how about some Cheery pie for those rosie cheeks?  $20 for the 9" tin and $25 for the 10" glass.

Slice up some holiday joy with the Triple Berry pie, oh my oh my just $20 for a pie!   $25 for the 10" glass.... (more)

In honor of the Trailing of the Sheep Festival we will be serving Lava Lake Lamb shank with farro, grilled zucchini, roasted eggplant and pistachio mint pesto this weekend. It's fantastic paired with 2007 Luigi Righett Capitel De' Roari Amarone della Valpolicella, or choose from our extensive wine list.

Starting Wednesday, October 5th our fall favorites menu will be available, featuring entree items starting at $12.00, and all pasta dishes are $15.00. We are happy to bring back the popular Pappardelle Tartufo and Carbonara pasta dishes, as well as reintroduce the Veal Scaloppini Marsala Style, Cannelloni and Chicken Milanese.

We’re open weekly Wednesday through Sunday at 6 pm. Call 726-7776 for reservations.

For those of you huge Mama Inez fans your favorite southwestern cuisine is back and now on main street Ketchum.  The new location is perfect for their new taqueria size business, same great food in a smaller package.  You cant miss it, located between the Casino and Rico's pizza.  They are open Mon-Sat for lunch and dinner, call ahead to check for slack hours.  Dine in and take out.  Visit the wesbite at www.mamainez.us or like them on facebook to receive info on daily/weekly specials.  If you are new to town or new to Mama Inez, they offer huge taqueria style burritos, wet style southwestern specialties such as Chile Verde, Chile Colorado, enchiladas, burritos and Baja fish tacos, nachos, taco salads and more!  Come on by!

We’re happy to once again be a part of the Sun Valley Harvest Festival. Festivities begin on Friday evening from 5-7 p.m. with the Harvest Festival Restaurant  Walk.

Start at the Ketchum Town Square before setting off around town to sample 15 local restaurants’ fall offerings and wine pairings. Admission is $25.00 or is included in the Epicurean, Foodie, and Tasting Passes.

Il Naso will serve our deconstructed Italian BLT: local seared pork belly, oregano aioli, local heirloom tomato, butterleaf lettuce and olive oil cracker. Paired with Frenchman’s Gulch Syrah.

Enjoy the sounds of classical guitarist Jimmy Mitchell on our outdoor patio to accompany food and wine! 

Saturday night will bring the Idaho Harvest Dinner prix fixe menu, $35

    Mixed greens with summer fruit, cracked pepper chevre and balsamic vinegar

Your choice of Entree:

    - Red wine braised short ribs with roasted potatoes, spinach, and caramelized onion

    - Sage roasted half chicken with sauté... (more)

There's a lot happening at Il Naso this week! Come in for some wine and delicious fresh, local food - accompanied by live music.

Farmer’s Market Special: Grilled pork loin chop with herb roasted tri-color potatoes and an arugula salad with halloumi, heirloom cherry tomatoes and a soft poached egg.

Italian Wine Flight featuring Piedmont: Enjoy a 2.5 oz taste of three different wines, for $13.

Live music: Friday Sept 2nd, Saturday Sept 3rd and Sunday Sept 4th, with instrumental guitarist Jimmy Mitchell.  7-9 pm in the Wine Bar

Call 208 726-7776 for reservations. http://ilnaso.com

Chef Kate's Farmers Market Special -----  Grilled Pork Steaks with organic fork mashed blue potatoes, glazed baby carrots and caramelized peachcots.  LOCAL FARMS REPRESENTED - Homestead LLC, Wood River Organics, M and M Heath and River Bend Orchards.

In honor of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, come in after the music ends and show us your nightly program to receive your choice of a free dessert or appetizer with the purchase of a pasta dish or entree.

Enjoy the classical guitarist Jimmy Mitchell in the Wine Bar on Friday, August 5th at 8pm 

Summer Flight Week continues with our Summer Rose Flight: Enjoy a 2.5oz taste of each of the following rose' wines for $11.

2009 Etude Rose of Pinot Noir (California)

2010 Domaine De Fontsainte Gris De Gris Rose of Grenache (France)

2008 Kracher Illmitz Rose of Zweigelt (Austria)

Call 726-7776 for reservations. 480 N. Washington St, Ketchum. Open Tuesday-Sunday from 5:30. http://ilnaso.com/

The Featured Wine Flight this weekend is Summer Rose'. Enjoy a 2.5oz taste of each of the following rose' wines for $11.00.

2009 Etude Rose of Pinot Noir (California)

2010 Domaine De Fontsainte Gris De Gris Rose of Grenache (France)

2008 Kracher Illmitz Rose of Zweigelt (Austria)

Cuisine specials for the weekend from Chef Kate -

Zuppa: Roasted Red Pepper and Watermelon Gazpacho with Fresh Basil.

Ravioli: Grilled Chicken, White Wine Braised Onion and Ricotta Ravioli in a Gorgonzola Roasted Roma Tomato Sauce 19

Pesce: Wild Alaskan Grilled Salmon with Grilled Polenta, Sauteed Local Spinach and Agrodolce Apricot Sauce 29 Risotto: Idaho Morel Mushroom and Asdparagus Risotto with Shaved Asiago. (available as an App or Entree) 7, 13

Idaho's Bounty offers you 10% off your order this week! We're celebrating our newly designed web site. Check out www.idahosbounty.org and order up the freshest local foods. Remember you can always join for the low cost of $10. Our local food co-op brings you the best quality foods from farmers practicing sustainable growing methods. Get to know us and you'll see we provide you with convenience, competitive prices and simply the best food. Call 721-8074 for more information.

Hailey — Continuing a favorite community tradition, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts will host an old fashioned ice cream social after the Fourth of July parade in Hailey.

It’s become a summer tradition: walk or bike over to the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Hailey, for an old fashioned ice cream social after the Fourth of July parade. The Center will be serving free root beer floats made from ice cream donated by Atkinsons’ Markets and root beer by local brewer, Bucksnort Root Beer, from 1 to 3 pm Monday, July 4. The date is also the birthday of Roberta McKercher whose former home is now the Hailey home of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

The ice cream social is also a good time to see Geared: An Open Exhibition, which features photos, prints, drawings and small sculptures by local artists on the subject of bicycles. Black and white portraits of locals with their favorite bikes, taken by Dev Khalsa, are also on display.

A related exhibition in Ketchum, Geared: The Culture of Bicycles<... (more)

Greetings Friends in Central Idaho!

89ranges, the Northern Rockies' newest distribution and marketing service focusing on artisan products is excited to announce that both Paradise Springs Farm Raw Milk and Cheese are now available at the Sustainability Center in Hailey, ID. Both products are certified Biodynamic and organic raw milk products from Teton Valley. Comparable and demanding consistent higher quality than Cowgirl Creamery cheeses, Paradise Springs Farm Raw Cheddar is an artisan 8 to 10 month aged cheese made from a small herd of Brown Swiss cows that live a daily high component and pasture based lifestyle with no soy bean or corn anywhere in their diet. For more information about Paradise Springs Farm, visit www.paradisespringsfarm.com. Please contact Dick and Melinda Springs directly about hours of operation for the Sustainability Center at sustainabilitycenter@me.com.

Recent testimony about the cheddar from Ayurvedic practicioner, Cate Stillman of Yoga Tejas and Yogahealer, "I haven't tasted this type... (more)

New this year is a partnership with Idaho's Bounty and the Sawtooth Botanical Garden through our Locavore Series! We will be offering a joint class each month through August connecting local producers with our Valley.  Classes will cover everything from Honey to Canning Asparagus…

 If you sign up for an entire series you will receive a 20% discount on class fees. For a full schedule contact the Sawtooth Botanical Garden at 726-9358.

Locavore Series Presents: Raising & Cooking Elk

Thursday, March 3 @ 5:30pm

Sawtooth Botanical Garden

Instructor: Gail Ansley from CA Bull Elk Ranch in Hazelton, Idaho

Gail will share tips on how to prepare elk and her experience as a local producer.  This is sure to be a delicious class leaving you craving more! Gail will also have elk for sale after the class. Participants’ are encouraged to bring a bottle to share to accompany the meat.  Please pre-register by calling the Sawtooth Botanical Garden (208)726-9358 Garden & Bounty Members $10  NM: $15

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Beginning March 1st, Idaho's Bounty, your local food one-stop co-op, will offer $10/year memberships. Individual retail customers as well as all new wholesale accounts (restaurants and more) will have access to the freshest, largest selection of local food through the www.idahosbounty.org web ordering system for this low rate. Founding Idaho's Bounty members who previously paid a one-time $75 membership fee will not pay again; their greatly appreciated support from 2007 to present has helped the Co-op grow by 30% a year. We thank you mightily for helping establish a sustainable local food network.

To celebrate and assist people who would like to sign up, we will have launch parties in Hailey and Ketchum this Friday, March 4th from 3-5pm.

Idaho's Bounty staff will present a tasting of Fair Mountain Farm products, Prairie Sun Farm, Ballard Cheese, and Julie Foods crackers and dips from Julie Johnson herself and help with member sign-ups at Nourishme on Main Street in Ketchum.

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When the sun rises on Treasured Sunrise Acres, the family in its entirety rolls out of bed ready to work. Ten people in all, Debra Jantzi and her nine children, aged 3 to 25, get busy to make sure Idaho's Bounty customers and others receive quality raw milk. While the three-year-old sits pretty on a tractor driving brother's lap, everyone else hustles to make sure the animals are healthy, bred, milked, fed and tested for the highest dairy standards.

Over 100 goats and just five cows comprise the dairy's milking operation. Most goat milk goes to Boise customers, while Bounty customers are fast catching on to the delights of fresh, raw, cow milk. My own boyfriend downed a pint without blinking an eye; "ahhhhhh" was the only sound he could manage. Jantzi and family come to the dairy business from an experienced hobby history of 4-H projects; when Debra and her children faced the need to provide for themselves independently, they decided to do what they knew and enjoyed the best.

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