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Beverly's
Beverly's opened on the seventh floor of the Coeur d'Alene Resort when the hotel debuted in 1986, and has held the city's reference fine-dining seat for nearly forty years across every change in the Inland Northwest hospitality cycle. The dining room takes its name from Beverly Hagadone — wife of the resort's founder, Duane Hagadone — and the family's continuing ownership shows in the room's quiet long-haul approach. Executive Chef Jim Barrett runs the kitchen with a Lakeview Menu of three indulgent courses that turns on the morning's seafood deliveries and the resort's relationships with named Pacific-Northwest producers. The dining floor seats about a hundred and ten across a single-level wraparound window line that delivers a panoramic view of Lake Coeur d'Alene from every table.
The Cedars Floating Restaurant
The Cedars Floating Restaurant opened in 1965 on a custom-built floating platform anchored at Blackwell Island — the confluence of Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane River, two miles south of downtown — and has held the seat as Idaho's premier floating dining room continuously since. The building is a two-level structure with the dining floor at lake level, a covered upper deck for warm-weather service, and a wraparound window line that delivers a 360-degree view of the lake, the Spokane River outlet, and the wooded ridges of the Idaho Panhandle to the south. The platform itself rotates slowly on its mooring across the course of a long evening — a slow, almost imperceptible drift that lets a single dining room cycle through every view on the property.
Tony's on the Lake
Tony's on the Lake sits on the east shore of Lake Coeur d'Alene, ten minutes by car from the downtown core, on a stretch of East Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive that the resort traffic mostly bypasses. The restaurant has been run by the D'Alessandro family since opening — a multi-generational Italian-American family whose roots in the cuisine read in every choice the kitchen makes — and the dining room reflects that lineage: cozy stone-fronted indoor seating in two parlor-style rooms with the lake visible through every window, plus a covered patio that opens directly onto the water for the long summer service. The format reads as a working family Italian restaurant rather than a resort concession.
315 Cuisine
315 Cuisine occupies a corner storefront on Wallace Avenue in downtown Coeur d'Alene — three blocks east of Sherman Avenue, in the quieter dining quadrant of the historic grid — and has held its seat as the city's reference small-plates and martini bar since opening. The restaurant takes its name from a deliberate doubling: the street address is 315 East Wallace, and the room opens at 3:15pm sharp every service. The dining floor seats about seventy across a long bar, a wraparound banquette, and a series of two-tops along the window line; the format is deliberately scaled for ordering across the table rather than defending individual plates.
Crafted Tap House & Kitchen
Crafted Tap House & Kitchen sits on the central stretch of Sherman Avenue — Coeur d'Alene's primary downtown corridor, three blocks east of the resort and one block west of City Park — and has anchored the city's gastropub map since opening. The room runs about a hundred and forty covers across a long bar, an open kitchen window line, a covered front patio that opens directly onto Sherman, and a back lounge with banquette seating that holds private groups of twelve to eighteen. The format reads as a real working gastropub rather than a brewery's afterthought: the food programme has had as much editorial care as the beer programme.