Restaurants and activities

We are going to Boise at the end of April for a week to visit relatives and will have a car. I%26#39;m seeking advise on restaurants that serve fresh, creative food. From my research, Red Feather Lounge is the type of place we would love. How would it be Friday night 6pm with our children ages 7 %26amp; 9? Is it a happening bar scene or are the dining tables separate? How is The Reef restaurant? I see it is the same owners. My husband also remembers a Basque restaurant but doesn%26#39;t know if it was really good? Is there a good one in Boise? I%26#39;m open to suggestions.

We are planning to go away from Boise for 2 nights and are considering McCall for it%26#39;s proximity and hoping for some outdoor time if the weather is decent. We love to hike and generally explore. Is there someplace else that would be better in terms of activites and weather that is 2-3 hours from Boise?

Thanks for the help!

Restaurants and activities

I absoultly LOVE the Red Feather (as you can see from my posts..(.ps, i am having foot surgery on Mon, and my dinner BEFORE is going to be at the Red Feather!!) I think your timing will be perfect. Ask for a booth upstairs, they are lovely. Suggestions for dinner....always have the asiago calamari and the fish. they also have a wonderful cheese selection. The Reef used to be good, but has gone WAY down hill. I even talked to the manager, as i am in the business. The food isn%26#39;t creative and service is spotty at best.

McCall is a fun town. Not much to do. The Hotel McCall is great. Ask for a room off the road. The food selections are limited, but the area is very nice.Weather is April is always different, springtime , no one knows!!! If you like to shop, find Money Business, and there is a nice sport shop near there and coffee.

enjoy

Restaurants and activities

Basque restaurant: Epi%26#39;s, on Main Street in Meridian. Note that it%26#39;s closed Sunday and Monday, it%26#39;s only open for dinner, and you almost certainly need a reservation. The hostess makes sure you feel like a guest in her house instead of another customer. Food is served ';family style'; there, slightly different than a normal restaurant. I%26#39;ll say that it has my Portland foodie GF making favorable comparisons; the food is great, perhaps awesome, not necessarily ';creative.';

There%26#39;s also Leku Ona in downtown Boise, not quite the experience Epi%26#39;s provides, but it%26#39;s not bad. Might even be a touch more creative.

You might be thinking of a restaurant that used to exist just outside downtown... and I can%26#39;t even remember the name of it. I never went there. It%26#39;s no longer a Basque outfit.

That%26#39;s perfect assurance on the Red Feather and a great tip on table and ordering! thank you! I%26#39;ll make reservation at Epi%26#39;s also for the experience. Perhaps we will bring our wine there:)

Hotel McCall is what I had in mind, partly because of the restaurant. Glad for the tip on the room to request and shopping - yes I do like to shop! We will bring lots of layers. I hear it snowed yesterday in Boise...

Thanks for all your help! This is such a wonderful resource.

So it%26#39;s tax day. A little warning is in order.

Yesterday in Boise... 70 degrees for the high, before the wind kicked in.

Today... 47 is the forecast high. Some forecasts of snow at higher elevations tonight.

Layers are good... one or two of them ought to be light. Weather here this time of year is definitely not predictable.

Donnie Macs Trailer Park Cusine would be a fun place for your kids, and it actually has good food! You can get a beer at your table, but there%26#39;s no bar to speak of. Red Feather is good (despite the recent hepetitis scare), but I don%26#39;t know about it being kid-friendly, esp on a Friday night. It has a lively bar scene. You can also check out Ginos - fantastic food, and your kids could get a plate of spaghetti. Gino will make them whatever they want, and you could get a wild boar shank from Ginos Grill across the way.

Follow up on the trip - Our favorite restaurant was Epi%26#39;s in Meridian. It was incredibly friendly and fun, pretty good food, limited wine selection. The portions are rediculously huge, luckily we opted to split a main and it was still more than enough.

The Red Feather was a cool atmosphere and nice presentation of the food. While they had a huge wine list the server didn%26#39;t know anything about any of them and the wine list did not list regions.

McCall was sleepy in late April and we had a hard time finding restaurants that were open and looked good. I wanted to eat at Hotel McCall but it was closed Mon %26amp; Tue when we were there. Still, a nice town and we found just enough to do for our 3 days. We loved the ice skating rink most.

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