Restaurants in Post Falls

El Mercado Del Pueblo encompasses a Mexican market, deli, bakery, and sit-down restaurant. One need not search for authenticity here, because it's everywhere. Overhanging Mexican flags run the length of the full-service market, its shelves rife with imported spices, sweets, and one of the largest dried-pepper selections in town. After scoping out the freshly made tres-leches cakes at the panaderia, guests can explore Chef Hortencia's Cuernavaca roots by sampling the eatery's authentic soups, chiles rellenos, or traditional street tacos. If time is short, they can carry out a sweet or savory tamale to surprise a friend, or a pound of fresh salsa to bribe a crooked chip baron.

Taxidermy buffalo and deer heads oversee GW Hunters Steakhouse's rustic wood-paneled dining room, where tables strain beneath the load of hefty steaks, seafood, and pasta. In addition to the traditional hearty steak-house fare, the chefs at the family-owned establishment dish out a wide range of unusual meats, including elk, buffalo, and alligator—each of which are personally wrestled into submission by the head chef, Rex Shank. Every Sunday, a country breakfast buffet spans the restaurant's event hall with a smorgasbord of skillets and steaks. The steak house also opens its elegant, 50-year-old banquet facility for private events, where parties of up to 50 folks can feast amid gold-stained floors, golden walls, and a sophisticated absence of chimpanzee waiters.

According to a June 2012 profile in The Pacific Northwest Inlander, Donna Byrd spent months simmering sauces over her kitchen stove and recruiting family members and friends for taste tests. After those months of experimentation, clear winners emerged and those champion recipes hold a place of honor in the Byrds' restaurant, Noodle Works. Guests order their vegetables, meats, and tofu stir-fried in a teriyaki sauce tinged with pineapple or a sesame and ginger-laced mustard sauce. Then, they watch chefs place the sizzling feast onto a bed of rice or yakisoba noodles to create a dinner in a bowl or onto a bed of rose petals to create a romantic dinner in a bowl. Visitors can pair noodle bowls with domestic and imported beers while taking in a sports game on television screens mounted on the walls.