The Kitchen
Salads, handhelds and baskets from 11am to close. Half-pound Woods Meats burgers, house made pastrami on the Reuben, beer battered Alaskan cod.
Est. 1975 · Rapid Lightning Road
Real cooking, twelve miles from town.
A general store with a chef in the back. House cured and smoked meats, sandwiches worth the drive, and a deli case that changes with the season.
Checking hours…
One stop, three reasons
Kitchen, counter and country store
Alex trained at the California Culinary Academy and cooked eight years around the East Bay before coming home. What that buys you out here is comfort food made properly — and a butcher case most towns this size don't get.
Deli and Butcher
House cured, smoked and roasted meats by the pound. Deli salads, pastas, ribs, baked goods and desserts to take home for dinner.
General Store
Groceries, fuel, propane and showers. The practical stuff that makes Rapid Lightning Road work, still doing the job it has since 1975.
Ask your server about
Prime rib, last Friday of every month
Herb, salt and garlic crusted, served with au jus or horseradish. The other standing date is our monthly five-course tasting menu — limited seating, reservations required, and it fills fast.
Pack River Catering
We'd love to feed your people
Buffet style catering for weddings, reunions, corporate events and holiday parties, at any size. Brittany runs it, and she builds around your budget, your dietary needs and what you actually pictured.
Packages start at $15 per person for the taco bar and run up through the Classic Idaho Wedding at $27. Everything else — platters, crostini, entrées, sides — is priced à la carte on the full list.
A Sandpoint tradition
Fifty years on the same corner
Alex and Brittany Jacobson took over in June 2018 from Alex's mother Arlene, who ran the place for eighteen years before that.
Brittany grew up in Sandpoint and has fifteen years in the industry; she runs the front of house and the catering side. Alex cooks. They source from regional farms and purveyors wherever the season allows, and they cure and smoke almost everything in-house.
Hours
- Monday7am – 7pm
- Tuesday7am – 7pm
- Wednesday7am – 7pm
- Thursday7am – 7pm
- Friday7am – 7pm
- Saturday7am – 7pm
- Sunday8am – 2pm
Kitchen serves from 11am to close.