Idaho Eats: the finger steaks, Basque & spud guide for iPhone and iPad
Idaho restaurants, from Basque Block croquetas to drive-in finger steaks
Where Idaho actually eats: croquetas on Boise's Basque Block, finger steaks dunked in fry sauce, a loaded russet, a huckleberry shake in a mountain town. Idaho Eats gathers 80 places we checked by hand into guides for those, and lets you search 4,006 restaurants, cafés, bars and bakeries across 192 Idaho towns. It's free.
- 80hand-checked picks
- 10James Beard honorees
- 4,006restaurants
- 192towns
Built around fry sauce, solomo and huckleberry season
Star ratings won't tell you which drive-in still has finger steaks on the menu, or who in Boise serves solomo. So Idaho Eats begins with what Idahoans go looking for: Basque kitchens, finger steaks and drive-ins, potatoes, huckleberry, Idaho trout, taquerías and saloons that have poured for generations. We read a 2025 or 2026 menu or news story for every place on those lists in October 2026. Hours, photos and ratings stay with Apple Maps, whose live card opens from any place.
How it works
Start with a craving.
Open Basque, Finger Steaks & Drive-Ins, Spud Plates, Huckleberry, Idaho Trout, Taquerías, Historic Saloons, James Beard Honors or Oldest Places, or type a name, town, street or dish to search the 4,006 places.
Narrow it to your road.
Let the nearest rise to the top, stick to one town or one kind of food, or pan the state map from Bonners Ferry down to Bear Lake.
Head out.
Pull up Apple Maps for today's hours and photos, ring ahead, get turn-by-turn directions, or tuck the place away for a later trip.
Idaho food guides
Each guide in the app also has its own page here, with every place, its dishes and its source.
Idaho Basque restaurants
7 hand-checked places.
Idaho finger steaks & drive-ins
21 hand-checked places.
Idaho spud plates
9 hand-checked places.
Idaho huckleberry: where to eat it
23 hand-checked places.
Idaho trout restaurants
12 hand-checked places.
Idaho taquerías
9 hand-checked places.
Idaho historic saloons & supper clubs
14 hand-checked places.
James Beard honorees
10 honored Idaho restaurants, 2023–26.
Idaho's oldest restaurants
11 places with a documented founding year.
Restaurant inspections
How to look one up with each of Idaho's seven public health districts.
Search the state
Look up 4,006 places to eat in 192 Idaho towns, in your browser.
By city and region
From Coeur d'Alene to Twin Falls, each town page gathers the picks, honorees and old-timers in and around it, and each region follows a public health district's counties. See what each page has.
- Boise
- Meridian
- Nampa
- Idaho Falls
- Pocatello
- Caldwell
- Coeur d'Alene
- Twin Falls
- Post Falls
- Lewiston
- Rexburg
- Eagle
- Moscow
- Sandpoint
- Ketchum
- McCall
- Hailey
And by region:
No price tag, no sign-up
Idaho Eats costs nothing and shows no ads, and there's nothing to subscribe to or log in to. Every list is stored in the app itself, so it opens without a connection, which helps on a backcountry road out of cell range.
Nothing here keeps track of you
Your phone keeps your location and your saved places to itself: location, when you allow it, only reorders the lists by distance on the device. This website stores no cookies, and nothing on it tracks visits. Read the privacy policy.
Questions
Does Idaho grade or score its restaurants?
No. Idaho's seven public health districts inspect restaurants, but none hands out a grade, score or window placard, and none publishes its results in bulk, so Idaho Eats has no inspection results to show. Each place links the lookup run by its own district instead, and our inspections page lists all seven.
Does it cover north Idaho and the resort towns?
Yes: the 4,006 places reach 192 towns, from Sandpoint and Coeur d'Alene in the Panhandle to Ketchum, Stanley and McCall in the mountains. Resort-town and backcountry kitchens often close between seasons, so call before a long drive.
How were the Basque, finger steak and spud lists checked?
By hand, in October 2026. Each of the 80 places on the Idaho lists has a 2025 or 2026 source, usually its own menu or a dated local news story, and its street address was checked against it. James Beard honors come from the Foundation's own announcements. Everything else is Overture Maps' open place data.
What does Idaho Eats cost?
Not a cent. Idaho Eats carries no advertising, sells nothing inside the app and never asks you to sign up. The iPhone and iPad app hasn't reached the App Store yet, but the search on this site works today.
Where do ratings and hours come from?
From Apple Maps, live. Idaho Eats keeps no ratings or reviews of its own and never sorts a list by them; tap a place and Apple's place card shows its current hours, photos and ratings.
Is my location sent to you?
No. Sharing it is up to you, and all it does is bring the nearest places to the top. The app keeps it on your iPhone or iPad, and on this site Near me does its sorting inside your browser, so your whereabouts never reach us.
Spotted a closed or missing place?
Email nick@eatsranked.com with the restaurant's name and town, and the correction rides along with the next data update.
Plan the next stop
Idaho Eats for iPhone and iPad is headed for the App Store, free. Until then, ask for early access.