Idaho Eats guide · Spud plates · checked October 2026
Idaho spud plates
Loaded bakers, fresh-cut fries and potato dishes with their own names on the menu: 9 places around the country's biggest potato state, every one matched to a 2025–26 menu or news story in October 2026.
Idaho potatoes on the plate
Idaho grows more potatoes than any other state, and the russet is the classic Idaho baker. This list is the places where a potato is the point of the plate: loaded baked potatoes, fresh-cut fries, hash browns, potato dishes the menu names. Some aren't potatoes at all: the Idaho Ice Cream Potato is ice cream made to look like a baked spud.
What the spud menus name
Potato dishes these menus name most: homestyle fries (3), idaho russet fries (3), idaho ice cream potato (2), cheesy tots (1), chili cheese fries (1), fresh-cut fries (1).
Where they are, by town: Boise (3), Ketchum (1), Nampa (1), Caldwell (1), Idaho City (1).
How this list was made: for every place we read a 2025 or 2026 source, usually its own menu page or a dated story in Idaho news, and matched the street address to it. A place whose only source was older, whose website had gone dark, or whose menu named the dish just in passing stayed off. Review sites played no part, and the places run by region and town, not by anybody's score. Menus change, so check before you go. Our sources are on the about Idaho Eats page.
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Spud questions
What is a spud plate?
Our name for a dish where Idaho potatoes are the point: a loaded baked potato, a potato named on the menu, fresh-cut fries made a fuss of. A place is on the list when its own 2025 or 2026 menu, or local news, names the dish.
What is an Idaho Ice Cream Potato?
A dessert made to look like a baked potato: ice cream shaped and dusted to look like the skin, with toppings standing in for butter and sour cream. Two of the places here list it.
Are the potatoes local?
Sometimes, and when a place says where its potatoes come from, the note under it says so. Otherwise we don't assume.
Southwest Idaho
2 spud plate spots, by town. The Southwest Idaho page has the region's other lists.
Boise Fry Company
2110 Blaine St, Caldwell
Spud plate On the menu: Idaho russet fries, homestyle fries, Idaho fry sauce, bison burger
Caldwell location of the Boise fry-and-burger shop, where fries are the main event and burgers come on the side.
Boise Fry Company
224 12th Ave S, Nampa
Spud plate On the menu: Idaho russet fries, homestyle fries, Idaho fry sauce, bison burger
Downtown Nampa location of the Boise fry-and-burger shop, which says its potatoes typically come from King's Crown Organic Farms in Glenns Ferry.
Boise, McCall and Mountain Home
4 spud plate spots, by town. The Boise, McCall and Mountain Home page has the region's other lists.
Boise Fry Company
204 N Capitol Blvd, Boise
Spud plate On the menu: Idaho russet fries, homestyle fries, po' ball fries, Idaho fry sauce, bison burger, poutine
Fry-first burger shop whose site says its potatoes typically come from King's Crown Organic Farms in Glenns Ferry and are cooked Belgian-style in two stages.
Westside Drive-In
1929 W State St, Boise
Finger steaksDrive-inSpud plate On the menu: finger steaks, fry sauce, Idaho Ice Cream Potato, tater tots, garlic bread · Since 1957
Its owners told The Takeout (2019) that their finger-steak batter is the original recipe from Boise's Torch, whose finger steaks historian Rick Just (2020) traces to an August 1956 Idaho Statesman ad while noting that both cook Milo Bybee and owner Willie Schrier have been credited with inventing them.
Westside Drive-In
1113 E Parkcenter Blvd, Boise
Finger steaksSpud plate On the menu: finger steaks, fry sauce, Idaho Ice Cream Potato
Chef Lou Aaron's second Westside Drive-In location; East Idaho News/Idaho Statesman (2023) lists both addresses for the Idaho Ice Cream Potato.
Diamond Lil's Steakhouse & Saloon
407 Main St, Idaho City
Finger steaksSpud plateHistoric saloon On the menu: finger steak dinner, finger steaks, loaded baked potato, ribeye, pork tenderloin chop · Season: Its site says it is open four days a week from Memorial Day to Labor Day; call for winter hours.
Saloon, steakhouse and small museum at 407-409 Main Street in the gold-rush town of Idaho City whose menu lists a finger-steak dinner and loaded baked potatoes.
Magic Valley and Wood River
2 spud plate spots, by town. The Magic Valley and Wood River page has the region's other lists.
The Pioneer Saloon
320 N Main St, Ketchum
America's ClassicSpud plateTroutHistoric saloon On the menu: Jim Spud, Idaho baked potato, Brie and smoked trout · Since 1950
Ketchum saloon and steakhouse named a 2025 James Beard Foundation America's Classics honoree; the citation names its Jim Spud, a baked potato topped with teriyaki beef and cheese, and smoked Idaho trout.
Jakers Bar and Grill
1598 Blue Lakes Blvd N, Twin Falls
Finger steaksSpud plateHuckleberryTrout On the menu: fresh Idaho trout, finger steaks, Jakers Baker (one-pound baked potato), loaded potato skins, huckleberry mule
Twin Falls steakhouse and bar whose September 2026 menu lists fresh Idaho trout, finger steaks and a one-pound baked potato.
Southeast Idaho
1 spud plate spot, by town. The Southeast Idaho page has the region's other lists.
Idaho Potato Museum
130 NW Main St, Blackfoot
Spud plate On the menu: loaded baked potatoes, potato cupcakes, fresh-cut fries, jalapeño tots, cheesy tots, chili cheese fries, potato rolls, potato donuts
The potato museum in Blackfoot runs a cafe serving loaded baked potatoes and other potato dishes alongside its farming-history exhibits.