Longtime cult cookie creator Mary Cogswell opened a storefront location for her popular Wildflour Bakery on Monday, Feb. 1. The sleek, modern space sits behind the Grasmick Produce warehouse at 304 E. 42nd Street in Garden City. Founded in 1992 in the North End, Wildflour Bakery has long sold its small-batch cookies, muffins, cake breads, granola and other specialty items wholesale at the Boise Co-op and Whole Foods Market. Now, fans can snag Cogswell's addictively delicious

Though the shelves lined with dog-eared novels are long gone, fans of Hyde Park Books will find a memento to the used book store in the new coffee shop that occupies 1507 N. 13th Street. Hyde Perk repurposed those shelves and used them to cover the walls of the light and airy café. “It was a six-month renovation,” said co-owner Crystal Clark. “It was a lot of work, construction-wise, to get it torn down and put back together.” Hyde Perk quietly opened its doors on December 10

Via Neckar Coffee Yesterday afternoon, I bumped into Neckar Coffee's Grant Shealy, who now roasts his beans in a back corner of the Woodland Empire brewery. Beer in hand, Shealy gave me a tour of the small space, which is just as no-frills as his minimalist, micro-roast coffee brand. There's a fridge, a small chair, an American flag, Neckar's tiny-but-powerful roaster and a few slumped bags of Coffee Shrub beans. Shealy says it's a big upgrade from the North End garage where

Unlike our West Coast neighbors, Boise hasn't really jumped on the Third Wave coffee train. It's slim pickings if you want a properly pulled espresso made from locally roasted Fair Trade beans. But on the bright side, that means Boise lacks some of the coffee pretention you'll find in bigger cities. No one's going to lecture you on the difference between a latte and a flat white or refuse to serve you sugar or soy milk. Here are a few of my favorite local spots that consisten