Be honest. How many stores, bars or restaurants in Idaho are so great that you’d be willing to drive over an hour just to enjoy it?
When Old Chicago was open in Downtown Boise, my husband and I were regulars. We were there two, sometimes three days a week. When they closed at the end of February 2020, we told ourselves that because we loved the food and the World Beer Tour, we’d just start going to the one at Boise Towne Square Mall.
Five years later? We knew we were lying to ourselves. We did go fairly regularly in the beginning, but we live in Southeast Boise. We ended up falling in love with a restaurant closer to our apartment that’s become our regular spot. The visits to the mall OC shrunk to almost once or twice a year. Truth is, we just didn’t love it enough to battle traffic…