‘Sales down,’ a closure strikes downtown Boise’s high-profile ‘restaurant row’

A temporary closure that could wind up permanent has struck downtown Boise’s popular “restaurant row.”

Wild Root Cafe, 276 N. 8th St., shuttered at the end of business hours Sunday. The restaurant, which opened in 2015, had run into a couple of hurdles, co-owner Dan Watts said in a message.

“We’ve had a shift in our core employees just recently,” Watts said. “First time in a long time. With that, along with the slowed spending that has happened over the last 18 months, we need to rethink certain areas of our business. Wild Root is one of those.”…

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