Three Peaks Kitchen + Bar

Brunch is what I go to Three Peaks for. The country fried steak and eggs is excellent — really solid, not the sad version you brace yourself for at a casino — and the times I've been out for brunch, the bloody Mary bar was worth the drive on its own. They put so much on it that it's damn near a breakfast in itself. I'll be honest that it has been a while since my last visit, but every time I went, it was really good and the bill was never the part I remembered.

The name comes from three peaks that roughly outline the Spokane Tribe's ancestral homelands — Mount Spokane, Cayuse Mountain, and Steptoe Butte — across about three million acres. It's the dining room of the Spokane Tribe Resort & Casino, just inside the main entrance, and the kitchen runs scratch American: steaks and seafood at dinner, handhelds and salads through the day, and that weekend brunch. Prices sit in a sensible middle for what it is — most signatures land in the twenties and thirties, and only the crab climbs past that.

Two honest things. Brunch runs Saturday and Sunday from 8 to 2, and it is the reason to make the drive — the rest of the menu is good, but it's the brunch I'd send someone for. And the bloody Mary bar isn't listed on their site anymore, so if that's what you're going for, it's worth a call before you point the car west. This is a casino dining room and it feels like one, which is either fine or not depending on your morning. For me it has always been worth going to.