On Tuesday, June 11th, 3 Horse Ranch came to Chandlers to help celebrate Idaho Wine Month with a fantastic five-course Wine Pairing Dinner. We had a great time with Gary and Martha Cunningham discussing food, wine, pairings and life in general. Check out the photos below from this fantastic Chandlers Vitner’s Dinner and come join us for our next Winemaker Dinner.

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CHANDLERS HOSTS FATHER’S DAY MAN BRUNCH TO BENEFIT THE WCA

Boise, ID – Treasure Valley dads can enjoy a mouth-watering Father’s Day meal and show their support for healthy relationships at the 4th Annual Man Brunch.

Along with a delicious brunch, 100 percent of the proceeds from the event go to the WCA. Vendors donate much of the food, and Chandlers’ staff donates time to prepare and serve the meal. Jazz artists Bill Courtial and Chuck Smith will be providing live music.

“This is our way to give back to the community and give fathers a way to show they care about these issues,” restaurant owner Rex Chandler said.

What: 4th Annual Father’s Day Man Brunch

When: Sunday, June 16, 2013
11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where: Chandlers Restaurant
981 W. Grove Street
Valet parking available

Costs: $35 for adults; $15 for children under 12
All tickets must be purchased in advance by 5 p.m. on Friday, June 15, 2012.
Tickets and more information are available at www.wcaboise.org

“Chandlers is a great corporate partner. Working with us to provide a family friendly event celebrating the role of fathers and positive male role models while helping us fund services critical to the healing of those we serve who are not fortunate enough to be in healthy relationships. We are so grateful for their support as we could not do it without partnerships like this!” said WCA’s CEO Bea Black.

About the WCA

The Women’s and Children’s Alliance, 720 W. Washington, provides safety, healing and freedom from domestic abuse and sexual assault. The WCA operates secure shelters and provides professional counseling, legal advocacy, outreach and crisis services to women and children.

About Chandlers

Located in downtown Boise in Hotel 43, Chandlers Restaurant is an upscale dinner house specializing in prime corn-fed steaks and Kobe-Style Beef. An incredible fresh seafood menu featuring delicacies from around the world and a three-course prix fixe dinner menu featuring Idaho-sourced ingredients round out a menu that wins praise daily.

Chandlers has teamed up with Hotel 43 and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival to offer you an amazing package.

Package Includes…

• One night stay in a luxurious Boutique room
• Two tickets to the Idaho Shakespeare Festival
• Hotel 43 Insulated Picnic Tote (yours to keep)
• Assorted fruit and cheese platter, sliced baguette, proscuitto wrapped prawns and baby mixed greens salad with balsamic vinaigrette, plus a Trio of Chocolate Tortes provided by Chandlers Steakhouse.
• Choice of Estancia Chardonnay or Mac Murray Pinot Noir (please indicate your wine choice in the comment section when making your reservation)
• Valet Parking Fee for one vehicle

View Idaho Shakespeare Festival Show Dates and then book your stay.

BOOK THE “SHAKESPEARE” PACKAGE NOW

*gratuities not included

Room upgrades may be available, please inquire directly with hotel
Pre-Payment required at time of booking
No Refunds for cancellations
Must be booked 72 hours in advance

Join us for the Spring Wine Tasting & Sale on Thursday, May 16th, from 5:00 – 7:30pm.
Wine tasting and appetizers, $20 per person (deducted from purchase)

For the month of April, Chandlers Facebook pages were sprinkled with at least 22 nominations for the “Stellar Administrative Professional”. Our deserving gift was a special “Getaway” with us at Hotel 43 and dinner for 2!

We are pleased to share with you that while several individuals stood out to us, these folks were ultimately stars in our eyes as well as their fellow colleagues.

Our top recipient was nominated by four people, all separately, so that says a lot to us right there.

Jana Tyler, Kim Hyde, Sonja Rhodes and Pam Erdman all nominated Mardee Albright of Cherry Gulch as an amazing Administrative Professional. Cherry Gulch is a boarding school for therapeutic school for boys ages 10-16 in Emmett. This past year Mardee’s husband went through radiation for prostate cancer and this woman never missed a beat! She maintains schedules for at least three professionals and keeps track of 60+ employees everyday in addition to our boys. When you mention needing something in the near future, she has it in your hands within minutes. She and her husband deserve a special evening where they are the ones receiving, not giving. Congratulations to Mardee for an amazing job!

Our second runner up was too hard to select since they came to us a lump sum group from a recognizable firm in Boise, Heathwise. Tracy Landauer recognized her entire administrative team at Healthwise as she says, “It would be impossible to single out just one of these inordinately talented, capable multi-taskers. They exhibit grace under pressure no matter their workload – and their workload is significant, between people, paperwork, and things that pop up without warning. They excel at both working independently and as team players who back one another up. They present the best possible first impressions to callers, clients, and colleagues. And to complement this high-performing skill-set, each brings a spirit of collaboration. Our administrative team is part of what makes Healthwise such a wonderful place to work, and truly it wouldn’t work without them.”

Congratulations to Caralea Hopingardner, Cindy Gustavsen, Erica Reis, Jan Boyno, Jan Kirkhart, Kacy Laragan, Michelle Vicars and Marsha Wadsworth.

A special “shout out” also goes to Michele Stanford at Eagle Hills Elementary and to Katie Van Vorhis at the Office of the Ada County Public Defender.

Thank you to all the fans out there that make these recognitions and highlights fun and enjoyable. Keep them coming. We are running another one for our special Mother’s Day Brunch!

See you online!

ConciergeQ’s Maria Prekeges invites you to Chandlers – Prime Steaks & Fine Seafood in downtown Boise, Idaho to taste their signature cocktail the 10 Minute Martini!

Located in downtown Boise Idaho at Hotel 43, Chandlers – Prime Steaks & Fine Seafood is an upscale dinner house specializing in prime corn fed steaks and Kobe-Style Beef. An incredible fresh seafood menu featuring delicacies from around the world and a three course prix fixe dinner menu featuring Idaho-sourced ingredients round out a menu that has already won praise from guests that have dined at Chandlers, not to mention the Best Steakhouse Award from the Idaho Statesman’s 2010 Best of the Treasure Valley.

Man can not exist on hard boiled eggs and chocolate bunnies alone! That’s why we’ll be serving up a special brunch including a prix fixe menu of breakfast favorites this Easter Sunday.

Prefer celebrating Easter evening? No problem! Enjoy a special Sunday three-course menu that includes prime rib for only $27.

So grab your chickadees and come on in this Easter for great food, live music and, as always, complimentary valet parking.

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Karen Ballard, Administrator, Tourism Division, Idaho Department of Commerce

Karen Ballard was promoted to administrator of Idaho State Tourism in November 2007. Her duties involve development and implementation of Idaho’s $3.5 million travel promotion and marketing program, as well as oversight of the $3 million regional grant program for non-profit tourism organizations.

Travelers contribute over $3.5 billion to Idaho’s economy, which is about 6 percent of the state GDP. Market share growth occurs ideally when marketing campaigns succeed. Karen and Her colleagues were honored to receive the 2012 U.S. Travel Association Mercury Award for Vitamin ID as the best overall marketing campaign in the nation.

Karen joined the Idaho Department of Commerce in 1992 for a newly-created tourism development position to promote the state internationally. By successfully tapping into trends, such as cultural, historic, international and rural tourism, the division facilitates attracting not only tourists but also bolstering small community service providers. Culinary tourism is a growing niche and it is a joy for Karen to be a patron o f the many fine establishments carving a name for Idaho cuisine, such as Chandlers.

A native of Washington, Ballard received her degree in legal studies from UC Berkeley before relocating to Idaho in 1982. Ballard began her tourism career with the Elkhorn Resort in Sun Valley where she met her future husband Brian when he asked to join her golf round. Despite having no game at the time, je saw potential in the swing and encouraged Karen to improve. They now enjoy regular friendly wagers on who will be the better golfer.

Chandlers nominated Karen as their 2013 tribute to women and industry in recognition for her dedication to her fine position both on an international level as well as national and local. We are proud to say “welcome” when Karen walks in the door!

Congratulations to Kris Perdew who won a dinner for two at Chandlers, plus a night at the Hotel 43.

Here is his story submitted through our Facebook page…

Back in 2010, I was living in Orlando, Florida. I had been single since 2004, and had pretty much resigned myself to the idea that I would probably spend the rest of my life as a single man. I spent a lot of my free time listening to music on a website called blip.fm. On that site, you select songs that you want to play, and other ‘blippers’ are able to comment, or give you a ‘thumbs-up’, based on your musical selections (much like facebook posts). Around mid-July of 2010, I began to get a lot of positive feedback about my music from a blipper named ‘tammik’. I checked out her playlist, and was impressed with her taste in music (I put a LOT of stock in that sort of thing). A link to her facebook page was posted on her blip.fm profile page – I checked it out, and found out her name was Tammi. I ‘friended’ her on facebook, and we began a facebook friendship. Our facebook friendship evolved into frequent emails, and later on to nightly marathon phone conversations. Even though those phone calls went on deep into the night, they never got old or boring – - – instead they caused me to fall for her – bigtime. As the days and weeks went by, we got to know every little thing about each other. One night, we were discussing our mutual fear of remarrying, and I said to Tammi, “You know what? I’d marry you.” Tammi echoed my sentiments, telling me she’d love to marry me! After extensive further discussion, we decided that we would indeed get married, and I would move to Idaho (Kuna, to be exact). So, on September 17, 2010, I flew from Orlando to Boise. When I got off the plane, I would be face-to-face with Tammi for the FIRST time. As I walked through the airport, I spotted her! I walked up to her, dropped my carry-on bag, and we kissed. After our first kiss, I looked into her beautiful blue eyes, and KNEW that I had done the right thing. Later that afternoon, we exchanged wedding vows! Tammi is everything I ever hoped for in a wife: best friend, a fantastic mom to her kids, smart, funny, beautiful…all that rolled into one. I had never believed in the concept of a soulmate until I met and married Tammi. I am very, very fortunate to be married to this wonderful woman.

P.S. – she says your chocolate souffle is the best thing she has EVER tasted!

– Kris Perdew

We know it’s hard to fit all the romance into just one day so that’s why our celebration lasts four days! Enjoy our special prix fixe menu starting Wednesday, February 13th through Saturday, February 16th.

And not only do we have a great menu lined up but as always, there’s live jazz seven nights a week and complimentary valet parking.

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