Lucky Asian Mart LLC is expanding the region’s culinary landscape, as Spokane entrepreneur Stephanie Nguyen and her son, Jonathan, bring in Asian grocery favorites from the West Side to Eastern Washington.

What started as a side project inspired by San Diego street tacos has become a brick-and-mortar restaurant in downtown Coeur d’Alene.

Spokane International Airport has opened its first restaurant in a series of Inland Northwest-based establishments that are planned to operate in the airport's expanded Concourse C gate area in the next year.