Litehouse was the name of the restaurant owned by the Hawkins family on Lake Pend Oreille in the small tourist town of Hope, Idaho from 1958 until 1985. The Litehouse Restaurant was well known for unsurpassed views, great food and it’s famous salad bar serving the original Bleu Cheese Salad Dressing. When the first jars were bottled and sold in a local grocery store in 1963 under the Litehouse name, nobody had heard of “lite” products. The salad dressing industry first introduced ‘lite and fat free” products in the late 1980’s.