29 Apr Choice Beans to Tasty Brews
It’s a gorgeous day in March, and Ralph Backstrom, co-owner of Pacific Crest Coffee in Truckee, has the roll-up door next to his coffee roaster wide open. ...
29 Apr Last Call
The connective tissue between the bars that made up the narrative during North Lake Tahoe’s après-ski heyday and today is remarkable. ...
29 Apr The Best Spot to Satisfy a Sweet Tooth
Just off the main drag in Tahoe City, up the wide wooden staircase of the Boatworks Mall, sits one of the area’s most unlikely treasures. Most people pass right by it. These days, few even wander into the aging building, which feels half-abandoned since Jake’s...
29 Nov Everything is A-OK at Restaurant Trokay
Trokay is Paiute for “everything is all right” or “everything is well.” John and Nyna Weatherson carefully chose the word, which is also the origin name for Truckee, for their modern New American restaurant in historic downtown, where their mission is to showcase hospitality, craft...
26 Sep Dining on the Edge
Launched in 1968 with a top-rated George Fazio-designed golf course, South Shore’s Edgewood Tahoe has evolved into a luxury resort and retreat, recently earning Forbes 4-Star and Michelin One Key nods. While the 154-room Lodge at Edgewood Tahoe added in 2017 includes a chic modern...
02 Jul Raising the Bar
If walls could talk, the red brick building at the corner of Donner Pass Road in downtown Truckee would have plenty to say. Anchoring Commercial Row, its storied occupants have included a stove and tinware shop, (intermission for a fire), a four-story Victorian hotel, an...
02 May Tahoe’s Best New Restaurant: Sylva
North Tahoe High School grad Andrew Shimer started working in kitchens simply as a way to keep his days free for snowboarding. In short order, shredding took on new meaning....
02 May The Best Alibi of All
Founded in 2014 with a brewery and taproom in Incline Village, and expanded with a pair of buzzy full-service pubs in Incline and Truckee, award-winning Alibi Ale Works is barreling headlong into its next decade of bringing hoppiness to North Tahoe and beyond. We chatted...
28 Nov Hungry Like the Wolf
Launched at Harveys Lake Tahoe Hotel & Casino in Stateline this past spring with the glitz and fanfare befitting one of the original Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Wolf by Vanderpump is reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump’s 37th restaurant....
27 Sep Baja Beyond Fish Tacos
The call of Cabo is loud and clear, a siren song for Steinbeck and Cousteau and those of us living high in the Sierra Nevada, especially during the cooler months....