Glenbrook’s cowboy history comes alive with summer fundraiser What do the Bard, bucking broncs and a celebrity chef famous for the catchphrase “Bam!” have in common? All three converge on Lake Tahoe’s East Shore every summer for a weekend of doing good and having fun. The annual...
Tahoe’s best bakeries run on flour power It’s hard to argue with flour, butter and sugar, especially when they all show up to the same party. Here in Tahoe, where our high elevation requires bakers to blend a bit of extra art and science into their...
Edgewood Bistro offers upscale food and setting For nearly five decades, Stateline’s Edgewood Tahoe has been synonymous with the George Fazio-designed 18-hole lakeside golf course, home to the American Century Championship celebrity tournament since 1990. The public course’s 19th hole Brooks’ Bar & Deck, which serves...
Born and raised in South Salem, New York, Marc Vaccaro has worked at award-winning restaurants including Aqua in San Francisco, Rockpool Bar & Grill in Sydney, Australia, and A Voce in New York City. He is currently the executive chef of Tahoe Restaurant Group, which...
NORTH SHORE SUKO YAMA SUSHI 1850 Village South Rd. #52 Olympic Valley, CA (530) 584-0110 www.squawalpine.com Vanessa and Richard Fielder, who own Tahoe City Sushi, took over the space vacated by Mamasake in the Village at Squaw Valley. In addition to rolls like Solomon’s Tsunami—spicy tuna and shrimp tempura wrapped with...
FOOD FEST WINNERS The 32nd Lake Tahoe Autumn Food & Wine Festival, held at the Village at Northstar, saw Martis Camp take best food and beverage pairing with a pan-seared Sonoma duck breast with wild mushrooms, golden beet and Bing cherry mole matched with Luli Wine’s...
Wolfdale’s Cuisine Unique still going strong at 40 Forty years is a long time. In restaurant years, it’s a rare dish, well done. Wolfdale’s Cuisine Unique has racked up four delicious decades of serving up its take on East-West dining nearly nightly. Douglas Dale opened the...
John and Nyna Weatherson, chef-owners of Restaurant Trokay in downtown Truckee, moved from New York City in February 2011 and opened Trokay Cafe, expanding two years later to their current 80-seat dinner-only space just down the street. A top graduate from the Culinary Institute of...
North Shore YAMAKAI FISH & SUSHI CO. 5001 Northstar Dr. #5101 | Truckee, CA (530) 562-2188 www.facebook.com/pg/YamakaiFish Combining “yama,” the Japanese word for mountain, and “kai,” Polynesian for ocean, this Hawaiian-Japanese fusion spot occupies the former Mikuni space in the Village at Northstar. Sushi is on the menu, as are...
World travels—from Asia to Africa to South America—reveal a wide array of culinary concoctions When my husband, Tom, and I started planning our family gap year of global travel, the first thing I thought about, naturally, was food. Even before investing in a raft of...