24 Sep New Spots
Editor's note: Information was accurate at the time of this writing, but check directly with establishments due to constantly changing COVID-19 conditions....
24 Sep Side Dish
MARK ESTEE ON FOOD NETWORK The Northern Nevada celebrity chef, restaurateur and James Beard award semifinalist who founded Moody’s Bistro and Beats in Truckee, a pair of Burger Me and Campo locations, and current owner of Liberty Food & Wine and Chez Louie in Reno, The...
25 Jun Pivoting in a Pandemic
It all happened so fast. As the highly contagious COVID-19 rapidly escalated from new virus to global pandemic, the fallout was swift and unprecedented, with orders to stay at home and close dining rooms across the country ravaging the restaurant business like no other segment of...
25 Jun Cocktails in the Time of Corona
Setting up your own home bar is easier than you might think, especially with help from a pro...
25 Jun New Spots
New places to wine and dine....
23 Apr Baking in Basque Tradition
If you’re going to eat food from a Basque oven, bring wine. Tell a friend to bring her guitar. It wouldn’t be in the Basque tradition to cook here without drink and song. Plus, you’re gonna wait a while....
23 Apr Prime Purveyor
You may not know Bob Habeger, but you should be glad that some 150 Tahoe-area chefs, cooks and assorted culinarians do. The longtime North Lake Tahoe resident and his family have owned and operated Carnelian Bay’s Habeger Produce Plus for nearly three decades, supplying area...
27 Nov Cabin Fever
Sometimes a cold, dark Tahoe night calls for a cozy cabin in the woods. Bonus if it comes with warm and filling fare and a well-stocked wine cellar. Thankfully, a few of these gems await around the lake....
27 Nov Chopping Block: Q&A with Grog Verbeck of Hey Chef!
A Professional chef since the 1980s, Grog Verbeck is happiest when cooking in someone else’s kitchen. In 1997 he and his wife Holly founded Hey Chef!, a Truclee-based private chef and kitchen staffing company that places chefs, servers, shoppers, bartenders and baristas in Tahoe homes...
27 Sep Soule Food
During his senior year at North Tahoe High School in 1975, Charlie Soule took a job washing dishes at the old Tom Foolery restaurant in Tahoe City to pay for a friend’s car he’d returned in less than stellar shape. Back on a college summer...