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...
27 Sep Chopping Block: Q&A with Jack Connell of PlumpJack Cafe
PlumpJack Cafe Squaw Valley has long been a favorite for both its buzzy bar’s aprés ski scene and intimate upscale dining room. Executive chef Jack Connell, who has a lengthy history with the restaurant, oversees its innovative seasonal New American menu. Where were you born and...
27 Sep Side Dish
North Shore TUNNEL CREEK CAFE REOPENS Located in Incline Village at the base of the Flume Trail and start of the new East Shore multi-use path, the Tunnel Creek Cafe has reopened following a $1.7 million expansion and upgrade that increased the size of the kitchen, installed...
27 Sep New Spots
North Shore BOURBON PUB 8001 North Village Way #8114 | Truckee | (530) 562-3200 www.northstarcalifornia.com Celebrated restaurateur Michael Mina’s MINA group, which operates over 40 properties across the country, is opening this casual version of his Bourbon Steak concept in the village at Northstar California’s former Tavern 6330....
24 Jun Pianeta: Old Town’s Old World Charmer
If walls could talk, those of Pianeta, the long-running rustic Italian restaurant in Truckee’s Old Town, would speak volumes. Located in the heart of historic Commercial Row, the 1800s-era site has over the years housed a couple of saloons, a U.S. Post Office, the town...
24 Jun Chopping Block: Q&A with Lee Kresy of D’lish Catering
Bay Area native and Culinary Institute of America at Greystone alum Lee Kresy moved to Lake Tahoe in 1982, working at Jake’s On The Lake for four years, then at Sunnyside as executive chef and partner for two decades. In 2013 Kresy and his wife...