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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
North Shore GOOSE & CHEY’S 877 North Lake Blvd. | Tahoe City, CA (530) 807-1003 www.facebook.com/gooseandcheys Located in the former Doma Sushi spot across from Safeway, Greg and Cheyenne Goosen post a chalkboard menu of homemade comfort food dishes like cheese-stuffed bacon-wrapped prawns, crispy pork chops, pan-roasted salmon, smokey beans...
TAHOE CITY BAKER ON TV Tahoe City resident Amanda Nguyen, who spent three and a half weeks on a set in London, was a runner-up on ABC’s The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition based on the British series. Nguyen, who tested her old-fashioned classic family...
Seemingly no single food item can stir the pot like the beloved burger, from theories on the provenance of the portable patty to postulations as to who does it best. Tahoe’s latest burger king? Inclined Burgers and Brews, a small, simple, 29-seat counter-service spot that opened...