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...
Setting up your own home bar is easier than you might think, especially with help from a pro...
New places to wine and dine....
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....
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...
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....
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...