Lifting Spirits
High Mark Distillery makes mixology fun with hands-on classes. If Saturday afternoon finds you in search of a tasty tipple, how about crafting your own specialty cocktail? High Mark Distillery in South Reno offers weekly cocktail-mixing and spirit-making classes in its tasting room. The classes are taught by owner/master distiller Felicia Keith-Jones. When High Mark’s […]
Life is Sweet
Family-owned Italian bakery, Dolce Caffé, serves tasty treats. Tucked into Mayberry Landing in Reno is a sweet slice of Italy. Dolce Caffé — or Dolce to regulars — specializes in traditional Italian baked goods and inviting ambience, serving café-style breakfast and lunch, as well as coffee and espresso drinks, charcuterie, and wine. Multi-course, family-style dinners […]
Feeding a Need
Sierra Community House provides hunger relief in the region. For some Reno-Tahoe residents, thinking about food doesn’t mean deciding which delicious local dining spot to try; instead, it means wondering how they will feed themselves or their families. One of the local groups working to alleviate this is Sierra Community House, by leveraging community support […]
Eat Globally, Act Locally
Sean Fannan and Kele Song bring innovation to food and philanthropy in South Lake Tahoe. It’s obvious from the way they talk about food that Sean Fannan and Kele Song have been bitten by the culinary bug. They’ve even given their dogs food names: Chili and Pinto. Fannan, who grew up in South Lake Tahoe […]
Roadside Whiskey Club
Family business brings whiskey lovers together. On Friday afternoons, the parking lot of Speedway Market at East Peckham Lane and Neil Road is crowded with people getting gas and grabbing snacks. It’s impossible to tell that this unassuming mini-mart is the home of Reno’s best-loved whiskey club. Kuldeep and Shyama Chhabra opened the mini-mart in […]
Feast of the Seven Fishes
Seafood is the star of this Italian Christmas Eve tradition. Some holidays are so intimately linked with certain foods that we can’t imagine one without the other. For Mark Estee, CEO of Reno’s Local Food Group, Christmas Eve has always meant oil fondue since he was a child. It was a special meal his family […]
From Vietnam with Love
Sip of Saigon brings traditional flavors to Sparks. You could say cooking runs in Kate Huynh’s blood. Her great-grandfather was an executive chef, and her mother, a celebrated home cook, and both inspired the traditional Vietnamese recipes found at Sip of Saigon, a new eatery in Sparks. This modern café has decades’ old roots. When […]