Driving down highway 80 from Lake Tahoe, the Reno skyline doesn’t look much different than it did 15 years ago. The lights from the high-rise casinos shine bright and the billboards pointing travelers in the direction of loose slot machines and all you-can-eat Lobster buffets are aplenty. But if you look closer, you will find that Reno is on the brink of something great: a gastronomical revolution. For years, Reno has been considered something of a culinary dump, a city of free buffets and generic casino steakhouses. The city has often faced an unfortunate negative stigma that is more or less due to a lack of understanding about the area. But all that is about to change. Recently, the city has seen an impressive number of new restaurants and an emergence “foodies” calling Reno home.
“I used to not look at Reno as competition, the foodies on vacation from the Bay tended to not wander over state lines,” says Billy McCullough, the owner and head chef of Dragonfly Cuisine in Truckee. “Nowadays, you hear more and more about these great new places opening and people driving down to Reno to get dinner while on vacation. That never happened 10 years ago.”
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