Twenty restaurants. Twenty reasons Reno is worth your time at the table. Each one belongs here for a different reason — some for their history, some for their creativity, some simply because Reno wouldn't be Reno without them. Not ranked. Just essential
Papa What You Cooking
Papa What You Cookin' in downtown Reno is the only Southern soul food restaurant in the region — slow-cooked oxtails, shrimp and grits, cornbread, and pecan pie from a former lawman and pastor whose cooking makes people cry for all the right reasons.