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
JT Basque
The Picon Punch doesn't live by the clock, and neither does this place — open since 1946 and still tone of the most essential experiences in the Great Basin
Sassafras Eclectic Food Joint
Sassafras Eclectic Food Joint in Carson City is the best restaurant south of Reno — a scratch kitchen in a 1928 building serving Asian chicken tacos, a proper Muffaletta, and a peanut butter bacon burger that shouldn't work but absolutely does. An essential Nevada dining destination.