Guests who take advantage of the region’s takeout options should save their receipts, which could be lucrative (or could at least fund their next few nights of takeout). View the guide, designed to make it easy for winter visitors and locals to quickly explore their options, at /takeouttahoe or follow the North Tahoe Eats Facebook page. Wondering where to get food to go in the North Lake Tahoe communities? In late autumn, the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association created an extensive list of more than 150 North Lake Tahoe restaurants that offer takeout dining, along with details such as how to order and when they’re open. Please contact the restaurant directly for further details. Note: At the time of this writing, Great Gold was only open for takeout due to COVID-19 restrictions. “Supporting local small farms is very important to us.” We hand-make dozens of pastas daily, using flour milled by Early Bird Farm in Grass Valley,” Kirksey adds. “Our pasta program is what stands out the most. In addition to Italian dishes, pizza, wine, amaro, and aperitivo cocktails, the owners hope their pasta workstation will set Great Gold apart from other Truckee offerings. Great Gold’s outdoor space features an outdoor drinking and dining area, complete with a covered patio, bocce ball court, and fire-pit seating for up to 30 guests. “More specifically, the food at Great Gold will be creative take on Italian cooking, incorporating dishes and ingredients that might feel more at home in the mountains.” “With Great Gold’s rebirth in Truckee, we are evolving the cuisine away from strictly Italian-American classics and are now embracing our new location’s cuisine as ‘mountain Italian,’” Steele says. Like the other restaurants of Steele’s Ne Timeas Restaurant Group - including flour + water, central kitchen, and flour + water Pasta Shop - Great Gold focuses primarily on Italian cuisine, but with an alpine twist. The duo also welcomes Randal Hutchinson, formerly of Truckee’s Pianeta, as the general manager. Kirksey, the former chef de cuisine at S.F.’s flour + water, is from nearby Grass Valley and will lead the culinary team. The new Great Gold replaces the former Great Gold in San Francisco’s Mission District, which they shuttered in August. It now serves as a dining cornerstone in Truckee’s Pioneer Center.Īccording to Kirksey, “The name is an homage to the great Golden State of California, from which we will diligently source our ingredients.” Pasta at Great Gold Opened in mid-November for to-go only (per the California COVID restrictions), Great Gold is the first restaurant in Truckee from San Francisco restaurateurs Brandon Kirksey and David Steele. Aside from new restaurants around the lake, the major announcements from restaurants are focused on social distancing and ensuring the outdoor dining experience is just as pleasant as (or better than!) the indoor one.įrom homemade pasta to Champagne chalets, a lot is going on in Tahoe this winter.ĭiners on the North Shore have a new restaurant option away from the often-crowded main streets of Downtown Truckee: Great Gold. And area resorts and organizations have come up with creative ways to make sure guests and restaurateurs stay safe this winter. While some restaurants opened a bit later than expected and some shifted the focus of their summer and fall investments, a few new dining places opened their doors and some existing ones expanded their offerings. And while COVID-19 precautions have changed the dining and drinking landscape - or, at least, done away with the packed elbow-to-elbow bars and family-style tables - they don’t seem to have slowed the continued development of Lake Tahoe’s restaurant scene. Lake Tahoe and après ski go together like peanut butter and jelly, which is probably why so many of Tahoe’s restaurants and bars have lines out the door come 5 p.m. Sierra Scoop Keeping you informed of Truckee-Lake Tahoe food-and-drink news.
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