We walked around the Capitol building and checked out the
museum on the second floor. We also
walked into the original Supreme Court chambers and looked around (the Court has
its own building now). In the museum,
they have some of the original furniture from original legislatures when they
were housed in the Capitol building. I
laid across one of the Assembly desks and had Fuzzy snap a photo
(shhhhhhh!).
We walked through the park between the Capitol and
Legislature, where there were some peace officers gathering, I’m guessing for a
memorial that day. There’s a memorial in
the park for fallen officers of the state.
In the Legislature building, we checked out the Assembly and
Senate chambers. Nice digs! We asked the guard when they meet next, and
he told us that they only meet in February every other year on the odd years –
so they aren’t due to meet again until next year! So the building is quite most of the time.
After milling about the Capitol, we walked around old town
Carson to check out the architecture and businesses. They have maintained much of the original
feel and most of the old buildings. It
reminds me much of the area around Sacramento and some of the style of San
Francisco – they all were built around the same eras after all.
We spent about an hour checking out the downtown area, but
it was getting to be lunch time so we made our way further north to Reno. I wasn’t keen on going there as I didn’t like
it the last time, but Fuzzy wanted to see it and she had been recommended a
restaurant near downtown, so I bit the bullet.
We drove pretty much through the entire town to get to downtown (we
thought the restaurant was there and I misread my map on the phone), so she got
to see all the less than desirable places in the heart of downtown.
I finally figured out that we missed the restaurant by about
2 miles, so we headed back south and eventually found it.
A co-worker of Fuzzy had recommended it because her family are
friends with the family of the owner.
The restaurant is Silver Peak Restaurant and Brewery (www.silverpeakbrewery.com) and it’s
a fully operational micro-brewery and restaurant. The menu had looked interesting online, and
it proved to be so in person.
We ordered the Rosemary Flatbread to start, which was a
multigrain flatbread with rosemary, a sliver of brie on top and a roasted head
of garlic to spread on it. It was
amazing! I definitely would like to copy
this. You could even make a meal out of
it. The roasted garlic just added to it,
and the brie was so tangy and creamy.
For my main course, I had a Thai Beef Salad, which had
grilled steak sliced thin and laid over a bed of romaine, tomatoes, cilantro
and onions, with a soy lime dressing. It
was filling, but didn’t leave me feeling heavy.
The beef was lightly spiced and grilled perfectly, with a little pink in
the middle. The dressing was light and
refreshing. I thought it was a great
salad to have for lunch after the heavier meals from yesterday.
We headed down to the Peppermill after lunch for a little
gambling. It’s south of downtown and is
more modern and well maintained. Fuzzy
really liked it, and I could go back again if I were near Reno. We spent about an hour there before heading
back to Tahoe.
I took Interstate 80 to go to the North Shore. It was still a little too early for dinner,
so we went down towards the shoreline at Incline Village because I wanted to check
out the Hyatt resort there for future reference. We walked around the hotel to check it out,
then headed across the street towards the beach where they have a nice
restaurant and bar overlooking the water.
It was happy hour, so we were able to get a glass of wine for half off –
and decided to also order a little appetizer since we saw one that piqued our
interest: House Made Elk Pate. They brought us this rustic pate that you
couldn’t really spread on the bread slices, but it was more than enough to sate
our appetite. I really don’t know how to
describe it other than it definitely had a pate flavor but was a little
stronger in flavor.
Once we finished that, it was getting to be time to go to
dinner, and I had wanted to take Fuzzy to the same place my friend Phil and I
had fallen in love with back in October:
the tapas place Bite. We pulled
into the parking lot, and I was getting the feeling something wasn’t
right. Sure enough, I walked up to the
door and discovered a notice on the door they were “closed for maintenance”
until Friday. Bummer! It was a HUGE disappointment.
There was another restaurant a couple doors town and the
menu looked interesting – it had duck on the menu. We were seated and the server came back to
ask us our drink order, etc., and when we mentioned we were interested in the
duck, so told us that they had just sold the last dish of it. What?!
It was barely past 6:00pm, and they were out of duck? We left as I really wanted that and nothing
else appealed to me.
We had to drive back down to South Lake Tahoe and wound up
eating at The Brewery (http://www.brewerylaketahoe.com/). For an appetizer, we ordered the Pizza Chips
with pesto and garlic, which turned out to be a flatbread pizza with pesto and
garlic sauce. And it was actually delicious,
but way too much for an appetizer for two people.
For myself, I ordered the Cheesesteak Sandwich. While it was tasty, it was a little
disappointing as the menu described it has thin cut beef, but it was more
chunks. And I wasn’t a fan of the pepper
jack cheese. But the beer batter dipped French
fries were amazing!
Tomorrow is a question mark as it’s our last day and we aren’t
sure what exactly we will do – but whatever it is, I am sure we will have a
nice day.
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