Nothing caps a good day on the slopes like circling up to laugh off your wipeouts and toast your triumphs.
For a Special Meal
Trokay has moved the needle off the steak-with-a-view paradigm that has long ruled the fine dining scene in Tahoe. The only view here is onto the main drag of Truckee, Calif., but the meal itself does double duty as a bit of theater. A cloche lifted on a dish called Fire & Smoke releases a puff from tiny vegetable-ash cinders served with trout. And chef John Weatherson himself brings out two Hawaiian prawns to sizzle them for you on a hot slab of granite pried from nearby Desolation Wilderness—this is big-city cooking with a distinctly Tahoe twist.
Tucked away in a pine-filled neighborhood … More