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Mark Roberts said:
It's also been bypassed by the US 395 freeway, adding to the general ambience of having seen better times. Same problem with Central in Albuquerque, which had been US 66.
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The part of 395 that bypasses the old downtown casino district was opened in the early/mid 70s. That was less of a factor. It actually got people up into downtown quicker if they were approaching from the south, and it made the construction of the MGM Grand (now Grand Sierra Resort) southeast of downtown possible.

Mark Roberts said:
The Peppermill is now gigantic. The decor in some of the rooms is interesting. I referred to the decor in the room that I had as "Victorian whorehouse".
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Here's the history on the Peppermill.

www.peppermillreno.com

Peppermill Reno History | Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, Reno, Nevada

Peppermill's history spans over 40 years and follows the development of Reno, as well as the Las Vegas strip area and eastern Nevada outside of Salt Lake City.
www.peppermillreno.com www.peppermillreno.com

I had it wrong. The coffee shop was a standalone for nine years (1971-80) before they added rooms, and eight years before they added a casino.

Pretty sure they had three or four slot machines in the waiting area from day one, if I recall.

Here's what the coffee shop looked like for that first decade:
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Mark Roberts said:
The Peppermill is now gigantic. The decor in some of the rooms is interesting. I referred to the decor in the room that I had as "Victorian whorehouse".
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Musta' been the same interior decorator who did Trump Tower and Mar-A-Lago.
 
michael hagerty said:
The part of 395 that bypasses the old downtown casino district was opened in the early/mid 70s. That was less of a factor. It actually got people up into downtown quicker if they were approaching from the south, and it made the construction of the MGM Grand (now Grand Sierra Resort) southeast of downtown possible.



Here's the history on the Peppermill.

www.peppermillreno.com

Peppermill Reno History | Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, Reno, Nevada

Peppermill's history spans over 40 years and follows the development of Reno, as well as the Las Vegas strip area and eastern Nevada outside of Salt Lake City.
www.peppermillreno.com www.peppermillreno.com

I had it wrong. The coffee shop was a standalone for nine years (1971-80) before they added rooms, and eight years before they added a casino.

Pretty sure they had three or four slot machines in the waiting area from day one, if I recall.

Here's what the coffee shop looked like for that first decade:
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Probably similar to the interior of Biff's Coffee Shop on 27th Street in Oakland. Despite the extensive efforts of preservationists, it was torn down in 2017 after being vacant since 1996 to make way for apartments with retail on the ground floor. The shop was considered a prime example of "Googie" style (Biff’s Coffee Shop In Oakland Was Googie Glory | East Bay Express | Oakland, Berkeley & Alameda).
 
DavidEduardo said:
Ah, red Naugahyde and carpets with paramecium tracks woven in. Lose your lunch here, and your money in the next room.

Coffee is vintage 1965 Sanka or Chock Full O'Nuts.
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In fairness, the food at the Peppermill Coffee Shop was always about three cuts above your typical Dennys/Cocos/Carrows.

The burgers were always insanely large and very juicy and the menu tended to be a lot bigger than you'd expect for the price point.

Looks like they've maintained that approach, even with the fancy name for the same room (now Cafe' Milano):

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If I HAD to spend a night in Reno (thankfully, home is only two hours away, so I don't), I'd probably choose the Peppermill.
 
radiofan2023 said:
For $20 the burgers ought to be huge
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It does say "one half-pound". And the Classic Burger is $18.50.

For comparison, looking online, Denny's wants $15.69 for its double cheeseburger.

31 years ago, covering the 1992 L.A. riots, after the curfews were lifted, my photog and I had dinner at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills hotel, where he (a Texas boy on only his second trip to L.A.) was stunned to see a $16 cheeseburger on the menu.

I quote:

"SIXTEEN DOLLARS? What kinda a**hole spends SIXTEEN DOLLARS on a f***in' cheeseburger"?

I asked the waiter to please excuse my friend---and to bring me a cheeseburger.
 
radiofan2023 said:
For $20 the burgers ought to be huge
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Old joke:

Bear walks into a coffee shop, sits at the counter, orders a burger.

Waitress brings him a burger, says "That'll be twenty dollars."

Bear slides a 20 across the counter.

It's a little slow, so the waitress decides to chat.

Waitress: "We don't get a lot of bears in here."




Bear: "At 20 bucks a burger, I'm not surprised."
 
michael hagerty said:
In fairness, the food at the Peppermill Coffee Shop was always about three cuts above your typical Dennys/Cocos/Carrows.

The burgers were always insanely large and very juicy and the menu tended to be a lot bigger than you'd expect for the price point.

Looks like they've maintained that approach, even with the fancy name for the same room (now Cafe' Milano):

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If I HAD to spend a night in Reno (thankfully, home is only two hours away, so I don't), I'd probably choose the Peppermill.
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The restaurants were pretty decent, and they actually knew how to make a croissant - an actual millefeuille ("thousand sheet") pastry and not what's called in my household a "Margaret River croissant"*.

(*Explanation: During a vacation in Western Australia in 2009, we stayed in the Margaret River wine-growing country south of Perth. And could not find a decent croissant anywhere. All we could get was white bread pressed into the shape of a croissant. Yuck.)
 
michael hagerty said:
The part of 395 that bypasses the old downtown casino district was opened in the early/mid 70s. That was less of a factor. It actually got people up into downtown quicker if they were approaching from the south, and it made the construction of the MGM Grand (now Grand Sierra Resort) southeast of downtown possible.



Here's the history on the Peppermill.

www.peppermillreno.com

Peppermill Reno History | Peppermill Resort Spa Casino, Reno, Nevada

Peppermill's history spans over 40 years and follows the development of Reno, as well as the Las Vegas strip area and eastern Nevada outside of Salt Lake City.
www.peppermillreno.com www.peppermillreno.com

I had it wrong. The coffee shop was a standalone for nine years (1971-80) before they added rooms, and eight years before they added a casino.

Pretty sure they had three or four slot machines in the waiting area from day one, if I recall.

Here's what the coffee shop looked like for that first decade:
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I had sweetened many an after-shift tea with their pink and orange sugar at that very table with a steak and eggs breakfast at 1am, on the way home from KNEV or KBET in the mid 80s.
 
michael hagerty said:
In fairness, the food at the Peppermill Coffee Shop was always about three cuts above your typical Dennys/Cocos/Carrows.

The burgers were always insanely large and very juicy and the menu tended to be a lot bigger than you'd expect for the price point.

Looks like they've maintained that approach, even with the fancy name for the same room (now Cafe' Milano):

View attachment 5638


If I HAD to spend a night in Reno (thankfully, home is only two hours away, so I don't), I'd probably choose the Peppermill.
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I'm already booked into the Silver Legacy just this week for the final Reno Air Races. Losing an annual event like the RAR, is going to put a hurt on the hotels and casinos. I've heard that Hot August Nights is a shadow of what it used to be.
 
michael hagerty said:
In fairness, the food at the Peppermill Coffee Shop was always about three cuts above your typical Dennys/Cocos/Carrows.

The burgers were always insanely large and very juicy and the menu tended to be a lot bigger than you'd expect for the price point.

Looks like they've maintained that approach, even with the fancy name for the same room (now Cafe' Milano):

View attachment 5638


If I HAD to spend a night in Reno (thankfully, home is only two hours away, so I don't), I'd probably choose the Peppermill.
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I guess they've branched out - there's a Peppermill in West Wendover, Nevada, just across the state line from Utah. And there's a Café Milano in there. We had lunch in that Café Milano last week in our race to get to Denver before the movers got there. (They beat us by four minutes.) There are three or four big casinos in West Wendover, which all seem to be affiliated in some way with one another. One, Montego Bay, has its parking lot in Utah.

But, you know, Nevada. Earlier that day, we stopped off at a Smith's supermarket (a Kroger brand) in Elko. Next to the courtesy counter there was a darkened room with slot machines. It was closed that morning but everything was on in there.
 
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