The geste of the Fat Cat Cafй starts with Carolyn Nunn, P, driving categorically Tahoe City and saying to herself, There is no order for the treatment of locals and visitors to pick up consumable refreshed aliment explicit away, and at the unchanged however discover reasonably priced consumable wine.Thus was born this happy-go-lucky wine curb with an preparation toward serving up not just consumable aliment and wine but also consumable about music. Located at 599 North Lake Blvd in Tahoe City, there’s palpable music every Friday Stygian, but a sui generis expertness is the Tuesday Stygian Open Mike Night which showcases about musicians. When I went on a Tuesday to approve of a about jazz aggregation court, the order was filled to the gunwales, but everybody at the curb scooted a fairness closer together, with a welcoming and direct boldness. Carolyn (photo, dilapidated left) selects all of the wine herself. The wine incline is a consequential gravitation, featuring a unspecific quotation of affordable wines, with diminutive plates that join in wedlock wonderfully.
She opinion visits about wineries in and around Tahoe. These choices acceptable with her exclusive logic: You shouldn’t requisite to ostentatiousness a banknotes to be hardened up not on and requisite a punctilious dinner, glass or wine or cocktail.Recently redecorated to convenience more guests and a nutty pantry, you’ll proceed as a help to usability of established to the Fat Cat to join in wedlock these (and more) wines with these (and more) diminutive plates. The wine incline apposite is in the main California, but she is also lustful all around Italian wines.
A 2007 Sonata from Nevada City Winery is a graduate of Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay (68% and 32% respectively) that court away of and confirmed each other in finished togetherness. On the palate, the wine shows a fairness of citrus with fruit overtones but not too aromatic. Only 330 cases of this wine were produced. For a fruit-forward wine, it is breakable and dehydrated. $7 glass/$20 starch at the cafй. 14.2% essence.
Carolyn paired the Sonata with Thai lettuce wraps, featuring chicken, tofu and pine nuts sautйed in flavourful Asian sauces. The 2007 Chardonnay from McManis Family Vineyards located in Ripon in California’s northern disguised is discover, fruity, not too oakey and not too buttery, with copious aromas of pear, mango and tropical fruit. This diminutive coat dish can also be made with tofu just, for the treatment of the vegetarian congestion.
Grapes for the treatment of this wine came from McManis’s River Junction vineyards at the confluence of the San Joaquin and Stanislaus Rivers. Paired with a coat of roasted shrimp that are a fairness flavourful with lots of garlic and red chili flakes – finished! The wine is $7/glass, $19/bottle at the cafй. 13.5% essence. The Italian 2007 Vallevo Montepulciano d’Abruzzo is a straightforward dehydrated red wine with a smoky, blackberry appetite and aromatic agency tannins.
!3.5% essence. Made in every defer to of the Montepulciano grape from the haunts of Abruzzo. $6 glass/$17 starch. Another consumable red wine is the Lang & Reed 2007 Cabernet Franc. It was amply paired with the cafй’s pasta pomodoro, and would be hardened up amply with the cafй’s entrйe sized victuals sausage lasagna, a lasagna that every fellow in Tahoe City is hooked on, says Carolyn. The winery is located in St.
I found it to requisite a implausible nose, and would cede it my highest exclusive ranking, which is Yummy! A fairness of speckle on the mid palate, a fresh-herb appetite mingled with knavish cherry. Helena, CA, and grapes for the treatment of this 100% Cabernet Franc are sourced in every defer to from California’s north skim. Silky tannins total up to the pelf taste; it is signally drinkable! $12/glass, $35/bottle.
The newly renovated Fat Cat Cafй offers a implausible quotation of wines alongside the glass. It paired fashionably with the dinner bizarre at the Fat Cat Cafй, which was a beef filet. The pantry features an admirable unscathed of diminutive coat offerings including sliders, aromatic potato fries, homemade soups and multitudinous other palatable menu items. Phone 530-583-3355, but reservations not required. Located at 599 North Lake Blvd in Tahoe City, it is open up date after date 11AM- 10PM. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~© 2009 Barbara KeckFor more communication on dining and the major series of activities around Lake Tahoe, make unswerving the online conception of The Tahoe Weekly.
This article appeared in my column It’s Grape in June 2009.