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Slater's Ding-a-Wing - Dry Rub Chicken Wings

Slater's Ding-a-Wing

(42 reviews)

$$

Downtown

The Best Buffalo Wings in Reno. This food truck was at UNR Family Weekend, and I'm so glad we had…read morethe chance to purchase some wings. We ordered buffalo wings and fries, and after tasting one, we ran back to get another order - that's how delicious the food was. The owner is so nice and pleasant; the service was excellent. He has many different flavor choices for the wings, but the buffalo sauce is one of the best I've ever had. The wings are fried to perfection. If you see this truck in Reno, definitely try some of the wings and fries; you won't be disappointed.

I had the pleasure of noshing on some first rate wings from Slater's at this year's Reno Harley…read moreDavidson Street Vibrations event. Amazing wings and fries- the wings are medium sized, well cooked, and they have a huge variety of possible sauces. I usually go for a dry rub, and sure enough- they had one... they list it as medium heat- I'd say that's a bit generous, but the rub is huge on flavor without being too salty. The fries are not typical shoestring or steak fries, but a thin curly potato wedge. You can choose from several different seasonings- the lemon parmesan was my go-to- and the fries are top notch: crispy on the outside and soft and creamy on the inside. The service was super quick- the owner indicated they par-boil the wings ahead of time to get them most of the way there, so a quick dip in the oil, and they're hot, crispy, and ready to go. Wing prices hover between about $1.50 to $2 per wing, depending on your order size, which is pretty typical for a wing joint in the Reno area. If you see their truck out and about, make sure to pay them a visit!

Tacos El Rapido

Tacos El Rapido

(2 reviews)

This is a classic Mexican food truck that offers a wide array of edible animal parts. Only…read morerecently did we refer to meat as muscle tissue only. They have head, intestines, and skin tacos. Gross you say? What the hell do you think is in your hot dog and hamburger, rib eye? They also have regular meat. For whatever reason, Americans have lost their taste. Now I still hate French cheese, but must Kraft cheese taste like nothing? Must our milk and butter taste of nothing? Must our meats taste of nothing unless drenched in sauce? Okay, the head is a bit much. A decent taco food truck, and yes, they are el rapido. Long before the trendy food truck craze initiated by Kogi's Korean BBQ Taco Truck in Los Angeles (they were not the first gourmet truck but the first to use social media), there were taco trucks. Before that, there were lunch trucks serving donuts and sandwiches. There were a number of taco trucks in Reno, but you don't see them out as often. Why? Well, the City of Reno, in response to an outcry from brick-and-mortar restaurants, passed a number of regulations limiting them to a 3-hour time limit and 100-feet from restaurants. Mind you, this was not passed because of taco trucks but the explosion of gourmet trucks. Now, you may argue, hey, I got a restaurant, worked my butt off, why should I have to put up with some food truck outside stealing my customers? My answer is, well, in a free market, you compete freely or perish. You adapt. When existing businesses collude and press government to pass laws to undermine new competition, what do you call this? Unfair! So all these hardworking Latino food truck owners got shafted. Nobody had ever complained about them, but with the new regulations, you see less of them. Every three hours they have to pack up and move. How unfair is that? Time and time again, the free market is undermined by existing lazy businesses colluding and conspiring with government to stifle new competition, stifling progress and innovation, and keeping prices up for consumers. A major cause of poverty is not lack of government handouts but rather the excessive costs, training requirements, and regulations required to start your own business or craft. Yes you want a well-trained professional, but increasingly consumer review sites like Yelp and Angie's List can help you weed out the unprofessionals not regulations which act only to create formidable entry barriers. Back in the day, guilds were village monopolies requiring unpaid apprenticeships to enter the field and barring all outside competition. Hello! We still have guilds. In nature, organisms became more mobile in order to adapt, exploit new territories, outrun predators, or conversely outrun prey. This is why we have legs and are not rooted to the ground. Food trucks are likewise, an evolutionary adaptation. It makes starting a business cheaper and it's less costly to try innovative menus that might fail. Hence, there's a lot more food innovation with food trucks than brick-and-mortars. In evolution, if you don't adapt you perish. However, in America these days, it seems we're more and more willing to subsidize failure and weakness. Nature proves this is unsustainable. Nature sometimes engages in monopolies. Pandas can only eat bamboo, but this is a rarity. What if an epidemic wipes out bamboos? They're screwed. This is why nature prefers diversity. How about almost 300K species of plants and 7.8 million species of animals. But we insist on only coddling one species of food vendor? In fact, our omnivorous appetite was an adaptation. Ironically nature gave us brains to better adapt, perhaps to study and learn from nature, but we insist that nature's laws don't apply to us, that somehow we're better, and as such, we will all become extinct, despite our brains. Our brains didn't do us in, our system of rewarding and subsidizing idiocy did.

Great Mexican food. The real deal. Angel will hook you up…read more Try the tripitas torta.

Virginia City's Chili On the Comstock - Skip Cooley and his wife from Reno won 2nd place in Red and Green chili on Saturday!  Congrats!!

Virginia City's Chili On the Comstock

(6 reviews)

$

Downtown

Came here about 1pm on Saturday. It was a beautiful day, sun shining, about 80 degrees. They close…read moredown the main street and it is set up with chili competitors and vendors. On each end there is tent to buy tasting tickets and t-shirts. It appeared to be well organized. They had plenty of staff. They kept up with changing out the garbage and keeping it clean. They had maybe 25 to 30 competitors. We recognized some from other competitions. The parking can be a little iffy but we were able to find free parking. There was also paid parking for $10 We purchased our tasting tickets online for a discount. Online sales are only available prior to the event. Overall it was a great experience and most of the chili was amazing. We especially liked the green chili's.

Being new to Tahoe, I was excited to get the opportunity from Yelp for the VIP tickets to attend…read morethis event. Virginia City is an old western town with tons of character! I was lucky enough to get 10 tickets and 2 free beers for RSVP'ing to the event, but otherwise you can purchase tickets at the ticket booth for as many tastes of chili as you'd like! All the booths set up down the street will give you samples of their chili in little ramekins that are equal to about 4 bites. KEEP YOUR SPOON! There are so many chili booths set up, we weren't able to try them all but it's really fun to see how each one represents themselves and the creativity in their names and style of chili! The beer options range from $4 for domestic, $6 for craft, and some booths offer shots of Fireball for $2 more. You are also welcome to purchase food from vendors selling their own food like tacos, chicken skewers, turkey legs, ice cream, etc. At the end you can leave a vote in the bucket of the person who's chili you think should win for the People's Choice Award chili. If you keep going down the street you can check out antique stores, gift shops, and lots of fun saloon style bars. It's a little over an hour drive from North Tahoe, but it's an enjoyable drive with mountain views pretty much the entire way!

The Missing Link - streetvendors - Updated May 2026

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