The Wolf Den - Reno, NV - Best Burgers in Town on Waymarking.com

Great Food and Beverages, morning, noon, and night. Priced to fit a college student budget That's a big part of what has made The Wolf Den the place to be for students, faculty, alumni, and everyone who has "Nevada Blue" in their hearts. The Wolf Den is located across Virginia Street from the University of Nevada Reno Campus at 1305 North. The following review sums up this restaurants inclusion in the "Best Burger in Town" catgory:

The Wolf Den jumps into the fray as a contender for the best burger in Reno.

Also, for $6 you buy a Blue Thunder margarita. It comes in a 32-ounce sports bottle (which I guess now replaces the bota bag popular at UNR when I went there) and margarita refills are $5.

This opened across North Virginia Street from the University of Nevada, Reno, across from the Old Gym and north of the Nye Hall parking lot.

For those who don't know in the 1950s a guy named Dick Graves opened a string of casinos called The Nugget and served a huge hamburger called The Awful Awful. it stands for awful big and awful good. The Nuggets fell to different owners and a guy who bought what's called the Little Nugget under the Reno Arch changed the formula slightly, making it from one big patty instead of two small patties. He served it in the diner in the back of the casino as a loss leader to draw in gambling customers. It was big, good and cheap. When the musician Paul Revere opened a restaurant in the Reno Bowling Stadium he described it as having the second-best burger in Reno, a nod to the Awful Awful at the Little Nugget. The attitude of the diner at the Little Nugget was expressed by the sign over the door way that said: Nine out of 10 vegetarians don't eat here.

That Nugget has passed on to a different owner. The last time I ate there it had reverted back to the two-patty formula. The quality dropped and the price increased.

The owner of The Wolf Den aims to replicate the pinnacle of the Awful Awful at the Little Nugget and does a good job doing it, even using the wicker basket to serve the burger and fries. I guess he even got a license to make it. The patty seems maybe a little bit smaller, but I'm not griping. It's excellent. It starts with a fresh, tasty onion bun. No ordinary dry bread here. And the patty is excellent. The fries are cooked in vegetable oil. I believe the fries at the Little Nugget in the 1990s were lard cooked. Or maybe the fryer was just so old and dirty it gave that impression. The potatoes at the Wolf Den seem fresh and they're sliced to the right width and cooked perfectly. And they add the paprika for a nice spicy bite.

The Wolf Den also has this sports bottle margarita. That seems pretty over the top, but I had to do it. It was good. The first few swigs through the new plastic are bad, of course, but my sports bottle was broken in before I was a quarter of the way through.

If the rest of the food is as good as the Awful Awful The Wolf Den will have a license to print money.
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Address: 1305 N. Virginia St. Reno, NV USA 89512 Hours of business: From: 10:00 AM To: 12:00 AM Rate this burger joint!: Burger joints web address: [Web Link]

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