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 Come and experience the friends, fun and fabulous food that makes Freshies a local's favorite and a visitor's gem to find! Our cozy, intimate Tiki Room vibe is filled with the Aloha Spirit and so inviting to come into, especially from a snowy Tahoe storm.
Please allow us to make your experience a memorable one!
Our comfy dining room seats only 33 and our comfortable bar area seats about 16. We are blessed with a lake view deck, open Memorial Day to Labor Day.
It is the goal of Freshies Restaurant to provide the people of the Lake Tahoe Basin and visitors with an overall dining experience that will far exceed their expectations. The restaurant offers innovative, delicious, wholesome and organic cuisine, outstanding micro brewed beers, and carefully selected fine wines in a warm, fun, relaxed atmosphere with excellent service combining elements of fine dining with family style comfort at a value price.
Erik and Melodie's first priority as owners of Freshies is to care for their crew, their restaurant family, then for their neighbors, the Lake Tahoe Locals and finally for the international community. Freshies cares for Mother Earth. All of the products we use are always FRESH and as close to nature (unrefined) as possible, many are organic. We are committed to contributing to the integrity of the Earth and our community.
 The Ulmans met in the restaurant business in 1987 and have dreamed of having their own place since then.
Freshies is the culmination of this dream and much hard work and planning, established 2000. Melodie and Erik have both been in the restaurant business since 1979, Erik in the kitchen and Melodie in the front of the house. They both have a real affinity for the fast paced service industry and all that is involved, especially the people. They have both worked in every position in every type of restaurant imagninable.
Melodie's background is in psychology, preschool and elementary teaching and fitness. She is a teacher in every sense of the word, organized, particular and open hearted. Erik is an artist in the kitchen, but without the temperament of a typical chef. Erik grew up surfing and skateboarding in San Luis Obispo. One of his main early restaurant positions was at a port side place that had its own fishing fleet. This experience, coupled with his shredding style influenced him to create his blend of California cuisine and Pacific Rim style flavors. |
Lunch & Dinner 2009 & 2011
Lunch & Desserts 2010
Better Business Bureau
of Northern Nevada
Blue Ribbon Experience Award 2008
Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce
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"Take your by-now prodigious appetite for dinner to a joint that you'd never discover on your own, a local's favorite called Freshies Restaurant & Bar. Freshies features a tropical atmosphere and a variety of exotic and organic specialties. You won't go wrong with the spicy jerk chicken breast or the Hawaiian-style spare ribs."
Hemispheres Magazine (United Airlines inflight magazine) Dec 2003
".Best meal of my visit. Tasty, low key, grown-up Hawaiian cuisine and setting with organic emphasis."
Los Angeles Times, Christopher Reynolds, June 21, 2009
"Freshies has endeared itself to this town with fresh ideas in food and impeccable service. Truly scrumptious vegetarian creations. Pacific Rim style fish dishes, fun Hawaiian decor, great microbrews and wine selections."
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