Better things, better dishes, are part of that. According to the Nevada Brothel Association, 19 such brothels currently operate in the state. MORE: 7 new and upcoming Reno restaurants. There are no giggles, no verbal winks. Mustang Ranch actually is two separate legal entities: the brothel itself and the lounge connected to it by a green door with a key code. The exterior sign for the lounge still says Wild Horse Saloon, but today, the saloon does business as Mustang Ranch Lounge.
The wine list includes a Mustang Ranch label with five varietals. Feeding the public is only part of the culinary operation at the Mustang Ranch: Working women and brothel guests must be fed, too.
That job falls to Jeff Probus, executive chef at Mustang Ranch, and crew. Probus has been with the ranch about a dozen years. He estimated he and his team prepare about meals a day for the 30 or so working women on staff at any one time. The meals are served daily from 7 a. Caprice the women typically use a single name professionally is partial to the baked salmon with Thai chili sauce, a new item. MORE: We're missing out. Here are the 18 largest restaurant chains nowhere near Reno-Sparks.
Her colleague Morgan likes the hot and wild chicken strips and fries, another newbie from a group of hot and wild dishes made using buffalo sauce, ghost pepper cheese and other spicy ingredients. Other times, the women make special requests for dishes from their home countries, presenting the chef with a learning opportunity. It started with me making her tom yum goong soup. She would go to the Asian market and bring me the ingredients.
The other evening, Lance and Donny Gilman hosted a group of business associates and employees in the salon of the brothel, a soaring space just beyond the connecting door to the Mustang Ranch Lounge. Taxidermy heads populate the walls, including a spiral-horned antelope the working women call Magnum.
