There’s a queue of teachers, contractors, plumbers and doctors. There’s also an Olympic downhill skier, a whole neon-vested road crew, a tech bro and a bartender. And then there’s a first-timer, who eventually makes his way to the front of the line and asks the cashier the question he’s heard a thousand times: “What’s good?”
The cashier pauses, looks the customer in the eyes, but before he has a chance to say anything, the person behind the guy in line calls out, “Everything.”
For the past 35 years, T’s Mesquite Rotisserie — a 500-square-foot sliver of a restaurant tucked into an Incline Village strip mall — has been the place “everything” in the town revolves around.
It’s no more true than today, as the village’s dramatically changing demographic continues to bring in a steady conga line of increasingly high-profile residents and their demands. But in the midst of this change, it’s T’s that remains the community’s actual hub for a cross section of the diverse and disparate population, all united — if only for 10-20 minutes — over a mutual love and admiration for a perfectly prepared chicken and tri-tip…