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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Nevada Week: The Martin

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

At The Martin, family-style dining is rooted in a very specific history and cultural experience that began with Basque sheepherders in the 1800s and has been carried on and celebrated ever since. This episode was produced in partnership with Travel Nevada and is part of Nevada Week, where we bring you stories all week from the Silver State. LEARN MORE about The Martin here: https://themartinhotel.com/ and Travel Nevada at: https://travelnevada.com/

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0:00.0

Hey everybody. We hope you enjoyed this week we spent crisscrossing the state of Nevada.

0:06.0

We have hit up a collection of lost and forgotten objects.

0:09.5

We've become honorary citizens of a local micronation, and we are not finished yet.

0:15.0

Today we are bringing you one last episode from the Silver State,

0:18.7

and I hope you brought an appetite.

0:21.8

Special thanks to our partners at Travel Nevada who made this week possible.

0:26.0

Say you're traveling in Northern Nevada and you stopped for the night in a little town

0:34.8

called Winnemaka.

0:36.2

It's a straight shot down I-95 from Oregon.

0:39.2

So you're pretty far up there.

0:42.0

Here you are. You're coming off the road, you check into your motel,

0:45.0

if you go down and you say, where's a good place to have dinner, I'm starving. Every hotel

0:50.6

on town will say the same thing. You go to the Martin.

0:53.4

This is John A-Rant.

0:54.8

And sure, maybe he's a little biased.

0:57.1

He owns the Martin after all.

0:59.4

But still.

1:01.4

You walk in the front door. The bar is busy, the bar is loud, and the first reaction that people

1:07.9

who haven't been here before always have is they look around, they see energy. they see folks having a great time

1:14.9

folks laughing there's people eating there are a million plates piled in front of

1:21.6

every diner there's salad and beans and

1:25.4

bread pudding and meats. People are playing cards. Suddenly you're whisked to a

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