Wild Garlic

The pizza is fantastic. Takes about 4 minutes for a slice. Quick meal before a flight. Mariela took care of me and provided great customer service. She has a warm and friendly personality. Thanks for the great food.

Full disclosure: My 3 star rating is based on low expectations for the very limited and mediocre foodie choices in the RNO airport. That being said, I came in for an early lunch (RNO was dead on a Friday probably due to flight cancellations from the blizzard back east) and the lone nice lady behind the counter was finishing up toppings on a pizza. After looking at the limited choices under the heat lamp I picked a kicked up spicy chicken-​veggie supreme she concocted. 3 minutes through the conveyor belt oven + a Goose Island IPA beer and I was done for surprisingly cheap — just over $ 10.
Pizza was fresh, tasty toppings and very filling. Where it fell down was the doughy crust. It’s the best you can expect from a 3 minute conveyor belt oven. Recommendation — try and get a fresh pizza if you can. I got the sense a slice would rapidly decline sitting under the heat lamp.
Service was fast and friendly so I am giving this a 3-​star which is 2-​star in the real world, outside the necessarily lowered expectations of small town airport food.

This place is wonderful. The service is quick. The pizza is very fresh. The crust is wonderful. I loved this place so much. Everyone should check it out. The best pizza I’ve had in a long time.

This place just has really good pizza. Today we ordered. Make your own 16″. One half with mushrooms & sausage — one half with roasted garlic & sun dried tomatoes– tomato sauce & mozzarella on all.
Being a native New York City girl would never even considered honey with your crust. Maybe we’d do ranch. This was the first place I’ve been offered honey … And, it’s not bad.
Super casual

Waste of space at the airport. Pizza is decent and options are limited at the airport, but they are never open. I will skip the brick and mortar location because they can’t keep hours at the airport. There are probably 600+people in the b concourse right now (530am) and the line for LaBrea bakery is thirty people deep. Service the airport location or let someone else. I fly out of here two or three times a month and rarely get a chance to eat anything besides a powerbar from the gift shop since the bakery is always jammed with coffee and breakfast sandwiches.

Waste of calories. I typically watch what I eat but every now and then I splurge. Besides, I was ridiculously hungry today for something other than my protein bar. Unfortunately I made a bad decision. This pizza was bleh. Less than bleh actually. Pretty sure I’ve been served better pizza in an elementary school cafeteria. Insult to injury was the price. $ 5 for sub par pizza is not nice. This establishment would be better off buying pizzas from little Ceasars and keeping them warm. First and last time here. Note to self… eat before I get to the airport.

While waiting to catch a long plane ride right before lunchtime, you are fortunate to find anything to grab and go. Wild Garlic is one of two selections in the southwest terminal and they had the better looking salads, so I grabbed one. It was an antipasto salad with salami, pepperoni, chicken, peppers, onions, olives, etc. The salad was very good however all the dressings were of the miserable packaged & processed variety. For $ 10, it wasn’t a bad deal for airport food.

I am no big fan of pizza, but there is such a limited choice here that I have to to pick between the two restaurants inside Gate B — Wild Garlic or Peet’s Coffee.
A slice of pizza averaging about 5 dollars is a bit pricy, but again, there isn’t much choices when you are stuck in the airport. With that said, the pizza I tried at Wild Garlic was actually pretty good. Marty was the only one working at the time I placed my order. I wanted a slice of Hawaiian, but it was sold out. Apparently, a family of 3 just purchase the entire pizza.
Not only was Marty very accommodating, he also very considerate. He made sure I would get my pizza within a certain time and that I would have the first slice when the pizza was ready. While I was waiting, I was watching how Marty work. He was the king of multitasking– I witnessed him serving, cooking and charging at the same time! It got so busy that I wish I could give him a hand. It was not until the rush die down that another worker showed up…
The pizza was better than expected. It was fresh, got lots of cheese and had plenty of toppings that were evenly distributed. I couldn’t complain! I overheard Marty training the new employee that they had to put 9 oz. of cheese on every pizza! 9 oz of cheese! No wonder it was good :)
Thank you Wild Garlic for one of the best airport food experiences I have ever had!

Breakfast pizza! And not the kind of pizza for breakfast you find leftover and cold, stuck to the coffee table. No, this is much better than THAT kind of breakfast pizza. I had the Ionian, they reheat it which I wasn’t thrilled about but it turned out fine. The crust was actually pretty awesome despite that quick re-​baked. Egg and cheese on crust FTW!

Airport food typically sucks but Wold Garlic at the Reno-​Tahoe Airport is becoming a tradition for me. Surrounded by pre-​made and bake off options like La Brea bakery and Tahoe Tap House, it’s nice to see Wild Garlic forming dough and making pizzas.
The only reason they get 3 stars is the service format. It’s by the slice and the volume doesn’t allow them to turn over pies fast enough to keep it as fresh as I’d like it.

Disappointing on a lot of levels. I wanted to love this place as there was a long period of anticipation waiting for them to open and really I prefer to support local neighborhood places.
First, the positive: it is a cozy space, exposed brick wall behind the bar, open airy feel in a nice old neighborhood. Very casual and cute.
Very good amber Red Rocket brew and a few other beers that sounded good. Small selection, though.
But then… No wine other than the «house wine» and our server had no clue what it was other than” red and white”. Really, no decent wine???
The «free Tuesday anchovies» we’re also unavailable– because we hadn’t ordered them with our food.
Then, our pizza order was somehow devoured by their inept computer system so after sitting there for 15 – 20 minutes our server came over and said our order had just «that moment» been processed and it would be at least another 15– 20 minutes before we might see food. Everyone in the entire restaurant, including those that had arrived at least 15 –20 minutes AFTER us was already eating. I guess only our order had vanished.
They did comp us each a beer for the excessive wait.
Pizza finally arrived– very doughy, thick crust and very scant toppings. The taste was good but overall everything was so weak in so many ways that it’s doubtful we’ll return.

This pizza is pretty tasty! Loving all the extra crust (I’m a crust lover). It was warm enough for me being on warming tray for awhile (they asked if I wanted it warmed up, I said no). The BQ garlic chicken was for sure garlicky, but will do again when passing through here in Sept.

Tried a slice of the pepperoni pizza, it was good sized and it cost me more than $ 5. But I was starving and it was okay. Dough doesnt taste fresh though, but its a nice sweet flavor to it. It would be nice if there was more toastyness to the top of the slice. Staff friendly and good humored. Will visit if I am starving again, overall I dont buy much airport food, the freshness really isn’t there whenever I eat at an airport!

I believe this is the first time I am giving a «restaurant» at an airport 5 stars! Reason… huge smiles on everyone’s face and great service which was great to see early in the morning. Definitely made me smile. Oh and the food was pretty good. I had the Reno quiche which hit the spot.

Great food as far as the airport goes. Prices are a little steep, but employees are friendly and efficient. Grab a slice and a beer — it’s better than anything you can get on board.

As far as airport food goes, this place is pretty good.
But as far as food you should eat before getting locked in a flying metal cylinder where your access to the bathroom can be rescinded or restricted, this isn’t the food for you.
So for food I’ve eaten in an airport, I gave it five stars.
For food I would eat before getting locked in a plane for two hours, this gets one star.
Do the average (5+1=6÷2=3) and you get three stars.
I hadn’t eaten all day. It was a hassle getting to the airport and through lines from Reno because other Phoenix dwellers couldn’t cope with being under 50*, so I needed to put something in my stomach before flying.
Reno’s airport is all in pieces right now, so much so they had to hire an «airport bear» to pose for photos telling me that the place was in shambles. As such, no «brand name» food, just local stuff.
I slammed a slice of pepperoni and a redbull, just enough to keep the rotors spinning to get me home for a real dinner in Phoenix. This might have been an error.
If you have a sensitive tummy, and are just about to get in a plane, this might not be the best life choice for you. I know I, and by proxy anyone else who used the bathroom on that plane, paid for the convenience of Wild Garlic with several rancid trips to the skybound potty.