Reno’s skyline isn’t tall, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth having a gorgeous view of the city while eating and drinking outside with your friends. More bars, breweries, and restaurant projects are betting on rooftops, decks, and elevated patios to offer guests fresh air and city views.
For both locals and visitors, rooftop bars that also serve full food elevate a night out by offering delicious food to complement the skyline vistas. In other words, you get everything you want—the meal and the cocktails—all in one place.
These rooftop and outdoor patio spots tend to draw robust, effervescent, and mixed crowds. Let’s take a look at three rooftop bars in Reno that offer great food and that stood out to our readers in 2025: The Fox Restaurant & Brewery, Pignic Pub & Patio, and Lake Tahoe AleWorX Reno.
The Fox Restaurant & Brewery
124 Wonder Street
The Fox Restaurant & Brewery occupies a site rich in local history. The building sits on what was once the Litch Ranch, part of Reno’s early suburban development rooted in 19th-century land holdings. The brewery’s own “about” narrative couches the restaurant as paying homage to that ranching legacy.
Today, The Fox brands itself as a brewpub/pub hybrid, combining craft beer operations, a kitchen serving comfort-driven fare, and social gathering spaces—including an upstairs or rooftop seating area (weather permitting). Music on the rooftop is a special treat. It’s worth checking The Fox Restaurant & Brewery’s Facebook page for details on their upcoming Friday night performances.
Menu offerings blend British pub fare with elevated touches. Fan favorites include fish and chips, chicken pot pie, beer-braised brisket, wings, burgers, a BBQ brisket pizza, and “angry mussels.” Their bar supports a craft beer roster (given it’s a brewery) and rotating drafts, and they run a “Foxxy Hour” weekday happy hour from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., with $4 select drafts, $3.95 well cocktails, and $3.95 house wine. On Sunday, kids 12 & under eat free (with adult entrée purchase) as one of their promotional touches.
The Fox is open daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., with extended hours on Fridays and Saturdays. For rooftop fun, The Fox has two upstairs tables that can seat 12 people. The rooftop experience there is lovely when the weather permits.
Pignic Pub & Patio
235 Flint St
Pignic Pub & Patio resides in a historic 1916 Craftsman house in Reno’s Riverwalk-Midtown border area. Despite its name, it’s not strictly rooftop—its defining outdoor space is a sizable “Sun Deck” and patio area where guests can enjoy the outdoors, grill on-site (they provide grills and smokers), and watch sunsets. The “Sun Deck” is the rooftop-adjacent elevated space where you can sit back with a drink and some good food and relax. A second-floor taproom for Revision Brewing is also worth checking out.
Kitchen and pub offerings at Pignic are gastropub style: craft cocktails, a broad draft beer list (28 drafts is often cited), and food that leans toward burgers, tacos, and bar fare. Items like pub wings, the “Pigshack Classic burger,” tacos, tots, and firecracker elote shrimp are among the top fan favorites. Plus, patrons can bring their own protein or vegetables to grill on site—the bar supplies the grills and sometimes ingredients.
Their hours tilt later in the week: Monday opens at 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday 3 to 11, Wednesday through Thursday till midnight, Friday until 1:30 a.m., Saturday noon to 1:30 a.m., Sunday noon to midnight. Because the kitchen is tied to bar hours, patio use likely aligns with early evening and into late night.
Pignic hosts live music frequently in their “living room” (interior) and on the patio or deck on weekends, offering blues, rock, jazz, or R&B performances. The edible garden and seasonal produce fields they maintain allow for fresh garnishes or small garden touches. The homey, DIY aspect gives Pignic a community feel and draws groups that want to linger outdoors.
One caveat: while Pignic is often called a patio or deck bar, it may not have a traditional rooftop loft—it leans more toward elevated outdoor amenities rather than a full rooftop structure.
Lake Tahoe AleWorX Reno
324 E 4th St
Lake Tahoe AleWorX’s Reno location delivers one of the strongest rooftop bar implementations in town. It launched its rooftop deck and full bar in 2025, positioning itself as a destination rooftop restaurant and entertainment hub in the Brewery District. The rooftop offers panoramic views of downtown Reno, a wood-fired kitchen, and full service. Inside, the venue includes a craft beer bar, a rotating beer wall, an interior restaurant space, and a connected live music venue (The Alpine Reno) adjacent.
On the food front, AleWorX focuses on wood-fired pizzas and elevated bar cuisine. The menu includes pizzas, salads, appetizers, a kids’ menu (pizza, hot dog, pasta), and shareable plates. Their cocktail program is curated with seasonal specialty cocktails and includes locally sourced beer, wine, produce, rotating seasonal specials, and an upscale casual mixology bent. Because their rooftop is paired with a wood-fired kitchen, food is a central part of the rooftop experience, not an afterthought.
AleWorX Reno’s hours are a mix of late afternoon, evening, and weekend brunch service. According to their site, the hours are Monday–Thursday from 4 p.m. to midnight, Friday from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to midnight.
If you’re looking for great entertainment, AleWorX is the place. They offer live music, DJ rooftop sets, and themed events (Country Night, Downtown Blue Carpet events). Their downtown opening event (Blue Carpet) introduced daily rooftop access to the public, highlighting the new bar and full kitchen. An interesting detail is the beer wall concept: patrons inside can self-pour from rotating taps, blending interactivity with craft beer culture.
Happy hour runs Monday through Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. On weekends, they offer brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., which is uncommon for rooftop bars in Reno. The Alpine Reno, their adjacent entertainment venue, is programmed with live bands, DJs, and private event capability.
