Caviar Bumps and a Councilman
Fist bump caviar photo from a catered dinner party hosted by a local City of Reno Councilmember.
If Reno politics had a royal court, case CV25-01334 would be the scandal of the season. Picture it: a wine bar, an elderly gentleman, and a Reno City Councilmember with 2026 mayoral dreams—except the evening allegedly turned from small talk to small brawl, and now we’re all waiting for the tapes.
The wine bar’s two strategically placed cameras are the crown jewels in this drama. When the footage is uncorked. The video should finally reveal this story.
Because here’s the thing—this “humble city servant” doesn’t just shake hands at ribbon cuttings. No, he throws private dinners where caviar bumps are the opening act and a magnum of rare wine takes the bow. Once upon a time, caviar bumps were the indulgence of Caspian Sea fishermen and Russian nobility. Now, in Reno, they’re apparently the hors d’oeuvre of choice for the political elite, consumed in between toasts to “public service” and discreet conversations about the next election.
The vibe is less City Hall and more Versailles—minus the powdered wigs, though perhaps not the powdered noses. And while Reno’s residents wrestle with housing costs, crumbling infrastructure, and municipal belt-tightening, their supposed tribune of the people seems perfectly comfortable at the head of a banquet table, enjoying the kind of indulgences the rest of the city only reads about on menus with no prices.
Interior photo of Belleville Wine Bar where this dust up started back on March 14, 2025 but is very far from being over.
When the wine bar video surfaces, it may settle the question of what happened that night. But it won’t change the fact that in this fiefdom we call Reno, some of our “public servants” seem far more at home playing lord of the manor—leaving the rest of us to play our assigned roles as loyal, silent serfs.
Oh, and the best part of the Declaration is who was at this table the Mayor of Reno, her business partner in their suntan line Spooge Dr. Whitney Hovnick, the Director of EDAWN Taylor Adams and his wife, the publishers of Edible Reno Tahoe Magazine, a free publication, and the councilman’s hubby. In a small wine bar that is a very large table so as we said we’ll be able to see all the happenings via the security video.