Drinking in Winnemucca splits between the casino bars on the boulevard and the older saloons in the original downtown. The bar at the Martin Hotel and the Winnemucca Hotel are both pieces of late 19th-century saloon architecture worth a drink even if you are not eating. Picon punch — a coffee-coloured Basque cocktail of Picon, grenadine, club soda, and brandy — is the local specialty, served almost nowhere else in America. Order one; it tastes like nothing else.