White Truffles at Valentino, The Venetian
A note of apology: I was ill during the season and was unable to publish this in a timely fashion. veal tartine Hear ye, hear ye! That most rare of gourmet comestibles, tuber magnatum, (aka the white...
View ArticleGordon Ramsay’s Pub & Grill, Caesars Palace
Duck Confit Salad. All Photos by Anthony Mair Everybody who’s anybody in Las Vegas, to paraphrase the writer John Gregory Dunne, goes by one name. Cher does Vegas. Celine does Vegas. So does Gordon....
View ArticleWhere I Would Stay in Vegas: The Nobu Hotel
I was fortunate enough to recently tour Nobu Hotel at Caesars Palace, scheduled to open today, Monday February 4, 2013. Billed as another ‘boutique hotel’ amidst a national invasion of ‘boutique...
View ArticleThe Eyes Have It: Andrea’s at Wynn
Andrea Wynn's Eyes Photo by Barbara Kraft The sensuous, color-shifting eyes flashing over the bar at Andrea’s, the new Asian fusion restaurant at Encore, belong to Steve Wynn’s wife, Andrea, taken from...
View ArticleChef Marc’s Novecento 900: Best Pizza, Best Price
Sausage and Pepperoni Pizza Marc Sgrizzi, alternatively known as Marc Ritz, is a good ol’ boy Italian chef from upstate New York. He’s an ex-boxer, but today, burrata cheese, and one of the most...
View ArticleSpago Beverly Hills
Dining Room No one in the food game has reinvented himself more than Wolfgang Puck, and he’s not ready to pack it in yet. He recently completed a 4 mil redesign of his flagship, the restaurant Spago in...
View ArticleEureka! Great Eats at Around $10- Fat Choy Restaurant
Roast Duck Rice Eureka. That’s what Archimedes said when he successfully calculated a theorem for determining the volume of an object by submerging it in water. It’s also the name of a rather...
View ArticleTivoli’s Second Wave: Poppy Den springs up from Petra’s ashes
Reprinted with permission from Seven Weekly Las Vegas. Check out Seven Magazine by picking a copy up at Unicahome and other fine venues in our fair Village of Las Vegas. Find out what is new and...
View ArticleSHe by Morton’s— A Steakhouse for Young, Single Women
Reprinted with permission from Seven Weekly Las Vegas. Check out Seven Magazine by picking a copy up at Unicahome and other fine venues in our fair Village of Las Vegas. Find out what is new and...
View ArticleUniversal Whiskey Experience at Wynn March 1-2, 2013
THE WORLD’S PREMIER LUXURY WHISKY SHOW RETURNS TO VEGAS Universal Whisky Experience to take place March 1-2, 2013 Founded by real estate developer and whisky enthusiast Mahesh Patel, the Universal...
View ArticleA Max Minute: Citizens Kitchen and Lounge at Mandalay Bay
The space that recently housed an absurd concept called Red White and Blue, which formerly had been a French brasserie, and before that, around five other ill-fated stops, might finally have struck...
View ArticleVenetian Cleaning House: Chef Sammy D Gets The Axe
The Venetian seems to be cleaning house with regard to its restaurants, and not in a good way. On the heels of the announcement of the intention to close Piero Selvaggio Valentino in June, a mistake I...
View ArticleLas Vegas’ New Ramen Empire
Reprinted with permission from Seven Weekly Las Vegas. Check out Seven Magazine by picking a copy up at Unicahome and other fine venues in our fair Village of Las Vegas. Find out what is new and...
View ArticleSuperstar Chef Nobu Matsuhisa Puts Teppan on the Table
Hamachi Collar (Hugh's Pick) Reprinted with permission from Seven Weekly Las Vegas. Check out Seven Magazine by picking a copy up at Unicahome and other fine venues in our fair Village of Las Vegas....
View ArticleLas Vegas Restaurant Week: March 8-15, 2013
Since 2006, Three Square has served over 1.5 million meals to people in need. Restaurant week is back upon us. This is a great excuse to get out and enjoy a prix fixe meal at some of the area’s...
View ArticleFelix, the Viva Las Arepas Man
I visited Caracas in late fall, 1974, and it is a sobering thought that at that time, Hugo Chavez was only 20 years old. I don’t remember much. Slums, laundry hanging from crumbling balconies, and the...
View ArticleRouladen and Haxen Dinner at German-American Social Club Sat March 23, 2013
The German-American Social Club of Las Vegas will be having a Rouladen and Haxen dinner this Saturday at 6 PM. Haxen is a Bavarian dish that uses the front pig leg, bone-in. Rouladen is a mix of...
View ArticleCognac Bar at Guy Savoy, Caesars Palace
When I was a young man, I was fond of a restaurant called Le Coupe-Chou in Paris. It was located at the foot of a blind alley, had an almost medieval ambiance, and served a spate of southwestern...
View ArticleBeer vs. Booze at Public House
Public House is our only true gastropub, a term that has been stillborn for most of the places that claim it. And so it seemed fitting that it was chosen as the venue for a pop-up dinner pitting a...
View ArticleOpenTable Top 100 Dining Hot Spots in the U.S.
OK, I’m lazy. Here’s a press release. SAN FRANCISCO – March 27, 2013 – As we anticipate the warm days and cool spring nights,OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN), the world’s leading provider of online...
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