KLAS TV Channel 8 (CBS) – Restaurant of the Week – RAKU Japanese Charcoal Grill

RAKU is so good it’s scary. Fresh, pristine, pure Japanese robatayaki cooking like Las Vegas has never seen, and fast becoming a foodie mecca like we’ve never had off the Strip.

Uber-seafood chef Paul Bartolotta told me he’s been twelve (12!) times in two months and still isn’t tired of it.

We (Food Man, #2 Son of Food Man, and The Food Gal) went last night and tried three desserts (after some pickled Bonito guts, beef liver, cold soba noodles et al), and found the melting chocolate cake to be possibly the best in town – ditto the watermelon grantinee (called sorbet on the menu).

Chef/owner Mitsuo Endo told us (through his interpreter – the adorable Risa) that he originally came here to cook in a restaurant in, of all places, Anthem – that bastion of bad taste in Henderson.* Anthem’s loss was the rest of the town’s gain.

And for the first time on TV, watch the world’s greatest restaurant critic** eat a pig’s ear on a morning news show.***

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

* As in: houses (ginormous), cars (nothing but SUV’s), traffic (unbearable) and good restaurants (non-existent)

** Self-proclaimed

*** YouTube here I come.

2 thoughts on “KLAS TV Channel 8 (CBS) – Restaurant of the Week – RAKU Japanese Charcoal Grill

  1. Was he formally of “EN” robata and sushi in Anthem? That would make sense. When they first opened the food was on-point, and their fresh, house-made tofu mimmicked the creamiest burrata cheese from Italy, which I was instantly reminded of upon eating Raku’s playful Japanese take on a caprese…..but as time passed the restaurant wasn’t quite the same. Perhaps this explains it?

    Thanks John…..indeed, Raku does rock!

  2. Simply put the best food in Vegas. Period. The fact that it’s also amazingly affordable is beside the point – I’d pay Strip prices for this food. The folks in the mega hotels should all EAT HERE and realize what it’s all about…

Comments are closed.