Year: 2011

Best Brunches in Las Vegas Weekly

ELV note: This article appeared in the LVWeekly last Thursday when we were out of town. Our staff thought you might like to view it in this format and file these tasty choices away should you be thinking about where to grab a nosh this weekend.

By: Jim Begley, John Curtas and Brock Radke

Thu, Jul 14, 2011 (midnight)

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First’s cinnamon bun French toast

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The Weekly food crew guides you to the best Vegas has to offer in sweet, savory, delectable brunchiness.

THE HANGOVER HELPER

Brunch!

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Bar + Bistro This cozy space has held several restaurants over the past 10 years, none within a bouquerones’ width of what chef Beni Velazquez is doing with his modern tapas menu. A groovy new bar has added some urban cool to the space, and Velazquez’s Hangover Brunch keeps the joint jumpin’ with a cangrejo Benedict mofongo (lump crabmeat with plantain-garlic mash, topped with a fried quail egg), house-made black currant scones and a brioche/flan French toast that will soothe your hunger and headache simultaneously. For those who want to keep the party going, “recovery libations”—sangria, mojitos, Bloody Marys and mimosas—are only $5 apiece. At the Arts Factory, 107 Charleston Blvd., 202-6060. Brunch served Saturday & Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., dishes priced individually. —JOHN CURTAS

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Scott’s New York Pizza Tour!

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Scott Wiener is a pizza geek extraordinare. A Neapolitan nerd. A mozzarella mensch. All of which makes him the perfect guide for the cheesiest tour in New York. You will learn more about pizza during one of his three hour pizza tours than you will in a lifetime of eating at Domino’s…or whatever neighborhood slice you swear by.

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ELV’s Thought for the Day

The Duc de Bourgogne (Louis XIV’s grandson) and his two brothers had been taught the polite innovation of using a fork to eat with. But when they were invited to the King’s table at supper, he would have none of it and forbade them to use such an instrument. He would never had had an occasion to reproach me in the matter, for I have never in my life used anything to eat with but my knife and my fingers. – from the correspondence of the Princess Palatine, sister-in-law to Louis XIV (late 17th Century France)