RI RA – Can Really Fake It

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Eating fake (and greasy) Irish food in a fake Irish pub while listening to fake Irish music* about as satisfying as having a fake (stripper) friend with fake breasts fake an orgasm during fake sex.

You have been warned.

RÍ RÁ

At the Mandalay Bay Shoppes

3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South

Las Vegas, NV 89109

702.632.9376

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* Who doesn’t love a little Marshall Tucker or Charlie Daniels with their greasy fish and chips?

Eat This Now – Dolsot Bibimbap at KOREAN GARDEN BARBECUE

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The Food Gal® is something of an expert on this “stone pot mixed meal” — at least as it exists in Vegas’ Korean eateries —  since she’s tried it in just about every Korean eatery in town. Of all she’s sampled, she loves the nicely arranged vegetables, and the big, ceramic bowl at Korean Garden Barbecue most of all, not least because that ceramic pot provides maximum surface area for caramelization of the steamed rice as it melts against the super-heated bottom and sides.

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Petite Purveyor of Prime

ELV note: The following article appears in this month’s issue of VEGAS magazine. Click here to read it in its original format, or continue reading below…and try not to start salivating for a superior steak.

How Nicole Brisson Handles the Manliest Meat in the World

When you ask to see the chef in most steakhouses, a big, brawny guy appears looking like he knows his way around a side of beef. Not so at Mario Batali’s Carnevino. Instead, a pint-size female walks out looking no bigger than a filet mignon. Nicole Brisson is 5-foot-2 and has talents and responsibilities that make her unique in the world of porterhouses and prime. As executive chef, she supervises the cooking and the (almost all male) staff of 120 employees at what may be the best steakhouse in America—serving what are certainly the oldest aged steaks anywhere, along with authentic eats given the weighty Batali/Bastianich seal of approval. It doesn’t get more exalted than that in the steak or Italian food world.

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