Researching “Chinatown for Beginners”

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We’ve been saying it for seventeen years and we’ll keep saying it ’til we’re blue in the face: If you want some of the best, and healthiest, and most interesting and cheapest food this town has to offer, haul your keister up and down the 3.2 mile long stretch of Spring Mountain Road between Rainbow and Valley View, and duck into almost any of the 58 restaurants located there.

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MICHAEL’S – They Shoot Horses Don’t They? (Revised)

We at ELV have thought long and hard about our withering critique of this place, and have come to a completely opposite conclusion.

Most of the review is unchanged, but we’ve added a few paragraphs at the end that gives the devil his due, and makes a modest proposal that all major Strip properties should consider. (Hint: If every hotel had a Michael’s, perhaps we’d all be better off.)

So scroll down a couple of posts and while you’re reading, consider what a great tourist attraction a “gourmet room” (circa 1975) would make.