Author: John Curtas

SAM WOO fails to do so…

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As long as we’re in a Chinese frame of mind, it’s time to relate one of the worst meals we’ve ever had on Spring Mountain Road. What made it all the more painful was it came from Sam Woo BBQ — one of the first SMR restaurants ever to woo us, way back in the Stone Age, i.e., circa 1994. For years we’ve relied on Sam Woo for basic, authentic, no frills Chinese food that appears from the kitchen almost preternaturally fast. This time, we fear, we’ve been cured of returning here forever.

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WING LEI’s Ming Yu Cooks New for Chow Dawn Fat

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Ever since Richard Chen departed earlier this year, we’ve been a little concerned about the fate of Wing Lei — the gorgeous, seductive dining room tucked into a far corner of the Wynn. Under Chef Chen, it became the only Chinese restaurant in America to merit a Michelin star. Them’s  purty big shoes to fill — if you get our drift — and whether it can maintain that level of quality and consistency is something only time (and a few more visits) will be able to tell.

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Ego? What Ego? The World’s Greatest Restaurant Critic Has No Ego…

CLASH OF THE EGOS:

THREE FOOD CRITICS AND LAS VEGAS’ TOP 50 RESTAURANTS -by Robin Leach

Posted September 30, 2010 • 8:04 p.m.

Max Jacobson, John Curtas and Al Mancini.

Photo: Denise Truscello/WireImage

The eagerly awaited and highly anticipated book Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants has been completed, and the prized selections are now wrapped in total secrecy. Vegas DeLuxe has learned that the manuscript is on its way to the printers and should be on bookshelves in time for a planned mid-November release party.

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