Author: John Curtas

KAN’S HONG KONG KITCHEN + BASIL ‘N LIME = two tasty Asian cuisines

You couldn’t have two more different Asian cuisines than Cantonese and Thai. Southern Chinese food is seafood and vegetable-heavy, with funky and flat flavors that sometimes challenge the Western palate. Thai cooking celebrates hot, sour and sweet sensations that compel your brain to cry for more while your tongue is crying for help. Here’s a couple of faves, one off Spring Mountain Road on Jones, the other in the Southwest part of town, that ELV and his staff go to when they require a jolt of the real McGillicuddy. For other real McGillicuddys, see this guy and this guy.*

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B & B RISTORANTE

CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC!

One of the ways a guy knows he’s middle-aged is when he sees a woman walking with her daughter and they both look good to him. And a sure fire way to tell if you’re too old or jaded to worship at a celebrity chef shrine is whether you think basking in some Food Network God’s absentee aura is worth the price of his ruining your meal – with things that have nothing to do with his cooking. Take that chef’s taste in music for example…PLEASE!

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Interview – MenuSearch.Net

According to people who know these things, i.e. The Kelsey Group, 54% of people have replaced the Yellow Pages with the Internet.

According to Digitrends, “52.7% of the online business directory users visit a merchant because of what they saw online, and 87% of the online users depend on the Internet to access local information.”

Even the U.S. Department of Commerce has stated: “Those businesses that use the Internet grew 46% faster than those that didn’t.”

Numbers (and statistics like that) only frighten and confuse ELV. But it doesn’t take an idiot to recognize that the world of eating out and the Internet have become inextricably intertwined. For this reason we sat down with Erik Foubert, a Vegas dude with a great website- www.MenuSearch.Net – that’s ideal for finding what’s on a restaurant’s menu before you show up.

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