Author: John Curtas

THE COUNTRY CLUB GRILL at Wynn

If you want to read a bad review of a good restaurant, look no further than last Friday’s R-J piece on The Country Club Grill at the Wynn. By “bad” ELV means poorly written…in that the piece fails to mention the chef: Rene Lenger; the designer: Todd Avery; the sommelier who provided such good service to the reviewer: John Paddon; or the fact that the bread is soooo good at all of the restaurants at Wynn because of master baker Boris Villat (something our town’s main newspaper restaurant critic should know).

Other than that, she got most things right. Lenger’s food is wonderful and the steaks are very good (although expensive, and the “prime” designation has been severely cheapened over the past decade, and the Wynn doesn’t dry-age its beef as it should.)

To hear ELV’s review of The Country Club Grill, with pictures of the fabulous design, and written when David Walzog was chef (he’s top toque at SW Steakhouse these days), but still valid today – click here.

The Country Club Grill

At the Wynn Hotel and Casino

3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South

Las Vegas, NV 89109

702.770.3317

www.wynnlasvegas.com

CUT STEAKHOUSE on News 88.9 FM – Nevada Public Radio’s Food For Thought

If I told you there is a restaurant (not French or seafood-y) that does wild French turbot as well as any French or seafood restaurant, you’d be intrigued wouldn’t you? What if I then mentioned that this same place – not vegetarian by any means – also did some of the most sophisticated vegetable dishes around? And what if I further rhapsodized about a superlative glazed Asian pork belly – not made by Asians – or Indian short ribs with curried pumpkin not cooked by any Indians (dots or feathers?) You’d be dying to know where I was talking about wouldn’t you?

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Interview

Now I know how DeNiro feels. Or Barack. Or these ten folks (pay particular attention to 80’s screen idol(?) Corey Haim’s defining moment). Yes, it’s fun and oh-so-self-indulgent to wax narcissistically about one’s past, present and future. But Vegas Wineaux’s Irene King (one of our newest and fun-est Friends In Food) asked, so The Food Gal and I met her for an hour of chit chat and friendly interrogation.

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