Category: Celebrity Chef Hell

New York Wins Every Single James Beard Award!

Last night at its annual awards banquet, the James Beard Foundation announced it was dispensing with all future categories and henceforth, would be condensing its awards to a single, three foot, rotund statuette of its founding father, and would collectively award it each and every year to every New York City restaurateur, chef, writer, broadcaster and editor in the New York food media — so that they could all, continually, bask in its brilliance and career-enhancing powers.

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Lunch At BAR JAMON

Bar Jamon (ham bar) is a tiny tapas bar near Union Square. Vegas has nothing like it. 20 tapas, 3 Spanish hams + a 24 page list of Spanish wines. ELV has just been told Molto Mario doesn’t want pictures taken in his restaurant(!?). Apparently he thinks he’s Paul f*cking Bocuse — who, by the way, doesn’t mind photos of all kinds being taken in his eateries.
That being said, his Manteca w/ bouquerones (toasted baguette with pork fat, sundried tomatoes and pickled sardines) is a religious experience.
And caramelized pumpkin with Mahon cheese? Who knew?

This Just In….Next To Vegas, New York City Is A Bargain!

ELV has maintained for years that Vegas is the most expensive restaurant city in America.

Further proof (as if any is needed):

A three-course lunch at Cafe Boulud in New York City (one of ELV’s favorite restaurants in the world), now runs $24 — or roughly the price of an appetizer at most Wynn restaurants.

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