He was a great chef as chefs go, and as chefs go, he went.
This just in: Jet Tila, one of the brightest lights in Vegas gastronomy, a passionate, committed chef who, we hoped, would stick around once he broke from the shackles of the Wynn/Encore’s hypocrisy, will be leaving his post at Wazuzu very soon, almost exactly three years since he came to Vegas.
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An average Italian restaurant gets more customers in a week than a good Indian restaurant gets in a month. – Calvin Trillin
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What can we say about Namaste?
When it opened two years ago, we spent hours writing and crowing about it — everywhere from this website to the Las Vegas Weekly to KNPR to Channel 8’s Dishing and Dining.
Within a few short months of receiving all that praise, the head chef (the one we wrote was taking it to a whole new level of Indian food) left. Then it went through another ownership change (or two – these things can be hazy when you speak with foreign nationals), was closed down twice by the Health Department, and wound up in one Melque Rodrigues’ lap six months ago. Most intriguing of all: Melque (pronounced MEL-kee) is a trained vocalist, with major chops in the fragrance-selling and singing fields, but none in the food biz.
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ELV hates to go all EaterLA on you, but his staff thought you’d like to see some snaps of what’s going on with the construction of Central (pronounced sen-TRAL) over at Caesars Palace. Expect this stylish café (pronounced ka-FAY) — replacing the old Augustus Café near the Caesars’ check-in desks) — to redefine the hotel coffee shop, featuring food from D.C.’s finest French chef — Michel Richard (pronounced MEE-shel rish-ARD) — and to open sometime in September.
ELV suspects that, in food and appearance, it will greatly resemble Richard’s original Central in downtown Washington (D. C. not Connecticut)…and that’ll be just peachy keen with us.