Category: Chefs

All-Star Cochon This Sunday!

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10 ACCLAIMED CHEFS. 4 BUTCHERS. 14 WHOLE HERITAGE PIGS.

COCHON 555 TEAMS UP WITH THE COSMOPOLITAN OF LAS VEGAS TO PRESENT THE FIRST-EVER ALL-STAR COCHON

July 24, 2011 at 4:30 pm

WHAT: The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas and Cochon 555, a national culinary competition promoting heritage breed pigs, will host the first-ever All-Star Cochon, a new pork-filled Las Vegas event.

The ten chefs – past winners and fan favorites – will work together to prepare a ‘snout-to-tail’ menu featuring heritage breed pigs sourced in their local markets. The event includes over forty swine infused dishes, four butcher demos, reserve wines, artisan cocktails, craft brews and pig-infused desserts. Special engagements include a tasting of Domaine Serene reserve wines paired with the coveted Spanish pork, Fermin Iberico de Bellota, Imported by Wagshal’s.

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PATISSERIE MANON in Las Vegas Weekly

ELV note: The following article hits the newsstands tomorrow morning in the printed version of the LVWeekly, or you can access the original, on-line version by clicking here. Or continue reading if you’d like to read it in this format. However you ingest the information, we guarantee it will have your mouth watering.

When word got out that a French boulangerie (bakery), patisserie (pastry shop) and bistro was coming to the outskirts of Summerlin, you could almost hear a “Vive la France!” go up among lovers of great baked goods. Continue reading “PATISSERIE MANON in Las Vegas Weekly”

FORTE to be Featured on KLAS TV (CBS) Channel 8’s Dishing and Dining

Eating Las Vegas® can only spend so much time crying over spilled milk (in this case, the closing of Rosemary’s), so in honor of FORTE‘s being featured on KLAS TV’s Dishing & Dining with Denise Valdez tomorrow, we at ELV thought we’d post a few more of our tasty snaps of another meal there….including those of a couple of wayward chefs who happened upon us one night as we were polishing off some Bulgarian beer and some patatas bravas…

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FORTE TAPAS BAR AND BISTRO

4180 South Rainbow Blvd.

Las Vegas, NV 89103

702.220.3876