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When peripatetic chef Steven Geddes called us to a ham-fest (at the home of sommelier Joe Sauerwein), ELV was in faster than you can say Wynn/Encore Has Jumped The Shark.
Category: Chefs
ALEX Closes – The Enemy of Great is Good
Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien. (The best is the enemy of the good.) – Voltaire
There are passion restaurants and there are money restaurants. ALEX — the jewel in the supposed crown of the Wynn hotel — was supposed to be both, but was unceremoniously shut down on short (ten days) notice, despite being the very embodiment of the former, but (apparently) failing as the latter. What really went on behind the scenes leading up to its untimely demise will probably never be known, but the shudder has been felt by the entire Vegas food world (that now extends around the globe), and provides the perfect catalyst to review, and speculate about, what has happened to dining in restaurants, in Las Vegas, over the past seventeen years.
Eat This Now – SCARPETTA’S $24 Spaghetti
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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A word to the wise, though. Some nights the dish is loaded with tomatoes, some nights it isn’t. Some times you get a nice zing from the pepperocini oil used to finish the dish, sometimes you don’t. Executive Chef Dan Rossi tells ELV he’s still training his cooks to get it consistently right, but even when it’s a tad off, this dish is quite a dish.
SCARPETTA
In The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino
3708 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
702.698.7960