Category: Chefs

Eating Paris (France, not Texas)

We just received a voice mail from an Official Friend Of ELV inquiring about places to eat in Paris (France, not Texas). After the slide show, you (and they) can jump to a list of favorites complied after four trips there in the past 3 three years. We haven’t been this year due to the falling dollar — but will be attending the Bocuse d’Or (in Lyon) this coming January. Something tells us a stopover for a few days of cassoulet, choucroute, andouillettes, and pot au feu in Gay* Paree may just sneak into our agenda as well.

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DANIEL BOULUD BRASSERIE

Sitting on the mist-cooled patio of the Daniel Boulud Brasserie in the Wynn is probably one of the most convivial places in town to have dinner — even on a hot August night. The vibe is always one of energy and appreciation for the fine food and wine flowing all around you, and it always feels like one big party to us. We could do without the stupid light and music show that intrudes for five minutes out of every thirty, but the rubes and high rollers alike seem to love its music-meets-multi-media vibe, so we swallow hard and wait for the annoyance to pass.

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RM SEAFOOD

ELV remembers when the Dome of the Sea in the Dunes Hotel was the ne plus ultra of seafood restaurants in the High Mojave Desert. Actually, for about thirty years it was the only seafood restaurant around here. We remember with fondness the harpist who traveled around the restaurant on a moving track, playing melodically mediocre light classical tunes to distract the diners from the time-worn, tired and tepid recipes being served up (frozen sole almandine anyone?)

Now we have two seafood restaurants (RM Seafood and Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare) that compete with the best in the country. Le Bernadin in NYC is generally considered the best seafood restaurant in America, but nothing Eric Ripert served us in January (at a highly disappointing lunch there) competes with our last two meals at RM. Click here to hear my first review of RM Seafood, shortly after it opened in 2005. (FYI: The service flaws I complained of at the time were corrected long ago.)

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