More Hidden Gems
(Hard to find but worth it!)
1. SUZUYA PASTRIES & CREPES – 7225 South Durango Dr.
2. I-NABA – 3210 South Decatur Blvd.
3. YUNNAN GARDEN – 3934 Schiff Dr.
4. SHOKU RAMEN-YA – 470 East Windmill Ln.
Category: Chefs
DISTRICT ONE KITCHEN & BAR
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Eating Las Vegas has often wondered whether Vietnamese food in America is the ultimate revenge for that little dust-up we caused there in the 60s. They could never hope to outgun us, the thinking goes, so the expats figured they’d bore us to death with their cuisine.
Eric L’huillier Needs to Stay in Vegas
We’ve just had our 3rd outstanding meal in less than a year at Pinot Brasserie — Las Vegas’s most underrated restaurant.
Over the past year or so, we’ve taken to calling PB an under-appreciated jewel in our crown of restaurant gems, and nothing we’ve tasted lately has dissuaded us from trumpeting the excellence of the cooking on display here.
We also know this Joachim Spichal mainstay is not long for the Vegas restaurant world. (Sources have been telling us for months that the Venetian has tried to buy out Splichal’s lease, but he’s not budging until it expires sometime in the next year.)
Be that as it may, the Executive Chef at PB — Eric L’huillier — the man who has churned out precise and drop-your-fork-delicious versions of French bistro food here for the past seven years — is soon to be out of a job through no fault of his own. (ELV feels L’huillier’s pain, as he has been out-0f-a-job many times in his life, although always through some fault of his own.)
Eating Las Vegas thinks L’huillier (pronounced Loo-WEE-lee-ay) would be a perfect fit at a place like Tableau in the Wynn or Marche Bacchus — places in need of some real talent (and stability) in the kitchen.
Of course, they’d have to pay him a boatload of money.
But he would be worth it.
Because the man knows French cooking like I know alimony.
PINOT BRASSERIE
In the Venetian Hotel and Casino
3355 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
702.414.8888
