God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire
These two fellows (John Mariani and Alan Richman) have forgotten more about food than I will ever know. I am proud to call each of them my friend.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire
These two fellows (John Mariani and Alan Richman) have forgotten more about food than I will ever know. I am proud to call each of them my friend.
THIS JUST IN: Due to a variety of preoccupations, Eating Las Vegas — the man, the gastronome, the seminal voice in the Las Vegas food world — has been dormant for the last week. He promises to rectify this situation later today (or early tomorrow) with his elucidations on the state of izakayas in our humble burg. (Try saying that after a dozen cups of sake.)

This picture, though 123 years old, pretty much sums up our view of the past twelve months. It was a kidney stone of a year, and we couldn’t pass it fast enough. And since this will be our last post of 2014, we thought we’d feature a few random thoughts and observations about it, and point our loyal readers to what they can look forward to in the time it takes our blue marble to rotate around good old Sol one more time.
2014 in Review
What exactly happened on our food scene this past year?
Answer: not much if you looked on the Strip; quite a lot if you looked off it.