Archive for the ‘Critics’
December 21, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Critics, Openings
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The Old Homestead is set to open for customers tomorrow night in Caesars Palace, and has been doing the friends and family thing for a couple of days now.
Opening tomorrow night!
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Greg Sherry, Caesar's Prez Gary Selesner and Marc Sherry
And when there’s meat around, you can be sure Josh “The Maharaja of Meat” Ozersky will be nearby, testing the grinds, calibrating the cuts, assessing the seasonings and parsing the proteins for presumed perfection.
When we caught up with him last night, that’s just what he was doing….when he wasn’t marveling over his newest, favorite book:
Ozersky - overcome by our omniscience
We’ll be reporting more on our adventures in eating with Josh….but right now, it’s off to another meat-fest.
December 12, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Chefs, Critics, Food, Food Network, Iron Chef America
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The Chairman and Kevin Brauch
In case you missed it, Iron Chef America aired Battle Tilapia last night on Food Network.
ELV missed it, because no one gave him fair warning the episode was about to air. We found out at dinner at Due Forni, where they were nice enough to bump the football game for a few minutes to watch us try to treat tilapia as something trenchantly tasteful.
The episode will be repeated this coming Saturday at 5 pm.
Battle Tilapia
Episode IA1018H
Tune in:
Dec. 17th, 2011
5:00 PM ET/PT
Iron Chef Marc Forgione battles young New York-based chef Nick Curtin in Kitchen Stadium.
For the record, Marcella Ruth Schroader Curtas (d.o.b. 8.10.24 – The Official Mother of ELV) insists that we set the record straight about Mrs. Paul’s Fish Sticks. “I never served them to you,” she claims. If not, ELV has no idea where he developed such a loathing for the crispy little fishy fritters.
November 15, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Chefs, Commercial, Critics, Events, Food
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If someone had dropped a bomb on Restaurant Guy Savoy last night between the hours of 6-8 pm, it would’ve set Las Vegas’ culinary destiny back twenty years. Such was the assemblage of top toques from across the valley (and from beyond the pond as well), who came to kibbitz and consume incomparable comestibles (jamon iberico de bellotta de pata negra, pumpkin soup with white truffles, oysters en gelée, Paris-Brest pastries, and two croquembouche towers of nonpareil profiteroles) and champagne in the consummate style the French do better than anyone.
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November 14, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Chefs, Critics, Events, Food, Reviews, The List
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The Top 10 Restaurants in Las Vegas, according to EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants are (in alphabetical order):
Bar Masa
CUT
Estiatorio Milos
Guy Savoy
Joel Robuchon
L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon
Le Cirque
Michael Mina
Picasso
Twist
November 14, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Commercial, Critics, Food, Reviews
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EATING LAS VEGAS – The Fifty Essential Restaurants (2012) gets its big reveal at a media launch party this evening at Restaurant Guy Savoy, and then another one at the Top of the World restaurant on Wednesday night.
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November 12, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Critics
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Hot Chicks with Foodie Douchebags
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Having long ceased to be a babe magnet, ELV found roofies and Veuve to be the surest way to a lady's heart.
November 01, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Critics, Food, Reviews
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ELV note: Chris Shen from Henderson weighs in on Yelp with this fine and funny haiku review* of Raku! Read it here in its original Yelp-er format or continue scrolling below. Perhaps we wouldn’t be so hard on Yelp if people were this clever and conscientious with their reviews…(re-printed with permission).
Finally had the opportunity to bust my Raku cherry with three friends visiting from out of town, and when you have a group of folks walk in with no appetite from a heavy late lunch and still managed to complete a meal with their taste buds completely blown away, it is clearly a sign of just pure amazing food. We had a taste of a few items from each section (appetizers, robata grill, and noodles/rice/soups), and can hardly wait to return for more. I was so inspired that I composed a Raku Haiku for each of our selections:
“Sashimi Salad”
Fresh slice of the sea
Deep-fried onions paired with greens
Perfect start to meal
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November 01, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Critics, Food, Openings, Reviews
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Like we said in our last post, if this keeps up, criticizing the restaurant offerings in Henderson will cease to be our third favorite indoor sport.*
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October 25, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Critics, Food, Openings, Reviews, Zines
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If you saw Al Mancini’s review of Cafe de Japon in CityLife last week, you read his tepid, if generally positive review of this unique Japanese cafe. Al is not known for for his superlatives (especially when it comes to Asian cuisines he has no interest in learning about), so ELV thought he’d ladle on a few.
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October 21, 2011
By: John Curtas
Category: Chefs, Critics, Events, Food, Reviews
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Chefs: Sharpen your carving knives.
Publicists: Prepare your apologies.
Flacks: Try not to get caught in flagrante delicto.
Casinos: Start creating your canned responses.
Public: Perchance you'll be interested to know November 14th has been set for as the official launch date for the second edition of Eating Las Vegas - The Fifty Essential Restaurants (With commentary). This year bigger, better and bitchier...and beholden to bupkus but our beautiful, braggadocios breadth of bottomless bounty.
Restaurant reviews, quips, picks and pans-with some seriously salivating history-from the man who eats his way through Sin City every day.
