The Blonde Leading The Blonde…at MILOS

These distinctly non-Greek ladies welcome everyone to Milos:

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And in case you missed it…here is the video of our segment on Channel 8’s Dishing and Dining with Denise Valdez about the best seafood restaurant in town:

It will give you some edible, as opposed to visual, reasons to hightail it there tonight for some of the freshest fish you’ll ever taste.

ESTIATORIO MILOS

In The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino

3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South

Las Vegas, NV 89109

702.698.7930

www.estiatoriomilos.com

LOTUS OF SIAM (New York Version) Reviewed in New York Magazine

ELV note: This recent review of the New York Lotus of Siam just came across our desk (we’ve been a subscriber to New York magazine since the Clay Felker days of the late 7os), and we thought Las Vegans would like to see how one of the preëminent food writers of New Yawk  treats our treasured possession. We at ELV are glad those New Yawkers are finally catching up with us. Congrats to the Chutimas, and we’ll see you on Saturday night…in Las Vegas!

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Lotus of Siam

So how does a cuisine beloved by chefs and assorted ragged outer-borough chowhounds turn into a full-fledged Manhattan restaurant boomlet more or less overnight? That was the question that the grateful, slightly befuddled Thai-food scholars at my table pondered as we sat down to dinner at Lotus of Siam, the second prominent Thai-style restaurant to open in Manhattan in the last two months. Continue reading “LOTUS OF SIAM (New York Version) Reviewed in New York Magazine”

CNN’s Eatocracy Reports on Vegas…Quoting a Certain Someone

ELV note: The following article, written by Sarah LeTrent appeared on the CNN.com website today.
January 18th, 2011
05:30 PM ET

Las Vegas, long known as a city of excess, might be getting a little less flush.

According to a Zagat survey released earlier this month, even though Vegas is still the nation’s most expensive dining city – the average bill is approximately $47.53 – Las Vegas diners are eating out less. The average number of meals eaten out dropped from 3.8 per week in 2005 to 3.3 in 2010.

Combine those figures with a few notable restaurant closings, and it makes you wonder – are the city’s restaurateurs starting to hedge their bets?
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