December 22, 2010 at 3:24PM by John Mariani

A decade ago it was easy enough to contend that if you wanted the best French food you’d go to France, the best Italian food you’d go to Italy, and the best Japanese food you’d go to Japan. But if the last ten years have shown gastronomes anything, it’s that food the equal of any in the world is now to be found in the USA. And not just in New York or San Francisco. Cities like Chicago, Houston, Washington, and Boston have enormous breadth and depth in many ethnic categories.

ELV goes Greek to Greek (feta to feta?) with MILOS founder Costas Spiliadis

December 16, 2010December 21, 2010

ELV note: The original of this article appears in today’s issue of the Las Vegas Weekly.

COSMO’S ESTIATORIO MILOS REFLECTS ITS CREATOR’S BACK-TO-BASICS VISION

“I got into this business to change how people think about Greek food.” That’s how 63-year-old Costas Spiliadis greets me as we sit down for lunch. With the opening of his Estiatorio Milos inside the Cosmpolitan fast approaching, he’s living at the Mandarin Oriental these days, training his staff round the clock. He’s ready to be questioned, Greek to Greek, about running the best Greek restaurants in the world.

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