EAT IT OR BEAT IT on KNPR’s State of Nevada

Eat It or Beat It
AIR DATE: November 19, 2010

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Max Jacobson and John Curtas offer a list of five great young Las Vegas chefs to watch, and then in “Eat It or Beat It” they duel over Mi Peru, Carnegie Deli, and the Serbian restaurant Prince.

EAT IT OR BEAT IT
Mi Peru
1450 W. Horizon Ridge Pkwy
Henderson
702-220-4652

Carnegie Deli at The Mirage
3400 Las Vegas Blvd. S
702-791-7111

Prince
6795 W. Flamingo Rd. #A
Las Vegas
702-220-8322

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An Insider’s Guide to EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants

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What happens when three food critics get together and try to pick the city’s 50 best restaurants? We ask the Weekly’s John Curtas, who teamed up with Max Jacobson and Al Mancini on Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants, out this week on Huntington Press.

Did the three of you approach the project planning to include 50 restaurants, or did you arrive at that number once you evaluated Las Vegas’ food scene?

I think the 50 kind of evolved. My first top-50 list had 75 restaurants on it, but 50’s a good round number. Vegas probably doesn’t have enough of a broad-based culinary scene to do a top 100.

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