Super Green Cuisine Dinner Event
Monday, March 29 at 6:00 p.m.
Chef Rick Moonen and Slow Food Las Vegas Chapter are proud to announce that Chef Moonen will present a Super Green Cuisine dinner event featuring seafood selections from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s “Super Green List”. (more…)
The Tuscany Kitchen isn’t a restaurant per se. What it is is a conference room at the very ends of the earth within the Bellagio, that management has outfitted with an exhibition kitchen and enough tables and frippery to make a reasonable facsimile of one.
Anyone who tells you they don’t like the Cantonese food at Ping Pang Pong doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Congratulations to all of the nominees, and especially to those from our humble burg who have been nominated for these, the Oscars of the restaurant world (a complete list of nominees follows after the jump):
The two worst days of the year to eat out are Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. Amateur hours abound, with many kitchens and staffs phoning it in for people who are only there because they think they have to be.
On the last Saturday of the the last five months, Chef Geno Bernardo and his crew have been conducting a cooking class high above The Strip at NOVE. For $75 you get lessons in salads, pasta making, sauteeing and sausage, followed by a kick-ass lunch of the very recipes you just saw prepared by professionals.
We’re not saying the Mandarin Oriental is classy, tasteful, rich and elegant in a way Vegas has never seen before…but it makes the Bellagio look like the Excalibur.
It may be a bit early to be thinking about your plans for Mother’s Day 2010, but if you’re Brad Ogden, Paul Bartolotta or Rick “Fishboy” Moonen, Christmas time is the right time to promote their restaurants, their hotels, and Las Vegas’s biggest and best culinary event.
And there’s no better place to do so on the food-friendliest network (CBS) morning news show, where these uber-chefs got a full ten minutes to strut their (and Vegas’s) stuff (an eternity in TV time).
Harry Smith and his gang gave the nod to Moonen’s salmon with fennel with blood oranges, but we at ELV thought the schoolboy bickering (Ogden to Bartolotta: “You need help with that?” Bartolotta to Ogden (dripping with sarcasm): I’m sure (yours) will be okay…”) made the segment worth watching.
So bicker on boys!
It’s a lot more fun than watching Rachel Ray make a Velveeta cheese pie with Triscuit cracker crust.
Our staff was too busy eating and drinking over the past four days to post anything, but we dug up this nugget of historical accuracy and thespian excellence, just to remind everyone what makes this country so great.
Pillaging from the natives and casino gambling.
Alan “The Hitman” Richman has done it again.
Trumped all of the nation’s food critics.
Beaten the French at their own game.
And made the world safe for lovers of obscenely impersonal, big box stores everywhere.
Yes, he cooked uber-French chef Eric Ripert (of New York’s Le Bernadin – widely considered the best seafood restaurant in America) a meal entirely from Costco (complete with frozen quiches), and actually got Ripert to admit the quality of the products (and Richman’s cooking) was good.
Ripert found the very idea of Costco offensive (as do we), but begrudgingly had nothing but good things to say about the products that went into his meal.
Next on Avec Alan: Bobby Flay is cooked a meal out of chalupas and Slim Jims — declares everything “too spicy.”
Restaurant reviews, quips, picks and pans-with some seriously salivating history-from the man who eats his way through Sin City every day.