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Eating Las Vegas on Twitter!

Don’t ask us exactly how it works….but if you click here, you can now follow ELV’s insights on everything from tiramisu to teeth-flossing….

In the coming weeks we’ll be twittering(?) tweeting(?) from the major food events that are coming up — from DISH to Epicurean Affair to Vegas Uncork’d, as well as the 6-10 different restaurants we eat in every week.

And even though we don’t understand why it’s such a phenomenon, or who would be interested in one sentence descriptions of our many meals, or what the hell we’re doing acting like a 15 year old girl (furiously texting on our cellphone in public places), ELV and his staff will henceforth be providing this service(?) to our readers on a trial basis to see if there’s an interest or following out there.

DISH – Three Square’s Spring Fundraiser on KLAS TV (CBS) – Channel 8’s Dishing and Dining

Rick Moonen, Paul Bartolotta, Kerry Simon, Denise Valdez, Louie Anderson, Clint Holmes AND Carrot Top ….. does it get any better than that? Well yes, if you include TheWorld’sGreatestRestaurantCritic* + the entire chef corps from the Wynn and Encore hotels + a chance to assuage your guilt for that gut you’ve produced while children and the needy all over the Vegas Valley go hungry every day.

Here is the link for info and tickets, and ELV and his staff will see you there next Friday night!

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* Self-proclaimed, but also endorsed as such by Marcella Ruth Schroader Curtas (D.O.B. August 10, 1924) The Official Mother (and now an avid reader) Of ELV.

James Beard Awards Finalists Announced

This morning at the Frontera Grill in Chicago, the James Beard Awards Finalists were announced. Las Vegas scored four nominations as follows:

Paul Bartolotta (Bartolatta Ristorante di Mare) in the Best Chef Southwest Category

Claude LeTohic (Joel Robuchon) in the Best Chef Southwest Category

Kamel Guechida (Joel Robuchon and L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon) in the Best Pastry Chef (National) Category

Picasso (Robert Smith: Wine Director) in the Outstanding Wine Service Category.

For Picasso and Smith, this is their third nomination in a row. Bartolotta Ristorante di Mare was nominated two years ago for Best New Restaurant, and Paul Bartolotta previously won a Best Restaurant Midwest (in 1994) for Spiaggia in Chicago.

Eating Las Vegas offers its congratulations to all of these worthy nominees, and looks forward to the Award Ceremony on May 4th. We predict at least two of these nominees will garner the big prize. FYI: We correctly predicted that Bartolotta, Guechida and Smith would again make it to these finals, but whiffed on Saipain Chutima of Lotus of Siam making it to the last round (even though she was a finalist last year for Best Chef Southwest).

The complete list of JBF Nominees continues after the jump:

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