Category: Events

Iron Chef America Viewing Party at Marche Bacchus – Coming Up Oct. 5

Tune in October 5th (a week from this Sunday night) at 9:00 pm PDT to the Food Network to see me and my fellow Food Network judges eat more (insert secret ingredient here) than any person should consume in a decade.

And if you’d really like to have some fun, join Robin Leach, NORM! and Channel 8’s Denise Valdez and yours truly at Marche Bacchus for a special Viewing/Dinner/Competitive Cooking Party starting at 6:00 that evening. Seating is limited, so call 702.804.8008 to reserve your chance to critique the critic critiquing (and eat and drink like a Burgundian Duke.)

Marche Bacchus Chef Jean-David Groff Daudet will be doing his own riffs on this ingredient in competition with a very prominent local chef whose identity (like the winner of the competition) we are forbidden from revealing.

Be advised: This may turn into a full contact battle of wits, so brickbats, bad puns and rotten tomatoes will be checked at the door. When the producers first sprang the “secret ingredient” on us in Kitchen Stadium, ELV must admit there was a bit of a letdown…..but the chefs — Iron Chef Michael Symon and David Adjey from Toronto — pulled off some stunning dishes.

MARCHE BACCHUS

2620 Regatta Drive #106

Las Vegas, NV 89128

702.804.8008

www.marchebacchus.com

L’ATELIER DE JOEL ROBUCHON 3rd Anniversary Menu

L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon celebrated its third anniversary in Las Vegas on September 15. It bears remembering that we got our L’Atelier before New York got theirs, and ELV will stack the food of Steve Benjamin and Kamel Guechida up against anything the Big Apple can throw at us. Here is a sample of the Third Anniversary Special Tasting Menu — available throughout the month for $148.00 for eight courses of the food that made Robuchon famous — and that put Las Vegas in the cross-hairs of every gastronome in the world.

What the f…k?

Would someone please explain to ELV how you can learn about (or enjoy) wine whilst listening to a 90’s has been band named after the effects of a certain botanically-enhanced neutral spirit on W.C. Field’s nose? Or maybe it’s just an excuse to get drunk on something other than Red Bull and vodka…

ELV believes rock n’ roll is for the young and wine is for the not-so-young, and perhaps trying to mix the two is the recipe for a new miserable experience.

Or perhaps ELV is just showing his age.