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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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LOS ANTOJOS Olé Molé

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In honor of tomorrow’s Official Launch of EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants (Huntington Press), we at ELV hereby offer a few tasty snaps from one of the more modest, but no less deserving, restaurants contained within that mighty, 126 page tome.

We also offer for your delectation: the green chicken molé at Los Antojos — so good it will make you want to do a Mexican hat dance.

FYI: the chilaquiles with steak and red salsa, consommé loco, and house made flan are worth a special trip too.

OLÉ!

LOS ANTOJOS

2520 South Eastern Ave. (at Sahara)

Las Vegas, NV 89169-1800

702.457.3505