Category: Events

Esquire Magazine’s Best New Restaurants of 2009

Love him or hate him (and we love the guy), what John Mariani says about restaurants carries a lot of weight. That’s why his annual Best New Restaurants story in Esquire is eagerly anticipated each year, and is a big deal in the world of American chefs and restaurants.

We were sworn to secrecy, so didn’t post this until someone else did.

Here they are, and congratulations to Kim Canteenwalla’s SOCIETY for being the only Las Vegas restaurant to gain this recognition.

RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR:

The Bazaar, Los Angeles – The Bazaar is chef Jose Andres’s masterpiece, where he has poured everything he knows about tapas into a menu that marries regional culinary traditions with his formidable creativity. Here you can choose from two dozen traditional tapas, including piquillo peppers stuffed with goat cheese and codfish croquettes with an aioli sweetened with honey, but there’s an even wider selection of fresh inventions that elevates the honored tradition of bar snacks to new heights: liquefied mozzarella with brussels-sprout leaves and the most intense cherry tomato you’ve ever popped in your mouth.

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Oscar Goodman Pours, ELV Triumphs

Last night, at the Stirling Club, to thunderous applause and world-wide acclaim, ELV beat Clark Country Commissioner Lawrence Weekly and The Morning Zoo’s Chet Buchanan in a cooking contest. Some may argue that his victory was the cooking equivalent of this guy beating us in a footrace, but victory was hard-earned and sweet nonetheless.

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LAGASSE STADIUM – On the Red (in this case, Green) Carpet – with Jeremy Piven’s Head

ELV ain’t no paparazzi, but media credentials do give you something of a front row seat for these things, and with the white suit on, we basically walk around like we own the joint and get away with murder.

And by “murder” we mean being able to walk around and act like we own the joint.

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