Category: Food

Summerlin 20th Birthday Cake Competition

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Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, but ELV hates cakes. Angel food cake, anniversary cakes, birthday cakes, wedding cakes, chocolate cake, sponge cake (aka genoise), …he hates them all almost as much as he hates cupcakes. There’s just something about the fluffy, generic, air-infused quality of cooked cake batter that puts him off, and reminds him of all the crappy, Betty Crocker cakes that were forced upon him as a child. Exceptions are made for cakes soaked in rhum, pound cakes and Boston cream pie (which is really two cakes separated by custard).*

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CARLITO’S BURRITOS on KLAS TV (CBS) Channel 8’s Dishing and Dining

ELV note: Due to his trip to Boston last week, and other duties attendant with his being a lawyer-at-law, a soon-to-be-published author, and The World’s Greatest Restaurant Critic,* ELV has been very, very busy this week. Just how busy has ELV been?

Well….

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David Ross Reviews TABLEAU

ELV note: For some reason known only to computer-literate brains larger than ours, David Ross’s tasty snaps appear when we first post them, then disappear. If you’re able to see them, mores the better. If you can’t, our staff apologizes.

TABLEAU by David Ross

Last Thursday, I was in Las Vegas for the 2010 Epicurean Affair. (You can read my report here). I made it a long weekend and one of the restaurants I visited while I was in town was Tableau at the Wynn for lunch on Friday afternoon.

Finding a fine-dining restaurant open for lunch on the Strip has always been a challenge in Las Vegas and the continuing woes of the local economy has only added to that problem. Rooms that were once open at noon are now dark. One is hard-pressed to win a bet on the ultimate trifecta-lunch, high-quality cooking and a quiet respite from the throngs of tourists, gamblers and conventioneers to find a decent mid-day meal. After lunch at Tableau with a friend who lives in Las Vegas, I would venture to say we won the bet.

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