In the last eight hours, ELV besides eating and drinking some of the best food and wine on the planet, has had the privilege to interview Gaia Gaja (a beautiful gal who was more than generous with her pours and her information about her spectacular array of wines), Pierre Gagnaire (who giggled like a teenager over his excitement about coming to Las Vegas), and Hubert Keller (who really should have won Top Chef Masters).
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So many restaurants, so little time…
Yes food fans, yours truly and his staff are up at the crack of dawn today because this is what the day has in store for them:
– Polish and record radio script for KNPR-Nevada Public Radio (this week’s topic: getting busted at Battista’s and pummeled by Paymon);
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Is this the second best Thai restaurant in town? Well if you judge such things by the todd munn (deep-fried fish cakes), the sour sausage, grilled beef salad, Laotian-style green papaya salad (som tam), and something called “stir-fried, hot spicy hog,” we’d say yes. We’re also partial to their version of pla gkoong (raw shrimp salad), dressed as it is with heaps of cilantro and lemongrass.