Speaking of cheeses….la carte des fromages (cheese cart) at Aureole may not be the biggest in town (Guy Savoy and Joel Robuchon probably fill that bill), but it has an eclectic mix of properly aged beauties that go fabulously with one of the world’s great wine collections.
Category: Food
The Easiest Cheese Lesson You’ll Ever Get
Here is a five minute video (in comes in seven short segments, so keep watching) that is an excellent primer on why and how to enjoy great cheese. I comes from Will Studd — an Australian TV host and journalist who’s obviously on a mission to spread the gospel of artisanal and farmstead cheeses to the world. Bon appetit and pass the Roquefort!
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SUSHI WE HARDLY KNEW YEE aka Sushi Jumps The Shark– Part Three
In this last of our 3-part series, we examine another nouveau sushi-sashimi enterprise, and find one that hews closer to the spirit of true sushi/sashimi than you might expect from a restaurant associated with a nightclub. Click here and here to read Parts One and Deux.
Yellowtail in the Bellagio is another creation from The Light Group – nightclub impresarios who now run six food and beverage outlets in that hotel alone – along with several others around town. Like the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, it runs a tight ship in all of its outposts, and rarely puts forth food that feels commercialized or by-the-numbers. Make no mistake, like Sushi Samba, this is a corporate food factory, designed and planned to the nines; calculated at every turn to appeal to the zeitgeist of how modern America eats. Also like Sushi Samba, it’s next door to a nightclub, so many of its customers are of that ilk.