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ELV note: Continue after the jump to see ELV’s interview (and what looks like his half-open fly) on KLAS TV (CBS) Channel 8 yesterday morning. Those long winter shadows sure do funny things to a white suit this time of year…

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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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Here are the links to last Friday’s Food Talk with John & Max, wherein we feature:

Interviews with chefs Kim Canteenwalla of Society:

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…and Martin Heierling of Sensi and Silk Road:

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…followed by:

EAT IT OR BEAT IT:

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When a chef as acclaimed as Jean Joho comes to town to visit his restaurants, ELV is there faster than you can say crèpes fourrées aux oeufs brouillés au Parmesan.

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Here is the link to last Friday’s Food Talk on KNPR’s State of Nevada, where yours truly and Slapsie Maxie:

> Interview Carlos Pereira from Bon Breads;

> Learn how the Executive Chef (Christian Rassinoux) of a 5,000 room hotel (the MGM) earns his paycheck;

> Discuss our Top Five American-Chinese Restaurants :

1. Full Ho Chinese Cuisine
   240 N Jones Blvd
   Las Vegas, NV 89002
   (702) 878-2378
2. Panda Express
3. Orchids Garden
   5485 W Sahara Ave
   Las Vegas, NV 89146-0308
   (702) 631-3839
4. Jasmine Cantonese Cuisine
   Bellagio Resort and Casino
   3600 Las Vegas Blvd S
   Las Vegas, NV 89109-4303
   (702) 693-7223
5. Cathay House
   5300 Spring Mountain Rd, #107
   Las Vegas, NV 89146-8721
   (702) 876-3838

> And finally, tell you whether to EAT IT OR BEAT IT from:

Archi’s Thai Kitchen

Macaroni Grill

Strip Steak

CLASH OF THE EGOS:

THREE FOOD CRITICS AND LAS VEGAS’ TOP 50 RESTAURANTS -by Robin Leach

Posted September 30, 2010 • 8:04 p.m.

Max Jacobson, John Curtas and Al Mancini.

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The eagerly awaited and highly anticipated book Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants has been completed, and the prized selections are now wrapped in total secrecy. Vegas DeLuxe has learned that the manuscript is on its way to the printers and should be on bookshelves in time for a planned mid-November release party.

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AMERICA’S BEST continues tonight for its third segment featuring, occasionally, the fat, well-fed head of yours truly…

Alton Brown tours America’s Best chosen by Food Network Magazine with four premiere primetime specials.

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ELV note: America’s Best hits the airwaves and ether next Monday night and will broadcast each of its four episodes, in succession, on the following three evenings.”Why,” you are asking yourself right about now, “is ELV taking such a keen interest in a Food Network premier?” Well, it just so happens that the World’s Greatest Restaurant Critic* will be featured among the many talking heads/food writers/gourmands/chefs/mixologists/raconteurs who will be weighing in on everything from what makes a perfect steak, to where you can find the best comfort food in America.

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Click here to hear this morning’s Food Talk on News 88.9 FM – KNPR Nevada Public Radio, wherein Slapsie Maxie and moi interrogate, illuminate, eviscerate, hypothecate and pontificate about various subjects in today’s food and restaurant world.

Today’s topics included:

An interview with uber-restaurant writer John Mariani on his recent trip to Las Vegas;

Local bloggers Mike Dobranski and Jillian Plaster on what, why, how and when they blog about Vegas’ restaurants;

Max and my Top Five Wine Peeves; and

EAT IT OR BEAT IT, where we cross swords over:

Lola’s,

Nero’s Steakhouse, and

El Segundo Sol.