An Insider’s Guide to EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants

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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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In Case You Missed It – Food Talk with John & Max on KNPR

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

Interviews with chefs Kim Canteenwalla of Society:

AIR DATE: November 12, 2010

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…and Martin Heierling of Sensi and Silk Road:

AIR DATE: November 12, 2010

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…followed by:

EAT IT OR BEAT IT:

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…where we review:
KGB Burgers
Harrah’s Las Vegas
3475 Las Vegas Blvd. South
369-5000

Golden Steer
308 West Sahara Avenue
384-4470

Ay Chung Chinese Cafe
5115 Spring Mountain Rd
458-6868