Calling a scallop a crab cake, and then pronouncing “Ta-gine” as “TAN-gine” insured this Dishing and Dining with Denise Valdez wasn’t exactly ELV’s finest hour.
But other than those missteps, we’ll stand behind our accolades for Nu Sanctuary.
Match is a restaurant that defies description and that we should hate for that very reason. Amazingly, like Al “Mad Man” Mancini, we find ourselves liking it.
Actually, the farm belongs to Dr. Steven and Claudia Andracki, but Chef Geno Bernardo depends upon it for herbs, produce and for bringing the farm-to-table experience to your meal at NOVE.
Who said things can’t grow in the desert?
ELV update: Just to annoy “Ravi” and satisfy other’s curiosity about the tasty snaps below, we have now labeled them for your information and delectation. To see pictures of the actual JBF event, click here.
In honor of Origin India’s recent successful dinner at the James Beard House in New York City, here are a few tasty snaps of the dishes served there:
…and here is the video from a month ago on Channel 8 (ELV regrets his tardiness, but a life of libational licentiousness and gluttonous greed does take time):
ELV — looking extra fat this week (hey…the camera adds ten pounds remember?) — expounds on three Easter dining destinations (at three distinct price points) in 95 seconds with Denise Valdez.
The Fat Greek has been getting a lot of love recently, and it deserves it.
Here is our TV take on its food featured yesterday morning on Channel 8’s Dishing and Dining:
This is about as negative as ELV ever gets on the televised airwaves (Channel 8 wants yours truly to recommend restaurants, not bash them). And it’s not that we don’t like OTS, we just wish they were a little less heavy-handed with their recipes.
Restaurant reviews, quips, picks and pans-with some seriously salivating history-from the man who eats his way through Sin City every day.