SHIBUYA – KLAS TV (CBS) Channel 8 Restaurant of the Week

Friday’s ROTW segment on the KLAS TV Morning News features all the great MGM restaurants in the opening (and the specials they run this week for Restaurant Week benefiting ThreeSquare.) From there we segue into a look at Shibuya, ELV’s favorite Japanese restaurant in town. It may not compete with the finely-tuned sushi and sashimi of Urasawa in Los Angeles, or Masa or Kuruma Zushi in New York, but for what it is — a huge restaurant in a huge hotel — the creations turned out by Chef Stephane Chevet and his raw fish brigade are mighty fine indeed. And there’s no better place to expand your sake exposure than among the 130 bottles offered here. Unfortunately, we found out after the segment aired that Ryan Steimer — Shibuya’s sake sommelier — is no longer with the restaurant. ELV regrets not giving Steimer more attention over the past year, but ELV also regrets that most restaurant employees have wanderlust that makes jazz musicians look like these guys.

CIRCO – KLAS TV (CBS) Channel 8 Restaurant of the Week

Osteria del Circo is our favorite Italian restaurant in town and has been so ever since it opened ten years ago in the Bellagio. Chef Vincenzo Scarmiglia continues to make this Tuscan kitchen hum with pastas, fish and meat dishes that hew close to their Italian ancestry and never fail to dazzle. Click below for this week’s ROTW segment on Channel 8 with my good food buddy, Denise Valdez.

Osteria del Circo

In the Bellagio

3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South

Las Vegas, NV 89109

702.693.8150

http://www.bellagio.com/restaurants/circo.aspx

 

KLAS TV Channel 8 (CBS) Restaurant(s) of the Week – Bargain Time!

Yes food fans, it’s that time of the week again. Time for your weekly dose of The Man in the White Suit.

This week we feature more incredible summer bargains among our plethora of big-hitter Strip restaurants.

All of these deals (at Fiamma, Fleur de Lys and Craftsteak) represent about 50% off regular pricing, and are good through the first week of September. So eat out early and often….and tell ’em Channel 8 (and ELV) sent you!