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We’ve been saying it for seventeen years and we’ll keep saying it ’til we’re blue in the face: If you want some of the best, and healthiest, and most interesting and cheapest food this town has to offer, haul your keister up and down the 3.2 mile long stretch of Spring Mountain Road between Rainbow and Valley View, and duck into almost any of the 58 restaurants located there.
Wed, Oct 20, 2010 (8:55 p.m.)
Raku’s foie gras egg custard
Photo: John Curtas
The questions I hear most as a restaurant critic are: How did you become one? How many times a week do you eat out? And how do you not weigh 300 pounds? A fourth question almost always follows closely: What’s the best restaurant off the Strip? For the record, the answers are: It’s a long story, 10 times a week, I have the metabolism of a hummingbird—and Aburiya Raku, best known to regulars simply as Raku.
Wed, Oct 6, 2010 (8:05 p.m.)
(Clockwise from top left) Taiwan Deli’s spicy salad, dry noodles with spicy peanut sauce, spicy beef noodles and dumplings
Photo: Beverly Poppe
When the tiny, obscure Champion Gourmet Chinese deli closed in April, you could almost hear the sighs coming from fans of its rich noodle soups and dumplings. Continue reading “TAIWAN DELI reviewed in Las Vegas Weekly”