ELV note: In a recent Battle of the ELV Steves, Steve #1 offered this pungent critique of ELV’s methodology:

Dear ELV,

(You should) (a)ct like a real critic, stay under the radar, quit accepting comps, and give us real reviews. Jose Andres restaurants in DC are overrated, crap except for the experience at minibar, STK is a corporate conglomerate giving us loud music and the same steakhouse experience as, well, any steakhouse, and Milos, while great, is getting some Greek love because its the only game in town.

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ELV note: Occasional commenter rideslowLV recently rode into our restaurant round-table roustabout with this well-reasoned(?) retort:

This shit is getting real gay…. half you bitches talk about the death of French food in Vegas. Go to Andres at the Monte Carlo and taste the BEST french food in Las Vegas. you idiots have no clue. GFX knows what up!!!
But john curtas wont tell you how good that is, because he is not humble enough to just shut the fuck up and enjoy a top notch meal. Pure White Trash.

French cuisine with its NEW SCHOOL twists has just begun. All you bitches talking about club crowds and revenue, you have no clue what a restaurant should pull monthly, budget allowances, etc.

Look at Jet Tila, that fool is kicking ass, sinatra is kicking ass, SW is still in the top 5 steakhouses in Las Vegas.

You guys are all bitches, and seriously if you dine the way you act on this blog, keep your fucking money or throw it into a machine and save the bullshit for the McDonalds drive thru. Your all white trash.

Signed,

Buncha C*NT$

ELV responds:

Eating Las Vegas has one and only one rule regarding censorship of comments made to this site: No witless profanity and no personal attacks on other commenters or individuals mentioned. (Okay, that’s two, but we never could count…that’s why we went to law school.)

Everything else is fair game, including personal attacks/criticisms of ELV —  because we’re a big boy and because a critic needs to be able take as well as dish it out — and because critiquing the critic is half the raison d’etre of this site.

ELV doubts rideslowLV grasps these concepts, as we’re guessing he’s a line cook who thinks he’s hot stuff, regardless of never having traveled east of Vegas or north of Bakersfield.

Regardless, this comment/opinion came close to the line, but we at ELV thought our bitch, gay, white trash readership might appreciate the wealth of insight contained therein.

Bitch-i-ly yours,

ELV