Eating Las Vegas » Miscellaneous http://www.eatinglv.com Restaurant Reviews and Culinary Miscellany Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ELV’s Thought(s) for the Day http://www.eatinglv.com/2012/01/elvs-thoughts-for-the-day-21/ http://www.eatinglv.com/2012/01/elvs-thoughts-for-the-day-21/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:44:26 +0000 John Curtas http://www.eatinglv.com/?p=21961 If there is anything the Chinese are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food. – Lin Yutang, My Country and My People (1935)

The Chinese do not draw a distinction between food and medicine. – Lin Yutang , The Importance of Living (1937)

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]]> http://www.eatinglv.com/2011/12/elvs-thought-for-the-day-76/feed/ 0 There is a God – The Cosmo Sees the Light http://www.eatinglv.com/2011/12/there-is-a-god-the-cosmo-relents/ http://www.eatinglv.com/2011/12/there-is-a-god-the-cosmo-relents/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:04:43 +0000 John Curtas http://www.eatinglv.com/?p=20723 ELV note: We received some good news yesterday in the form of this letter from Jason. Apparently he made a ruckus, ELV made a ruckus, and lots of people made a ruckus over The Cosmos’ dunderhead move to route diners through a couple of rows of slot machines.  As of this week, the elevators now go directly back to the second and third floor restaurants, and order has been restored to the universe. ELV will now officially end his unofficial one month boycott of The Cosmo, and shall be lunching there today. Please alert the media. (Hey! We ARE the media.)

Here is Jason’s Q & A to the R-J:


Question:

“Why did The Cosmopolitan change their elevators so you can’t go straight to the restaurants from the garage, but have to instead walk through the casino? I took my wife for a pre-birthday pig-out at Holstein’s and discovered we would have to hoof it through the slot machine jungle. Can you get to the bottom of this travesty?” Jason from Las Vegas

Answer:

Good question, Jason. The Cosmopolitan has tried to cultivate a following among locals by doing things that other properties wouldn’t even consider, such as: allowing guests to take elevators from the garage right up to the third floor, bypassing the casino and everything in between. On the one hand, it was very convenient for locals who wanted to get to a restaurant and not even hear or see a slot machine on the way. On the other hand, that went against the casino creed, which has something to do with funneling people through the casino because you never know when they’ll have the urge to try their luck on Megabucks (guilty!).

A Cosmopolitan spokesman said that the hotel has been trying a few things with “guest flow and optimization” for about a month. So, if you took an elevator from the east parking garage during that time, you could only access the first floor. Which meant you had to walk near or through the casino to get to the restaurants. Sounds like you were optimized and flowed, Jason. Luckily, as of Dec. 5, that restriction was lifted and guests can once again take one of the elevators up to the second or third floor.

Here is a direct link to the article in the Neon:

http://www.lvrj.com/neon/strip-tips-try-art-and-wine-or-wings-and-booze-135308458.html

…and props to R-J reporter Sonya Padgett for doing the leg work on this one.

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It don’t get much more swingin’ than this folks. Happy Friday and take it away boys:


SING SING SING! Benny Goodman by NilbogLAND

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* According to Wikipedia, whenever Krupa would drop a stick or miss a beat (in the 50s), the audience would start whispering “he’s on the stuff again.”

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Is just a driveling idiot

To my way of thinking

Euripides

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http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/attachments/f68/158927d1294121780-you-douchebag-two-overtanned-orange-myspace-douche-bags-guys.jpg

is hard at work on the problem, and it will be corrected soon.

]]> http://www.eatinglv.com/2011/10/elv-links-letting-him-down/feed/ 0 It’s Raining in Vegas! http://www.eatinglv.com/2011/09/its-raining-in-vegas-3/ http://www.eatinglv.com/2011/09/its-raining-in-vegas-3/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:34:47 +0000 John Curtas http://www.eatinglv.com/?p=17970 ELV is hard of herring so he overslept this morning.

Or maybe it’s because he was out last night with a cute little yellowtail who drank like a….she drank a lot.

Anyways…he thought he’d post this again….just for the halibut:

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]]> http://www.eatinglv.com/2011/08/pablo-picasso-was-never-called-an-asshole/feed/ 1 The Way We Were… http://www.eatinglv.com/2011/08/the-way-we-were-2/ http://www.eatinglv.com/2011/08/the-way-we-were-2/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:03:37 +0000 John Curtas http://www.eatinglv.com/?p=16607 ELV note: We didn’t arrive in this humble burg until January, 1981, but being a fan of all things nostalgic (especially when it comes to mid-century Las Vegas), we couldn’t resist these giant photos now on display in the food court at the Boulevard Mall. They serve as a reminder of our simpler past, but also of a history that Las Vegas should embrace — instead of imploding it for whatever grandiose corporate scheme tickles the fancy of some carpetbagging robber-baron.

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