Yeah, summer is here and we at ELV hate it.
We hate it because we go off our feed, red wine tastes like sh*t in 110 degree weather, we look pretty ridiculous in the barely-there clothes we’re forced to wear, and leaving our office, or our dark, cool man-cave, for any kind of outdoor activity, makes us feel like an Egyptian galley slave.
So in the spirit of the season, we thought we’d post a video that sums up our feelings about the lousiest time of year around here:
As the worst President in the history of America once said: Let me make this perfectly clear: Eating Las Vegas has enormous respect for the job Heidi Knapp Rinella does at the Review Journal. She is a good writer who is stuck with editors who are stuck in 1982.
We thought our little piece of satirical conversation posted yesterday made that clear.
If it didn’t, we are sorry.
We are also sorry not to have recognized the enormous, colossal, prodigious and Herculean effort that our good buddy Norm! undertook in giving constant coverage to the Vegas Uncork’d events last weekend. Our dig at the lack of food and restaurant coverage was in no way intended as a swipe at him or his super-charged social media-making, that brought immense attention to the festivities.
It was, however, a pointed dig at the consistent lack of interest the R-J Editorial Staff takes in anything related to one of the few world class things Vegas has to be proud of (besides an imploded housing market, valet parking and computerized slot machines).
If anyone took it any other way, we regret the misunderstanding.
As someone (we think it was us) once said: As a satirist, ELV is a great restaurant critic.
ELV ain’t no arch-ee-teck, but no matter how many times we walk past this sculpture (…usually on our way to Brasserie Puck or Mastro’s Ocean Club):
…we stop and look at it…
…and it never gets old.
And it makes us think.
No, not the geezers you’re gonna see at the Super Bowl. These guys, in their prime:
Why are they the best rock band of all time?
Eating Las Vegas has been informed that Bar Masa does not actually have 418 seats. It has the capacity for 418 seats. The actual seating is for 182 persons.
In an era known for bad choices in everything from fashion to politics to narcotics, this video pretty much set a new low.
Yes, it’s true: ELV has decided to take a few days off to visit his ancestral home (sort of) and The Woman Who Gave Him Life (Marcella Ruth Schroader Curtas – D.O.B. 8.10.24 – The Official Mother Of ELV).
Try to get by without us…but if you’re dying for an ELV fix, you can track our gastronomic adventures in north Georgia (Atlanta and Athens) by following us on Facebook and Twitter.
Happy New Year!
Our favorite Christmas carol:
Here’s a profane and alternative way (from the twisted mind of Brad Neely) to wish all of you a Happy Christmas Eve…
To our readers: We usually don’t reprint press releases in their entirety, but the statistics in this one seemed too juicy to pass up.
Diners to Restaurants: “Please, Sir, We Want Some More…For Less”
Average Spending Per Meal Could Fall by 20%;
Key Sentiment Shifts Are Seen Since Q1 Poll
Restaurant reviews, quips, picks and pans-with some seriously salivating history-from the man who eats his way through Sin City every day.
