AMERICAN FISH

Our experience at American Fish is a good example of all that is glorious and challenging about being ELV.

Glorious, because there aren’t many diners who get to have Michael Mina personally guiding them through and serving them practically the entire menu in a single evening. Difficult, because when a chef is (almost) watching your every bite, and he’s as nice a guy as MM, there’s a tendency to want to swoon and praise every morsel.

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SILK ROAD – Artistic Eats Amongst Artifacts of Art and Architecture

The Vdara Hotel is a non-gaming, architectural gem, that has, among its many attributes, a giant Frank Stella painting hanging behind the registration desk, fabulous public art hanging all around it, and a great chef hanging out in its one and only restaurant.

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City Center Eateries Featured on KLAS TV (CBS) Channel 8’s Dishing and Dining

We don’t know what’s more impressive: the fact that Emmy Award-winning Denise Valdez squeezed four restaurants (and chefs) into segment lasting less than two minutes, or that she captured uber-absentee chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten right here in our humble burg. (We guarantee he wasn’t here for long.)

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