Category: Openings

In Case You Missed It…

Click here to hear last Friday’s premier of The John & Max Radio Restaurant Show on News 88.9 FM KNPR – Nevada Public Radio’s State Of Nevada.

The show had everything:

Max pontificating;

Me masticating (on public radio no less!);

Tom Sietsema ruminating;

Elizabeth Blau illuminating;

Max trashing Mother’s Korean Grill, and;

Da bodda us being more than a bit lukewarm on the menu at Garfield’s.

The good news: we’ll be doing show #2 on Friday, October 9th…assuming Max and I haven’t knifed one another before then.

It Isn’t Easy Being ELV, But It Is A Lot Of Fun

So many restaurants, so little time…

Yes food fans, yours truly and his staff are up at the crack of dawn today because this is what the day has in store for them:

– Polish and record radio script for KNPR-Nevada Public Radio (this week’s topic: getting busted at Battista’s and pummeled by Paymon);

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YAGYU, MARU and GARFIELD’S – An Eating Odyssey

I know, I know, we swore off beef eatin’ entirely a week ago. But then we cruised by Yagyu Yakiniku:… and that’s all they serve. So we hunkered down with some spectacularly marbled cuts of sirloin and rib-eye, had a cold brewski or two, and then hightailed it over to Maru:…where it’s practically an insult not to partake of bulgogi or some falling-off-the-bone beef ribs.

Enough is enough…we said to ourselves.

But then the next day, we found ourselves at Garfield’s, and wouldn’t you know it, Chef Jean-David Groff-Daudet puts out some beefy chuck top blade steak before us (plus some lamb in a pastry crust):…and it would’ve been downright unneighborly to refuse.

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