MATRYOSHKA

(Russia) is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. – Winston Churchill (October, 1939)

Speaking of enigmas, is this place a night club or a restaurant? More importantly, will it ever get enough customers to justify whatever expense it took to convert the space from the Thai Room II, and is the food worth a trip to Las Vegas Blvd. South (beside The Bootlegger) to supp on some serious Soviet sustenance? Continue reading “MATRYOSHKA”

BOLLYWOOD GRILL

The Bollywood Grill is the second restaurant we’ve been to this year that used to be a 5 & Diner (Lemongrass Cafe is the other).

A copy of a copy of a copy is the only way to describe those former, cheap, pre-fab, hackneyed diners — the only restaurants we’ve ever been in that had us longing for Denny’s.

Bollywood (thankfully) seems possessed of more kick and vigor than your usual run-of-the-mill Indian restaurant — if one visit is any indication.

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