I’m Not Prejudiced, I Just Hate Everyone’s Opinion Except My Own

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“Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
Ambrose Bierce

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices–just recognize them.”
Edward R. Murrow

“How you look at it is pretty much how you’ll see it”

Am I prejudiced? You bet your sweet bippy I’m prejudiced. But unlike the the blindly opinionated, I like to think my biases are born of experience, not bigotry.

Put another way: I’m not easily impressed. And I do carry a certain “been there, done that” attitude into most restaurants these days.

Does that mean I can’t be objective? No it doesn’t and yes it does.

Because I don’t look at places through the wide-eyed amazement of some amateur….or the credulous, bought-and-paid-for acceptance of someone just happy to be getting free food.

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EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants – 46. “The New” EL SOMBRERO

46. EL SOMBRERO

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The old El Sombrero was Las Vegas’s oldest restaurant. It opened its doors for the first time in 1950, and was considered time-worn and venerable when, in 1970, Teresa and José Aragon took over and started cooking their unique brand of Mexican-meets-New Mexican food. After a 44 year run, the Aragons retired in April and sold the joint to Irma Aguirre. It reopened in August, and what she and Executive Chef Oscar Sanchez have done to the 43 seat space is nothing short of amazing.

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EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants – 45. KU NOODLE

45. KU NOODLE

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Chinese restaurants in Las Vegas come in two sizes: on-the-Strip and overpriced, and off-the-Strip and down and dirty. The holes in the walls are stuck into seedy shopping centers up and down Spring Mountain Road. They are generally excellent, but also, due to their being the genuine article, off-putting to most round eyes. Strip Chinese joints usually charge double for dishes remarkably similar to ones you get a mile to the west, but at least you’re not afraid to look into the corners, and the ingredients are usually better.

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