Category: Openings

The Dilemma of Free Food

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Since ELV seems destined never to pay for a bite of food at Old Homestead, he approaches this “review” of it with caution, as should you.

This is hardly something new around the ELV offices, as our non-anonymity is now ubiquitous (we even get busted in Chinatown these days). So it is among other critics (in Vegas and elsewhere) as well, but it still gives us pause before we launch into telling you what we really think of a place, since it’s obvious to both of us that the experience we’re writing about will not exactly be yours.

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Pizza Pizza – An Erudite Analysis

If you follow ELV religiously — and let’s face it who doesn’t? — then you know he’s been on a pizza jag recently. Las Vegas is in the midst of a pizza renaissance, and eating this Italian-American staple has never been tastier in our humble burg. While Due Forni and Settebello remain kings of apizza (pronounced “abeets” — the way they do on Wooster Street in New Haven), a couple of newcomers are threatening their tomato and cheese hegemony. So, we thought we’d take two of the biggest food nerds we know on a quick tour of these challengers to the throne.

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Slipping into the comfy chairs at Dom DeMarco’s, ELV was anticipating an argument over ordering, but luckily, great minds (and pizza palates) think alike.

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