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We keep eating at Namaste because the food is so good, and because it’s impossible to get a seat at Lotus of Siam anymore. Three times in the last month we’ve driven to Commercial Center (on Monday and Tuesday nights), and seen a line out the door at Lotus, while this food goes begging for customers. (note: Omh Singh, we just found out, is no longer at Namaste.)

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As Slapsie Maxie Jacobson says: “Life is too short to have to eat here more than once.”

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Before we get any further into the New Year, and because ELV needs to start it off right by getting things off his (ever growing) chest, let’s explore the pros and cons of sous vide/thermal cooking for a minute shall we?

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Memo to all waitrons:

If you seat people in tight quarters.

And insist on decanting wine that doesn’t need it.

And demand to do so right under their noses.

With your hands quite close to their face.

And charge them $350 for lunch.

Try keeping your fingernails clean.

We’d really appreciate it.

Here is the link to last Friday’s State Of Nevada program, featuring the all-seeing-and-all-knowing-uber-prescient-master-of-the-airwaves ELV (& Max Jacobson) on News 88.9 FM KNPR – Nevada Public Radio.

Stick around til the end of the show and you’ll hear to me ‘n Max tip toe our way around the proper pronunciation of fuh-kim-long, so as not to offend the FCC censors…or Flo Rogers.

Tune in tomorrow morning food fans, at 9:00 am, on News 88.9 FM KNPR’s State Of Nevada (or listen in at www.knpr.org) for more delightful dish from the disputatious dining divas known John & Max, as we discuss, debate, and dissect (for your delectation) such diverse, delicious delectables as:

> Fine wine times and the changing Las Vegas culture in all things grapey with Master Sommelier/winemaker Kevin Vogt;

> The beginnings and growth of the Slow Food movement in Southern Nevada;

> Uber-media guy Steve Freiss on how Las Vegas hotels are blowing a big marketing opportunity surrounding this season of Top Chef Las Vegas;

> Our first Bottom Five: The Worst of the Worst Fast Food Entrees in America; followed by;

> Eat It Or Beat It: featuring formidable food fights over either fabulous favorites or flagrantly flaccid food flops.

www.knpr.org

To hear ELV speak these profound-yet-depressing words in the pensive, melancholy, lugubrious, dejected, disappointed, despondent and disconsolate tones for which he is known, click here. Otherwise, continue reading after the jump.

BLOW IT UP!

Over the years, ELV has been as big a downtown booster as anyone he knows. He and his staff live downtown, work downtown, and have eaten downtown for over twenty-five years.

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Here’s the video:

And here’s the apoplectic response from various downtown denizens denying that Luv-It-Custard is located in the neighborhood where you’re most likely to see a drug bust….or a guy without any pants on.

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Like we said, Portland needs more cowbell…because (among other things) it’s the only place in the whole bleeping country where residents consider it their bleeping legal right to bring their bleeping dogs into a bleeping foodstore.

And they use the Americans with Disabilities Act to get away with it.

Don’t ya just love liberals?

And for the record: ELV loves dogs.

He considers them warm, loving, intelligent and noble creatures that he gets along with about as well as he does with his ex-wives.

It’s dog owners he can’t stand.

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Our staff had better things to do last week, so we were left to our own devices. And by “own devices,” we mean we were forced to dine alone.

By ourselves.

Downtown.

In the most godforsaken place for good food in all of urban America.

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