ELV note: An enraged reader recently wrote:
Dear Eating Las Vegas,
According to Eater.com, some character named Chumlee from Pawn Stars is now a restaurant critic, and I am flat out depressed about the death of reason and the limitless ignorance of mankind.
Continue reading “Letter of the Week – Who’s This Chumlee Fellow?”
Good evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and all the ships and clippers at sea….
Item: Honey Salt Expanding Empire.
As predicted on these pages over a year ago, the entrepreneurs behind Summerlin’s Honey Salt are set to open two new stores in northwest Las Vegas. If our sources are correct, one will be called Honey Q and will be taking over the old Hops & Harvest space. (Good luck with that.) The other, we hear, will be called Honey Salt Steak and will be located in the new Red Rock Mall. (Another steakhouse in Vegas? What an original idea?)
Here’s hoping all this brand-expansion doesn’t result in another episode of “Honey, I Shrunk the Profits.”
Continue reading “This Just In: ELV Spreading Rumors, Settling Scores and Set to Salaciously Sip”
“We (restaurateurs) are not in the food business; we are in the hospitality business.” – Sirio Maccioni
ELV note: We take a few weeks off and things start going to hell in a hand-basket. Not with the food being dished up by some of our favorite restaurants, mind you, but with their service. Submitted for your (dis)approval: three recent tales of woe….
Dear Eating Las Vegas,
Hello, we are from the Chicagoland area and enjoy reading your restaurant reviews. Since it’s late (actually early) I’ll get right
to the point. My wife and I ate at Estiatorio Milos this evening, we shared the snapper, the fried zucchini with tzatziki (the Milos Special) and a baklava.
As of this moment we are both currently in our suite at the Encore throwing up and dry heaving. The way I’m feeling right now, diarrhea is probably on the way as well. Hooray!