Category: Rant

New York Wins Every Single James Beard Award!

Last night at its annual awards banquet, the James Beard Foundation announced it was dispensing with all future categories and henceforth, would be condensing its awards to a single, three foot, rotund statuette of its founding father, and would collectively award it each and every year to every New York City restaurateur, chef, writer, broadcaster and editor in the New York food media — so that they could all, continually, bask in its brilliance and career-enhancing powers.

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BBQ Blues

ELV’s been goin’ a little ‘cue crazy lately. Which is frustrating because, next to Bangor, Maine, Las Vegas might be the worst barbecue town in America. What we get here are either franchises, or mom and pop joints doing things on the cheap. There’s no cult of ribs, sauces or brisket; precious little outdoor smoking; no pitmasters; no zealotry and no soul to the barbecued meats being sold to our chain-loving populace.

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This Just In….Next To Vegas, New York City Is A Bargain!

ELV has maintained for years that Vegas is the most expensive restaurant city in America.

Further proof (as if any is needed):

A three-course lunch at Cafe Boulud in New York City (one of ELV’s favorite restaurants in the world), now runs $24 — or roughly the price of an appetizer at most Wynn restaurants.

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