MARCHE BACCHUS Ups Its Game…as ELV Gets Ignored (sigh)

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Truth be told, we told our lunch companion/interview subject (Jennifer Curland of Bon Breads) to meet us at Marche Bacchus because we thought some good Burgundy would be just the thing to enhance the experience of watching her talk into her cell phone for the entire meal.

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CARLITO’S BURRITOS on KLAS TV (CBS) Channel 8’s Dishing and Dining

ELV note: Due to his trip to Boston last week, and other duties attendant with his being a lawyer-at-law, a soon-to-be-published author, and The World’s Greatest Restaurant Critic,* ELV has been very, very busy this week. Just how busy has ELV been?

Well….

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David Ross Reviews TABLEAU

ELV note: For some reason known only to computer-literate brains larger than ours, David Ross’s tasty snaps appear when we first post them, then disappear. If you’re able to see them, mores the better. If you can’t, our staff apologizes.

TABLEAU by David Ross

Last Thursday, I was in Las Vegas for the 2010 Epicurean Affair. (You can read my report here). I made it a long weekend and one of the restaurants I visited while I was in town was Tableau at the Wynn for lunch on Friday afternoon.

Finding a fine-dining restaurant open for lunch on the Strip has always been a challenge in Las Vegas and the continuing woes of the local economy has only added to that problem. Rooms that were once open at noon are now dark. One is hard-pressed to win a bet on the ultimate trifecta-lunch, high-quality cooking and a quiet respite from the throngs of tourists, gamblers and conventioneers to find a decent mid-day meal. After lunch at Tableau with a friend who lives in Las Vegas, I would venture to say we won the bet.

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