Category: Reviews

Social Media Meltdown on News 88.9 FM KNPR – Nevada Public Radio

In case you missed it, click here to hear ELV’s commentary of last Thursday about his various adventures in the social media world, delivered in the lyrical, lofty, heroic, sublime, epic and eloquent tones for which he is known.

And a free holiday turkey to anyone who guesses the name of that marvel of Mediterranean mediocrity from which ELV has been forever banned. Hint: Its initials are Paymon’s Downtown Mediterranean. (KNPR didn’t want me bear-baiting the notoriously cheesecloth-skinned owner, but ELV considers it his civic duty to call a spade a spade* on his own website.)

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* “Anyone who calls a spade a spade should be forced to use one.” – Oscar Wilde

OCHA THAI

Is this the second best Thai restaurant in town? Well if you judge such things by the todd munn (deep-fried fish cakes), the sour sausage, grilled beef salad, Laotian-style green papaya salad (som tam), and something called “stir-fried, hot spicy hog,” we’d say yes. We’re also partial to their version of pla gkoong (raw shrimp salad), dressed as it is with heaps of cilantro and lemongrass.

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ALEX – A Restaurant of Shakespearean Proportions

There is nothing either good or bad, only thinking makes it so. – W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2

Calling the entrance to ALEX in the Wynn dramatic is like calling Hamlet a family drama. It is one of the most stunning restaurant entrances you will ever see, and the walk down the sweeping, curved staircase puts one in mind of making an announced entrance into the first class dining salon on a grand ocean liner of days gone by. All that’s missing are the flowing gowns and tuxedos. Sadly, these days you’re more likely to see golf shirts and mini-skirts (that rarely flatter the people who wear them).

That creeping California casualness does injustice to Alessandro “Alex” Stratta’s food (and Paolo Barbieri’s wines), but thankfully, both are so good — the play’s the thing* after all — you won’t be looking at all that sartorial blight once the food starts showing up.

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