(Photo by Cierra Pedro)
Do you like a good sandwich?
I know I do.
If you’re like us and our staff, you think that John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich did the world a solid in the 18th Century by placing his lunch meat between two pieces of bread:
(Photo by Jon Estrada)
….the better to expedite his eating and not interfere with his gambling habit.
Continue reading “Downtown Las Vegas is the Sandwich Capital of the World”
Korean BBQ is having a moment in Las Vegas right now.
What’s happening to it is similar to what sushi went through four years ago.
If you recall, shitty sushi was the rule, not the exception, until around 2012. That’s when Kabuto opened and made everyone sit up and take notice. Suddenly, serious sushi hounds had a place to call their own, and soon enough places like Yonaka, Fish N Bowl, Izakaya Go, Other Mama, Yui and others opened and upped everyone’s game. (Make no mistake, shitty sushi is still everywhere, but at least purists have other options these days.)
Now, the same thing is happening with these bastion of Korean beef eating. For years, decades really, we’ve been saddled with the usual suspects — Korean Garden BBQ, Mother’s Korean — and a few AYCE joints that didn’t exactly break a sweat when tossing the same old same old kalbi and bulgogi your way. As with AYCE sushi, these places stressed quantity over quality, and the cheapest ingredients were their profit path to the promised land. (Which, if you think about for a second, is behind every all-you-can-eat operation.)
But boy have things taken a turn for the better. In less than three months, this popular form of group dining has gone from standardized cheap eats to one with serious, big city cred. Three new Korean ‘cue restaurants have opened recently, and each of them leaves previous Korean ‘cue in their dust. “It’s very much in the LA-style,” one of ELV’s Korean friends remarked. And so they are.
And since Eating Las Vegas considers it its civic duty to test drive these joints for our loyal readers, we thought we’d share some preliminary impressions of the three newest contenders in the Las Vegas samgyeopsal sweepstakes.
If you’re a hungry radio buff — and let’s face it who isn’t? — you can hear us being interviewed about the newest edition of EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants not once but TWICE today!
The first one hit the airwaves at 9:00 am this morning and can be linked to by clicking here.
Next up will be our live interview at 1:00 on ESPN 1100 AM on your radio dial, where we’ll be dishing the dish on where to to dine to Mitch & Pritch:
(Mitch Moss and Mike Pritchard)
…two members of the jockocracy who know their vittles. (And who love to eat and are curious about where to get the good stuff.)
Tune in, turn on, and get hungry at 1:00 today!
Both of these shows will confirm what you already know: That ELV has a face made for radio.
In case you missed it, here we are — transplendently holding forth in the mellifluous tones for which we are known — with Mitch Moss and Mike Pritchard yesterday — on ESPN Radio, 1100 on your AM dial: http://www.lvsportsnetwork.com/episode/614-mitch-and-pritch-john-curtas-int/.
