Nothing says “economic downturn” like eating a communal meal of strange food from a little known country…and letting someone else pay for it.
Category: Reviews
ENOTECA SAN MARCO
We want to like Mario Batali’s restaurants (all three of them in the Venetian). We really do. We try to ignore his less-than-appetizing appearance, celebrity status, high prices, and the overwhelming mediocrity of the food….but sometimes, it’s just hard.
The Food Snob’s Dictionary
Even though it was published over a year ago, we just finished The Food Snob’s Dictionary by David Kamp and Marion Rosenfeld (2007 Broadway Books) — given to us this Christmas by Anthony Robert Curtas — The Official Number One Son of ELV — a k a our staff. It’s a fascinating, funny, must-read for any food snob or food snob wannabe worth their fleur de sel.
Just for grins and giggles — and because it seemed like the ultimate food snob thing to do* — we thought we’d point out the glaring omissions, annoyances and mistakes contained therein (along with credit given (Forgiveness Factors) for some of the many noteworthy things also within its pages):