YUSHO is the best restaurant in town that nobody goes to.
There I said it. Twice.
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We at ELV have long had a great deal of admiration for Khoury’s — the Mediterranean/Lebanese restaurant formerly located in the far southwest reaches of the valley.
In fact, the only thing we didn’t like about it was how far it was from our house.

Sometimes, you just want an old reliable.
Or, if not a particularly “old” reliable, a relatively new one that you can trust to deliver the goods as well as the last time you were there.
And when the craving hits for a hunk o’ hunk o’ burnished beef (and you don’t wish to brave the Strip on a weekend’s eve) there’s nothing like Kevin Chong’s menu at Japaneiro (above) — one of the true treasures of local gastronomy.
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