For those of you who don’t get up with the pigs and chickens, but who require your Friday dose of The Food Man, here is our Restaurant of the Week segment on the Channel 8 Morning News with Denise Valdez and Dave McCann, featuring DAL TORO RISTORANTE in the Palazzo.
Please ignore my verbal gaffe at calling Mitsuo Endo a Chinese chef on last week’s ROTW segment! Quelle horreur! I hereby publicly beg his forgiveness and promise to commit seppuku if I ever do it again.
As a public service, and in recognition of the fact that my loyal fans can’t possibly keep up with all of my food reporting venues here in Las Vegas: here is the script for today’s Food For Thought, heard on KNPR-Nevada Public Radio 88.9FM (www.knpr.org). And for you hardworking folks too frazzled and overworked to actually read something, you can click here to hear my commentary.
The Palazzo Restaurants – Part Deux
After skewering some places at our newest mega-hotel last week, I thought I’d report on three places in the Palazzo that I really like. Before I list them, however, I thought a comment was in order about something the designers have done that makes the Big P so much more convenient to locals wishing to drop by for a bite.
If you recall the nightmare of trying to park in the Venetian – with it’s funereal valet, inadequate spaces, and time consuming trek through the lot and casino to get anywhere – you’ll be happy to know that all flaws have been cured – and sins forgiven – with the design of the underground lot at the Palazzo. With two entrances to it – off Spring Mountain or the Strip – you are deposited within an escalator ride of the main casino floor; where you pop right up in the middle of it; and easily stroll to any one of the twelve or so restaurants surrounding you.
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“The trouble with touring in America is constantly having to eat what everybody thinks is Mexican food.” – Lyle Lovett
Like Lyle, I love it – “it” being real Mexican food. And I love all of you. You know I do. Some of ELV’s loyal readers are good friends. Some of you are restaurant professionals. Others are chefs or winos (in the best sense of the word). All of you are serious foodies and/or lovers of good grub and where to find it. But with all due respect for your impeccable taste in all things culinary, and your prescient recognition of excellence in Las Vegas restaurant blogs/websites, I have a modest, respectful request:
QUIT SENDING ME TO MEXICAN RESTAURANTS BECAUSE NONE OF YOU HAVE A CLUE WHAT MAKES A GOOD ONE!
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At the beginning of the year, Nevada Public Radio asked listeners to e-mail in suggestions for where I should dine and review for the coming twelve months. By a margin of 3 to 1, Mexican restaurants took the cake for places I just had to try “…because it’s new and fresh and the owners are real Mexicans (as opposed to fake Mexicans) and we love it and they make great margaritas and we love everything on the menu and you really need to try it!”
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