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EATING LAS VEGAS Top 10 Announced

November 14, 2011 By: John Curtas Category: Chefs, Critics, Events, Food, Reviews, The List 6 Comments →

The Top 10 Restaurants in Las Vegas, according to EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants are (in alphabetical order):

Bar Masa

CUT

Estiatorio Milos

Guy Savoy

Joel Robuchon

L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon

Le Cirque

Michael Mina

Picasso

Twist

The List

September 22, 2011 By: John Curtas Category: The List 4 Comments →

Being a restaurant critic is like being a horse put out to stud; it sounds like a good idea until you have to do it on command all the time. – Colman Andrews

Being a restaurant critic is like being a porn star; most schmucks think they would like it and could do it, but wouldn’t and can’t. – ELV

Here’s where we’ve eaten in the past two weeks:

Central (four times)

Giuseppe’s

J & J Szechuan

Flame Kabob

The Barrymore

Carnevino

P. J. Clarke’s

Yellowtail

Sirio

Island Sushi (twice)

Marche Bacchus

Sushi Fever

D.O.C.G.

Milos

Bouchon

Yasou!

Comme Ça

Mon Ami Gabi


The New York List

July 21, 2011 By: John Curtas Category: Food, The List, Travel 3 Comments →

Where we ate in NYC… in order of awesomeness:

Food Network’s Kitchen Stadium

Corton

Eataly

Le Cirque

Fatty Cue

Artisanal

Lombardi’s

Spasso

Barbetta

Jacques Torres

Benoit

Amy’s Bread

Lyon

Balthazar

Pizza Box

Esquire’s Best Restaurant Cities (Vegas is #6)

December 26, 2010 By: John Curtas Category: Chefs, Critics, Food, The List, Travel, Zines 2 Comments →

America’s Best Restaurant Cities: 2010 Edition

December 22, 2010 at 3:24PM by John Mariani
A decade ago it was easy enough to contend that if you wanted the best French food you’d go to France, the best Italian food you’d go to Italy, and the best Japanese food you’d go to Japan. But if the last ten years have shown gastronomes anything, it’s that food the equal of any in the world is now to be found in the USA. And not just in New York or San Francisco. Cities like Chicago, Houston, Washington, and Boston have enormous breadth and depth in many ethnic categories.
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An Insider’s Guide to EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants

November 18, 2010 By: John Curtas Category: Chefs, Commercial, Critics, Events, Food, Interviews, Openings, Reviews, The List, Zines 17 Comments →

ImageIllustration: Chris Morris

What happens when three food critics get together and try to pick the city’s 50 best restaurants? We ask the Weekly’s John Curtas, who teamed up with Max Jacobson and Al Mancini on Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants, out this week on Huntington Press.

Did the three of you approach the project planning to include 50 restaurants, or did you arrive at that number once you evaluated Las Vegas’ food scene?

I think the 50 kind of evolved. My first top-50 list had 75 restaurants on it, but 50’s a good round number. Vegas probably doesn’t have enough of a broad-based culinary scene to do a top 100.

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The List

November 18, 2009 By: John Curtas Category: The List 4 Comments →

A list, in order of excellence, of the places at which we’ve eaten in the past week (without commentary):

Valentino

Bartolotta

David Burke

Mon Ami Gabi

Simon

Marche Bacchus

Carnevino

Ocha Thai

Krung Thai

Lagasse Stadium

Emeril’s Fish House

Nozomi

Grind

The List

October 29, 2009 By: John Curtas Category: The List 9 Comments →

A weekly update of where ELV has eaten in the past week (in descending order of quality):

Bouchon (twice)

Lotus of Siam

Postrio

Stratta

Taqueria Canonita

Kabob Palace

Pho Kim Long

Lola’s Louisiana Kitchen

The Hot Dog Guy

Terra Rossa

Carl’s Jr.

Wendy’s

Pink’s