Category: Travel

…And Again.

Doc Sconz’s next-to-last post on his Vegas (eating) vacation, ends with him enjoying himself (sort of) at ALEX at the Wynn. His assessment of the meal isn’t as glowing as you might expect, but, as usual, is accompanied by a number of tasty snaps that had ELV salivating. Unfortunately, we’ll probably never attain his degree of food foto fabulousness, if for no other reason than we’d probably end up looking like this guy….making shooting our food more of a sport than it already is.

His last post, summarizes, we think, the best way to view our strange, sui generis city — if one hopes to take the best from it and filter out the rest.

An Italian Lesson At LUPO

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again. – George Miller

The above cliche is based upon the bad, cheap, fat-laden Italian food that continues to enthrall the American middle class (see Olive Garden, Maggiano’s, Macaroni Grill et al). It’s too bad though, because true Italian food, like Japanese, is about ingredients (or good groceries, as Alan Richman says) more than technique. For pirouettes on the plate, one usually looks to China or France, but for pristine ingredients that shine with only a minor flourish or two, you can’t beat a purist Italian meal prepared by a great chef.

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HEART ATTACK GRILL – Chandler, AZ

To lengthen life, lessen thy meals. – Benjamin Franklin

Although Eating Las Vegas usually eschews barbaric chewing on masses of meat, certain friends of ELV have been known to indulge in such overblown ingestion; so we thought this (very funny) video was a must see for them: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4632991n

And even though we can’t vouch for the food, any place that’s had to weather a defamation lawsuit from a bunch of thin-skinned nurses is A-OK in our book.

HEART ATTACK GRILL

6185 W. Chandler Blvd.

Chandler, AZ 85226

www.heartattackgrill.com