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RUTH’S CHRIS STEAKHOUSE 1989-2011
ELV note: This short obit appeared yesterday on-line at the Las Vegas Weekly website. You can access it in its original form by clicking here.
R.I.P. Ruth’s Chris: 1989-2011
Even when it was enjoying its greatest success throughout the ’90s and early aughts, Ruth’s Chris (and it’s owner Marcel Taylor) never received enough recognition for being the gastronomic game-changer in bringing national attention to Las Vegas’ restaurant scene. Spago always gets credit for shaking the gourmet ground under us when it opened in late 1992—and thereby starting the culinary tsunami that brought so many high-end eateries to our desert shores—but the little-known fact is, the rumblings really started three years earlier, when Taylor, then a dealer at Caesars, convinced Ruth Fertel (founding owner of Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and one of his regular big players) to let him have a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse franchise on Paradise Road.
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ELV note: Say what you will about Pizza Face, Carne Face, So Long, or whatever he’s calling himself today, beneath the profanity and posturing there’s a lot of passion for the heart and soul of restaurant cooking. This comment pretty much sums up a lot of foodies’ feelings about what Bradley Ogden was and what has become of it.
John Curtas thanks for posting this…. this is truly sad but me personally as many, knew it was coming, it was just a matter of time. Its like a family member is passing away and emotions are being brought.