Last Friday’s Wall Street Journal carried this article by Juliet Chung about how and why restaurants price their wines as they do. As usual (and as deserved), Las Vegas comes in for a fair amount of attention for the (some would say unfair) pricing of its wine lists.
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The James Beard Foundation’s Taste America Las Vegas event will come to the High Mojave Desert on October 24-25. ELV considers this a very good, very prestigious thing for our humble burg.
The weekend will feature JBF award winners at one-of-a-kind events including hosted dinners, cooking demonstrations, educational panels and more. ELV will be in attendance at everything and everywhere that weekend, even if it means ELV will have to clone himself.
The events will take place at Bellagio, Caesars Palace, MGM Grand, Palms Place, The Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino, The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino and Wynn Las Vegas Resort & Country Club. ELV is ecstatic that Circus Circus, The Riv, The Trop, The Sahara and Slots O’ Fun were never seriously considered for event venues.
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LOTUS OF SIAM needs another good review like ELV needs another ex-wife. But as a public service, and because there don’t seem to be any out there, we thought we’d feature some tasty snaps of the food, wine list and menu pages for your perusal.
Calling LOS a great Thai restaurant is like calling Tiger Woods (who is 1/4 Thai) a great golfer. It’s probably the most authentic, fiery, interesting and pure Thai restaurant in the country. And like Eldrick “Call Me Tiger” Woods, it is rarely off its game. Saipin Chutima is a self-taught chef who brings the pure, clean snap of heat, sour and sweet to her Northern and Central Thai dishes, and husband Bill has built up a German wine list that Robert Parker has called the best in the country.
It couldn’t be in a worse location, and some of the food is not for the timid, but if you keep your mind and palate open for adventure (and you’re prepared to drink a lot of water) you’ll have the Thai-m of your life.
Click here for my first review of Lotus of Siam and here for my Critique of Pure Riesling (with apologies to Immanuel Kant) on Nevada Public Radio.
LOTUS OF SIAM
953 East Sahara Ave.
Las Vegas, NV 89104
702.735.3033