You can taste and feel, but not describe, the exquisite state of repose produced by tea, that precious drink which drives away the five causes of sorrow. – Emperor Chien Lung (1710-1789)
Even a cup of tea will stay hunger for a time. – Japanese Proverb
It tastes like white lighting soaked in sweetened tree resin, but nonetheless, is strangely compelling.
So compelling, in fact, you’ll find yourself ordering another one before you know it.
And then another…
…and before too long, you’ll find yourself doing this:
Pronounced “mas-TEEK-ha” it is only available at Estiatorio Milos…and only should be consumed if someone else is driving.
ΥΓΕΙΑ! (Yamas!)
ESTIATORIO MILOS
In The Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino
3708 Las Vegas Blvd. South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
702.698.7930
ELV note: There is one GLARING omission in this otherwise outstanding compilation of lip-smacking food clips from delicious movies. Can you guess what it is?
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Answer: There is no scene from Tampopo — the greatest food movie of all time.
Why is it the greatest food movie of all time, ELV?
We’re glad you asked that question.
Tampopo is the greatest food movie of all time because it is utterly, completely, hysterically and unapologetically a movie about food and our relationship to it. None of the other movies (as gorgeous and appetite-inducing as they may be), can make that claim.
Dear ELV,
Are there any rules for critiquing your friends as food critics?
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They’re there every night, they see it done every night, they see how should be done every night, but they can’t do it themselves. – Brendan Behan
Critics are like eunuchs at a gang bang. – George Burns
A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car. – Kenneth Tynan
Since ELV seems destined never to pay for a bite of food at Old Homestead, he approaches this “review” of it with caution, as should you.
This is hardly something new around the ELV offices, as our non-anonymity is now ubiquitous (we even get busted in Chinatown these days). So it is among other critics (in Vegas and elsewhere) as well, but it still gives us pause before we launch into telling you what we really think of a place, since it’s obvious to both of us that the experience we’re writing about will not exactly be yours.
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better…A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. – Calvin Trillin
While ELV was out of town last week, visiting his ancestral home, he stumbled upon an idea that might be perfect for Las Vegas: Beer Growlers!
Please understand the reason Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese don’t cook them, they threaten them. – Jeff Smith
Dude, I can totally incorporate that into a cocktail…
Restaurant reviews, quips, picks and pans-with some seriously salivating history-from the man who eats his way through Sin City every day.
