Having spent the last few weeks getting blasted with semi-encouraging Facebook food photos from half of my friends list, I was encouraged enough to take an evening out to Tivoli Village’s newest “place that probably uses a chalkboard for a permanent feature somewhere”, aka Big-money-backed trendy restaurant. I was mildly entertained by the idea of a butcher shop/bar downstairs, and I was even going to go to the media event pre-opening. I missed out on the free E&R branded Victorinox chefs knife with the tote bag, but plans changed when I had to go watch doctors pull a medical oddity the size of a lemon out of my brother’s brain (he’s fine now, and I already had that exact knife anyways). Well, I made it out and my first impression was…
ECHO & RIG Has ELV Beating His Meat
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Let’s get one thing straight right from the get go: The name Echo & Rig means nothing. There is no Mr. Echo (or his Bunnymen); there is no Mrs. Rig.
The name is made up, contrived by management and conceived by contest — a competition, we were told, among employees to come up with a unique-sounding name. The name is catchy alright, but it also tells you nothing about the establishment. Thus, is the concept, like its cognomen , more than a bit confusing.
Greek Food Festival Coming Up!
In two weeks, Las Vegas’s best Greek restaurant will open for only three days.
It’s about the only time all year ELV gets excited about Greek food (along with when he gets invited to a relative’s house) and he will be tending bar (and over-serving ouzoritas to himself) next |Friday night if you’d like to drop by.
Speaking of getting excited, there is nothing, NOTHING exciting or interesting about the Vegas food scene these days — which is the reason our website posts have been few and far between. (When we can work up the enthusiasm to write about it, we’ll give you our less-than-enthusiastic take on Echo & Rig.)
In the meantime, we’ll look forward to gorging ourselves on Las Vegas’s best Greek cooking, Friday-Sunday, Sept. 27-29.
Kali orixi!
