An Insider’s Guide to EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants

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What happens when three food critics get together and try to pick the city’s 50 best restaurants? We ask the Weekly’s John Curtas, who teamed up with Max Jacobson and Al Mancini on Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants, out this week on Huntington Press.

Did the three of you approach the project planning to include 50 restaurants, or did you arrive at that number once you evaluated Las Vegas’ food scene?

I think the 50 kind of evolved. My first top-50 list had 75 restaurants on it, but 50’s a good round number. Vegas probably doesn’t have enough of a broad-based culinary scene to do a top 100.

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Big Fish Wants to Eat This Book!

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In commemoration of The Official Launch Date of EATING LAS VEGAS -The 50 Essential Restaurants (and our celebration of the official new color of said book!) , we hereby offer for your amusement, admiration and amazement…Big Fish!

This big boy looks to weigh around five pounds and dwarfs the other exotic pisces swimming behind the Mirage’s check-in desk.

Would someone please tell ELV what type or kind it  is?*

We don’t want to eat it or anything…we’re just curious.

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* Could it be a type of  fugu?