Pictures of Food? The New York Times Finally Notices…

In keeping with its reputation for being a day late and a dollop short on any and all trends in popular culture, the New York Times ran a story today about the phenomenon of people actually photographing what they eat!

Who knew?

So in honor of same, ELV’s staff thought they should post some more tasty (and not so tasty) snaps of a recent return trip they made to Jean Georges Steakhouse in Aria. Rather than the witty, erudite, incisive, historically profound, and existentially ironic prose for which he is known, ELV will leave you to read the captions on the pics to decipher what he thought of the food…

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Kali Orixi at YASSOU!

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If you’ve ever had a hankerin’ for a properly cooked, spiced, juicy, herb-flecked, chicken souvlaki — and let’s face it who hasn’t? — then you owe it to yourself to hightail it to west Charleston for a taste of what this classic is supposed to taste like — before every cheap, commercial, gyro-parlor in America cheapened it into cardboard poultry oblivion.

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Darius Allyn’s Wine Crawl. With Commentary.

Eating Las Vegas rarely publishes press releases — unlike most media in town — and when we do, we tell our readers that’s what we’re doing — unlike most media in town.

But we’re big fans of Darius Allyn (we even knew him when he went by a different name!), and as a congratulatory gesture for him becoming the newest Master Sommelier at Bellagio, we thought we’d show you his top 10 wine venues (with stilted, promotional commentary provided by a public relations person who probably knows next to nothing about wine – other than it’s wet). Amazingly, some of these are not on MGM-Mirage (his employer) properties:

DARIUS ALLYN’S TOP 10 WINE VENUES

1. Craving Spanish wine? Head to Bellagio’s Picasso for a selection of more than 1,500 of the best wines from Spain, as well as classics from the rest of the world. Find out why Picasso has made the annual list of Wine Spectator’s Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers since 2002 and has received their Grand Award from 2003-2005 and again in 2008. (ELV note: no commentary needed. Robert Smith runs one of the nation’s best wine programs and should’ve won a Beard Award by now.)

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