Forget the fact that she’s a major babe,* Carla Pellegrino is now doing some major-league pizza cooking at Rao’s for lunch. Great dough, superior toppings, nice char, perfect balance among ingredients — her pizzas are everything you’d want in a first class pie.
One Day, Two Bad Pizzas and Three Meals
It all started with a lousy lunch…
…at Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza at the Town Square Mall (that is neither in town, nor square, nor a mall), upon the recommendation of some people whose opinion we used to trust in such things, and ate two of the worst pizzas we’ve had in years.
French Resistance – The Decline of PAMPLEMOUSSE in Las Vegas CityLife
The slow, steady decline of a once noble restaurant is hardly something we take pleasure in witnessing. But this week’s story in CityLife about the whys and wherefores of Pamplemousse’s recent tribulations (and its refusal to keep up with the times) is a fascinating study in obliviousness on the part of the owner (who refused to be interviewed), a clueless manager/maitre ‘d, and a poor chef soldiering on against all odds, cooking food that was dated twenty years ago.
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