This burrito… …was filled with big chunks of spoon-tender, well-spiced, beefy beef, and was smothered in a dense, rich, deeply-flavored New Mexican red chile gravy.
It cost $8.
Just thought you’d like to know.
Things Are Tough All Over
High end restaurants from New York to Los Angeles are hurting…
This article in the Wall Street Journal explains how even such a strong operator as Stephen Hanson’s B.R. Guest group has not been able to halt the receding tide of customers in the biz. He’s just closed multiple restaurants in the Big Apple and the Windy City, including the mega-famous Ruby Foo’s and the highly regarded Fiamma — helmed by uber-chef Fabio Trabocchi to 3-star status over the past two years. (So much for the power of restaurant critics.)
Hot Hostess Watch – SPAGO
When ELV looks at Kay all he can think of is ang ganda mo ate. Because of her and her highly polished, professional hostess skills, we’d eat Chef Eric Klein’s eclectic mix of Alsatian-Austrian-Cal-Ital-fusion-food even if he cooked nothing but bad beuschel, rotten rindsuppe, and terrible tafelspitz.
And the painting she’s standing in front of, by local artist and UNLV graduate David Ryan, is a nice piece of work too.