SUSHI JUMPS THE SHARK (Part Deux)
Sushi Samba in The Palazzo is practically the poster restaurant for how bastardized sushi and sashimi menus have become. Is it a Japanese restaurant? A Brazilian churrascaria? A Peruvian-fusion ceviche joint? Who knows? You certainly won’t after a meal there, and ELV couldn’t figure it out after three.
Tune in October 5th (a week from this Sunday night) at 9:00 pm PDT to the Food Network to see me and my fellow Food Network judges eat more (insert secret ingredient here) than any person should consume in a decade.
And if you’d really like to have some fun, join Robin Leach, NORM! and Channel 8’s Denise Valdez and yours truly at Marche Bacchus for a special Viewing/Dinner/Competitive Cooking Party starting at 6:00 that evening. Seating is limited, so call 702.804.8008 to reserve your chance to critique the critic critiquing (and eat and drink like a Burgundian Duke.)
Marche Bacchus Chef Jean-David Groff Daudet will be doing his own riffs on this ingredient in competition with a very prominent local chef whose identity (like the winner of the competition) we are forbidden from revealing.
Be advised: This may turn into a full contact battle of wits, so brickbats, bad puns and rotten tomatoes will be checked at the door. When the producers first sprang the “secret ingredient” on us in Kitchen Stadium, ELV must admit there was a bit of a letdown…..but the chefs — Iron Chef Michael Symon and David Adjey from Toronto — pulled off some stunning dishes.
MARCHE BACCHUS
2620 Regatta Drive #106
Las Vegas, NV 89128
702.804.8008
When you get John C. Dupont talking about the art of cocktail mixing — not something hard to do — he becomes a proselytizer, a teacher, a raconteur and a pal all at once. He’ll explain to you the finer points of bourbon making, what makes a good vermouth, and how he developed his “New World” cocktail recipe (he wanted to force every bar in America to buy a second bottle of Galliano) at the drop of a hat. But he also wants you to leave his bar a smarter drinker than when you walked in. From the arcane to the practical (e.g. what type of ice to shake or stir into what type of drink), he is there to help…and an education never felt so good.