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GYRO TIME

September 27, 2008October 5, 2008

For reasons that remain a mystery to ELV, Gyro Time on West Charleston Ave. has remained open for 30 years. This makes it, according to our calculations, the seventh oldest continuing service restaurant in Las Vegas.*

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It Slices, It Dices, It Makes SUSHI!

September 27, 2008September 28, 2008

In Los Angeles, $3,000 tuition now gets you two entire months of training (and presumably) a certificate as a real, live sushi chef — suitable, no doubt, to make Walmart-worthy tekka-maki to your heart’s content.

As ELV has noted, the training in Japan takes ten years.

Read all about it here, and prepare to get depressed.

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SUSHI SAMBA

September 27, 2008October 5, 2008

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.

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