BLT BURGER – Opening Party

Since ELV is a close FOLT (Friend Of Laurent Tourondel), he can be no more objective about the BLT restaurants than he is about The Official Number One and Number Two Sons of ELV. Therefore, please consider all comments within that context, and enjoy these tasty snaps of both last week’s opening party and some of our recommended menu items. Between the NBA greats attending the party (Bill Walton, Doc Rivers, P. J. Carlesimo, et al) and a bevy of attractive females of the opposite persuasion, ELV’s head was on a swivel the entire night. Whenever The Food Gal asked who we were staring at (which occurred with annoying regularity), we found it most convenient to say “Bill Walton” as he was so hard to miss. ELV highly recommends attending parties with lots of famous basketball players should you ever wish to do some serious girl-watching.

BLT BURGER

In the Mirage Hotel and Casino

3400 Las Vegas Blvd. South

Las Vegas, NV 89109

702.792.7888

www.BLTRESTAURANTS.COM

HOT HOSTESS WATCH – Yellowtail

ELV is tempted to make a bad, off color pun invoking the name of the aforementioned restaurant, but in the spirit of tastefulness for which he is known, will hereby decline to do so. But these triplets* are so cute and good at their jobs that we would eat at Yellowtail even if it served only Kagoshima natto garnished with fermented umeboshi atop finely minced sakuraniku.**

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* ELV suspects they are not related, however. Just a hunch.

** Yellowtail does not serve such items. The sushi, sashimi, and Japanese fusion food it does serve is pretty nifty.

L’ATELIER DE JOEL ROBUCHON

ELV has sung the praises of L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon so many times (KNPR, KNPR, JohnMariani.com, KLAS TV et al), another rave review seems redundant. It was our Restaurant of the Year in 2006, and Chef Steve Benjamin, Pastry Chef Kamel Guechida (Bon Appetit Magazine, KNPR and KLAS TV’s Pastry Chef of the Year for 2007), along with General Manager Emmanuel Cornet, run such a tight ship that updating any of those past reviews is unnecessary. But we cruised by there last week and were as impressed as ever by the food, so we thought we’d feature some tasty snaps to inspire some serious salivatory stimulation.

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