CIRCO – KLAS TV (CBS) Channel 8 Restaurant of the Week

Osteria del Circo is our favorite Italian restaurant in town and has been so ever since it opened ten years ago in the Bellagio. Chef Vincenzo Scarmiglia continues to make this Tuscan kitchen hum with pastas, fish and meat dishes that hew close to their Italian ancestry and never fail to dazzle. Click below for this week’s ROTW segment on Channel 8 with my good food buddy, Denise Valdez.

Osteria del Circo

In the Bellagio

3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South

Las Vegas, NV 89109

702.693.8150

http://www.bellagio.com/restaurants/circo.aspx

 

Eating Albuquerque – in The Virtual Gourmet

Albuquerque, New Mexico probably is not the first town that leaps to mind when you savor thoughts of fabulous, indigenous, American cuisine, but it should be. Throughout this capital of Native American-Mexican-Spanish-American cultures is enough interesting and tasty grub to keep your palate interested and over-heated for weeks. And from a recent visit (my second in a year), I can confidently pronounce the food every bit as tasty as that in Santa Fe, an hour to the north, and much less expensive.

Here is the article on Albuquerque published today in John Mariani’s The Virtual Gourmet, or continue to the next page to read the text in the ELV format. Either way, you’ll want to hop a Southwestern flight to ABQ immediately for some bowls of green, red, posole, and a green chili cheeseburger!

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KAN’S HONG KONG KITCHEN + BASIL ‘N LIME = two tasty Asian cuisines

You couldn’t have two more different Asian cuisines than Cantonese and Thai. Southern Chinese food is seafood and vegetable-heavy, with funky and flat flavors that sometimes challenge the Western palate. Thai cooking celebrates hot, sour and sweet sensations that compel your brain to cry for more while your tongue is crying for help. Here’s a couple of faves, one off Spring Mountain Road on Jones, the other in the Southwest part of town, that ELV and his staff go to when they require a jolt of the real McGillicuddy. For other real McGillicuddys, see this guy and this guy.*

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