ELV note: In case you missed it, here is chef/owner Bradley Manchester of Glutton, on Wake Up With the CW last Friday morning, explaining what goes into his superlative burger. For future reference (and for all of you early rising foodies out there), KSNV TV (NBC) Channel 3 in Las Vegas has expanded its chef/restaurants/food morning segments on Fridays.
Tag: Downtown Las Vegas
Kerry’s Crowning Achievement
ELV note: As proud as we are of this recently published article in VEGAS magazine, our happiness is muted by the fact that Kerry Simon was recently admitted to a local hospital because of pneumonia. To anyone suffering from multiple system atrophy, as Simon is, such an illness is a very serious condition, and does not portend any kind of healthy recovery. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Simon and his family.
(Rainbow cauliflower, from Carson Kitchen’s farm fresh menu.)
If someone had told me a year ago that Kerry Simon’s Carson Kitchen would be both a raging success and the spark of a restaurant renaissance, I would have looked at them with the same bemusement I usually reserve for conspiracy theorists and Chicago Cubs fans. A year ago (or three, 10, or 20 years ago), Downtown Las Vegas was a restaurant wasteland. The idea that young couples, suburbanites, professionals, and entire families would come here to eat seemed as far-fetched as having a mob lawyer for a mayor.
Hot Hostess/Change of Ownership Watch: RADIO CITY PIZZERIA
ELV — the man, the myth, the inveterate gossip — knows way too much about the sturm und drang of Radio City Pizza’s family restaurant melodrama* to report on it objectively.
Suffice it to say that Kayla (pictured above) was in line for another Hot Hostess Watch posting, until we found out on Friday that the business had been sold.
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