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The cold (or at least cool) weather is upon us. That means it’s time for two things that ELV swears off of during the hot weather months: red wine and soup.
Continue reading “Eat This Now – Albondigas/Fideo Soups at EL SOMBRERO”
Photos: Beverly Poppe
Click here to read today’s review of EL Sombrero in the Las Vegas Weekly, or continue reading after the jump. Fyi: Much to ELV’s relief, the editors of the Weekly have decided to dispense with the awarding of “stars” with these reviews. Whew!
In 1950, five years before Bob Taylor opened his steakhouse in, what was then, the middle of nowhere in northwest Las Vegas, and eight years before the Golden Steer appeared on west Sahara, a man named Clemente Griego opened an unassuming Mexican restaurant in a square, squat little building at 807 Main Street in downtown Las Vegas. Griego had been running the place for fourteen years, when his nephew, Jose E. Aragon joined him at the stoves.
Continue reading “EL SOMBRERO – Jose Can You See Those Sopapillas!”
If you ever faced a craving for some nice, spicy, deeply flavored, Mexican-made, oregano-enhanced, cilantro-garnished, cow’s stomach lining, and let’s face it who hasn’t, then you owe it to yourself to get to EL Sombrero pronto for some of Chef/owner Jose Aragon‘s superior menudo.
