PRIVATE TASTING WITH ALAIN DUCASSE @ miX
If you want to turn any chef, restaurateur, or foodie in the world green with envy, try telling them you just spent the afternoon tasting new dishes at miX atop Thehotel at THE Mandalay Bay with Alain Ducasse — the only chef in the world with twelve Michelin stars.
Continue reading “VEGAS UNCORK’D (Part Deux) – Thoughts, Reflections, and (even more) Tasty Snaps”
From pigs to babes:
“Las chicas es son muy caliente!” is how Columbian sculptor/artist Fernando Botero would say it, and ELV could make a joke about how finely sculpted Shantel, Jennifer, Alyssa and the muy atractiva chica Sara {not pictured} — are, but he won’t.
But he will tell you they are so apasionado-inducing that he and his staff would eat at Botero even if Chef Mark LoRusso were cooking up nothing but tocino with cocido.
ELV POSTS CORRECTION: We mistakenly reported that Woo in The Palazzo had closed. We discovered last night that reports of its death had been greatly exaggerated. All bets are off, however, on its chances for survival. ELV blames his staff and regrets the error.
Now, back to reality.
The headline in Nation’s Restaurant News in June said: “Vegas refuses to fold as economy craps out.” By late September that same banner read: “Hard luck befalls Las Vegas following U.S. housing bust.”