Tag: Greek food

ESTIATORIO MILOS – Big Fish

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“In Spain and Europe, even middle class people are proud to spend their money on the best, fresh food from farmers and fisherman. But too many people here (read: Americans) have gotten spoiled and now want everything cheap.” So says José Andrés (arguably the chef with the most food cred in America right now) to me as we discuss the most remarkable restaurant to open in Las Vegas in the past five years. Essentially, that restaurant is his competition — sitting as it does a stone’s throw from Jaleo (his just-opened spot) across the third floor of The Cosmopolitan — in what will soon be called The Ultimate Gourmet Food Court by every gastronome in America.

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GREEK FOOD FESTIVAL Begins!

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ELV would be remiss in his duties as an Official 50% Person of Greek Extraction if he did not thoroughly endorse, promote, cheer about, give a shout out to and generally give a big hip, hip, hooray! to the Las Vegas Greek Food Festival which began last night and runs through Sunday night at the St. John The Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, at south Jones at El Camino.

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Kali Orixi at YASSOU!

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If you’ve ever had a hankerin’ for a properly cooked, spiced, juicy, herb-flecked, chicken souvlaki — and let’s face it who hasn’t? — then you owe it to yourself to hightail it to west Charleston for a taste of what this classic is supposed to taste like — before every cheap, commercial, gyro-parlor in America cheapened it into cardboard poultry oblivion.

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