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(End of) Summer Dish Review – “Bacon and Egg” Fettuccine at LA CAVE

This isn’t the first pasta to tangle itself up in a pretty pile.

Nor is putting a bacon crisp (or an  egg) on top of something the height of originality.

Lightly binding those noodles with cream and some sharp parm ain’t nuthin’ ingenious, either.

But put it all together in this beauteous bundle and you have a starch you can’t resist.

Show stopping in appearance; fork-dropping in deliciousness.

And one of many dishes at La Cave this summer that had me re-thinking my opinion of the place.

Every small plate that came out of this tiny kitchen:

….seemed to be more finely tuned and carefully composed than we had seen or tasted before.

It was quite a meal made quite better by Mark Hefter’s extensive (and well-priced, at least for the Wynncore) wine selections. (50+ wines by the glass is nothing to sneeze at, and, if you look for them, plenty of off-the-beaten-track options for well under a hundy.)

Thus has a place I wrote off a couple of years ago  seem to have re-booted itself in all the right food + wine ways.

L’chiam, La Cave!

LA CAVE FOOD & WINE HIDEAWAY

http://wynnlasvegas.com/Dining/CasualDining/LaCave

BRUNCHWATCH: Brunchtober Begins: LA CAVE

Oh golly, this weather sure has been a thing, hasn’t it?  It has.

In the same way that Mr. Curtas enjoys the luxury of a fine cotton seersucker suit (white on white, Tom Wolfe style), I enjoy the obverse side of this sartorial coin: TWEED.  Oh and by my various speckles and herringbones, I can feel that tweed weather coming along quite nicely.  And along with tweed weather comes the rarest of Las Vegas enjoyments, the foreign tradition known as “Eating Outside”.  And that, my friends, means brunch.

We’ll enjoy Brunchtober and Brunchvember, and enjoy it prudently.  Thinking of hitting EggzNstuff?  Hope you can wake up earlier than someone who goes to an exclusively Senior Citizen church.  Drawn in by a billboard promising all you can stomach industrialized mimosas?  Please destroy yourself.

I’ve been there guys!  I know it, and I know you.  And even among the best brunches, sometimes we’ll crave something outside Mexican-fusion (the always amazing Border Grill) or a music video-esque lavish French Bistro (Bouchon, the earliest “fine dining”). I wanted quality, brunchy items, not with a twist on the traditional, more like a slight rotation. I was pointed towards the unlikely La Cave.  Yes, they brunch!  Dim Sum/butler/AYCE style: you pay, they meander with trays, you grunt in approval.