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EATING LAS VEGAS 2016 Makes the Airwaves Today

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If you’re a hungry radio buff — and let’s face it who isn’t? — you can hear us being interviewed about the newest edition of EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Essential Restaurants not once but TWICE today!

The first one hit the airwaves at 9:00 am this morning and can be linked to by clicking here.

Next up will be our live interview at 1:00 on ESPN 1100 AM on your radio dial, where we’ll be dishing the dish on where to to dine to Mitch & Pritch:

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…two members of the jockocracy who know their vittles. (And who love to eat and are curious about where to get the good stuff.)

Tune in, turn on, and get hungry at 1:00 today!

Both of these shows will confirm what you already know: That ELV has a face made for radio.

In case you missed it, here we are — transplendently holding forth in the mellifluous tones for which we are known — with Mitch Moss and Mike Pritchard yesterday — on ESPN Radio, 1100 on your AM dial: http://www.lvsportsnetwork.com/episode/614-mitch-and-pritch-john-curtas-int/.

 

Vegas is Back, Baby!

ELV note: My article on the current state of Las Vegas’s on-the-Strip dining scene debuts today on über-food writer John Mariani’s Web site. To read the article in its Mariani-approved form, click here, otherwise, continue below for the Director’s Cut.

Yee ha! Vegas is back, baby, with a vengeance, and the doldrums of 2009-2014 are now as forgotten as last night’s losing streak at the craps table. You can see it in the faces of waiters; you can feel it in the upbeat attitudes of the staffs in hotels all around town. Dining rooms are full, check averages are up, and bargains are getting tougher to find than a loose slot machine. Las Vegas Restaurant Revolution 3.0 (the first two versions rolled out in 1998 and 2005) may be a bit more modest in scope, but it’s just as tasty, with big-hitter chefs expanding their repertoires without diluting their brands. Here are the big three, all opened within the past 9 months, that everyone’s talking about.

BARDOT BRASSERIE

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French bistros and brasseries may be as hip as a dickey, but in the hands of Michael Mina (and his Chef de Cuisine Joshua Smith, pictured above), the classic and time-worn suddenly seems as fresh and effervescent as the rosé champagne you will be offered here to begin your meal. Bardot Brasserie is resolutely a copy of Parisian brasserie, with lots of traditional-yet-modernized bistro recipes thrown in for good measure. No matter what you call it, Mina and Smith are cooking inspired French food that has had this place packed from day one.

Continue reading “Vegas is Back, Baby!”

ELV Gets to Act Like an Actual Newsperson

ELV note: You’ll have to scroll to the 55:00 minute mark,* i.e. five minutes before the end of the broadcast to observe the restaurant critic with a face made for radio actually SITTING IN THE ANCHOR CHAIR LIKE THE BIG KIDS and being interviewed by Krystal Allan about our two big foodie events of this weekend: the Winter in Venice “How to Italian” festival going on tomorrow at the Palazzo Atrium from 11am-3pm, and the Container Park — which officially opened this week in downtown Las Vegas.

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* ELV is convinced that Marcella Ruth Schroader Curtas (D.O.B. 08.10.24 – The Official Mother of ELV) is the only person who ever bothers to do this.