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CARNEVINO Lunch ex post facto Conversation

The Food Gal™ : So where did you go to lunch today ELV?

ELV: Why, I went to Carnevino.

The Food Gal: Did you have meat?

ELV (sheepishly): Well kinda…if you can call a steak and egg sandwich, topped with three different eggs (quail, duck and chicken) and a house-cured pastrami on some excellent Bon Bakery Bread, meat eating.

The Food Gal: What happened to your pledge to forgo beef…or at least cut way back on it? The whole sustainable, carbon-footprint, going green thing and all that?

ELV: I don’t know…it was like I walked through the doors and some strange, extraterrestrial, beef-eating force consumed my body and I was powerless to resist the addictive allure of aged beef…It’s f*cking evil I tell you! Someone needs to stop it!

The Food Gal: Who chose the restaurant?

ELV: Uh…I did….but that’s beside the point I tell you! Why aren’t you listening to me?

The Food Gal: You probably drank too, didn’t you?

ELV: Of course I drank…it’s C-a-r-n-e-V-I-N-O after all. It would be a sin not to. Mario (Batali) and Joe (Bastianich) would never forgive me…

The Food Gal: Well, as long as you didn’t invite me to lunch, do tell, what wine didn’t I get to try?

ELV: As long as you asked, a smooth, deep and mellow Ca’ Marcanda Promis — a merlot-based beauty from Gaja ($125).

The Food Gal: Is this the same “Gaja” from yesterday? The Italian knockout that you conveniently forgot to tell me you were having lunch with?

ELV: Boy, you hit that nail on the head. Those nebbiolos yesterday knocked me out in more ways than one…

The Food Gal: That’s not what I’m talking about.

My lunch for two (with a mysterious femme fatale and $125 bottle of wine and a smattering of the first white truffles of the season) came to a lot more $$$ than The Food Gal ™ wanted me to spend.*

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* Something tells ELV it’s gonna be a no nooky night.

Corkage Fees Update

After speaking with City of Las Vegas Attorneys, City of Las Vegas Business Licensing Enforcement personnel, Clark County Attorneys, and numerous individuals at both the wholesale and retail level of wine purveyance, Eating Las Vegas has come to these ten conclusions about corkage fees for persons wishing to bring their own wine to restaurants:

1) The City of Las Vegas considers it illegal and will cite any establishment (for a violation of their liquor/wine license) that allows persons to consume a bottle of wine on a restaurant premise not purchased at that place of business. However, the enforcement of this prohibition has been spotty and selective at best.

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