Xania Woodman
Senior Editor, Dining, Beverage & Nightlife
Contact: 868-4508 • Email
Originally from New York, Woodman is an impassioned nightlife and beverage writer, editor, and blogger; a proud USBG Nevada member and Cornell Hotelie; and an all-around career carouser, causing a stir in Sin City since 2001. She has written for myriad publications including 944 and the LA Times and appears annually in The Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas (Menasha Ridge Press). Woodman has presided over countless mixology competitions as a judge, including Throwdown With Bobby Flay and she approaches each with an open mind, a fresh palate and a ready pen.
Recent Articles
Best of the Southwest
Need an excuse for a spring road trip? Check out the season’s regional epicurean opportunities
March 21st, 2013
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Spring Epicurean Guide 2013
From dark-beer takeovers to wine revolutions to the HOPocalypse, it looks to be an aggressively delicious season of food and drink festivals and events!
March 20th, 2013
Spring forward with Vegas Seven’s comprehensive social calendar! It’s everything all you foodies, cocktailians wine-lovers and beer nuts need to savor this season. (Hint: You’ll want to take out your day planner.)
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Sweet Après-Ski Cocktail Classic Hangover
March 20th, 2013
Warming drinks—especially the boozy, spiced and topped-with-a-dollop-of-something-creamy kind—go together very nicely with snow sports. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the time-honored tradition of the après-ski tipple is made all the more rewarding by the exhilaration and chilling temperatures that preceded. But it did take a crack team of professional cocktailians to pull off their union with aplomb at the recent inaugural Après-Ski Cocktail Classic, March 14-17 in Snowmass, Colorado.
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Nobu's MIA Margarita has the Spice of Life
March 20th, 2013
Bartenders don’t have to go far at Nobu to find fresh, intriguing ingredients to incorporate into their cocktails. The new restaurant and bar in Nobu Caesars Palace is a mixology playground of exotic fruits, herbs and spices, such as yuzu, shiso leaf and shichimi.
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Ready to Rumpus
The Palms unveils its newest bar, a rec room with a view, in the former Playboy Club
March 13th, 2013
The Palms wants a greater share of your aggregate drinking time. They’re making this patently clear by sweeping away the old or underused and bringing in the new and awesome. First, we got Scarlet, a six-seat mixology bar with tons of romantic cache. Next came Social, a center bar with a focus on North American whiskey. Not content to let the dust settle on your excitement, the Palms is poised to announce the makeover of the bunny hutch, the Playboy Club.
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Cask Masters, Blackadder Matters, and the Nth’s Finest
March 13th, 2013
I’ve been spending a lot of time at the Whisky Attic recently. The crowd at proprietor Adam Carmer’ private monthly Freakin’ Cask Tastings holds steady and grows more dedicated with each event.
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Park it Here
March 13th, 2013
It’s been a minute since something new debuted on Fremont East. We’ve had a little time since Commonwealth cocktail bar opened its shiny red doors. But the moment has come for Commonwealth’s little sister, Park on Fremont, to put her carefully curated 1940s jukebox and pedal-up bar window to use.
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The Search for Las Vegas’ Best Octopus Dish is Ongoing–and Delicious
March 12th, 2013
Here’s an octopus’ dozen–nine great ways you can try tentacles right now.
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Scotch. Scotch. And, Yes, Even More Scotch at Universal Whisky Experience
March 6th, 2013
I should have recognized the February 23 performance by the bagpipers of Scotland’s 3rd Battalion of the Black Watch as a harbinger of what was to follow: a week of eye-catching kilts, interesting accents and nonstop luxury whiskey tasting.
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