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
Vegas' Wildest VIP Bottle Service
March 4th, 2013
There’s bottle service, and then there’s what these clubs are doing.
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Power Wining, Dom Pérignon Dining and Craft Brew News
February 28th, 2013
I received a visit from America’s first Master Sommelier last week. Eddie Osterland stopped by to talk about Power Entertaining, his new book about how to strategically use wine and food in business situations.
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Orient Express
February 28th, 2013
If whiskey makes you frisky, gin makes you sin and brandy makes you randy, then what does dedicating one casino bar entirely to vodka make you? Smart. Before they queue up to get down, partiers heading to Surrender can first slip over to VDKA, the new vodka bar at Encore, to get the party started.
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Fest Watch
Life is Beautiful fest names chef board
February 28th, 2013
The exact dates for Downtown’s Life Is Beautiful Festival have yet to be announced, but the board of culinary advisors that will guide the two-day music, food and arts event to tasteful completion this fall was announced last week, and it’s impressive.
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American As ...
February 21st, 2013
The lifeguard did not see his shadow this month, which means that the party pools will soon open, ushering in the long Las Vegas summer. Till then, however, the nights are still chilly. Beyond the nightly happy hour (4-8 p.m.) and educational Tuesday tastings (4- 6 p.m.), Platinum Hotel sous chef Tyler Ridgeway keeps his guests cozy with his Hot Apple Pie, a cold-weather warmer with all the stuff of winter: cider, macerated apples and oranges, whole cloves, cinnamon sticks and bourbon, which reduces down to a richly sweet drink, served hot from an urn at the bar.
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Scene Stirs
Brown Spirits, A Cocktail Fest, and the Velveteen Rabbit Lives
February 21st, 2013
• Ealanta, the newest private-edition release from Glenmorangie, rolled out in Las Vegas on February 13 at an invite-only tasting in the Laundry Room, the speakeasy at Commonwealth.
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The Velveteen Rabbit Lives
New Downtown craft beer and cocktail bar is set to open in March
February 18th, 2013
A visit to Downtown’s Velveteen Rabbit confirmed for this concerned cocktailian that while owners Pamela and Christina Dylag missed the slated late-January opening, all is well in hand. The diminutive craft beer-and-cocktail bar at 1218 S. Main Street is on track for the end of March, and judging by the look of things, it will be worth the wait.
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Seven Very Nice Things
Swag Dance
The very best from the Sundance 2013 celebrity gifting suites
February 14th, 2013
The celebrity talent and Las Vegas-branded nightlife were hot, the fashions and gadgets very cool at the recent 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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We Owned the Night
How Las Vegas’ brightest nightlife brands lit up the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
February 14th, 2013
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Tasting Whiskey to the Nth Degree
February 14th, 2013
Late last month, awards were given out that scotch-lovers anticipate each year with bated whiskey breath.
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