Dining
Dining
Pair Your Beer and Fries
Our favorite gourmet pommes frites, and what to drink with them
March 26th, 2013
This heaping platter of fries has familiar elements to those of us wise in the ways of chili-cheese fries, except this is way better than any greasy-spoon version. Oxtail is braised in a savory, hearty chili until it’s tender, then slapped on top of fries and accented with cheese, raw jalapeños and a glistening, runny egg. Read more »
Diner's Notebook
Cheeburger Math, Romano Diversifies, and Armenian with a Pedigree
March 26th, 2013
Cheeburger Cheeburger (8390 S. Rainbow Blvd., 220-3912) is a Florida-based chain that allows customers to create their own burgers using a ladder-like series of options, much as Craftsteak in the MGM Grand does with main courses. Read more »
Small Bites
App Answers ‘What’s For Dinner?’
March 26th, 2013
If you find Trip Advisor too whiney, and Yelpers a little too mean, there’s another option that’s just as subjective … but with sources more reputable than the reviewer who calls Fatburger haute cuisine. Named by Apple to the Top 70 of 2012’s best-of-the-best (out of nearly a million apps), Chefs Feed is an iPhone app enjoyed by fans in 20 U.S. cities (Las Vegas now included) for getting restaurant picks from folks who should know: professional chefs. Read more »
Dining
Viva Las Arepas Serves Venezuelan With Love
South American street food wins over Las Vegas one savory, stuffed arepa at a time
March 26th, 2013
Viva Las Arepas—formerly the food stand known as I [HEART] Arepas—sits just north of the Stratosphere on Las Vegas Boulevard. Why the change? Someone else trademarked the original name. Read more »
Scene Stirs
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. Read more »
Cocktail Culture
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. Read more »
Dining
Get Out of Your Kitchen (And Into Theirs)
New hands-on cooking classes offer fresh options for weekend fun without ever getting your kitchen dirty
March 19th, 2013
Entrepreneur Marcus Fortunato earned a good living in gaming-industry software development. Three years ago, however, he started a company built around his passion for cooking. He wanted it to appeal to Las Vegans who love food so much they not only dine in the city’s finest restaurants, but who would embrace a learning experience: cooking in a celebrity-chef-worthy kitchen. Read more »
Diner's Notebook
Prime Real Estate, the City’s Best German, and Town Square’s Two New Tenants
March 19th, 2013
How does a restaurant with prime steaks, solicitous service, old Western décor, and a price point well below those in more publicized Strip venues sound? Well, that’s just what to expect at Silverado at the South Point (796-7111), where chef Jon Romine is strutting his stuff. Read more »
