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We say goodbye to four Las Vegas staples.

We wish these food trends would just go away.

When you’re a food writer, the whole world is your buffet. Here’s what critic Al Mancini would like on his plate.

All the items from the restaurant world that we can do without.

Pubs are all the rage on the Strip, but none capture the quirky elegance of their origins like this one, designed by California-based EDG Interior Architecture + Design.

The term “Hakka” refers to the people who have migrated from the southeastern provinces of China, adopting their food culture wherever they landed.

Nick Hetzel of Sage has the rather impressive distinction of being the only one of 70 candidates in this country to pass this year’s prestigious master sommelier exam, an honor he shares with one of our past winners in this category, Kevin Vogt of Delmonico.

Downtown has a new star in its ever brighter dining constellation. Joe Vicari, a Michigan restaurateur with dining rooms scattered around Detroit, is the genius behind this clubby, atmospheric restaurant at The D (short for, in case you didn’t know, Detroit).

Imagine finding five of our best and most unusual Asian restaurants in one strip mall. That’s the case with Mountain View Plaza, located on the east side of Jones Boulevard, just north of Chinatown’s main drag, Spring Mountain Road.

You now need more than two hands to count the ramen shops in Las Vegas on your fattened-up fingers, so it’s no wonder that a few of the establishments not in Chinatown or run by celebrity chefs are flying under the radar.

As if the roasted foie gras here wasn’t bomb enough, chef Brian Howard somehow managed to make it dynamite.

There are incarnations of the traditional English dessert at all of Ramsay’s restaurants here, each of which begins with rich, spongy date cake soaked with toffee sauce.

This burger-and-beer joint was unceremoniously shuttered along with its big sister, First Food & Bar, in favor of celebrity-chef burgers and beers.