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Too Cool for School
‘Amped-up gastropub’ Culinary Dropout earns high marks for hipsterdom, but misses the mark for its category
September 27th, 2012
Culinary Dropout, the newly opened restaurant at the Hard Rock Hotel, is being called an “amped-up gastropub,” where hipness is on tap, bolstered by a menu conceived by Sam Fox, CEO of the rapidly growing Fox Restaurant Concepts. Read more »
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Bacchanal Is a Beast of a Feast
Caesars Palace gets back in the buffet game with a game-changing spread—and with not even a stitch of kitsch
September 20th, 2012
Bacchus is the Roman god of wine. His name is synonymous with sumptuous feasting, and that’s exactly what you get at Bacchanal Buffet, the new blowout buffet at Caesars Palace, featuring a changing menu with more than 500 different items daily. Read more »
Like Mama Used to Make
Sincerity and that Old Vegas Italian charm make this strip-mall mamma e papa joint a contender
September 6th, 2012
I’m constantly trolling the Valley for new neighborhood finds, so when two friends called me with enthusiastic recommendations of a place called Roma Garden, I snapped to attention and made a beeline for it. Read more »
Tony Teppan
Nestled within Bar Masa, Tetsu teppanyaki room turns up the posh and tones down the antics
August 30th, 2012
A restaurant within a restaurant isn’t a new concept. We have E, a mini-restaurant within Jaleo at the Cosmopolitan, and San Francisco has Mission Chinese Food within Lung Shan, a modest joint that recently opened another location to a wave of publicity in New York City. Read more »
Notte-worthy Italian
Allegro chef Enzo Febbraro breathes new life into Wynn’s busiest intersection
August 23rd, 2012
Wynn Resorts is changing a few things in its galaxy of restaurants. Switch is now closed and will open as a different concept later this year. Botero is pushing its supper-club concept to the nightlife crowd. And Stratta has become Allegro, still the hotel’s province of casual Italian dining, but with a new chef and totally new menu. Read more »
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Foie and Loathing in Las Vegas
As a California ban turns a delicacy into an illicit product, Las Vegas chefs invite liver lovers to take a foie-cation
August 16th, 2012
Last month, chef Jason Quinn and a couple of friends hopped in his car and took a road trip to Las Vegas with the express intent to flout the law. Read more »
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A Secret Garden
This under-the-radar restaurant has Chinese tongues wagging— it’ll grow on you, too!
August 9th, 2012
How does one get wind of a first-rate Chinese restaurant off-Strip? You probably won’t know it from the décor, which is generally bright, garish and basic. And you can’t tell from looking at the menu, either—often an encyclopedic document with more than 200 dishes. Read more »
Star Staples
Las Vegas chefs dish about the secrets to procuring and preparing their favorite foods
July 26th, 2012
In the kitchens of top Strip restaurants, chefs rely on trusted distributors to ensure they have access to the finest ingredients. But where do they get the good stuff when they’re cooking at home? We asked a few to share their tips for acquiring and preparing some key items at home. Read more »
High Fives All Around
Wine 5 Café creates African fusion that makes delicious sense for Las Vegas
July 19th, 2012
President Obama is a Luo, a member of a small minority in Kenya, which prompted a former Luo political prisoner Raila Odinga to quip bitterly, “America would have a Luo president before Kenya.” Read more »
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Market Fresh
New menus by a Stratta protégé make returning to Desert Shores a worthy detour
July 12th, 2012
Since acquiring Marché Bacchus five years ago, New Orleans natives Jeff and Rhonda Wyatt have steadily built their brand, and today it is as much a fine restaurant as boutique wine store, the original incarnation of the space. Read more »
