Dining Profiles
Dining Profile
‘Something About This Place …’
Faithful customers turned hands-on owners continue the tasty evolution of their favorite restaurant, Marché Bacchus
October 6th, 2011
If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll discover a neighborhood eatery that you frequent so often that it feels like a second home. That was the case for Rhonda and Jeff Wyatt, who fell in love with Marché Bacchus, a deli and wine market, that opened across the street from their Desert Shores home. In 2007 when their beloved restaurant went on the market, the Wyatts jumped at the opportunity despite having no previous restaurant experience. Read more »
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When Cups Runneth Over
DW Bistro expansion a sign of good things to come
September 29th, 2011
Finding a new local restaurant is like finding new friends in Vegas: It’s not always easy, but when you do finally come across someone interesting, you hope they will integrate well into your already-established friends, interests and lifestyle. And you hope that they will stick around awhile. That’s the thing about this desert city. Great things and people come, but whether it’s to move on to something bigger and better or the result of hitting rock-bottom, only a few of them stay. Sometimes, however, the really special ones not only stay, they grow and continue to help transform Las Vegas for everyone’s benefit. DW Bistro looks to be one of those local gems. Read more »
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She of the Top Toque
For Mandalay Bay’s new executive chef, making history is second to making good food
September 22nd, 2011
Susan Wolfla doesn’t need your congratulations for being a woman. Mandalay Bay’s new executive chef may have the honor of being the first woman to hold that position in the Strip’s history, but she thinks there are far more interesting topics to talk about. Read more »
Chef Profile
Next-Gen Chinese
Las Vegas’ Mayflower descendant makes his mark at Social House
September 8th, 2011
Peter Woo and his family have been striving to change the American perception of Chinese food for more than 30 years. Now at his new post as executive chef of Social House in Crystals at CityCenter, Woo has yet another opportunity to demonstrate the beauty of Asian cuisine. Read more »
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Michel Richard
Meet the big personality behind fall’s biggest restaurant opening
September 1st, 2011
This month, Michel Richard will introduce himself to the one town that can match his boundless energy. Central (pronounced sen-TRAL), a 24-hour, 300-seat outpost of his modern brasserie in Washington, D.C., will open in Caesars Palace, replacing the former Augustus Café. Regarded as one of the godfathers of California cuisine, Richard is long overdue for a Vegas debut. Read more »
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A Jazzed Legend
Resurrecting a Vegas institution, if but for one more delicious bite
August 25th, 2011
The Jazzed Café & Vinoteca may be long gone, but the menu has lived on in delicious posterity. And though the place no longer exists—the original location, on East Tropicana Avenue, closed in 2001; the westside location followed in 2005—Jazzed Café chef and co-owner Kirk Offerle still prepares the old dishes such as penne cream pomodoro, eggplant Parmesan, bruschetta and a variety of risottos for family and friends. Read more »
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Mayra Trabulse
Pura Vida’s vegan chef makes eating meatless painless and delicious
August 18th, 2011
No meat? No dairy? No animal byproducts? Some would say this life isn’t worth living, but chef Mayra Trabulse believes adhering to a vegan lifestyle is, in fact, living life to the fullest. Although Trabulse is very passionate about the foods and products she eats and uses in her new 100-percent vegan downtown restaurant, Pura Vida Bakery & Bystro, she is not trying to convert anyone. Read more »
Chef Profile
Diamond of the Kitchen
Guy Savoy protégé Mathieu Chartron leads one of Las Vegas’ top French kitchens; someday his family’s truffle legacy will lead him home.
August 11th, 2011
Running a hot kitchen that puts out precise haute cuisine bearing the name of a famous French chef is enough to make anyone age prematurely. So one would think that the chef running the kitchen at Restaurant Guy Savoy at Caesars Palace would be a foreboding figure, maybe a little gray at his temples, with his brow permanently furrowed, rather than the fresh-faced, 24-year-old Mathieu Chartron. Read more »
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The French Connection
Charming from-scratch French specialties await at a hidden office-park café
July 7th, 2011
The aromas emanating from the small kitchen will tip you off that this isn’t a typical deli. Making it all the sweeter, you begin to sense that you are among the first to discover this hidden gem, surrounded by an office complex off Raphael Rivera Way in southwest Las Vegas. This isn’t an eatery that you will just happen upon. Like a secret club for foodies, to find it, you will have to get directions, but you’ll never forget how to get there again. Read more »
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Alex Stratta
The Wynn chef shares his healthy appetite for easy vegan pasta
June 30th, 2011
Chef Alex Stratta won’t be committing anytime soon to one side of the fence on the vegan/meatetarian matter. In the kitchen he proudly honors his Franco-Italian heritage and worldly upbringing, getting utter joy from cooking everything from squab to prosciutto. Read more »
