Mandalay Place
Bars & Booze
Best Mixology Ambassador
July 26th, 2012
J.R. Starkus is having the best year ever. Or at least that’s how it seems for RM Seafood’s lead bartender. Read more »
ShopWatch
Suite 160
June 21st, 2012
Where: The Shoppes at Mandalay Place, 304-2513. The details: For the past 11 years, Suite 160 has been the go-to boutique for stylish sneakers and apparel. Geared toward the guys, inside you’ll find a wide variety of shorts, tees, hats and clothing. Read more »
Dining
Chefs’ Night Out
What they eat during off-hours seems to be a hot topic. We sent our critic to get a sampling.
June 7th, 2012
Chef’s Feed, a new app for the Android or iPhone, is on its way to Las Vegas. A cool concept already launched in American cities such as San Francisco, the app provides an interface that indicates where top chefs in a given city eat and their recommended dishes. Read more »
Cocktail Culture
Character Builder
Two uniquely inspired cocktails at RM Seafood in Mandalay Place, $14
March 29th, 2012
RM Seafood lead bartender J.R. Starkus is a barman’s barman: He gives his cocktailian colleagues the subtly complex creations they crave and invites his guests to step outside of their comfort zones while he maintains a strictly all-fresh program. Read more »
Dishing
Plazero Grilled Corn, Hussong’s Cantina
November 24th, 2011
This cantina originated in Ensenada, Mexico, and it is the birthplace of the margarita. The dish that goes best with that famous beverage here is the one that chef Noe Alcala says gets its name from “the street carts in the corners of the plaza selling corn” in Ensenada. Read more »
Music
An Irish Tale
How one band rose from impoverished childhood to performances on the Strip
September 22nd, 2011
Musician Derek Dempsey loves telling the story of fellow Irishman Oscar Wilde’s 1882 tour of America. His favorite part is when the playwright visited Nevada and entertained miners with performances of his writing. Dempsey sees Wilde’s tour as a sort of pedigree for his own Nevada entertainment offerings with Paul Cray: The Cray and Dempsey Experience. Read more »
Bars & Booze
Best New Way to Drink Wine
July 28th, 2011
Most consider beer better out of the tap, and thanks to the KeyKeg wine system at RM Seafood, you can now say the same about wine. Read more »
Diner's Notebook
Impending Irish, impressed by Mina, and notes from Phoenix
March 10th, 2011
St. Patrick’s Day is nearly upon us, and with it comes Rí Rá Irish Pub (see Page 19), opening March 17 in the Shoppes at Mandalay Place. The menu will be creative. Look for culinary delights such as Irish potato cakes, pub wings with homemade Guinness barbecue sauce, whiskey garlic mussels, curried crab claws and baked goat cheese. Irish cuisine is no longer an oxymoron, and the Guinness should flow like an Irish stream. Read more »
Dining
Television That Sizzles
Chef Hubert Keller shares his secrets with a hungry nation
February 17th, 2011
Watching Chef Hubert Keller prepare the kitchen set for filming is delicious torture. The smells are divine, but the food is forbidden; this is a television set and not a restaurant, after all. In case you’ve been living under a pizza stone, Keller is a San Francisco-based French chef who runs multiple restaurants, two of which are in Las Vegas: Fleur (formerly Fleur de Lys) in Mandalay Bay and Burger Bar in the Shoppes at Mandalay Place. He garnered fame beyond the restaurant realm as both a contestant and judge on Bravo’s Top Chef. He’s working on his third cookbook (due out in 2012) and is passionate about his favorite charity, the Make-A-Wish Foundation. But today, his focus is on filming Secrets of a Chef. Read more »
Dishing
Alaskan Halibut at RM Seafood
December 2nd, 2010
One of Rick Moonen’s spectacular dishes is this fish, line-caught from Alaska and lightly roasted with butter and topped with fresh-squeezed lemon juice. It is served with a carrot-cardamom purée, celery root and shaved heirloom carrots—all seasonal ingredients that give this dish an autumn flavor. $33, Mandalay Place, 632-9300. Read more »
