As someone who’s been known to enjoy the occasional cocktail, I love the fact that my birthday, December 5, is the anniversary of the repeal of prohibition. Unfortunately I won’t be celebrating with a drink this year, because I’ll be working – covering the American Country Awards. (OK, not my …
November 2011
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This has been one of the best white truffle seasons in recent memory, and I’ve enjoyed some spectacular samples at some great restaurants. (And mad-props to Urbani for the wonderful specimens they donated to my recent party). But I’ve yet to visit Valentino this season. That’s my fault, since Pierro …
When Sue and I dropped by Vintner Grill a few weeks ago to drop off their invites for our party at Guy Savoy, I only intended to try some more samples of Matt Silverman’s incredible in house cheese program. But one thing led to another, and we ended up having …
Las Vegas’ newest churrascaria rodizio, Fogo de Chao, recently invited the press in to sample the cuisine. If you’re not familiar with the term, let’s start from the beginning. Churrasco is a style of cooking meat over hot colas developed by the guachos (cowboys) of Argentina and Brazil. A restaurant …
Bradley Ogden was in his eponymous Caesars Palace restaurant Monday night to sign copies of his new cookbook, Holiday Dinners with Bradley Ogden. So I dropped by to get an autograph and enjoy some of his delicious food. We also spoke about the book, the rumors that continue to circulate …
Here are some of the zillion pictures we shot at the first of our two launch parties for Eating Las Vegas: The 50 Essential Restaurants 2012 edition. As I reported, the event was amazing, thanks to our incredible host Guy Savoy, all the great people at Caesars Palace, our MC Robin …
Mad props to Adam Carmer at The Freakin’ Frog for offering some booze-a-licious ways to lend a hand to the good people of the Down Syndrome Organization of Southern Nevada. This week he’ll be offering tastings of Macallan and Highland Park whiskys upstairs in the Whisky Attic. Here are the …
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — there are few deals in town as excellent as Chef Bene’s pairing dinners. This one will set you back a mere $49 and you will get all the great food and fine rum you can handle. Get your rum on for …
Big Apple food fans will have something to be very thankful for this holiday weekend. Las Vegas’ most sadly missed Michelin-starred chef is taking his cooking to New York. Alessandro Stratta (Alex to his friends), who formerly operated the now-closed two-star French restaurant Alex as well as the still-operating casual …
When Brian Howard invites you for dinner, he doesn’t mess around. Yesterday at Comme Ca he brought out something like 17 courses over the course of two hours. In fact, I fell into such a food coma, I actually forgot to shoot a photo of his beef/lamb/duck/chicken sampler platter, which was …