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Lead Photo Small-town sensations

Max Jacobson | Thu, Nov 13, 2008 (midnight)

The charming little hamlet of Boulder City has a historic downtown, lots of resident cheerleaders and, believe it or not, more than its share of decent places to eat.

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Lead Photo Vegans beware!

Max Jacobson | Thu, Nov 6, 2008 (midnight)

Looking around at the throngs eating giant slabs of meat with fervor at the new Texas de Brazil, my thoughts turned to Nero, who allegedly played the lyre while Rome burned.

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Lead Photo Getting your goat

Max Jacobson | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

This comely little place does breakfast, Mexican specialties and American-style sandwiches, so the kitchen is quite ambitious. And to quote Marc Antony, when he eulogized Julius Caesar, ambition can be (in this case only sometimes) a grievous fault.

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Lead Photo The new West’s outlaws

Xania Woodman | Thu, Oct 30, 2008 (midnight)

The era of bootlegging ended long ago, but true cocktail aficionados will tell you if you want something done right, sometimes you gotta do it yourself.

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Lead Photo A worthy indulgence

Max Jacobson | Thu, Oct 23, 2008 (midnight)

Let’s call the menu eclectic; the chef, a passionate young Hawaiian, Don Espaniola, literally does foods from all over the planet. And he’s quick to tell you he makes virtually everything from scratch.

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Lead Photo It’s the food, stupid

Grace Bascos | Thu, Oct 16, 2008 (midnight)

These are interesting days for the Las Vegas culinary scene. We have an arsenal of renowned chefs at the helms of our restaurants and more on their way. Today's new arrivals are sticking to tried and true concepts: filling, satisfying food, not passing trends.

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Lead Photo Eat like a rock star

Josh Bell | Thu, Oct 9, 2008 (midnight)

When I was in high school, I’d travel to California to visit a friend, and we’d spend hours late at night loitering in and just outside the local Denny’s, rarely eating anything more substantial than a side order of french fries or a short stack of pancakes.

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Lead Photo Second time’s a charm

Ken Miller | Thu, Oct 2, 2008 (midnight)

One rule I abide by as a diner is to always give a restaurant a second chance. Every business has an off day, and snap judgments based on one fair-to-middling experience can sometimes rob you of a genuinely great haunt.

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Lead Photo Small wonder

Max Jacobson | Thu, Sep 25, 2008 (midnight)

My first reaction to Raku, a Japanese pub restaurant on the western edge of Spring Mountain’s Chinatown, may have been undeservedly restrained.

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Lead Photo Waistbands beware

Max Jacobson | Thu, Sep 18, 2008 (midnight)

Transplants love to bring their native comfort foods with them, as witnessed by the proliferation of restaurants in this Valley from places such as Hawaii and Chicago. I can say that in general, most of them are shadowy approximations of the originals, Xeroxed Xerox copies without a soul, poseurs with faded flavors, made with dodgy ingredients.

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Lead Photo Steele yourself

Max Jacobson | Thu, Sep 11, 2008 (midnight)

Seafood paella Velazquez is surprisingly good, even if it does take a full 20 minutes to arrive. The rice is moist and chock-full of shellfish and chorizo. Cuban bites are like sliders in the form of three pint-sized Cuban sandwiches.

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Lead Photo A (too) sweet time

Max Jacobson | Thu, Sep 4, 2008 (midnight)

I had two very different experiences at Basil ’n Lime, a charming newcomer on the west side, advertising “Authentic Thai Cuisine” on its outside sign. If you’re not Thai, you’re not a favorite to get much of it, even though the kitchen is capable of producing it.

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Lead Photo Delicious charity

Grace Bascos | Thu, Aug 28, 2008 (midnight)

These days, it can be expensive to eat out. But often we forget that there are those who don't even have that option. There are hundreds of thousands in our Valley who starve in their homes. Now you have the opportunity to do your part.

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Lead Photo Erin go blah

Max Jacobson | Thu, Aug 21, 2008 (midnight)

The food at McFadden’s, a self-styled Irish pub that originated in New York City before expanding into a national chain, is quite good, although only marginally Irish.

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Lead Photo The next big thing

Max Jacobson | Thu, Aug 14, 2008 (midnight)

Some have been touting the cooking of Peru as “the next big thing.” I don’t know if this is true, but I can say that Mi Peru, a South American grill housed in the Henderson space once home to Barbecue Masters, serves the best Peruvian food I’ve yet eaten in Vegas

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Judging from the throng queuing up for autographs and handshakes outside Zia Record Exchange, it’s a safe guess a well-known visiting headliner has just stepped offstage. Not bad for a local band playing its first-ever show.
Homie don’t play that anymore
“For the last 12 years, I’ve been this guy, ‘Homie’ … and then you wake up one morning, and that whole part of your life is not there anymore.”
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The Vegas Valley Book Festival, which wrapped up last week, can be understood as the community’s attempt to find a place for itself on the high-culture map.

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Cocktail of the Week Nov 13, 2008
by Xania Woodman

Harvest Spice

Yep, back at SushiSamba again for the last in a series of kick-ass cocktails, this one incorporating the world's first super-premium ginger liqueur, Domaine de Canton, which is currently tearing ...
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