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Choose-your-own burger adventure

Grind Burger Bar & Lounge takes DIY burgers off the Strip

Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009

The idea is a fail-safe one: DIY burgers with plenty more to like.

A pizza primer

Our food expert breaks down the perfect pie

Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009

Thick or thin, soft or crispy, sharp or mild, pizza is something we all love.

All Thai’d up at Sakun

There’s tough competition here, sure, but make room for scrumptious Sakun

Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009

At this tiny Thai storefront, a bilingual menu reveals wonders like beef salad Lao-style, glass noodles with crab claw and Thai pork stew. Let's put it this way, Max Jacobson is a regular.

Proper pastrami

Tommy offers thick, tasty deli sandwiches ... by Vegas standards

Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009

What survive in today’s idiom of Ashkenaz—or Eastern European Jewish—foods are pastrami, corned beef and matzo ball soup, although credible versions are hard to find, even in Vegas. See how Tommy Pastrami matches up.

No sticky wicket here

Garfield’s takes a tasty trip around the world—from its lake-side perch

Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009

Garfield’s might just be the only place in the city that would look equally at home in Barbados, but the menu is eclectic here, featuring French, Italian and American fare, with hints of North Africa and Asia along the way.

Italian shake-up

Caffe Dolce remakes traditional dishes in appealing new ways

Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

So few Italian places bring anything new to the table, not so at Caffe Dolce.

Make room for Anthony’s

Florida chain’s arrival adds more fuel to Vegas’ coal-oven pizza fire

Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009

Coal-oven pizza is something of a religion in New York’s SoHo; the coal oven creates a blackened crust, chewy, bubbly and yielding. It’s really all about the crust.

Fishing for lunch

RM’s midday menu splashes down as one of Vegas’ absolute best

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Update your lunch with RM Seafood's deliriously good Vidalia onion and bacon quiche, esteemed clam chowder and raw-bar done right.

Bosa truly is No. 1

For Vietnamese food, look no further than this unassuming Vegas joint

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Bosa 1 is a Vietnamese restaurant that doesn't serve pho. But don't let that deter you.

From Russia with love

Matryoshka is a Cold War throwback, but its food will warm you up

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Most of us know what matryoshka are, right? Well, they are those cute Russian nesting dolls as well as Las Vegas’ newest Russian restaurant.