Max Jacobson
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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.
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