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- A new dynasty
- Noodle Exchange increases the Gold Coast's reputation for Chinese food
- Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008
- Who would have imagined the Gold Coast casino would be a hotbed for authentic Chinese cooking? Now the recent opening of Noodle Exchange has thrust it into the forefront of Chinese dining in Vegas, and customers are slowly getting the message.
- High-concept classics
- Espee's Gourmet Tamales puts a spin on an ancient formula
- Thursday, July 31, 2008
- When I was a university student, my anthropology professor claimed that the first takeout food in North America was the tamale, or tamal, as it is called in the Nauhatl language of southern Mexico.
- Ciao Bella!
- La Focaccia may just be the best restaurant we've discovered this year
- Thursday, July 24, 2008
- You mightn’t know it to look at me, but I occasionally work out at Las Vegas Athletic Club on South Eastern Avenue, and a mere stone’s throw away is one of Vegas’ truly great Italian restaurants, the unassuming La Focaccia.
- Food by the Yard
- A vast, eclectic menu means no one goes hungry at the Yard House. Oh, and there's beer.
- Thursday, July 17, 2008
- The network of overhead pipes above you carries the world’s largest selection of draft beers, up to 250 delicious brews. And the menu seems almost as encyclopedic, as if the world’s largest selection of dishes were on hand to accompany them.
- A change does Marche Bacchus good
- French restaurant only improves under new ownership
- Thursday, July 3, 2008
- For wine lovers in Las Vegas, Marche Bacchus, a small, comely wine store and bistro located in the bucolic Desert Shores community, has been a touchstone since the first day it opened.
- Kan can cook
- Kan’s Kitchen offers great Chinese dishes
- Thursday, June 26, 2008
- You don’t come to Kan’s Kitchen for a romantic date. This is one of those “turn up the lights and eat” establishments where Cantonese can be heard across the room, but almost every single dish I tried here was delicious.
- Ay caramba!
- Caminos de Morelia is a fresh face in a storied building
- Thursday, June 19, 2008
- The free-standing structure that houses Caminos de Morelia, one of our newer Mexican restaurants, is simmering with history. For years, it belonged to Lou and Angie Ruvo, a couple who operated a seminal Vegas Italian restaurant called The Venetian, the only place in town I knew of to eat pork neck, a dish I sorely miss.
- Martini mania
- Town Square’s Blue Martini is an instant smash, and it’s easy to see why
- Thursday, June 12, 2008
- Most of us in my field like to think of ourselves as knowledgeable in terms of predicting trends, as well as the potential success or failure of a concept when we are faced with it. But nothing can explain the frenzied response that has characterized Blue Martini, a new restaurant and lounge at the Town Square mall.
- Middle East melange
- Amena offers the moistest falafel balls in Vegas - that's a good thing
- Thursday, June 5, 2008
- Two restaurants using the buzzword “Mediterranean” to describe their respective cuisines sit in a modest upper Charleston Boulevard mall. Both of them serve food that is more Middle Eastern than anything else, but that label still carries a stigma as far as owners are concerned—or so it would seem.
- From across the world, right next door
- Lily's offers Persian dishes that you may not be able to pronounce and you certainly won't forget
- Thursday, June 5, 2008
- The food here is as authentic as any Persian cooking I’ve eaten in this city. Isn’t Iran on the shores of the Caspian? You could’ve fooled me.
- Bella Bistro
- Gina’s Bistro is notable for both its food and its namesake chef
- Thursday, May 29, 2008
- Opening a restaurant is a lifelong dream for many new Americans; usually places that represent the cooking of their native lands. Gina Linzi, who came here eight years ago to work as a bus girl at New York-New York’s Il Fornaio, has realized that dream. After a climb to that restaurant’s position of general manager, she struck out on her own to open a comely Italian bistro on the city’s west side. And it’s a real charmer, like Gina herself.
- Bayou 'cue
- Two New Orleans-influenced joints should have Las Vegans rejoicing
- Thursday, May 22, 2008
- Down-home cooking has never had it better in Sin City, with the advent of two places tinged by the Crescent City, New Orleans. One is an authentic N’awlins-style café, where po’ boys and file gumbo rule. The other is a barbecue shack serving some of the best ’cue in town, as well as side dishes that would make a Cajun grandmother weep with joy.
- Sea (Stone) change
- Boca Park’s newest Asian restaurant continues the high standards of previous tenants
- Thursday, May 15, 2008
- Jin Myung is hoping three will be the charm for her difficult and expensively constructed location, now home to Sea Stone, an Asian fusion and sushi restaurant. The space started life as Tre, run by the Maccioni family of Le Cirque fame, and later morphed into Hannah’s, Vietnamese/Asian fusion from Hannan An of Crustacean, before surfacing in its current incarnation.
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