No one loves to bag on bad Italian like ELV. For twenty years we’ve maintained that you can throw anything on a noodle, smother it with cheap tomato sauce and cheese, and the world (or Americans at least) will beat a path to your door. With a few excep... »
Some families only do fish on Fridays. Others enjoy meatless Mondays. But around the ELV household, all-Asian Sundays reign supreme. There’s never been any exact decision arrived at after long and thorough discussion; it just seems it’s worked out that... »
Cafe de Japon, on Spring Mountain Road, needs a better sign. But it doesn’t need better food, decor or coffee. Everything about Kiichi-san’s cafe is charming and criminally cheap. And tasty. Darned tasty. So tasty, in fact, that we at ELV think there s... »
Since ELV seems destined never to pay for a bite of food at Old Homestead, he approaches this “review” of it with caution, as should you. This is hardly something new around the ELV offices, as our non-anonymity is now ubiquitous. So it is among other ... »
If you follow ELV religiously — and let’s face it who doesn’t? — then you know he’s been on a pizza jag recently. Las Vegas is in the midst of a pizza renaissance, and eating this Italian-American staple has never been tastier in our humble burg. While... »
The Las Vegas Restaurant Week is back! The summer one will be Aug. 27 to Sept. 2, but now there’s an earlier one this spring (or winter, for you out-of-towners). Feb. 27 to March 4 are the added dates, and you’ll be able to sample some fine dining ... »
Who knew the city of Rowland Heights, CA was another bastion of incredible Asian eats? Apparently, it’s known as Little Taipei in the San Gabriel Valley, and from the looks of things, Chinese restaurants are as plentiful as automobiles in this part of ... »
Try eating on $3.39 a day. Some Las Vegans learned last week that it’s doable but difficult. Luckily for them it was just a one-week experiment, whereas for hundreds of thousands of our neighbors, it’s an ongoing challenge. According to a 2011 report f... »
