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... »
ELV note: The following article (in slightly abridged form) hits the newsstands today in the Las Vegas Weekly. You can access the original by clicking here, or continue reading below. THAI ME DOWNTOWN The beef curry is just one of many tasty reasons to... »
What kind of pasta is on your plate? by Charming Italy Parsing pasta can be tougher than deciphering a North Korean press release. Sure you have your basic spaghettis, linguines and raviolis, but once you enter the world of picis, bavettes and bugatis,... »
Having loaded it up with news clips, personal artifacts, photos, and other memorabilia from his 12yr stint in office, former mayor Oscar Goodman is humbly calling his new eponymous restaurant the "happiest steakhouse in the universe", and says "when yo... »
ELV note: Click here to read this article in its original format, or scroll below to see what Brock, Jim and ELV thought were their top bites of 2011. On the plate, it was a very good year. In revisiting their best bites of 2011, the Weekly food critic... »
Before any of you start in on us, let it be known that ELV took “Mr. Cutlets” to Carnevino solely as an intellectual piece of palatable performance art. A preemptive form of protein oneupsmanship if you will, done solely to resurrect this meat program ... »
Good wine isn’t hard to find in Vegas. Comme Ça at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Comme Ça is a modern French Brasserie from celebrity chef David Myers, located on the third floor of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Comme Ça has an extensive wine list—and... »
Internationally-renowned Chef Gordon Ramsay will open his first Las Vegas restaurant, Gordon Ramsay Steak, in the spring of 2012 at Paris Las Vegas. The new restaurant will replace Les Artistes Steakhouse (PRNewsFoto/Paris Las Vegas). Michelin Star Ch... »
