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... »
Simply offal. And simply wonderful. And simply eight bucks. At the newly opened Hong Kong Garden Seafood and BBQ on South Jones (in the space formerly occupied by Kan’s Hong Kong Cuisine). HONG KONG GARDEN SEAFOOD AND BBQ 3407 South Jones Blvd. Las Veg... »
ELV’s love of all things croque is well documented. Whether it’s monsieur, madame, gagnet or novégien, this ultimate ham and cheese sandwich is our preferred way to start the day…although we draw the line at croque bolognese or a Croque McDo. The name ... »
