While I’m cooking Mexican scrambled eggs for breakfast in Las Vegas (trans. the meadow), I’m listening to Bobbie D’s “With God on Our Side”.

btw, I have a good friend who was born and raised in Manhattan, and spent most of his adult life within a stone’s throw of there. But just as my life took me to Las Vegas, his took him to Tulsa...when his spouse was offered...

sue me), Sanamluang, Cha Chaa, Krua... Also in the area is excellent Peruvian food — Las Quenas and El Hatuchay spring to mind, though the best rotisserie chicken is at Super Pollo in Van Nuys Boulevard.

We’re talking about hamburgers like you’re paying $650 for a dinner at Michael Mina’s at the Bellagio in Las Vegas (which I did recently and left unhappy). The Apple Pan is an institution. I love that place. I...

tony’s is exactly as you say—a strip mall joint at coldwater and magnolia. ernie’s taco house has a great happy hour. i fear for Mex-Amer or Mex, your taste might be most pleased at Casa Vega. you might also like...

was the first in Las Vegas) and seemed to be allways around in some form or another. It was probably too new of a store, for that type of shennanigans to be going on. If i’d had a TJ’s checker get snotty with me and...

. (I way overspend on dinner, so I usually dig into the leftovers for breakfast and lunch.) While visiting Las Vegas last year, I was informed upon check-in that the fridge in my room was part of the mini-bar and that if I moved...

never been to El Portal but recall several post about it. I think one post mentioned it has a outside patio, good soup and is the place to go either before, or after, the Laemmle (IMO L.A.'s best movie house that shows some hard...

Here’s the deal with Marcel’s designation as “Master Cook”. The union in Las Vegas usually has three designations of cooks, the exact title varies from property to property, from contract to contract. The...

, to name just one populous state)? Wild rice — I just saw these in buffets in Las Vegas. Definitely at the Paris. Poached eggs — I don’t eat breakfast much, but it’s rare to be refused poached eggs when...

). And in general, I feel that L.A.'s current forte is NOT high-end dining (NorCal is much better at it). We DO excel at the “ethnic jewel in the strip-mall” genre. So when you come out to L.A., do the taco trucks and...

I feel your pain. We dine in “festive” atmospheres very often – New Orleans, Las Vegas and even Phoenix. Heck, let me add Hawai`i to that, as there are often conventioneers there too. Personally, I do not get...

Stumbling onto a Rite-Aid in Las Vegas last year that sold the Thrifty Ice Cream when I took a wrong turn and got a bit lost was one of the unexpected highlights of that particular trip. It’s one of those memory things,...

>> People will visit other cities to dine at a specific restaurant, I doubt you’ll >>hear anyone venturing to do that here. I have to post and let you know that is NOT true. I live in Las Vegas, but visit SD 3-4 times a year....

I lived in Las Vegas for four years during the 60’s. End of the Rat Pack Era. One year we even got a bottle of booze as a Christmas present from Howard Hughes. I still have the bottle, but it is empty now. Pretty, but still...