The Coronado Cafe at the South Point, 9777 Las Vegas Blvd. South, is offering $7.95 daily specials from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. through the end of the month. The schedule: Monday, roast pork loin or chef’s salad; Tuesday, meatloaf or Greek chicken salad; Wednesday, Swiss steak or barbecued chicken salad; Thursday, chicken a la king or grilled steak salad; Friday, seafood creole or citrus-glazed chicken salad. …
Heidi Knapp Rinella
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I have the utmost respect for Chef Carla Pellegrino and the work she’s done locally, formerly at Rao’s at Caesars Palace and currently at Bratalian in Henderson. I thought the Meatball Spot at Town Square was a brilliant concept and have heard tons of good things about it.
This week’s lead item brought to mind a recent newsroom conversation about how many food companies have gone multinational, and how seemingly a handful own many old familiar brands.
Wines from North and South America will go head to head this weekend at the Golden Nugget, 129 Fremont St., beginning with a dinner at 7 tonight on the pool deck. Tickets are $95 and include the Poolside Champagne & Wine Kick-Off from 8 to 10 p.m. (tickets for that event alone are $35).
Reader Pat Swanson was looking for a recipe from a Swift’ning (a shortening that was made by Swift and Co.) booklet from the ’40s-’50s. I found it online at rocknrecipes-rockn
quilts.blogspot.com, where the blogger reports finding it in her grandmother’s Swift’ning book from 1950. Here’s the version I adapted:
The Roadrunners at 9820 W. Flamingo Road and 921 N. Buffalo Drive are offering a $10.95 filet mignon special on Thursday evenings, with a 6-ounce steak with chipotle butter, creamed spinach and spicy potato wedges and the option of a domestic draft beer or house wine at half off. …
I was looking forward to digging into some shredded pork skin and egg loaf at Lilly’s Thai & Vietnamese, but alas, it was not meant to be.
In the case of some ingredients, it takes just a smidgen to add flavor to a dish, and truffle butter is one of them. Reader Stephen Najmowski, who’s looking for truffle butter, can get both white and black truffle butters locally. Jackie Raim emailed that Whole Foods Market carries both versions, and the Jensens at Village Meat and Wine, 5025 S. Eastern Ave., and Ron Lutz of The Butcher Block, 7625 S. Rainbow Blvd., said they do as well. …
A complaint I hear often is that Henderson — and Summerlin, so I guess it’s a ’burb thing — has a surfeit of chain restaurants and not enough of the mom-and-pops. It’s a valid argument on the whole, and comes into focus whenever another good spot closes.
Whisk(e)y Wednesdays at Andre’s at the Monte Carlo, 3770 Las Vegas Blvd. South, now is a weekly event, showcasing different flights, pours and whiskeys each week. In Andre’s Cigar Lounge on the restaurant’s second floor, it runs from 7 p.m. to closing. The unlimited tasting for two hours is $25 in advance or $35 at the door. Call 798-7151. …
Smoked fish is what Ilene Farr is looking for, and smoked fish is what her fellow readers have found.
The Buffet at Bellagio, 3600 Las Vegas Blvd. South, now includes a caviar station during its Gourmet Dinner service from 3:30 to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. It’s included in the price of $37.99. …
Over the years I’ve been doing this, I can’t tell you how many calls and emails I’ve received from people looking for “real” Chinese food.
Why in the world would you want to go to a restaurant in Pahrump when we have a surfeit of good ones in Las Vegas?
Mark Kamsamnida has been looking for a much-loved recipe that was lost in a move, and it appears we’ve found it. The recipe appeared in Bon Appetit in 1997.