There’s a new chef in town. Outlaws Backyard BBQ, 9500 S. Eastern Ave., in Henderson, which closed its swinging doors in March, has reopened under new ownership. And there’s one law it promises not to violate: making food from scratch. It holds true from the barbecue sauce slathering a third of its new menu to the freshly broiled and sliced club-sandwich meat.
Even after nearly 10 years of doing this column I’m frequently surprised by what draws reader feedback and what doesn’t. For Elmer Herndon, who’s looking for Colosimo hot Italian sausage, I received four replies — and two were from people named Colosimo.
“Reefer Madness: The Musical” is no more an endorsement for marijuana than “Cannibal! The Musical” is an encouragement for eating thy neighbor.
Who would remember Alexandre Etienne Choron without Choron sauce? Caesar Cardini without the Caesar salad? And even Ettore Boiardi, without all of that Chef Boyardee stuff?
Best Western Lighthouse Inn snack bar, 110 Ville Drive, Boulder City, received 18 demerits Sept. 10. Violations included raw eggs stored over ready-to-eat foods. GRADE: B
Wine: Vina Bisquertt Casa La Joya Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve
While it’s not quite here yet, it surely won’t be long before a few favorite dishes identified mostly with Indian cuisine — tandoori chicken, certainly, and maybe the bread called naan — fully break out into the American restaurant mainstream.
“Working” is a plotless musical based on Studs Terkel’s 1974 paean to the common man, and if there’s one thing it needs as much as first-rate singing voices, it’s characters. The script is populated with a cross section of types that represent America’s labor force. Unless we believe we’re hearing that labor force singing, then the show has no substance.
When the new owners of the Gold Spike remodeled the casino’s restaurant, they did more than just change the furniture.
You get the feeling playwright Craig Wright thinks he’s on to something in his 2003 off-Broadway “Recent Tragic Events.”
Aloha Hawaiian BBQ, 6475 S. Pecos Road, received 20 demerits Sept. 1. Violations included employee used bulk rice barrel to prep raw shrimp. GRADE: B
On a steamy Saturday in early August, the parking lot behind St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church smelled, improbably enough, of butter.
The tendency for more and more meat to arrive in stores pre-packaged has reduced the availability of many old-fashioned specialty cuts, but readers did find beef shanks locally for Lois Growney. Julie Kisosondi e-mailed that she gets them at Larry’s Great Western Meats, 420 S. Valley View Blvd., and Jan Bartholomew that she found them at Food 4 Less at 2225 Las Vegas Blvd. North. …
Queen of Sheba teaches you what your mother wouldn’t: How to eat with your fingers. Its place-settings feature no silverware — unless you ask.
