Al Mancini is a graduate of Seton Hall University and Brooklyn Law School, who began his career in journalism as a music reporter for ABC News Radio in 1996. He moved to Las Vegas to cover Southern Nevada for the network in 2001, and has covered the local dining scene for numerous publications since 2003.He joined the Review-Journal in 2016.
This Hell’s Kitchen cocktail, while in the Manhattan family, is actually a cross between a Little Italy and a Paper Plane that is smoked for good measure. While few of us have a proper smoking box lying around the house, enjoying a Smoke on the Boulevard cocktail near a campfire, fireplace or wood-burning stove and passing the glass through the smoke might tide you over until you can score a reservation at Gordon Ramsay’s new Caesars Palace hot spot.
National Margarita Day is coming up Thursday. Here’s five places where you can celebrate.
The chef, who has served as executive chef of Aureole in Mandalay Bay since 2016, is leaving to become corporate executive chef and head of culinary development for Golden Entertainment, which recently acquired the Stratosphere just north of the Strip.
Ferguson’s Downtown, at 125 S. 10th St., will host a post-Valentine’s Day edition of its monthly Market in the Alley series from noon-4 p.m. Sunday.
Bobby Flay, Gordon Ramsay, Giada De Laurentiis, Guy Fieri and Steve Martorano hosted the “Salute to Vegas Heroes” tribute to first responders Saturday at Caesars Palace.
“I was winning, and then I made a very tiny mistake,” Michael Gillet said.
After more than 25 years, Wolfgang Puck’s Spago in The Forum Shops at Caesars will serve its last meal Jan. 27
Habit Burger has several days of festivities planned to celebrate the official grand opening of its sixth valley location at 1730 E. Craig Road in North Las Vegas on Jan. 24.
The Arts District’s newly opened Esther’s Kitchen has taken delivery of its pizza oven, meaning chef James Trees will be adding pizza to the menu Wednesday.
For the past couple of decades, celebrity chefs have opened restaurants on the Las Vegas Strip — numerous ones, in some cases. But lately some of the most visible chefs have been disappearing.
It’s one of the most popular off-Strip dining experiences in Las Vegas — and one of the most intimidating.
Las Vegas restaurant owner Alexandra Emtsova says she was “almost ready to give up” before getting Robert Irvine’s help.
