Heidi Knapp Rinella is an award-winning journalist with more than 35 years of experience as a writer and editor at newspapers in Ohio, Florida and Nevada, and is the author of seven books. She’s been with the Review-Journal as a feature writer and food critic since October 1999.
There’s no shortage of things to do at Bellagio: watch the fountains, tour the conservatory or art collection, see a show, hit a lounge, grab a meal, bet on sporting events, relax by the pool — and gamble, of course. Or go shopping at one of many ultra -high-end stores.
It’s a spectacle unique to Las Vegas. Six million plants, plus giant trees, water features, lighting, butterflies, birds androbotics have crossed the 13,500-square-foot floor of the Bellagio Conservatory Botanical Garden in the past 20 years,along with about 150 million visitors.
Bellagio’s Italianate architecture and interior design are unabashedly faux, but the 60 pieces of fine art on public view are bona fide originals.
Esther’s Kitchen chef James Trees and James Beard Award nominee Bruce Kalman of Los Angeles will team up for a dual-menu dinner of innovative house-made pasta dishes.
Fried green tomatoes are a delicious specialty item not widely available in Las Vegas restaurants, but readers have spotted them for W.D. Davenport Jr.
If you’ve got a big crowd to feed — or a small crowd, but they’re exceptionally hungry — you might want to consider Virgil’s Pork Belly Hero from Virgil’s Real Barbecue at The Linq Promenade.
Ghost Donkey , a New York-based mezcal and tequila bar, is the last piece to fall into place at the Block 16 Urban Food Hall at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
For Scotch 80 Prime’s Mesquite Fired Crustacean Tower, Maine lobster, white shrimp, sea scallops, Spanish octopus, Alaskan king crab and littleneck clams are grilled over mesquite, flamed at the table with brandy, finished with scampi butter and garnished with charred lemons.
Freed’s Dessert Shop has opened near the northern beltway. A grand opening celebration, which also will commemorate the bakery’s 59th anniversary, is planned for noon to 3 p.m. Saturday with free sweets, prize drawings and outdoor games.
Southern Nevada Shake Shacks will introduce a hockey-themed burger, the Slapshot, outside T-Mobile Arena Thursday before the Golden Knights’ season opener.
Here’s one way to show your Oakland-to-Las Vegas Raiders love — and satisfy your sweet tooth at the same time.
The holidays may be months away, but the hunt for chestnuts is on.
Roundup of this week’s best bets for food and drink in Las Vegas
Chefs tend to have their own ideas about how to do things — even something as mundane as scrambled eggs. Here are 17 Las Vegas chefs and 17 methods, separated by differences large and small.
