Las Vegas chefs are innovating refreshing dishes to cool down from today’s 105-degree high.
Heidi Knapp Rinella
Food, Restaurant critic
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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.
The Martha Stewart Wine Food Experience, coming to the Las Vegas Festival Grounds Oct. 13, is billed as a “savory exploration showcasing fine food, wine, beer and spirits from local and national chefs and mixologists.”
Blue Ribbon Sushi Izakaya, the fifth Las Vegas restaurant for Bruce and Eric Bromberg, who have four other Vegas restaurants, is expected to open late this year.
Kitchen at Atomic chef honors complex’s storied history.
Esther’s Kitchen chef/owner James Trees is reaching out on National Ice Cream Day, which is Sunday, for help planning the menu at his upcoming Tivoli Village restaurant.
Elizabeth Blau has been in the restaurant industry for more than 30 years, with more than 20 of those in Las Vegas. She’s been a scrapbooker even longer — since high school. Her two passions are coming together, in “Honey Salt Food and Drink: A Culinary Scrapbook,” which she’s writing with chef-husband Kim Canteenwalla and hopes to release next month.
If it’s true God is in the details, Giovanni Mauro must walk among the angels. And Las Vegas is reaping the blessings at his new Pizzeria Monzu.
The Fourth of July is but one of many reasons for firing up that grill or waving the red, white and blue. Here are a few items to help you do either — or both — any day of the year.
Celebrate the red, white and blue with an appropriately colored dessert at the Hofbrauhaus, 4510 Paradise Road. Slices of house-made cherry and apple pies and vanilla ice cream are served atop blueberry compote, and it’s $10. The dessert is part of the Hofbrauhaus’ special Fourth of July menu that also includes house-made corn chowder with bacon and jalapenos, $6; barbecued baby back ribs with a grilled jalapeno-cheddar bratwurst, cole slaw, corn on the cob, seasoned potato wedges, bacon and barbecue sauce, $25; and a cocktail with Bacardi, Malibu rum, blue curacao and cranberry juice, $15.
Visitors to the Mob Museum can now take a bit of its boozy history home with them. The Underground, the museum’s basement speakeasy, distillery and exhibition on Prohibition, now offers bottles of its proprietary vodka and Mason jars of 100-proof corn whiskey to go.
Jeff Civillico, the star of “Comedy in Action” at Paris Las Vegas who’s been performing on the Strip since 2012, has been named the first ambassador of the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, which opened in 1991.
Eureka! is a chain but its sole Nevada outpost is an apt reflection of downtown Las Vegas, sliding right into the district’s restaurant portfolio.