I’ve been commissioned to write an article about
#LasVegas
’s most iconic, old-school restaurants. Here’s my list. Who’d I miss?
Peppermill
Piero’s
Golden Steer
The Steakhouse at Circus Circus
Chicago Joe’s
Kung Fu Thai/Chinese
Bob Taylor’s
Hugo’s Cellar
@EatTalkRepeat
Don’t even talk to me about eating Las Vegas until you’ve poured yourself into
@PeppermillVegas
, drunk as a skunk, at 5 pm or 5 am, looking to sober up. 😉😎
Excuse my French, but f**k QR Codes and the lazy, lame-ass, impersonal, “computerize everything” Millennial bullsh*t that inspired them. A menu is one thing, but I hit the exit if I have to order and pay this way.
There, I said it. 🤬😠
D.C. isn’t all bistros, super seafood, and
@chefjoseandres
at his best…you can also chow down at Harry’s Bar AND Family Restaurant🤔…AND get an “Ollieburger” - which I didn’t know still existed. 🍔😋
Here’s an idea: let’s stop naming
#airports
after PEOPLE and keep them tied to their PLACE. Las Vegas International Airport has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
@LASairport
#HarryReid
After 47 years as an attorney-at-law, I have officially retired from civil law…and The Food Gal and I have adopted
#DTLV
(specifically
#Garagiste
) as our retirement home. 🍷🥂😋🍾
@CityOfLasVegas
The Rental Car Apocalypse is upon us: Companies taking reservations and pre-payment, then announcing “no cars available “ to angry crowds. Plus staffing counters with one, unfortunate person. The definition of clusterfuck -
#2021
.
@ThriftyRentaCar
Today’s WTF:
Why does it take so long to exit an airplane?
Because half the passengers are too brain dead to actually reach up and grab their carry-on WHILE THEY ARE STANDING THERE, with nothing else to do.
Drives me nuts.
And by nuts I mean 😠🙄.
Sorry,
@vegasstarfish
, but No cheesesteak aficionado takes this place seriously. Cheap and open all the time are its only selling points. Try
@ThoseGuysPiesLV
for the best
#cheesesteaks
in Vegas. You can thank me later. 😋😉🥂
The best philly cheesesteak in Las Vegas is from a 24 hour hole in the wall called Pop’s philly steaks, making this a great spot for late night hangover food. Don’t let the less than fancy exterior fool you, they’re serving authentic, delicious sandwiches and hoagies at an
I’ve lived in
#LasVegas
since 1981.
I’m fond of telling people the heat doesn’t bother me until it flirts with 110.
At 114 it feels like you’re living in a pizza oven. 🥵☀️🍕
The
@mayoroflasvegas
only wants to help people and get them back to work, and she gets crucified on social media. I am ashamed of humanity these days. What have we done to ourselves?
#Covidinsanity
Chef Anthony La Mantia has passed away unexpectedly over the weekend, and the Las Vegas food/chef world is crushed. He was a young man and a fixture in some of our best kitchens. What a shock. R.I.P. Anthony.
“Why would anyone want to look at pictures of your food?” - my mom in ‘o6.
About the only thing she got wrong in 98 years on this planet.
R.I.P. Marcella Ruth Schroader Curtas - only you would love the irony of this 🍔😉😍
Breaking: Exec chef gets $2500 bonus; leaves for weekend; never returns to work; takes 2 sous chefs + restaurant’s recipe book with him — such is the 2021 Vegas restaurant world we now live in.
#MarcheBacchus
🤔😕😳
I’ve read a lot of criticism of
@fblasvegas
, but it’s the most dramatic hotel/casino to open in
#LasVegas
since the
@Bellagio
swung open its doors on 10-15-98. 🤯
Don’t know what’s more humiliating: Ordering delivery from Kona Grill; eating it at home; or watching them turn $35 into 57? It’s like magic or something. 🤔🧐🙄
#progress
A quick non-scientific survey of
@WynnLasVegas
tells me there are boatloads of 30-50 yr. olds who could give a shit about
#Covid_19
and just want to party in
#Vegas
like it’s 1999.
Don’t even talk to me about being a baseball nerd until you spend your afternoon re-living a game that happened 62 years ago. ⚾️
@HistoryPirates
@Pirates
Consider this your yearly reminder that the paella pit
@jaleo
@Cosmopolitan_LV
is one of the great gastronomic treasures of
#LasVegas
and America…and anywhere that isn’t
#Spain
. 🇪🇸🥘🔥 1st photo by Ginger Bruner
For a moment, I was deeply ashamed of wearing a t-shirt at dinner …for the first time in 30 years…then I realized
@VitalVegas
does this all the time and I felt even worser…
@libsoftiktok
@Cornell
Shouldn't the "prominent hooked nose" comment get him in trouble for disparagement of someone's appearance? Or are all politically-correct bets off once the mask is? Asking for a friend with a preeminent proboscis ....😉😮
I hate brunch. Brunch is pseudo-sophisticated eggs on eggs on too many carbs washed down with too much cheap champagne. Brunch is where u take a date when you’re too chintzy to take her to dinner. Brunch sucks.
#brunch
🍳🥚 🥞 🧇 🍾 😠
I remember when the Rio was the coolest hotel in town....with serious restaurants and a world-class wine cellar (1995-2002). Those days are deader than Moe Dalitz.
#ThrowbackThursday
#Napa
#JeanLouisPalladin
June, 1970. My dad checked us into a suite when it was the biggest, baddest hotel/casino in the world. Still remember him coming back to the room with $10,000+ in chips, then saying to my mom: “Let me go downstairs and lose this, then we’ll go out.”
#WayBackWednesday
🤔🤣🎰
The best cheeseburger in
#Vegas
yesterday was this $10, fist-thick, bespoke beauty
@featherbladeUSA
’s in-store pop-up.
You’ve never seen so many people devouring something so delicious off either standing up or off the hoods of their cars. 😀🍔😋
“Hey! I’ve got an idea: Why don’t we go to the Cosmo and stand in line for an hour for an expensive, mediocre steakhouse that’s so noisy you can’t hear yourself eat!”
#STKSteakhouse
Have we reached Peak Vegas? Is a boom town worth living in if it’s no longer booming? Is housing heading to the shitter? Is it time to sell? Or buy? I’m confused 😐 and exhausted 😩.
#LasVegas
#realestate
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Seasons Greetings from all of us at and
@EatTalkRepeat
.
May you and yours enjoy a feast worthy of a Burgundian Duke.
#JohntheGood
This used to be one of the coolest restaurants in Vegas.* Now it has all the charm of a military mess hall.
* True fact: The Food Gal and I had our first date here…in 2001. 😳🤔
#ThrowbackThursday
@veniceguy123
@VitalVegas
and
@LasVegasLocally
fill a huge gap in local media coverage....precisely because they do NOT kiss casino ass constantly. What they lack in "access" they make up for in actual information....and the proper level of snark.
You want to know the difference between union and non-union casinos in
#Vegas
? In a union shop, they promise you this will be cleared. 45 min later…it’s still there. 😖😡🥺
80) This may surprise you, but I am not immune to the pleasures of (certain) fast foods. Sometimes, after a long day of urban hiking (or a hangover), nothing beats a Double Del from
@DelTaco
- a seriously underrated burger. 🚶♂️🍔😋😉
No one loved a box of good chocolates more than my mum. She’d leave it on her counter all day, flitting back to it like an eager bee with a favorite flower. A friend sent this over as a remembrance. Like Mom, we’ve made short work of it. 😉😋😘🍫
@seescandies
“The trouble with eating Italian food is 5 days later you’re hungry again.” - George Miller
Veal Parm and the osso buco (“bone w/ hole”) are the move at Piero’s. 🇮🇹🍝🥩
If I had to pick the one appetizer that never gets old, I’d start with the fried zucchini at
#Milos
. 🇬🇷
Any worthy contenders for this crown of gilded, crispy veg chips?
My idea of a Mother’s Day meal is a Chicago Dog and a soaked-through, shaved beef sandwich from Windy City Beefs-N-Dogs.
No muss, no fuss, no reservations…just total satisfaction.
Even my mom (a life-long vegetarian) occasionally craved an all-beef tube steak. 🌭❤️🥖🥪🥩
I couldn’t figure out what to give The Food Gal for our anniversary, so the world’s most benevolent chef came through — with a personally autographed book, and the best paella 🥘 on the planet.
@chefjoseandres
🙏
@jaleo
@Cosmopolitan_LV
🇪🇸
@EatTalkRepeat