By Mike, on September 6th, 2010  Bye bye for now, Fleur de Lys! For those devoted to the existing Fleur de Lys at Mandalay Bay, time is running out before they shut their doors for a few months and work on a major remodel. Saturday, September 11, Fleur dy Lys will close its doors and come back as something…else. I don’t think they’re even solid on exactly what the new space will be once it comes back in a few months, but this I do know: Expect the “outdoor” patio area to be greatly expanded, a total overhaul of the indoor space and a more open DJ booth where Hubert Keller will be having much more of a presence in Las Vegas with filming his PBS show here. The food, however, is still up in the air as far as the casual / fine dining balance goes. Expect their International Tapas menu to be greatly expanded, but unlike other reports published elsewhere, expect there to still be a “fine dining” element to remain. Word has it that Hubert Keller will be on hand on Saturday to give the room and the staff a proper send off.
 Project Dinner Table Logo (courtesy: projectdinnertable.com) Project Dinner Table returns with one hell of a dinner scheduled for Saturday, September 11. The six-course menu will be prepared by six of the chefs at the MGM Grand; Chef Jennifer Hargisen of banquets, Chef Stefano Chiarugi of Fiamma, Chef Stephen Hopcraft (who I just interviewed) of Seablue, Chef Stephan Chevet of Shibuya, Chef Patrick Schaffer of Studio Café and James Beard Award Nominated Pastry Chef, Kamel Guechida from Joël Robuchon. So far, Project Dinner Table has raised over $11,000 for the places it has benefited. This edition will be at the historic Fifth Street School and will benefit the Vegas Valley Children’s Book Festival. Tickets are $125 and the dinner bell rings at 6pm. For more information, visit http://ProjectDinnerTable.com. You can follow Project Dinner Table on Twitter at @food4good.
 Logo of The Best Buffalo Wings in Las Vegas Home of the best Buffalo Wings in Las Vegas, the Naked City Pizza Shop, will be holding its Grand Opening Party on Thursday, September 9th from 8pm-3am. There will be all sorts of specials, but most importantly….they have the best Buffalo Wings in Las Vegas! Remember, the Naked City Pizza Shop is located INSIDE Moon Doggies bar on the corner of Arville and Desert Inn. They have an arcade game in there where you can shoot zebras. How can you not go?!?
 O.G. Bouchon in Yountville, CA. No elevator necessary for this one. In case you make a habit of reading all-knowing, infallible “professionals” that gain their gold-standard credibility because they shit on the 400 or so words they get tossed from a shithole weekly rag with a vetting process akin to what Old Man McCain did for that dumb bitch that has overstayed her 15 minutes……there’s a fucking elevator in the Venetian’s parking garage in case you wanted to go to Bouchon. That’s all I have to say about that.
 Jet Tila - Chef, Guinness World Record Attempter, Lover of Humanity (photo: twitter.com/jettila) Best wishes to Executive Chef of Wazuzu at the Encore resort, Jet Tila, as he attempts to break a Guinness Book of World Records record by making a 400-foot sushi roll today! He will be doing his attempt at UMass, so don’t run down to Wazuzu to see it. However, run down to Wazuzu because they make some kick ass food there. To get more background story, check out Chef Jet’s very worthwhile blog at this link. No word if Schwan’s will develop a new truck to deliver 400-foot sushi rolls.
 You Can Vote Once Per Day From Now Through 09/30/10, or you can masturbate to Judge Judy. The choice is yours! Thanks! Time is running out and I’m still getting my ass kicked in Anthony Bourdain’s Medium Raw Challenge! I guess “getting my ass kicked” is relative as your much appreciated votes have put over 1,500 people in my rearview mirror. However, the toughest 60-some remain and voting ends on 09/30/10. I know it’s a pain in the ass, and I know there are fears of the spam fairy loading you up with having to register to vote, but think about the hungry children of the world when you vote. Not that I’m going to give them shit, but maybe a moment of pity will also cause a moment of weakness! I have spoken to many of my most adamant supporters, including The Wife, and no reports of spam with doing the Connect Through Facebook thing.
Remember, if not for me….vote for the epic hang that will be thrown should I actually win this pig. I can’t even begin to tell you how much all of the links yous guys have been putting up on Twitter and Facebook mean to me. It makes me feel special…down there. For a direct link to ‘Cooking Well Is First’ click here – http://bourdainmediumraw.com/essays/view/1409
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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By Mike, on August 30th, 2010  Las Vegas Restaurant Week Benefiting Three Square (image courtesy: threesquare.org) We’ve already mentioned Restaurant Week a few times, and we’ll keep on mentioning it because it’s such an amazing week and benefits such an amazing cause. Unfortunately, you won’t find much in the shit rag known as the Las Vegas Review-Journal, as they seem to think the importance of Restaurant Week is on par with some 3-course special being done at Viva Mercado. I urge you, TLV Army, to not only support Restaurant Week and the good folks at Three Square, but to also let the R-J know how shitty their food and beverage coverage is. It’s an embarrassment and a stain on our fine city. Let them know it’s about time to get their head out of Sharron Angle’s twat and start covering some stories that actually make our Little Twinkle in the Desert a better place.
Now that I got that off my chest, I look forward to hanging with all who make it out to the Restaurant Week kickoff event at Wet Republic in the MGM Grand tonight (August 30) from 8pm – midnight! There are still tickets available for the low low cost of $30.10 and it would be great to see you! To find out more about the Wet Your Appetite At Wet Republic Event as well links to Restaurant Week menus and such, check out our recent post; Restaurant Week in Las Vegas Approaches, Happy Dance Ensues
 Hussong's Cantina Logo Another week goes by and another special launches at Hussong’s Cantina at Mandalay Bay. This time it’s a combo deal for locals that has $3 get you a taco, a Dos Equis and a Tres Agaves margarita or shot. This will be a weekly special held every Thursday from 7pm-9pm. It’s launching this week on September 2nd and it looks like Carrot Top will be on hand. A hang just isn’t a hang until Carrot Top shows up.
 The Man, The Myth, The Legend - Robin Leach (photo: Robin's Twitter Page) In honor of Robin Leach’s (you can follow Sir Robin on Twitter at @Robin_Leach) birthday yesterday, I’m going to steal a play out of his playbook and let you in on a little Wicked Whisper and Racy Rumor! Is it true that an award winning songwriter is in advanced talks to bring a cuisine that would be totally unique to Las Vegas, further putting us on the map as a premier destination for world cuisine? Alright…so it’s not so wicked and it’s not so racy….and I already know it’s true….but I don’t know if I can spill the beans on it yet and thought I’d give it a shot. Guess I’ll leave things of this nature to the master. More on this groundbreaking restaurant once I see that things are more solidified.
Thanks so much to everyone for your support! You can vote once each day from now through 09/30/10! Things are going great on the ‘Medium Raw’ Challenge entry front, although I think I need a minor miracle to make it into the Top 10. Thank you so much to all that have voted and continue to vote once each day, as well as put up links on Facebook and Twitter. If anybody happens to know Oprah and think she could put out a wee bit of a shout out, that would be groovy. There’s only one month left that you’ll hearing me beg for votes as voting ends on 09/30/10. Remember, if I win this thing, the celebration hang will be so epic that even P Diddy would say, “Damn, that was one hell of a hang!” Keep up those votes! Thanks!
A direct link to read ‘Cooking Well Is First’ and to cast your vote is – http://bourdainmediumraw.com/essays/view/1409
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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By Mike, on August 23rd, 2010 You Can Vote Once Per Day from Now Through 09/30/10! Thanks so much for helping this happen! Thanks to all of you that are supporting my little venture with Anthony Bourdain’s ‘Medium Raw’ Challenge! It’s because of your votes that my entry is now in the Top 100 and climbing! There is still a little over a month to go, but the biggest part of the mountain is still left to climb. I’m currently about 1,100 votes behind to break into the Top 10, so every vote is desperately needed!
I know many of you are squeamish about registering to vote on these websites, but the Connect Through Facebook thing they use is easy and all I can tell you is that The Wife has been voting everyday (ain’t she great?) and has had no problems with spam or otherwise. If not voting for the quality of the essay, then vote for the epic hang that will be thrown in magnificent fashion should I actually win this pig!
Thank you to all for your incredible support and your dedication to voting once each day. Here’s a direct link to the essay – http://bourdainmediumraw.com/essays/view/1409
 Republic Kitchen and Bar Logo Opening to the public today is Republic Kitchen and Bar, located in the space vacated by Fadó Irish Pub at 9470 S. Eastern Avenue in Henderson. Headed up by Chef Josh Green, who has an impressive resume that spans from Aureole to the late Daniel Boulud Brasserie, Republic appears to be offering mostly traditional American bar fare with a few twists here and there. They are rolling with some late night hours with a reverse happy hour that happens from midnight to 2am each night, so that makes me happy to have another place for the late night gorge closer to the homestead. Also things to note they are having a Saturday and Sunday Brunch that ranges from $8 – $17 and a decent looking cocktail and beer menu. Best wishes to the folks at Republic Kitchen and Bar, I hope ye doesn’t suck! Republic Kitchen and Bar’s website is at http://republickitchenandbar.com.
 JaiHo Fusion Restaurant Logo Also near the new Republic Kitchen and Bar comes an Indo-Chinese Fusion restaurant called JaiHo at 9530 S Eastern Avenue in Henderson. I know absolutely nothing about this place other than they say they opened on August 16th. Oooh….a mystery! Full website advertised as coming soon at http://www.JaiHoFusion.com. Also best wishes to the crew at JaiHo, I hope ye doesn’t suck either!
 R.I.P. - Naked City Sandwich Shop It’s not all good news though, and I have the unfortunate duty of informing you that the Naked City Sandwich Shop is no more. Apparently this happened while The Wife and I was on vacation, but I was just perusing through some Facebook pages today, and saw the news on the Naked City Sandwich Shop page. All hope is not lost, however, it looks like they will gradually add in the Sandwich Shop menu to the new Naked City Pizza Shop location, so the best sandwiches in Las Vegas will still happen in Las Vegas, but we’ll just have to wait a minute to get them again. I’ll let you know if there are any further updates.
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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By Mike, on August 16th, 2010  Hash House A Go Go Logo Las Vegas went such a long time with only one Hash House A Go Go location, but now they seem to be popping up like pimples on Montana Fishburne’s ass. The third location will mercifully take over the Red Cup Café space at the M Resort and is slated to open sometime in October. They’re looking for a wide range of positions, both front and back of house, and they are holding a job fair in the Molise Room 4 in the M Resort on Tuesday August 17 and Wednesday August 18 from 9am-6pm. If you’re looking for a gig, make sure you’re prepared for an interview. Best wishes to all applicants!
 Pistachio Summer Fruit Tart from Bachi Burger. Amazing. Due to overwhelming demand, Bachi Burger is shooting their day off out the window and are re-opening with slightly shorter hours than the rest of the week, 12pm-8pm, on Sundays. (of course they’re keeping their Monday-Saturday hours from 11am-2am) By the way, they’ve got a new limited-time special burger there called the Spicy Miso Burger along with a new item on the dessert menu, a Pistachio Summer Fruit Tart, that will knock your socks off. I call the Spicy Miso Burger a Four Napkin Burger. You need three for your face and hands and one for the mess that is sure to be made in your lap after you take your first bite. The Summer Fruit Tart is easily one of the best desserts I’ve ever had and comes with this Plum Wine Ice Cream that will make you thankful to be alive. They’re good.
 Good Food Made Here. Silk Road. One of the highest recommendations I give is for people to hit up Chef Martin Heierling’s Silk Road at the Vdara hotel for breakfast. I just got word in that for a limited time, Silk Road will be offering half priced bottles of champagne along with their fabulous Sunday Brunch. Like we needed another reason to go eat the sensational food, half price bottles of bubbles ain’t that bad! Remember, it’s only for a limited time, so make sure you call ahead if the deal is going to make or break your visit.
 Comeoniwannaleiyou Day at First Celebrating the anniversary of Hawaii’s Statehood, First Food and Bar is throwing a full blown Luau on Saturday, August 21st starting at 9pm. They’ll have all the traditional Hawaiian grub from Kaluha Pork to Spam and will be having drink specials as well. Anybody that scores a picture of 0 in a grass skirt and coconut bra will be my Hero for Life!
Vote Once Per Day! Speaking of First, thank you so much to all that have already voted and have been promoting my ‘Medium Raw’ contest entry! We still have a long way to go as I’m over 2,600 votes shy of the top, but I’m still hopeful to make up some ground with us being able to vote once per day from now through 9/30. I know many of you have posted links on Twitter and Facebook, but I do have to give a special shoutout to two fabulous ladies that have been going above and beyond trying to get the word out, @aka_kristin and @Adeviousone on Twitter. It seems like everytime I go on Twitter, one of them has put a link up, browbeating their own followers to help me out. Thank you so much to both of them and thank you so much to everyone for your incredible support! With your help, we can bang this thing out and take one home for the 702!
A direct link to read my entry, Cooking Well Is First, and to vote for it is - http://bourdainmediumraw.com/essays/view/1409
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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By Mike, on August 10th, 2010  From Highway 1 in California What’s good, everybody? Did you miss us? Did you even know we were gone? The Wife and I are back in Vegas from a much needed vacation, the first one we’ve taken in well over three years! We did a road trip through the Great State of California where we first went to Sequoia National Park, then one of my favorite places on Earth, San Francisco, then up to Yountville for our 5th Anniversary (can you believe it?) and finally making our way down the coast to Santa Barbara. We drove a total of 1,559.1 miles and ate at (I think) 27 different restaurants / food stands / places where calories are consumed. Much more about our epic journey through the Golden State to be posted this week…
 Las Vegas' Restaurant Week Benefits Three Square! Yay! Get your fat pants on deck as one of the best weeks of the year, Restaurant Week, rapidly approaches with it falling on August 30 – September 5 this year! Over 80 restaurants in town will participate with special menus they create for $20.10, $30.10 or $50.10, a portion of each of the proceeds will directly benefit the our favorite charity, Three Square. As we get closer to the August 30th start date, the participating restaurants will be putting out their special menus and we’ll certainly pass along the details once we have them.
 Club Fortune Casino Logo For those of us interested in shortening our life spans with grotesque food challenges (Dobranski Burger, anyone?), Emily’s Cafe in the Club Fortune Casino located in old school Henderson now has a Colossus Burger Challenge. If you alone eat the 12-pattied monstrosity in 20 minutes or less, you get the $19.99 burger for free, get your picture on the wall and get a t-shirt. Eat it after the 20 minutes, you still get the shirt. Due to fear of The Wife’s Wrath, I will not be attempting it, but I sure as hell would like to see someone try! Let me know if you’re going down!
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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By Mike, on July 26th, 2010  The Site of the Wing Throwdown. Lives will be changed forever. Three chefs of the First Food and Bar kitchen; Sam DeMarco, Rob Ryan & Jake Mual, are going to have a Wing Throwdown on Saturday, July 31 to see who makes the best Chicken Wing at First. Diners will be the judges of who’s wing reigns supreme. I’ve talked with each of the competitors and the battle is ON for this one, especially with the never ending breaking of balls at stake.
Following the Throwdown, the first 10 competitors to sign up will compete in a Wing Eating Competition emceed by yours truly! The winner of the Wing Eating Competition will receive a $100 Gift Certificate to First and a goodie bag. More importantly, they will be immortalized forever on TastingLasVegas.com as the First Food and Bar Wing Eating Champion. The spoils of war are tremendous in this one!
Here’s how the night is scheduled to go down:
Saturday, July 31, 2010
- 10 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. – Diners are invited to judging and vote for their favorite wing
- 10 p.m. – Sign up for wing eating competition begins (remember, limited to the 1st 10 people that sign up)
- Midnight – 1 a.m. – Post party with open sponsored bar by Stoli White Pomagranik and specials from Wirtz Beverage Coors.
Of course, First’s infamous Happy Hour starts at 11pm, featuring 2-for-1 Draft Beer, Stoli and Patron.
This should be one hell of a Saturday night, it would be great to see you all! I’ve set up a Facebook Event so you can let us know you’re coming. Tell your friends!
 Crema Catalana from Julian Serrano It’s official, people have gone off the deep end with these National Days. We just had National Tequila Day and Tuesday the 27th is National Creme Brulee Day, which if you must celebrate, get the Crema Catalana from Julian Serrano at Aria or the new Chai Tea Creme Brulee from First Food and Bar.
Apparently Riesling wine is too good to just have a day so they took a whole fucking week. No…really. In honor of Riesling Week (July 25 – August 1) Alizé at the top of the Palms has a special Riesling Week menu at $65 that features items like Smoked Salmon and Ratatouille Roulade, Phyllo Wrapped Anjou Pear and Roquefort Cheese and Smoked Bacon Wrapped Coq au Vin. For more information and to see the complete special menu, check out http://www.andrelv.com/alize/events.
Locals favorite, Rosemary’s Restaurant, is offering a flight of three different Rieslings for $18 and the Michael Mina joint at Aria, American Fish, is doing the same for two bucks cheaper at $16.
 Logo of the Tired and Cranky A quick bit of news about the home front here at Tasting Las Vegas and that is The Wife and I are going on VACATION! Finally! We will be going off the grid from August 2nd – August 10th, so you won’t be seeing any posts or much on Twitter or Facebook during that time. Just wanted to give you a heads up so you didn’t think we quit / died.
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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By Mike, on July 19th, 2010  Evening Call Dispensary of Booze Slurpees I am a firm believer that one of the greatest things our town has to offer is the Booze Slurpee, and with variations popping up all up and down The Strip and on Fremont St., there are plenty of places to consume sweet, frozen poison. Evening Call is one of these such Booze Slurpee emporiums and they are celebrating National Daiquiri Day today (July 19) with $3 Daiquiris and Free Shots and their three Las Vegas locations; Ballys, Luxor and Mandalay Bay.
Naked City Sandwich Shop The Naked City Sandwich Shop has unleashed its new Summer Menu today featuring a Big BLT, Albacore Tuna Salad and Roasted Chicken Salad. The Naked City Sandwich Shop is attached to Dino’s Lounge, a bit north from the Stratosphere on Las Vegas Blvd. Go forth and eat there. Best sandwiches in Las Vegas.
The Official Symbol of the Half-Assed There are a few exciting (at least to me) developments happening with Tasting Las Vegas that you’ll be hearing a whole bunch about in the coming weeks. Launching in the next two weeks will be both the TLV Book Club and the TLV Beer Club!
The TLV Book Club will be an interactive discussion of books I’ll pick out for us to read. Some will be standard prose type things, and others will be cookbooks by local chefs for us to hack our way through. I’m still ironing out some of the particulars, and as always I’m open to suggestions, so let them fly.
The TLV Beer Club is going to be all about Earth’s Greatest Beverage. News and reviews specific to beer and hopefully some organized bingeing Tasting Tweet Ups, the TLV Beer Club will at least be an excuse for all of us to drink more….so it can’t be a bad thing.
Last, but certainly not least, in mid-September we should see the launch of Tasting Las Vegas: The Podcast! I say this now because I want it on record and if you don’t see the podcast up by then I give you full authority to break my balls mercilessly until it is.
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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By Mike, on July 12th, 2010  The Most Appropriate Sign at Town Square Yet What the hell is going on over at Town Square? Has there ever been a part of this valley that has seen such an astounding turnover of restaurants? I ask this as a semi-legit question as I haven’t seen anything like it in the 6 years The Wife and I have called this Twinkle in the Desert home. However, just as one miserably failed concept closes, another one seems to open, because obviously, they have the solution that works.
At least today, recently opened Nu Sanctuary was closed because it is undergoing a “facelift” according to the sign on the front door. The sign also said they should be back open on Tuesday. Nothing about this temporary closure was mentioned on Nu Sanctuary’s Twitter account (@nusanctuary) because apparently it’s no big deal for potential patrons to walk in 108 degree temps to find out they still don’t have their shit together. And I ask myself yet again, why the hell do I want to give them a second chance…
 Few Tears Have Been Shed Above Nu Sanctuary, the third and final try was not the charm for the Louie Empire that took Town Square by storm when the outdoor shopping district first opened. Bar Louie has mercifully closed its doors for good. I told them they should have kept the 2-Alarm Chili…it was the only good thing on the menu.
However through death there is birth, and Lolita’s Taqueria seems to be closer to approaching an opening date. Another taqueria. Whoopie! Oh, and just in case the food at Yard House isn’t shitty enough for you, Miller’s Ale House seems to be coming along nicely. Can you tell I’m ready to throw in the towel on Town Square? I guess hot weather makes me cranky.
 Place of Fancy Ice Cream Ok…on to better news…. Everyone seems to be insanely in love with the new Atomic #7 ice cream joint by the Galleria Mall in Henderson. Atomic #7 features made-to-order ice creams with your choice of just about everything; milks, sweeteners and flavors. They make it to order by freezing it with liquid nitrogen. Fancy. They’re already expanding their hours and are now open for “breakfast” on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday at 8am featuring parfaits and smoothies. I haven’t been yet, but have given it a bump in the line due to all of the raves I’ve been hearing from the TLV Army.
 M Resort Logo Speaking of the TLV Army, many thanks to one of our newest readers, @HaydenGrace, for giving me the heads up that Hash House A Go Go will be opening a third location at the M Resort. It should be up and running by this coming October. Here’s to hoping it takes over that disastrous Red Cup Cafe.
 I still miss the Brasserie Starting today, Wolfgang Puck Cucina & Pizzeria at the Crystals is jumping on this “Meatless Mondays” bandwagon and featuring their meatless stuff on Mondays. If you ask me, a day without meat is a day not worth living, but if you are in to such ridiculous things, I’m sure the good folks at Wolfy’s Pizza joint do a fine job.
Hussong's Logo In yet another promotion going on at Hussong’s Cantina in the Mandalay Place Shoppes at Mandalay Bay, if you are going to a concert at Mandalay Bay or at the Mandalay Beach, go for a pre-concert bite and show your ticket to your waiter at Hussong’s to receive a free appetizer with purchase of an entree. I say go for the Carnitas Sopes or the Elote Plazero (grilled corn on the cob rolled in butter/mayo combo, cojita cheese and chili flakes). Muy tasty.
 Whole Foods Logo If you have the balls to wear a beret in public, you can at least score a free demi-baguette if you do so while supplies last at the Whole Foods in Summerlin on Wednesday, July 14th. They say it is for Bastille Day, but really I think it is just to get a good stock of incriminating pictures for Facebook.
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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By Mike, on July 5th, 2010  Happy Birthday to Moi Just one note to pass along in this edition of the Monday Mise en Place, and that is an invitation to come get shitty on a school night and say Happy Birthday to yours truly at First Food and Bar at the Palazzo resort. The festivities start at 11pm on Tuesday, July 6th as First does their nightly happy hour that features 2-for-1 drafts, Stoli and Patron. While any human being with common sense might be afraid, it would be nice to meet the people that actually read this shit. You should be going to First Food and Bar anyway, they make good food there. Tell your friends!
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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By Mike, on June 28th, 2010 Hussong's Cantina Logo Starting today (June 28th), Hussong’s Cantina is starting a 20% off deal on food for Las Vegas area locals! Kicking off the discount will be none other than Mayor Oscar Goodman at 5pm as he gets his charcoal portrait hoisted among the likes of the venerable Norm Clarke. Also for both tourists and locals, Hussong’s will be having a happy hour Sundays – Fridays from 4pm-7pm featuring 2-for-1 draft beers and original margaritas. The 20% food discount for locals, however, is all day everyday (although only for parties of less than 6). Check out Hussong’s Cantina at the Mandalay Place Shoppes in the Mandalay Bay resort. Don’t let the T.G.I. McBullshit-style explosion of kitsch all over the walls give you the wrong first impression as it did me. The food and drink here are muy tasty.
 Dos Caminos at The Palazzo Speaking of tasty Mexican food, Dos Caminos at the Palazzo resort is going to be having a special Pig Roast Buffet on July 4th. From 11am-7pm, Dos Caminos will celebrate our nation’s independence the way it should be celebrated…with all-you-can-eat roasted pig! The buffet will feature the aforementioned piggy along with Jumbo Shrimp Fajitas, Skirt Steak, BBQ Chicken, Turkey Burger Sliders with Mole Poblano and a whole host of side items. Cost is $30 for adults and $12.95 for kiddies under 12 (tax and tip not included).
 Chef Marcus Samuelsson and Chef Rick Moonen (photo courtesy: Rick Moonen) I was sad to not be able to attend, but I’m happy to report that last week’s guest dinner at RM Seafood with Top Chef Masters winner, Marcus Samuelsson, was a big success. All in all, the event raised $15,000 for local charity Three Square, which comes out to be 45,000 meals! Congratulations to Chef Rick Moonen and Chef Marcus Samuelsson on a job well done.
 Retro Bakery We mentioned this last week, but congratulations again to our Champions of Buttercream, Kari and Brian Haskell of Retro Bakery, for their gig on baking up some cupcakes for the CBS After Party of yesterday’s Daytime Emmy Awards. Retro Bakery is now on a much-deserved summer vacay and will be back to the business of making our asses bigger on July 8th.
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Mike Dobranski is a professional musician, amateur blogger, eater of good food, poker junkie, master of the inappropriate comment and bad husband to a wonderful wife.
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