National Tequila Day Brings Specials to Las Vegas on Saturday, Severe Hangovers on Sunday

Saturday, July 24 is National Tequila Day.

Yes…you heard me correctly.  National. Tequila. Day.

Happy National Tequila Day! (photo: blueprintpodcast.com)

Woe is me that a regretful night of over-indulgence some 13 years ago still has me gag at the mere whiff of tequila, but as the top-selling liquor in the U.S. by a mile, the blue agave-based [...]

Monday Mise en Place: Hussong's Cantina Offers 20% Food Discount to Las Vegas Locals

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 [...]

Monday Mise en Place: Locals Get 20% Off Wolfgang Puck Restaurants

Wolfgang Puck – (photo courtesy: MSNBC.com)

It’s good to live in the 702. Now it just got a little better.  Select Wolfgang Puck restaurants in town are now offering Las Vegas locals 20% off their bill with the presentation of a Nevada I.D. from now through September 30, 2010.  The deal is good at Spago [...]

Monday Mise en Place: Stuff We Didn’t Get To From Last Week

Last week opened up with the James Beard Foundation Awards and closed with the epic parade of fabulous gluttony that is Vegas Uncork’d.  With juggling these major events, Tasting Las Vegas majorly shit the bed in coverage of some other important events that happened this past week.

Chef Jose Andres (courtesy: lamag.com)

First of which is [...]

Great Cinco de Mayo Guide by the Las Vegas Sun

With the onslaught of Vegas Uncork’d and James Beard Foundation Awards all happening at once, I was thrilled to see this excellent guide for all that is Cinco de Mayo put together by the fine staff at the Las Vegas Sun (you know, the good Las Vegas newspaper that comes to your house wrapped in [...]

Great Times in the Form of a Cooking Class at Dos Caminos

The thing I like the most about food is that it is so much more than the flavor enveloping your taste buds.  It’s the social setting it creates as you share plates among friends and loved ones.  It’s a snapshot of the culture of an entire region of people, often times from distant places. It’s [...]

Monday Mise en Place: Dos Caminos Hops on the Cooking Class Train

Dos Caminos

I don’t know if it is a new trend among restaurants in town or if it is just new to me as I’m now (thankfully) getting bombarded with press releases from our lovely PR Firm tasters, but Dos Caminos at the Palazzo resort is the latest to hop on the Cooking Class Train. [...]