Intel: MTO Café plans second location
MTO Café will open its second location at the new Downtown Summerlin complex this fall. Since debuting in October of 2013, MTO Café in downtown Las Vegas offers breakfast, lunch and brunch.
The Downtown Summerlin 2,500-square-foot location will be a walk-up concept bearing MTO’s modern-yet-retro industrial feel with four distinct dining areas, including the dining room, counter and a community table as well as an 800-square-foot outdoor patio. As with the original café, the community table will be handcrafted by the owners using wood from the family farm in Kentucky.
The menu, from Chef Johnny Church, will expand to include dinner, while Summerlin diners will also enjoy signature favorites including the lemon poppy seed pancakes with blueberry-ginger compote, chicken in a waffle and the Fat Elvis sandwich. Shift Hospitality owns and operates MTO Café.
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SPENDING KICK: Las Vegas has spent about $3,000 on travel and lodging for two City Council members and two city officials to watch a Major League Soccer game in Portland, Ore., in anticipation of developing plans to build a professional soccer stadium in downtown Las Vegas and winning a bid for a MLS expansion team. City Council members Ricki Barlow and Steve Ross traveled to Portland for a game between the Portland Timbers and Colorado Rapids. The city manager and economic developer also traveled on the public dime.
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HAPPY HOUR DEALS: Chef Daniel Boulud’s db Brasserie at The Venetian now boasts a daily Happy Hour menu, a 30 Minute Express Lunch and prix fixe menus.
Happy Hour, which is daily from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., features $4 draft beer selections, well drinks for $7 and wines from $5 to $7. Small plates start at $6.
The 30 Minute Express Lunch is served daily from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and features chilled tomato soup, a Caesar salad and lamb merguez sausage on a French roll. There’s also a lunch prix fixe menu that includes two courses for $25 and three for $32.
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MORE CRAFT BEERS ON TAP: New craft beer breweries just keep coming to the Las Vegas area. Construction is nearly complete on Old School Brewing Co., at 8410 W. Desert Inn Road, a new microbrewery, said brewmaster Jim Wilson. And if you’re a beer lover cruising through Tonopah, stop by a new brewery called Tonopah Brewery, operated by owner Lance Jergensen.
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A SUGAR DADDY FOR SPORTS?: In the world of sports, University of Nevada Las Vegas Athletic Director Tina Kunzer-Murphy met the Las Vegas media for lunch at Buca di Beppo near campus on July 29 and shared some business news. She said if UNLV is able to build a new campus football stadium, she gives 90 percent of the credit to Don Snyder, UNLV’s acting president and chairman of the UNLV stadium board. She would love to have a “sugar daddy” to donate millions of dollars to sports programs like they have at the University of Oregon and Oklahoma State.
“We are looking for that sugar daddy.” A new marketing director will begin working this month.
“We have to find revenue streams in the state of Nevada.”
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NEW IMAGING CENTER: Outpatient diagnostic imaging services are now available for Las Vegas residents with the July 28 opening of a new Desert Radiologists office.
The $2.5 million, 8,000-square-foot facility is located at 31 N. Nellis Blvd. in the Charleston Commons Shopping Center. It will be the only imaging center east of I-15 and U.S. 95.
“We’re pleased to make radiology services more accessible and convenient for residents in this underserved area for diagnostic imaging,” said William P. Moore II, chief executive officer of Desert Radiologists. “Medical testing can be a cumbersome process for patients, who already may be worried about their diagnosis. Our new office can make it much easier for them to get needed testing on an outpatient basis so they and their primary care doctor can move to the next step in the diagnosis process, treatment or resolution.”
Desert Radiologists is comprised of board-certified radiologists and other specially trained technical and support personnel. Services include CT scans or computed tomography, which combines X-ray and computer equipment to produce cross-sectional images of body tissues and organs, a bone densitometry or DEXA scan to test bone mineral density, fluoroscopy, X-rays, MRI, which uses a strong magnet and radio waves to provide detailed diagnostic images of internal body organs and tissues, as well as mammography and ultrasounds.
Desert Radiologists operates five other American College of Radiology-accredited full-service outpatient facilities throughout Las Vegas and Henderson. The practice has 62 board-certified, subspecialty trained radiologists.
