Beaujolais celebration features complimentary tastings

The second annual Beaujolais Nouveau Celebration will kick off at 12:01 a.m. Thursday at Paris Las Vegas, 3655 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Complimentary tastings are scheduled from 1 to 8 p.m. Thursday and Nov. 21 and 22 at the check-in bar and from noon to 3 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Eiffel Tower Restaurant. A food-and-wine tasting is scheduled from 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 22 at Les Artistes Steakhouse (tickets are $30; call 967-4111) and Mon Ami Gabi, Le Provencal and Les Artistes will offer wine-pairing menus throughout the weekend. …

McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant, 335 Hughes Center Drive, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with specials of $11.95 1-pound Maine lobsters and $2 margaritas in the bar area from 3:30 p.m. today until closing, or while supplies last. …

AJ’s Steakhouse at the Hard Rock Hotel, 4455 Paradise Road, will close at midnight Dec. 13. As a farewell, the restaurant invites guests to “Dine Like It’s 1999” with menu prices that represent its opening year — as much as 25 percent off 2008 prices. (Thus the 20-ounce New York strip is $33 instead of its more recent price of $44.) The restaurant also is bringing back live piano music every Friday and Saturday beginning at 9 p.m. …

Guy Savoy will be at his restaurant at Caesars Palace, 3570 Las Vegas Blvd. South, through Sunday serving a special seasonal menu including scallop carpaccio with white truffle pasta and poached quail egg, and Alba white-truffle risotto, plus a wild-game menu. …

Chef Tonino Mellino of Ristorante Quattro Passi on Italy’s Amalfi Coast will be guest chef at Trattoria del Lupo at Mandalay Bay, 3950 Las Vegas Blvd. South, through Nov. 21. Special menu items include cuttlefish salad with fennel, walnuts and citronella dressing; lobster salad on tomato carpaccio; and carpaccio of Mediterranean sea bass. …

“New Orleans Cajun Creole” is the theme of the November Epicurean Adventure, which will be available from Monday through Nov. 23 at Envy the Steakhouse at the Renaissance Las Vegas, 3400 Paradise Road. With an entree of barbecued seafood boil — with clams, scallops, mussels and lobster — the four-course dinner is $87 with wine pairings or $65 without; wine-only is $35. For reservations, call 784-5716.

And from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Envy will host a wine-and-food tasting with Bill Grant, co-owner of Four Vines Winery. It’s $35 per person; for reservations, e-mail anett.mindermann@ihrco.com. …

A tequila-pairing dinner is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday at the Carmel Room at the Rampart Casino, 221 N. Rampart Blvd. With an entree of grilled Niman Ranch pork chop, the four-course dinner is $90 per person, plus tax and tip. For reservations, call 507-5955. …

Bradley Ogden at Caesars Palace will conclude its Oregon winemaker series at 6:30 p.m. Thursday with a dinner featuring the wines of Elk Cove Vineyards. With an entree of oak-grilled Prime skirt steak, the five-course dinner is $85 per person, plus tax and tip; for reservations, call (877) 346-4642. …

For all those who have called and e-mailed about the demise of Joey’s Only restaurants in Las Vegas: There is one Joey’s Seafood and Grill in the area, at 7585 Norman Rockwell Lane near the northern beltway and Durango Drive; call 478-9911. …

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Send information to Heidi Knapp Rinella, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125-0070. You also can send faxes to 383-4676 or e-mail her at hrinella@reviewjournal. com.