Consider the caviar Twinkie. What is essentially a buttery cornbread forms the Twinkie cake; the yuzu crème fraîche stands in for vanilla cream filling. The caviar, of course, is wholly Vegas.
Johnathan L. Wright
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Johnathan L. Wright joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal as a restaurant reporter in March 2022. Before that, he covered the emerging food and drink scene in Northern Nevada, with frequent trips west to write about the California wine country. Johnathan is a native of Honolulu, where he attended the Punahou School. Johnathan has a B.A. in art history from Yale University and an M.A. in journalism from the University of Nevada.
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The restaurant’s brawny burgers and boozy shakes are making the move to a storefront space along the main drag.
Restaurateur and reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump pairs splendid cocktails with a twist on classic American dishes in her third restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip.
The menu celebrates a modern approach to Indian dishes and cooking techniques, with occasional touches of East Asia.
Las Vegas restaurants are offering latkes, brisket, roast chicken, holiday doughnuts and more for the Festival of Lights.
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The hall of Italian food and drink is marking its sixth anniversary with its first significant build-out since its debut.
The coastal menu, created by a Michelin-starred chef, runs to tiradito, duck confit tostadas, grilled whole fish, and surf and turf.
The southwest valley restaurant was famous for its brunch and the mingling of Jamaican and New Mexican flavors on the menu.
Heading the list of newcomers is the third location of a Guatemalan chain known for its grilled and fried chicken.
The standard Old West cowboy pour, the cliché goes, featured whiskey neat tossed back in a saloon. Put that assumption out to pasture.
The new shop marks the chef and TV personality’s sixth restaurant in Las Vegas, and the fourth with Caesars Entertainment.
The early November debut came about a month before the restaurant plans to open its fifth location this week.