It has been both a sad and exciting year for Las Vegas restaurants.
Heidi Knapp Rinella
RJ food critic Heidi Rinella takes you inside your favorite Vegas eateries and let's you know what's worth the bite. Hungry for more? Head to bestoflasvegas.com for all of your foodie needs
You’ve heard about the national obesity problem — and that’s a statement, not a question, because I’m assuming most of you don’t live in caves. You know that portion sizes are one of the big problems with weight control — or at least our inability or unwillingness to reduce them is. You’ve vowed to cut back, eat less, move more.
Joan Adams is looking for large and small — but not Minute — tapioca, and readers have several recommendations.
There’s a sort of unspoken guarantee that every new hotel-casino in Las Vegas will be better — or at least more wondrous, more spectacular — than anything that had gone before it, and that’s certainly the case with the restaurants of CityCenter’s Aria.
Yolie’s is, you might say, the old Vegas version of the churrascaria.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Considering how addictive peppermint bark is, I can’t even imagine it in ice cream. But now Virginia Fergen and the rest of us can try it, thanks to sharp-eyed readers on both sides of the valley. Jan Pacini found it at Vons at 1940 Village Center Circle in Summerlin and Maureen McCoy at Albertsons at 201 S. Stephanie St. in Henderson. …
We love the look of Bollywood Grill — the theater-esque red-velvet curtains on the windows, the filmy draperies between booths, the black linen cloths and napkins, the faux-starlit ceiling and especially the continuous loop of Bollywood classics, which were unendingly entertaining, on the big plasma screen. The owners have taken an old ’50s-style diner and done their best to camouflage its stainless-steel origins, and they’ve done pretty well.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
There’s something about food and the holidays. The season definitely seems to rekindle a desire to revive family traditions; hence the holiday-related requests this week. And, for those looking for help making gravy for their holiday dinners, responses to a request from reader Ray Fogarty.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
As often happens, last week’s information about sources for homemade pizzelles brought more tips from Taste of the Town readers.
You know the burger’s gone uptown when the fast-food chains start duking it out over who’s got the bigger, better, juicier — Black Angus! — version of this iconic food that holds a rightfully exalted place in the American culinary pantheon.
It’s definitely soup weather, although somehow lobster bisque doesn’t seem like soup but like something more — more luxurious, more satisfying. And available, for requesting reader David Ewart, who’s looking for it frozen or canned.