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Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella. Her reviews are done anonymously at Review-Journal expense.
I discovered the Florida Cafe not long after I moved here, and as a Florida transplant I loved it immediately. Not because its name reminded me of the Sunshine State, but because it served Cuban food, and great Cuban food at that.
Some would say Kelly Monaco has sexy down cold. She’s a soap star. She’s posed for Playboy. But when she’s among dancers and their distinctive kind of sexy? “I felt like a tree. A stump. And they’re the leaves in the wind,” she says with a laugh.
Gordie Brown has come full circle back to the Golden Nugget, but he’s not quite the same guy who started his Las Vegas career there in 2004.
For Joan Basil, who’s looking for wasabi mayonnaise, readers were nearly unanimous in their responses: Trader Joe’s, which has numerous locations in the valley and was recommended by Roberta Shulman, June Shook, Jennie Cicala, Natalie Tantleff, Diane Williams and Jayne Boone.
Despite encroachment by urban housing tracts, portions of the northwestern Las Vegas Valley retain their rural feel, especially at Floyd Lamb State Park at Tule Springs, a former “divorce ranch” as well as working livestock spread.
If you’ve ever found the perfect groove in your couch — the kind where the cushions and pillows align so perfectly you wouldn’t even consider getting up for anything less than two-thirds of the Kardashian sisters on your doorstep holding a reasonable mortgage and some In-N-Out — then you know what it’s like when the phone rings.
Forget about the show reviews you read in these pages. Someday maybe, Antonio Restivo may be worrying about that stuff. But as I chat with him on this afternoon, we’re waiting for a more important critic.
No, Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, but I think it’s safe to say Hubert Keller invented the upscale burger restaurant.
Some people just won’t go see a ventriloquist, no matter how good he is. Their minds won’t be changed by the success of Terry Fator (or Jeff Dunham, for that matter).
Dee Snider says ’80s metal still rocks today because "it was fun, it was outrageous, it was rebellious. It was about partyin’ and havin’ a great time."
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
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