Here’s a ringing endorsement: After S. Goodman wrote in to ask for reader recommendations for restaurants that serve fish and chips with a light batter, preferably on the west side of town or on the Strip, Ann Brown faxed to recommend Lakes Lounge at 2920 Lake East Drive and added that her father eats them there at least once a week. Dave Levesque recommended Lazy Joe’s at 7835 S. Rainbow Blvd. and Ruth Jagodzinski recommended McMullen’s Irish Pub at 4650 W. Tropicana Ave. …
Food
These are the first few days of the Year of the Horse in the Chinese calendar and to celebrate, I found the perfect wine.
If it’s Italian green beans you’re looking for, no other type — not cut green, or French-cut, or wax or whatever — will serve as a substitute for these broad, meaty beans with lots of flavor. And fellow readers have found them for Mark Whittington.
This is the first wine from the shifty 2012 vintage in Bordeaux that I have wanted to review.
The Commissary, which opened late last month, is on the first floor of the Downtown Grand’s West Tower, just across Third Street from the casino.
They say 208 million avocados would fill a football field — end zone to end zone — over the top of the goal posts. So get your game on, guacamole lovers.
Jelly Belly has finally given the people what they want: a beer-flavored jelly bean.
Charles Waddell is looking for a local source for thick Amish-style noodles like he used to get at Glazier’s Food Marketplace, and in response, Pamela Moore emailed that she makes her own.
Languedoc-Roussillon in the south of France stretches along the Mediterranean coastline from the east where it borders Provence into the west where it comes down to the Spanish border and the Pyrenees Mountains.
Jayde Fuzion, led by Seonkyoung Longest, winner of the Food Network’s “Restaurant Express,” opened in December in the space formerly occupied by Marinelli’s Italian Restaurant.
In coordination with Green Valley High School’s premiere production of “Mary Poppins,” the theater department will host Supercalifragilistic Teas on Feb. 1 and 8. The teas will include appearances by characters from the production.
Sunday is National Popcorn Day, and there’s plenty popping in local restaurants.
If you’re anything like us, every four years you find yourself glued to a TV at 3 a.m. watching a couple of regular-looking folks sweep a patch of ice with brooms while thinking to yourself, “If that’s all it takes to be an Olympian, I’m there!”
The days of only four coffee options — black, cream, sugar or cream and sugar — are long gone, as we all know. Today, you can get a coffee drink with so many options it’s impossible to list them all.
This is one of my favorite everyday drinking wines. It is from the superb Sicilian producer Planeta, one of the great little family-owned wineries making tremendous value wines from this historic island.
