Food
Best Western McCarran Inn continental breakfast, 4970 Paradise Road, received 16 demerits Jan. 4. Violations included ice machine had moldlike growth in chute area. GRADE: B.
If you’ve ever wondered how restaurants earn those B’s, C’s and closures that land them in the Restaurant Report in each Wednesday’s Taste section — and, more to the point, how other restaurants earn the A’s that keep them out of the newspaper — here’s a primer, courtesy of Gregg Wears and Carol Culbert.
Aloha Kitchen, 2605 S. Decatur Blvd., received 20 demerits Dec. 29. Violations included several pans stored on top of uncovered foods in storage. GRADE: B.
In the glass: Spiral Wines Cabernet Sauvignon is a deeply opaque blood-ruby red color with a blackish core going out into a fine purplish-crimson red to light fuchsia rim definition with medium viscosity.