Heidi Knapp Rinella
Food, Restaurant critic
Email: hrinella@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0474
X: @HKRinella
Heidi Knapp Rinella is an award-winning journalist with more than 35 years of experience as a writer and editor at newspapers in Ohio, Florida and Nevada, and is the author of seven books. She’s been with the Review-Journal as a feature writer and food critic since October 1999.
Here are your five best bets for food and drinks in Las Vegas this week.
Good news for Bill Chavera: His fellow Taste of the Town readers say he still can get knishes in Southern Nevada.
“Mexican sushi” may sound like a paradox, but it’s a big thing in the Sinaloa region of our neighbor to the south. Culichi Town at Fiesta Rancho brings Las Vegas both the atypical hybrid and the fun, raucous culture that surrounds it. It’s an experience not to be missed.
Longtime local favorite Paymon’s Mediterranean Cafe and Hookah Lounge — whose flagship location near the UNLV campus was one of the first restaurants of its kind in Las Vegas — has announced a third spot.
Plant-based options are popping up like wildflowers mushrooms after a spring rain — both new spots and more options in mainstream restaurants in the Las Vegas Valley.
Pasta and pizza are elemental, basically flour and eggs in the former, with yeast and olive oil added for the latter. That simplicity is deceptive, with success or failure resting on the skill of execution and deftness of embellishment — and there North Italia excels.
Here are your five best bets for food and drink this week in Las Vegas.
As you gracefully sweep through life, leaving wistful, admiring gazes in your wake, what scent do you want them to remember? Something floral, perhaps? Or maybe spicy? Or — wait! How about bacon?
There are those of us who firmly believe Elvis Presley is alive and well and working as an Elvis impersonator, and it seems we’ve found a kindred spirit in Branden Powers, co-owner of The Golden Tiki at 3939 Spring Mountain Road. Powers — who’s never been one to shy away from a good story — was in a local dive bar in February when he encountered a singer whose physical and vocal resemblance to The King were uncanny, according to Powers. But you be the judge. “Cocktails with The King” will feature this performer from 2-6 p.m. Saturdays starting this weekend at The Golden Tiki. Happy hour specials include $5 mai tais, and other drinks and food for half price. For the record: Elvis would be more than 80 years old, but who knows? Maybe he cleaned up his act and is remarkably well preserved.
Your friends say you’re the sultan of sauces, the baron of barbecue, the god of the grill.
Kitchen Table Squared’s food is magical, but not so the service.
The Easter Bunny’s got nothing on Black Tap, which has devised The Peeps Shake, available through Sunday.
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