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Eating Las Vegas 2020: The 52 Essential Restaurants Kindle Edition
In this digital world, few restaurant guidebooks remain, but Las Vegas is lucky. Eating Las Vegas is not only a dedicated guide to some of the best eateries in the U.S., it’s written by the most widely recognized expert on the Vegas food scene, the inimitable John Curtas.
After considering―and eating at―hundreds of current contenders both inside and out of the city’s dozens of world-class resorts, John has assembled this exclusive guide to the “52 Essential” restaurants in Las Vegas.
And he doesn’t stop there. In addition to the top 52, this 2020 edition features sections on the burgeoning Chinatown district, the potentially best-in-the-country roster of steakhouses, French restaurants, burger joints, the batch of recently arrived chain restaurants, and John’s list of the city’s “Bottom 10.”
In addition, quick-reference lists highlight the best bets for buffets, Italian and pizza, Mexican, sushi, desserts, cheap eats, late-night dining, and more. As a bonus, topical essays include “The Job of a Restaurant Critic,” “The Glories of Dining Alone,” “Twenty Suggestions for Dining Out in Style,” and “The Future of Las Vegas Dining.”
Now in its eighth edition, Eating Las Vegas has become the premier source for Las Vegas dining information. With reviews ranging from some of the Strip’s most lavish dining rooms to hole-in-the-wall ethnic gems, this new and improved 2020 volume puts the city’s entire extraordinary dining experience in your hands.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJanuary 10, 2020
- File size26381 KB
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“An opinionated guide to Sin City eateries, [with] a great premise.”
―Kitty Bean Yancey, USA Today
“Genius … frequent visitors to Vegas (and you know who you are) should check [it] out.”
―S. Irene Virbila, Los Angeles Times
“Expect kitchen knives to be sharpened. The comments―both sweet and sour―are funny, biting, candid, and relevant.”
―Robin Leach
“A lively and smart guide to the city [from] a Rat Pack of reviewers.”
―Julia Moskin, New York Times
About the Author
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Author’s Note
What does “essential” mean?
Does it mean “the best”? Yes, but it signifies something more. The best will always be essential, but what is essential might not always be the best. When it comes to the restaurants of Las Vegas, “essential” stands for those that stand out and set a standard, the first places I’d take a visiting gourmet or a fellow food writer, the ones doing the most intriguing work in the kitchen, to which my mind always wanders when I’m hungry. They tend to be projects of passion, not money, eateries reflecting the particular sensibilities of their chefs and owners, not the calculations of a casino corporation. When I list a restaurant as “essential,” it means I would take you there, my friend, if you dialed me up and asked, “John, what’s a place I have to go to in Vegas right now?”
This is the eighth edition of Eating Las Vegas. For 10 years, this little guidebook has consumed my summers, expanded my waistline, lightened my wallet, and kept me patrolling the streets of Sin City for the best places to eat. I like to brag that no one has ever “eaten Las Vegas” as much as I have. Besides looking for strokes wherever we can find them, even when they’re self-applied, it’s true.
In the beginning, I wanted to write a book called The Restaurants of Las Vegas. My fantasy (way back in 1995 when my food writing career began in earnest) was to publish a guide similar to the ones coming out of New York: gourmet tours-de-force by writers like Bryan Miller and Seymour Britchky that explored the culinary canyons of the Big Apple. If you will allow me another self-congratulatory morsel, I think I recognized before anyone that Las Vegas was destined to become a world-class restaurant city and it would need someone to lead a certain type of discriminating consumer through the green-felt jungle to oases of dining pleasure worth their time and money.
By the time the first edition of this book was launched in the fall of 2010, I’d put 15 years into covering the Vegas restaurant scene. A decade later, more calories have been consumed than I can count and the landscape has changed so much that those days feel like a gauzy dream. The early editions featured only a handful of local restaurants as “essential.” This year, almost half the book celebrates off-Strip eateries.
Local dining options have expanded and improved so much recently that the world has taken notice of what we Las Vegans have known since the early aughts: Vegas hotels contain a wealth of kitchen talent―young folks itching to strut their stuff for residents, not just fill the bellies of distracted tourists. True, the Great Recession hastened this migration for many chefs. But as with wine, stressed vines make for better juice and the rigors of the economic downturn gave bloom to vibrant neighborhood dining cultures, especially downtown and in Chinatown, where cash-strapped Gen Xers and Millennials demanded a better supply of quality grub at affordable prices.
In some ways, it seems like 2020 should be the natural end to this obsession of mine. Where once I was the only voice in the wilderness beseeching people to patronize better restaurants, now the Web is crawling with opinions on where you should eat. I’ve become a dinosaur and I know it. Never again will Las Vegas see someone as foolish as me―compelled to eat everywhere and try everything, spend a mountain of his or her own cash to promote worthy restaurants, and sacrifice success in one career (law) for notoriety in a much less lucrative one. In essence, what I’ve always been is an unpaid press agent for the best restaurants of Las Vegas.
But don’t feel sorry for me. I’ve been paid and paid well―in fabulous food, great friends, and wonderful experiences stretching back for half of my adult life. And you paid for this book. For that, and for all of this, I’m grateful.
Product details
- ASIN : B083RBP19L
- Publisher : Huntington Press (January 10, 2020)
- Publication date : January 10, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 26381 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,837,910 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Is John (the author) a snob? Sure, but what food critic isn't? (Food critic being different than food writer.) I've been reading John's blog for years, so I may be a little biased. But I've been reading for years because he puts out honest and often humor-filled reviews of restaurants around the city. Not just the ones on The Strip and Downtown, but restaurants all over the city.
Your tastes may be different, but the reviews you get in this book will be fun to read and give you an idea where to find quality dining. Certainly well worth the low price. I haven't spent much time in Vegas in years, but I still buy this guide for the entertainment value alone.