Best of the Las Vegas Valley 2006: Food & Drink choices
Last year, I expressed dismay at the results of local alt-weekly City Life's Best of the Valley 2006 choices, submitted by local readers. If you recall, Vegas readers chose unique establishments such as The Olive Garden for Best Italian and P.F. Chang's for Best Chinese. I promised that I would submit a 2006 entry, and I plan to mail it in tomorrow. It's only fair that I publish my own Food & Drink choices, so here they are. Let me know where I've gone wrong:
- Best non-chain restaurant: Rosemary's
- Best cheap eats: In 'n Out
- Best pricey eats: Okada
- Best late-night dining: Paymon's Meditteranean Grill (on Maryland Parkway)
- Best place to take a date when you really want to get laid: Firefly
- Best steakhouse: [No answer. I've been to very few.]
- Best Mexican restaurant: Lindo Michoacan
- Best Chinese restaurant: Little Buddha [Although I've heard Joyful House is good.]
- Best Italian restaurant: Pasta Shop
- Best Thai restaurant: Lotus of Siam
- Best Indian restaurant: Origin India
- Best buffet: [No answer. None have been the "best."]
- Best sushi: I Love Sushi
- Best beer selection: Freakin' Frog
- Best coffeehouse: Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (on Maryland Parkway) [Sorry for the chain. I don't drink much coffee.[
- Best looking wait
stuffstaff: [No answer.] - Best wine selection: Lotus of Siam [Pages and pages of reislings.]
Only one of my above answers (Okada) is on The Strip. I can't afford to go to most of the top restaurants there, but even if I could, I'd prefer to recommend off-Strip locations.
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"Wait stuff"--best I've ever seen is on this blog, Monk!
what percent of the readership of this blog is nevada-based? I guess all the names I've never heard of could be, but I figured it was just you and flea.
about 12% of my hits from known states come from nevada.
As far as buffets go, I really enjoyed the buffet at the Bellagio. It was only $25 and I got to try venison and lamb in addition to more typical fair.
BTW: Was Lindo Michoan the restaurant that you took Li and me to?
I think so.
I had that odd Coca-Cola dish there.
What percent of that 12% do you think are you and Flea?
unique visitors only, so not much
CM, do you get a lot of visitors that don't know you? If so, congrats.
A lot? I'd hardly say that, but I do get 300-400 unique visitors a day, and I don't know that many people who know of my site.
And right now, the top 5 or so searches people are using to find my site are variations of "the departed comfortably numb."
hey! that was because of me! cool!
400 a day? I'm rather impressed by that, actually. That's really a lot for a personal blog.
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