Click here to hear this morning’s Food Talk on News 88.9 FM – KNPR Nevada Public Radio, wherein Slapsie Maxie and moi interrogate, illuminate, eviscerate, hypothecate and pontificate about various subjects in today’s food and restaurant world. Today’s topics included: An interview with uber-restaurant writer John Mariani on his recent trip to Las Vegas; Local bloggers Mike Dobranski and Jillian Plaster on what, why, how... 

Click here for the link to “Wine Talk” on KNPR a couple of Fridays ago, wherein Max and John grill, kebab, fillet, carve, and incise John Mathew Smith of Wirtz Beverage Company and Jeff Wyatt of Marche Bacchus about the current state of our wine world. Actually, most of what we do is chew the fat over: * What’s happening in the world of wine? * Has France lost its dominance? * How have currency fluctuations affected what we’re... 

Deep fried squid cartilage ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 6 If you’ve ever had a hankerin’ for a little deep fried squid cartilage — and let’s face it who hasn’t — then point to the poster on the wall at Ichiza (that doubles as a menu for the place) and get yourself a plateful of the little nippers. They’re surprisingly good — sorta like popcorn shrimp, only a bit more toothsome —... 

Here’s the link to this morning’s audio on KNPR’s State Of Nevada wherein John and Max tell you whether to EAT IT OR BEAT IT from: Payard Patisserie and Bistro ; Gina’s Bistro ; and Ichiza .  Read More →

Here is the link for last week’s KNPR-State Of Nevada’s Food Talk featuring interviews with: Bon Appetit Editor Barbara Fairchild ; Vegas Uncork’d Executive Director Rob O’Keefe ; Aria Food & Beverage V.P. Christina Clifton ; plus, our bottom five Most Overrated Restaurants (were you listening Todd English , Emeril , Piero , Hugo and Bobbie ?); and finally, everyone’s favorite, EAT IT OR BEAT IT , featuring our... 

[Show as slideshow] First came the KNPR interview (to be broadcast next week), then came the photo op, and finally, Slapsie Maxie figured chowing down on a dozen plates from the Greenland Korean Market’s new food court would be just what America’s most acclaimed chef would be in the mood for. And so he was. And thus were a multitude of plates were rendered, and laid before him. And lo did he express thanks, and consume them with... 

We at ELV know most of you have better things to do on a Friday morning (play video poker, nurse a hangover, contemplate great architecture , etc…) than to sit glued to a radio listening to intellectual-and-digestively-stimulating banter about food and restaurants. Therefore, as a public service, we provide this link to yesterday’s State Of Nevada program on KNPR. Tune in if you’re interested in learning about: > …  Read More →

If you tuned in yesterday to News 88.9 FM KNPR’s State Of Nevada, you heard the Toothsome Twosome: > Name their top 5 pizzas in town; > Discuss Vietnamese food and Max’s recent trip to north Vietnam; > Learn all about the food that fuels the Maccionis — the First Family of American restaurants — from Mother Egi and son Mario; > Talk to Todd Clore — Chef/owner of Todd’s Unique Dining in Green Valley, and, drum... 

Here is the link to yesterday’s State Of Nevada program on Nevada Public Radio featuring interviews with everyone’s-favorite-celebrity-journalist  Robin Leach, “intuitive forager” Kerry Clasby, our Top Five Pet Restaurant Peeves, and yet another installment of everyone’s favorite rapid fire restaurant fulminations: Eat It Or Beat It ! Restaurants reviewed: Lindo Michoacan Tommy Pastrami David Burke  Read More →

In case you’re not hanging on every word of every minute of every broadcast of Nevada Public Radio ( and you know you should be! ), Eating Las Vegas,  hereby provides, as a public service, a link to Yesterday’s State Of Nevada program, featuring: > Interviews with Guy and Franck Savoy and; > S teve Schirripa (Bobby Baccala on The Sopranos); >  Read More →

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Tune in tomorrow morning food fans, at 9:00 am, on News 88.9 FM KNPR’s State Of Nevada (or listen in at www.knpr.org ) for more delightful dish from the disputatious dining divas known John & Max, as we discuss, debate, and dissect (for your delectation) such diverse, delicious delectables as: > Fine wine times and the changing Las Vegas culture in all things grapey with Master Sommelier/winemaker Kevin Vogt ; > The beginnings and growth... 

Click here to hear me and Maxie pummel each other like bad bread dough on this morning’s State Of Nevada. Also featured: > S. Irene Virbila (restaurant critic for the Los Angeles Times) on why Italian restaurants are so bad; > Elizabeth Muto on the good works (and fundraiser tonight at M Resort) of the Epicurean Charitable Foundation; > Our Top 5 Vegas burgers; > Downtown throwdown, and; > Eat It Or Beat It featuring: Crazy Pita , FIRST Food... 

To hear ELV speak these profound-yet-depressing words in the pensive, melancholy, lugubrious, dejected, disappointed, despondent and disconsolate tones for which he is known , click here . Otherwise, continue reading after the jump. BLOW IT UP! Over the years, ELV has been as big a downtown booster as anyone he knows. He and his staff live downtown, work downtown, and have eaten downtown for over …  Read More →

This Friday morning, September 25, 2009…a date which will live in infamy…. begins what ELV and Slapsy Maxy Jacobson hope will be a long and fruitful run on News 88.9 FM KNPR’s State Of Nevada . For on this auspicious day, the aforementioned food critics will be hosting a one hour restaurant show on the aforementioned radio station  Read More →