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10 Vegas Restaurants and Chefs Are Named James Beard Semifinalists

February 23, 2010 at 6:52 PM | by globetrotting gourmet | 0 Comments

Julian Serrano, second from right, named Outstanding Chef.

The James Beard Foundation Awards Restaurant and Chef Award Semifinalists were announced last week and Las Vegas cleaned house with ten contenders for these prestigious awards:

Outstanding Chef
Julian Serrano, Picasso at Bellagio

Rising Star Chef of the Year
Vanessa Garcia, Restaurant Charlie at the Palazzo

Best New Restaurant
Sage at Aria Resort & Casino

Outstanding Pastry Chef
Kamel Guechida, Joël Robuchon at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino

Outstanding Wine Service
Picasso at Bellagio

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Food Critics Dish on Sage and TWIST at CityCenter

Where: 3730 Las Vegas Blvd. [map], 89109
February 16, 2010 at 8:09 PM | by globetrotting gourmet | 0 Comments

Every week, we get our cyber foodie news from around the world fix via Esquire columnist,John Mariani’s Newsletter, Virtual Gourmet. Mariani is also the author of The Encyclopedia of American Food & Drink and The Dictionary of Italian Food and Drink.

We were especially tickled this Valentine’s Day to find Las Vegas food critic, John A. Curtas weighing in on two of our top new "wish list" restaurants at CityCenter, TWIST by Pierre Gagnaire at Mandarin Oriental and Sage at ARIA Hotel & Casino. We paraded through the former on a recent media trip, and partook in an absinthe tasting at the latter, but have yet to dine at either. Soon, our pretties, very soon. You can read a teaser of John’s reviews here, or click here for the real, mouth-watering deal.

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Get to Know the Green Fairy at Sage

Where: 3730 Las Vegas Boulevard South [map], 89109
January 26, 2010 at 7:05 PM | by globetrotting gourmet | 0 Comments

We admit it. We met our long-time boyfriend over a bottle of then-illegal absinthe brought back from Czechoslovakia. Before you judge – let it be known the green fairy must have had some magical effect, because we’ve been together for six years.

The once illegal "hallucinogenic" spirit, is now available in the United States (since 2007) and Sage at Aria boasts the largest selection available on the Strip (tied with Fleur de Lys – GM Tobias Peach worked for Hubert Keller for 3 ½ years).

For a quick absinthe primer, read more about its history here.

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