October 25, 2005

Las Vegas restaurants

Still the question remains: as important as dining has become to Las Vegas, where gambling now accounts for only 40 percent of revenues, can a rootless place with no indigenous gastronomic traditions and no local raw materials (except for the odd blood orange and sprig of rosemary) ever be a great restaurant town, as opposed to a resort town with good restaurants - “a Disneyland for foodies,” as the restaurant consultant Clark Wolf calls it?