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Celebrate Easter with a Springtime Feast
Sunday, April 4, 2010

3 Course Brunch

$50 per person
$30 per child under 10

Click here for more information or to make a reservation.

Hash House A Go Go Hosts Its Second Annual Corned Beef Eating Contest

Irish-themed food and drink specials will be served throughout the day

Hash House A Go Go, country station KWNR and Certified Angus Beef are hosting the second annual corned beef eating contest in honor of St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday, March 17. Contestants can enter the contest at www.kwnr.com or in person at the Hash House A Go Go Sahara location. Up to eight participants will vie to be the first to finish 1.5 pounds of cooked corned beef and a quarter head of cabbage. After 15 minutes, if none of the contestants have finished, the competitor who has eaten the most will be crowned the winner. The grand prize is $100 cash and breakfast once a week at Hash House A Go Go for a year. Second place will receive a $75 Hash House A Go Go gift certificate and a Certified Angus Beef gift box; third place will receive a $50 Hash House A Go Go gift certificate and a Certified Angus Beef gift box. All participants will receive a Hash House A Go Go hat and T-shirt to wear during the competition and additional prizes from KWNR.

 

The restaurant will feature Irish-themed food and drink specials throughout the day including a special St. Patrick’s Day Lucky Charms pancake, stuffed corned beef sandwich, Irish coffee, Irish snakebite and several others. Happy hour at the Sahara location will run from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. with $2 green beer and complimentary mini Hash House corned beef sandwiches and homemade potato chips. The first 50 people who arrive for happy hour will receive their first beer free.

Time to Start Thinking About the Weekend Trips to the Hamptons.  Visit TravelsinTaste for your fine dining needs while at the beach!

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Some of our favorite venues - The Palazzo and Wynn/Encore will be having special St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails at their respective bars and lounges!  Celebrate the Irish with these drinks and you might even find that pot of gold at the end of the slot machines!

If you can’t make it to the Palazzo or Wynn/Encore here are the recipes to try on your own!

Fusion Mixology Bar at the Palazzo’s Specialty Cocktail is The Height of Folly

Ingredients:

2 oz. Bushmills Irish Whiskey

1 oz. Bailey’s Irish Cream

½ oz. Half n Half syrup

½ oz. simple syrup

 

Garnish:

 “Green” white chocolate syrup swirl in glass

 

How to assemble cocktail:

Shake and strain into Martini glass

 

Photo Credit: IS Photography/imagesofvegas.com

 

Wynn/Encore’s Mixologist Patricia Richardson’s Specialty is Spiced Irish Crème:

-3/4 oz. Jameson Irish Whiskey

-3/4 oz. Baileys Irish Cream

-3/4 oz. Canton Ginger Liqueur

Method: Combine the above ingredients into a mixing glass. Add ice and shake to chill. Strain into a shot glass. Serve.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to All!

Celebrate St Patrick’s Day at Charlie Palmer Steak in Vegas

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner Menu served March 17th

 

First Course

CREAMY POTATO LEEK SOUP

WITH TIPPERARY CHEDDAR

 

CEDAR SMOKED SALMON

PICKLED BABY VEGETABLES, TOASTED BROWN BREAD

 

COMPOSED SALAD OF CARAMELIZED AMBROSIA APPLES

HOUSE CURED RASHERS, MIXED WINTER GREENS, GRAIN MUSTARD VINAIGRETTE

 

Main Course

GUINNESS BRAISED SHORT RIBS

ROOT CELLAR VEGETABLES, FRESH HORSERADISH CREAM

 

CRISP WILD SALMON

COLCANNON, TURNIPS, CARROTS AND GREENS

KERRY GOLD BUTTER SAUCE

 

CASHEL BLUE CHEESE CRUSTED FILET OF BEEF

“MIDDLETON” WHISKEY REDUCTION AND CARAMELIZED SHALLOT

 

ENTRÉES ACCOMPANIED BY

SLOW BRAISED WHITE CABBAGE

“CHAMP” POTATOES

IRISH SODA BREAD

 

Dessert

BANANA BAILEY’S BREAD PUDDING

SALTED CARAMEL ICE CREAM

 

CHOCOLATE STOUT BUNDT CAKE

WITH DRUNKIN’ DARK CHERRIES

 

three course dinner

$45 per person

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St. Patrick’s Day Bar Menu

served March 17th in our Bar + Lounge

 

Small Plate Specials

CRISPY HARP BATTERED FISH AND CHIPS  $9

MALT VINEGAR AND MEYER LEMON TARTAR SAUCE

 

SLICED CORNED BEEF OVER SLOW BRAISED CABBAGE  $9

MUSTARD AND HORSERADISH

 

BANGERS AND MASHED  $9

CARAMELIZED ONION JAM

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For Dinner Reservations please call 702.632.5120

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner check out our latest Valentine’s Day  menus  from some of the best and most romantic restaurants in Vegas (including Alize, Andre’s at the Monte Carlo, CUT, Rao’s, Restaurant Charlie to name a few) , New York (including Le Bernardin, Michael Jordan’s The Steakhouse N.Y.C., SD26, Telepan), Chicago (including Everest), Fort Lauderdale (including La Marea), Beverly Hills (including Ortolan) and more in our Special Events section…Or, if you’d prefer to Celebrate Chinese New Year’s check out our menus in Vegas (including Wazuzu, Wing Lei), New York (including Our Place, Shun Lee) and Chicago (including Ben Pao) in the same Special Events sections!

Alternatively, if you’re eating in - check out our list of the Top 5 Aphrodisiac Foods by clicking here!  You might be surprised with the results.

 

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY AND CHINESE NEW YEAR TO ALL OF OUR LOYAL READERS!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL COMMENTS AND SUPPORT!

Check out our article on Chinese New Year’s in TheStreet.com - including menu items from Zine Noodles Dim Sum, Wazuzu, Wing Lei, Ben Pao, Shun Lee Palace, Our Place, Blue Ginger, and Macao Trading Co.  For the full menus, check out special events on TravelsinTaste.com

 

 Click here to read it! 

Happy New Year!

With the Superbowl this weekend we thought we’d remind you of where to get the best sizzling steaks while watching the game in luxury….Check out our story on TheStreet.com

http://www.thestreet.com/goodlife/top-one-percent/10656513.html

The Venetian and The Palazzo will celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Tiger with an authentic dragon and lion dance with firecrackers and festive decorations featuring a 16.5-foot long Tiger and Chinese Bridge in the atrium gardens of The Shoppes at The Palazzo with citrus trees representing good luck and fortune.

Photo Credit: Imagesofvegas.com/IS Photography

Dragon Dance

The dragon and lion dance symbolizes good luck and prosperity for the year to come and is an important ritual of Chinese culture. The Chinese consider dragons to be friendly and helpful creatures associated with strength, good fortune, wisdom and longevity.  Lions are traditionally seen as guardians and are used to exorcise evil spirits and summon luck and fortune.

On Saturday, February 13th at 3 p.m., a ceremonial dragon and lion dance, complete with firecrackers and eye painting ceremony, will begin at The Venetian’s lavish Porte-Cochere, making its way through The Venetian Casino, into The Palazzo Waterfall Atrium, through The Palazzo Casino and end in the upper Palazzo Porte-Cochere. The colorful spectacle will feature a parade of dancers and musicians dressed in elaborate costumes playing authentic music.

One additional dragon dance, minus the eye painting ceremony, will be held on Sunday, February 14th at 1 p.m. beginning in The Venetian Porte-Cochere, make its way through the casino into The Palazzo Waterfall Atrium and ending in The Palazzo Porte-Cochere. All dragon dances will be open to the public.

Chinese New Year Décor

Decorations in the customary color scheme of red and gold and traditional tangerine trees will help ring in the New Year at The Venetian and The Palazzo. More specifically, The Venetian and The Palazzo will celebrate the Year of the Tiger with the following décor additions:

• The décor throughout both The Venetian and The Palazzo will include presentations of citrus trees, red envelopes and lanterns to celebrate the New Year.
• The Venetian reception desk wall will feature an ornate red silk taffeta drapery treatment with ornate I-Ching coins.
• The Venetian’s lobby will feature red, orange and yellow floral to complement the banners and lotus lanterns hanging in The Venetian Colonnade.
• The Palazzo Waterfall Atrium will have the most dramatic transformation with the following embellishments:
  • A 16.5-foot long custom-designed Tiger, the auspicious zodiac symbol of 2010, will be situated at the water feature facing The Palazzo casino floor to welcome visitors.
  • Six-foot custom-made red, orange and yellow lanterns that will be hung to signify the lives of our guests will always be bright and full of lights.
  • The atrium gardens will be redesigned into an Asian garden with red, orange and yellow floral including Mums, Orchids, Bromeliads, Kalonchoes and feature a ChineseBridge with 35-foot bamboo.
  • Throughout the atrium gardens there will be arrangements of over-sized bamboo towers with fresh orchids and lanterns.
  • The waterfall wall will be adorned with ceremonial accent décor.
• The columns in The Palazzo lobby surrounding the Aqua di Cristallo statue will feature a sophisticated red taffeta fabric treatment, tangerine trees and bundles of gold I-Ching Coins representing an “abundance of wealth.” The main entrance to The Palazzo will also be decorated with I-Ching coins in multiples of eight welcoming good fortune to guests.
•  The Palazzo lobby includes custom bamboo towers and bamboo floral centerpieces created specifically for The Palazzo by a bamboo artist.

 

Decorations celebrating Chinese New Year will be presented through the third week of February.

 

For  Zine Dim Sum Restaurant’s Chinese New Year’s Menu, click here.  For the full listing, please click here.

NYC Restaurant Week is Here!  Starting today through February 7th (Saturdays excluded, Sunday participation optional) you can get three course  $24.07 prix fixe lunches and $35 prix fixe dinners at some of New York City’s best restaurants.  This year’s participation includes 21 Club, Aldea, Michael Jordan’s The Steakhouse N.Y.C., Rouge Tomate, and SHO Shaun Hergatt, among many other.  For a listing of our favorite menus please click here.

Bon Appetit