The fast-casual dining institution Tacos El Gordo is currently only serving at its Losee Road and Charleston Boulevard locations from 11 a.m. to midnight. But during the shutdown, progress has been swiftly advancing to secure approvals for its fourth Las Vegas restaurant, headed very close to Town Square. Moving onto the former site of a junkyard at 2550…
Michelin-Starred Restaurant Will Seat Mannequins at Tables to Make Space Feel Less Empty
Remember the Twilight Zone episode where the woman goes to a department store to buy a gold thimble for her mother and then the mannequins on the abandoned floor tell her that she doesn’t have a mother and has been a mannequin pretending to be a woman? What did we learn there. The Little Washington…
Nacho Daddy is now walking it back with a new ‘COVID-19 policies and procedures acknowledgment’ taking its place
“We should’ve expanded on it, we rolled out really quickly we only had a couple of days’ notice,” Eric Scott said. He is the Director of Operations at Nacho Daddy and is talking about a COVID-19 waiver that up until Wednesday they required employees to sign This waiver received some social media backlash and Nacho…
New Orleans Style Barbecue Shrimp
New Orleans Barbecue Shrimp has actually very little to do with barbecue. Popular in Louisiana, the dish refers to sautéed shrimp in a Worcestershire-spiked butter sauce. Typically made with an insane amount of butter, the shrimp are served shell-on so you eat with your hands. It’s incredibly delicious but not very practical for a family dinner, so this…
Jamaican Oxtail Stew
If you’ve never had oxtail stew, you’re in for a treat. It’s rich, SUPER flavorful, with fall-off-the-bone-tender meat and creamy butter beans. A true special occasion dish. Before you make it, a few things you should know: 1. Oxtails are SUPER fatty. This is a good thing! Fat = flavor, and oxtails have plenty. If…
BUFFET RESTAURANT CHAINS WE’RE REIMAGINING ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT… In Age Of Coronavirus
America’s biggest buffet chains are trying to reinvent the wheel in the face of the raging pandemic … searching for new ways to feed folks while keeping everyone safe. Five of the largest buffet restaurant chains in the country saying they’re changing with the times and rolling out new features to bring in patrons. Golden…
Nacho Daddy has employees sign COVID-19 liability form before returning to work
A Las Vegas restaurant chain had its employees sign a liability form before going back to work. Some employees at Nacho Daddy said they didn’t sign it and were fired. “It felt like I was given an ultimatum of basically have myself fired or compromise my legal rights,” said a former employee who requested to…
Nevada AG Ford joins call for stronger protection for meat and poultry plant workers
Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford joined 19 other states in calling on President Trump to take action to ensure the health and safety of meat and poultry processing plant employees. President Trump signed an executive order in late April to keep the plants open. Some meat and poultry facilities have seen a high number of…
Perfect Porterhouse Steak
A steak house steak has a crusty, deeply browned exterior—a finish executed by means of intensely hot grills or broilers whose temperatures sometimes reach 800°. Here’s how to achieve the same result at home. The undisputed king of the steakhouse, one porterhouse steak can weigh 2 pounds; it’s the classic “hanging off the edge of…
Smoked Pork Shoulder
This 7 hour smoked pulled pork shoulder is so good that no sauce is needed. Just throw it on some white bread, sweet Hawaiian buns, in a taco, or even an omelette It’s that wonderful time of year again. The time when we fire up the smoker and enjoy a meal that we spend all day…
