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Las Vegas

What We Ate in Vegas, My First In-N-Out, and Trying to Maintain Healthy Habits While Traveling

November 2, 2011

Every time I travel, I learn a little bit more and more about how to maintain healthy eating habits and keep feeling GOOD while on the road. It started when I figured out that I had to pack my own snacks, in order to prevent any convenience-store binges on chocolate-covered pretzels and questionable hot dogs. [...]

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Why It’s Okay to Over-induldge in Las Vegas

October 27, 2011

Last night my husband and I ate at a one-of-a-kind Chinese restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. The average rating for this particular restaurant on Yelp!, a social ranking site, is three out of five stars. Though I’m not a foodie by any stretch of imagination, my husband has a fairly refined palette and I [...]

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What We Ate in Vegas

June 10, 2011

Better late than never, right? To show you gratuitous photos of the food we ate in Vegas? I didn’t think so. When you’ve collected your winnings from all of the blackjack games you’ve played at the Venetian, stroll through the casino to Otto Pizzeria, formerly known as Enoteca San Marco. We visit this place every year for the [...]

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Taste & Travel Tuesday: Viva Las Vegas!

May 17, 2011

Low prices on magazine subscriptions with free shipping. Today’s guest post is from BootsnAll Travel Writer, JoAnna Haugen. JoAnna writes BootsnAll’s Las Vegas travel guide, and offers some culinary insight for one of my favorite, sparkliest cities. And just in time! I leave for Bloggers in Sin City (3) tomorrow morning! Three Unique Dining Experiences in [...]

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Brandied Cherries

June 3, 2010
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It was an adamant priority, a couple of weeks ago while we were in Vegas, to get back to Enoteca San Marco for a cheese plate.  CHEESE PLATE.  This is the place that really introduced me to this amazing dish, and I’ve been on sort of a mission ever since to find others and sample [...]

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Bloggers in Sin City – The Foodie Files 2009

May 19, 2010

On the eve of the second annual Bloggers in Sin City, I thought I’d look back at last year and share a couple of the foodie finds I fell for in Vegas.  I’m stoked to check out new places this year and have promised Nico that the 6lb burrito will find its way to Nomadic [...]

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Enoteca San Marco

August 21, 2009

The best food memories I have of Las Vegas happened at Mario Batali’s Enoteca San Marco.  Why? Because there was a cheese plate. And we like cheese plates. My initial reactions, as I wrote back on June 8, 2009: One of the highlights of this past weekend’s trip to Las Vegas was the formaggi at [...]

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