Tuples and Attributes

I’ve finally gotten my act together and scanned in the menus for the foodie tour I took for my birthday. The restaurants were in either the Aria or the Cosmopolitan hotels on the Las Vegas Strip.

First up was Javier’s. It’s a beautiful place, Here, for instance is the Aztec inspired, chain-saw carved wood wall:

And here’s the menu:

Everything about the dishes was elevated; the chips were perfectly salted, the various sauces each delicious (my mouth is literally starting to water as I write this), and the enchiladas are well worth the return trip we are planning. Even the rice and beans were tastier than any others in memory.

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From Javier’s it was on to Estiatorio Milos which more than lived up to its reputation as one of North America’s finest Greek restaurants. They are known for sourcing only the highest quality ingredients, and, wow, does it show.

I don’t particularly like tomatoes on their own, but I could have made a meal of these (and probably would have if I wasn’t trying to pace myself for what was to come).

The next plate was the octopus. It was incredible: soft and smoky. It was not just the best octopus I’ve ever had, it’s the best seafood I’ve ever had!

Hard to imagine how anything could compare to these first two dishes, but the third was also spectacular. Even with a mandolin, I’m not sure I could even come close to achieving the thinness of the vegetables.

We finished off every plate at Milos which left us all rather full and we were only halfway through the tour.

Our third stop was Momofuku. The food here was very well presented; it just didn’t happen to be to my taste. I’m not a cucumber fan as I dislike tasting them for the next 24 hours after I’ve eaten them. And the ramen was just a touch too spicy for me. The buns were very good, however.

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Our last stop was Wolfgang Puck’s Cucina. By this point we were all stuffed and wondering how we could eat any more. Somehow, though, we all found room for a little desert.

I couldn’t eat everything on the plate, so it’s just as well the tiramisu was too coffee flavored for me. The brownie was my favorite, but the limoncello was a very close second.

The people we book these tours with are LipSmacking Foodie Tours and we had the guide all to ourselves this time. Nice, because we got to talk to him a lot more about the restaurants and the food and the history of the Strip. One of our group has a birthday in May and we’re hoping to take another tour with them of the Arts District downtown.