John Curtas @eatinglasvegas Twitter profile

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

6 days

@LasVegasFill Chuck E. Cheese for grown-ass fools.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

One year ago in Las Vegas - if ever a picture was worth a thousand words....

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

6 days

To brighten your day, here’s 45 seconds of ⁦ @chefjoseandres ⁩ making paella 🥘 at ⁦ @jaleo ⁩ in #LasVegas . 🤩😋🇪🇸

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

Today in understatement:

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

1 year

I’ve been commissioned to write an article about #LasVegas ’s most iconic, old-school restaurants. Here’s my list. Who’d I miss? Peppermill Piero’s Golden Steer The Steakhouse at Circus Circus Chicago Joe’s Kung Fu Thai/Chinese Bob Taylor’s Hugo’s Cellar @EatTalkRepeat

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

#LasVegasStrip mask update: most are wearing them, some are not, enforcement hovering in “no one gives a shit” territory. 😷

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 months

Don't know who dreamed this up, but it pretty much nails #LasVegas . FYI: I live directly under the "a" in the "Doctors & Lawyers" neighborhood. 🤔😆🤣

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

Paging Tony Montana: in the 80s, Las Vegas’s airport looked like a 3rd rate Miami nightclub. @LASairport #goodolddays @CocaineDecor

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

These are the vegetables you feed your kids when you want to teach them to eat their veggies. @chefjoseandres #Zaytinya #Mediterraneandiet 🇮🇱🇱🇧🇹🇷🇬🇷😋🥰🍾 #Brusselsprouts #dolmades

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 months

Don’t even talk to me about eating Las Vegas until you’ve poured yourself into @PeppermillVegas , drunk as a skunk, at 5 pm or 5 am, looking to sober up. 😉😎

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

5 years

Who is that masked humanitarian? Only the most important chef in the world.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

Excuse my French, but f**k QR Codes and the lazy, lame-ass, impersonal, “computerize everything” Millennial bullsh*t that inspired them. A menu is one thing, but I hit the exit if I have to order and pay this way. There, I said it. 🤬😠

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

Vegas is recovering- people are standing in line to pay $2,000 for a f*cking scarf 🧣.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

D.C. isn’t all bistros, super seafood, and @chefjoseandres at his best…you can also chow down at Harry’s Bar AND Family Restaurant🤔…AND get an “Ollieburger” - which I didn’t know still existed. 🍔😋

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

Blast from Las Vegas past: Can you name this restaurant?

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

Here’s an idea: let’s stop naming #airports after PEOPLE and keep them tied to their PLACE. Las Vegas International Airport has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? @LASairport #HarryReid

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

The Rental Car Apocalypse is upon us: Companies taking reservations and pre-payment, then announcing “no cars available “ to angry crowds. Plus staffing counters with one, unfortunate person. The definition of clusterfuck - #2021 . @ThriftyRentaCar

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

Something that should outrage us all:

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

26 days

Today’s WTF: Why does it take so long to exit an airplane? Because half the passengers are too brain dead to actually reach up and grab their carry-on WHILE THEY ARE STANDING THERE, with nothing else to do. Drives me nuts. And by nuts I mean 😠🙄.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

6 months

Sorry, @vegasstarfish , but No cheesesteak aficionado takes this place seriously. Cheap and open all the time are its only selling points. Try @ThoseGuysPiesLV for the best #cheesesteaks in Vegas. You can thank me later. 😋😉🥂

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@vegasstarfish

6 months

The best philly cheesesteak in Las Vegas is from a 24 hour hole in the wall called Pop’s philly steaks, making this a great spot for late night hangover food. Don’t let the less than fancy exterior fool you, they’re serving authentic, delicious sandwiches and hoagies at an

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

The @mayoroflasvegas only wants to help people and get them back to work, and she gets crucified on social media. I am ashamed of humanity these days. What have we done to ourselves? #Covidinsanity

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

Chef Anthony La Mantia has passed away unexpectedly over the weekend, and the Las Vegas food/chef world is crushed. He was a young man and a fixture in some of our best kitchens. What a shock. R.I.P. Anthony.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

Does anyone remember the 18 or so minutes (in 2003) when this joint was the hottest place in town? #MainStreet #LasVegas #WayBackWednesday

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

1 year

Don’t even talk to me about the best pizza in Vegas until you’ve checked this place out. #YukonPizza 🍕🤩

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

@VitalVegas Going to a strip club is like going to a restaurant and paying money to smell the food.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

My thoughts exactly…

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

The sooner this restaurant leaves this shitshow of a hotel the better. There, I said it.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

1 year

50 years and still going strong. ⁦ @PeppermillVegas ⁩ 🍾🥂🎉🎉🥂🥂🍾🙏👏👏

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

“Why would anyone want to look at pictures of your food?” - my mom in ‘o6. About the only thing she got wrong in 98 years on this planet. R.I.P. Marcella Ruth Schroader Curtas - only you would love the irony of this 🍔😉😍

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

Now THAT’S a sidewalk! #DTLV #ArtsDistrict 🌈

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

You heard it here first department: Lotus of Siam heading to @redrockcasino . 🥂😋🇹🇭👏👏👏

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

Breaking: Exec chef gets $2500 bonus; leaves for weekend; never returns to work; takes 2 sous chefs + restaurant’s recipe book with him — such is the 2021 Vegas restaurant world we now live in. #MarcheBacchus 🤔😕😳

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

This is the sort of thing that happens when the Dom Perignon is not properly chilled.

Mike Dixon

@MikeDixon_VST

4 years

Brawl at the bowling alley 🎳 📍Southpoint Casino (🎥 IG: lit.faymousdee) @LasVegasLocally

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

5 months

I’ve read a lot of criticism of @fblasvegas , but it’s the most dramatic hotel/casino to open in #LasVegas since the @Bellagio swung open its doors on 10-15-98. 🤯

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

Downtown’s steakhouses are starting to give the Strip a run for your money. This rib cap at #oscarssteakhouse takes a back seat to no one’s. 😋🥩🍸

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

Is this the best steakhouse in America? You’ll get no argument from me. @bazaarmeat @SAHARALasVegas @chefjoseandres

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

Don’t know what’s more humiliating: Ordering delivery from Kona Grill; eating it at home; or watching them turn $35 into 57? It’s like magic or something. 🤔🧐🙄 #progress

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 months

Congratulations to ⁦ @PeppermillVegas ⁩ for being named an “American Classic” by the James Beard Foundation. 🍾🎉🥂

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

According to a local food blog, this is one of Las Vegas’s “38 Essential Restaurants”….which might’ve been true in 1982.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

Just found out I've been blocked by both @VitalVegas AND @LasVegasLocally ( #dailydouble #badgeofhonor ) -- Don't know where to go now for my cheap slots, D-list eats, and chicken Parm referrals. 🤔🧐

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

5 months

Pro tip: the veal Parmigiana at Allegro @WynnLasVegas is every bit the equal of the one at #Carbone , and $20 cheaper. 😱🤯😋🇮🇹

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

A quick non-scientific survey of @WynnLasVegas tells me there are boatloads of 30-50 yr. olds who could give a shit about #Covid_19 and just want to party in #Vegas like it’s 1999.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

1 year

Work, work, work… My usual at @bazaarmeat by @chefjoseandres 🇪🇸😋🍷🥂🥩🥧🧁

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

My dress code for #LasVegas ’s better restaurants would be far simpler: “Dress the f*ck up, Youngblood; you’re eating in public, not mowing your yard.” 🧐😎😠 #GoldenSteer #steakhouse #since1958

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

Think being a private chef for rich folks (with more 💴 than taste) would be a piece of 🎂? Think again. #privatedining #pickyeaters #SteveWynn #ThrowbackThursday #LasVegas

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

Don’t even talk to me about being a baseball nerd until you spend your afternoon re-living a game that happened 62 years ago. ⚾️ @HistoryPirates @Pirates

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

For a moment, I was deeply ashamed of wearing a t-shirt at dinner …for the first time in 30 years…then I realized @VitalVegas does this all the time and I felt even worser…

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

Consider this your yearly reminder that the paella pit @jaleo @Cosmopolitan_LV is one of the great gastronomic treasures of #LasVegas and America…and anywhere that isn’t #Spain . 🇪🇸🥘🔥 1st photo by Ginger Bruner

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

I love Vegas when it rains. 🌧 @CityOfLasVegas #CityHall

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

My sole mission in life these days is to eat at all of the restaurants in @CircaLasVegas before @VitalVegas does. #VictoryBurger 🍔

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

I hate brunch. Brunch is pseudo-sophisticated eggs on eggs on too many carbs washed down with too much cheap champagne. Brunch is where u take a date when you’re too chintzy to take her to dinner. Brunch sucks. #brunch 🍳🥚 🥞 🧇 🍾 😠

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

Which hotel has the worst food on the #LasVegas Strip and why is it the Flamingo?

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

@libsoftiktok @Cornell Shouldn't the "prominent hooked nose" comment get him in trouble for disparagement of someone's appearance? Or are all politically-correct bets off once the mask is? Asking for a friend with a preeminent proboscis ....😉😮

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

Today in # WTF: Lined up on Palomino Lane to get #freefood in #LasVegas in 114 degree heat. 🥵 ☀️🤔 #summer #unemployment

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

1 year

Is it too early to declare this downtown #LasVegas ’s best pizza? #YukonPizza #cornicione Sounds like a good topic for @EatTalkRepeat …🤔 🍕🍕🍕😋😋😋

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

10 months

Yet another double-double that does In-N-Out one better. 🍔 #HalfBird #SpringMountainRoad #LasVegas

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

This is what a great #Vegas steakhouse menu looked like…in 1999. Back when the #HardRockHotel was the grooviest place in town. #ThrowbackThursday 🧐😋🍷🥩

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

....meanwhile, no more than 4 people can sit together in a restaurant.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

My mom had 10 of these in various sizes. They were as essential to surviving the 60s as hairspray and a 3-martini lunch. #CorningWare .

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

#HappyNewYear to everyone who follows me in my tasty travels (in search of the best of #Vegas and elsewhere) and here’s to you:

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

6 months

I remember when the Rio was the coolest hotel in town....with serious restaurants and a world-class wine cellar (1995-2002). Those days are deader than Moe Dalitz. #ThrowbackThursday #Napa #JeanLouisPalladin

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@DaynaRoselli

6 months

Does the Rio turn the lights off at night now?

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

5 months

June, 1970. My dad checked us into a suite when it was the biggest, baddest hotel/casino in the world. Still remember him coming back to the room with $10,000+ in chips, then saying to my mom: “Let me go downstairs and lose this, then we’ll go out.” #WayBackWednesday 🤔🤣🎰

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 months

@PGATUOR I have this set up in my back yard and love it…but 2 hours/day is plenty. 😉⛳️🏌️🏌️‍♂️

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

8 months

The best cheeseburger in #Vegas yesterday was this $10, fist-thick, bespoke beauty @featherbladeUSA ’s in-store pop-up. You’ve never seen so many people devouring something so delicious off either standing up or off the hoods of their cars. 😀🍔😋

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

1 year

Is this the best fish & chips in #Vegas ? If it isn’t, it’s certainly in the top 3. 🐠🍟😋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #7thandCarson

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

@VitalVegas Don't worry @VitalVegas , it's just for a couple of weeks until they "flatten the curve."

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

Remember when the coolest thing about a Vegas casino was you could see the Keno board from anywhere?

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

5 months

Holy Hialeah! @fblasvegas looks like Miami Beach and the Bellagio had a baby… 🍾🥂🤩😲🎊🎉

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

5 months

Sandwich of the Year 2023 - In the history of pneumatic sammies, Winnie & Ethel’s triple decker takes the club: 🥪🍞🥓🦃🍅

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

I hope everyone reading this will have a 96 yr. old mother to toast with someday. 🍾😍🥂

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

I'd rather smell a stogie than a bunch of f*%cking skunk weed.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

144) The trouble with #SoulBellyBBQ is it’s going to put every other #barbecue joint in #Vegas out of business.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

“Hey! I’ve got an idea: Why don’t we go to the Cosmo and stand in line for an hour for an expensive, mediocre steakhouse that’s so noisy you can’t hear yourself eat!” #STKSteakhouse

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 months

Yes, #SoulBellyBBQ is the best barbecue in Las Vegas…and this IS a hill I’m prepared to die on. 😉🔥💨🥩🐖😋🥂 #DTLV #brisket

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

2) Beef Wellington @Cipriani @WynnLasVegas

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

5 months

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Seasons Greetings from all of us at and @EatTalkRepeat . May you and yours enjoy a feast worthy of a Burgundian Duke. #JohntheGood

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

That’s me, 4th from the left, kicking ass and soiling my underwear.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

@ANewDragon1 @NYinLA2121

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

7 years

Here's to you, @chefjoseandres -and to the best steakhouse in America. @bazaarmeat @SLSLasVegas #restaurantoftheyear

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

Have we reached Peak Vegas? Is a boom town worth living in if it’s no longer booming? Is housing heading to the shitter? Is it time to sell? Or buy? I’m confused 😐 and exhausted 😩. #LasVegas #realestate

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

5 months

This used to be one of the coolest restaurants in Vegas.* Now it has all the charm of a military mess hall. * True fact: The Food Gal and I had our first date here…in 2001. 😳🤔 #ThrowbackThursday

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

I don’t wish to alarm you, but it appears that a nuclear bomb has exploded over Lake Mead. #mushroomcloud 😳😮😲☁️

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

You want to help restaurants? Bring back the 3-Martini Lunch. I am not joking.🍸🍸🍸

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

4 years

@veniceguy123 @VitalVegas and @LasVegasLocally fill a huge gap in local media coverage....precisely because they do NOT kiss casino ass constantly. What they lack in "access" they make up for in actual information....and the proper level of snark.

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

Someone needs to explain to me the sense of bringing a dog to Las Vegas in the summer....or anytime. @LasVegasLocally ? @VitalVegas ?

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

You want to know the difference between union and non-union casinos in #Vegas ? In a union shop, they promise you this will be cleared. 45 min later…it’s still there. 😖😡🥺

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

3 years

80) This may surprise you, but I am not immune to the pleasures of (certain) fast foods. Sometimes, after a long day of urban hiking (or a hangover), nothing beats a Double Del from @DelTaco - a seriously underrated burger. 🚶‍♂️🍔😋😉

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

@OleTimeHardball How do you lose 9 games with a 1.12 ERA?

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

5 years

...and a BonJovi time was had by all. @Palms #MrCoCo #JonBonJovi 😉😎🍸

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

9 days

My idea of a Mother’s Day meal is a Chicago Dog and a soaked-through, shaved beef sandwich from Windy City Beefs-N-Dogs. No muss, no fuss, no reservations…just total satisfaction. Even my mom (a life-long vegetarian) occasionally craved an all-beef tube steak. 🌭❤️🥖🥪🥩

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 years

No one loved a box of good chocolates more than my mum. She’d leave it on her counter all day, flitting back to it like an eager bee with a favorite flower. A friend sent this over as a remembrance. Like Mom, we’ve made short work of it. 😉😋😘🍫 @seescandies

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

2 months

“The trouble with eating Italian food is 5 days later you’re hungry again.” - George Miller Veal Parm and the osso buco (“bone w/ hole”) are the move at Piero’s. 🇮🇹🍝🥩

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

11 months

If I had to pick the one appetizer that never gets old, I’d start with the fried zucchini at #Milos . 🇬🇷 Any worthy contenders for this crown of gilded, crispy veg chips?

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John Curtas

@eatinglasvegas

20 days

I couldn’t figure out what to give The Food Gal for our anniversary, so the world’s most benevolent chef came through — with a personally autographed book, and the best paella 🥘 on the planet. @chefjoseandres 🙏 @jaleo @Cosmopolitan_LV 🇪🇸 @EatTalkRepeat