The minds that conceived the Downtown Grand restaurant have some good ideas, but someone needs to work on execution.

Heidi Knapp Rinella
The glatt kosher restaurant also offers entrees and burgers, but you won’t find tapas like these anywhere else in the Las Vegas Valley.
The new restaurant at Sam’s Town executed the classic dish flawlessly.
Shawn McClain’s Sage at Aria is one of the best fine-dining restaurants in the city. His Libertine Social at Mandalay Bay is much more casual, but there are parallels between the two.
Whole Foods Markets and IFA Country Store are places that carry anasazi beans, according to Taste of the Town readers.
The Henderson restaurant’s creative all-small-plates menu reflects the iconoclastic but playful spirit of the late Simon.
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