It has been both a sad and exciting year for Las Vegas restaurants.

Heidi Knapp Rinella
You’ve heard about the national obesity problem — and that’s a statement, not a question, because I’m assuming most of you don’t live in caves. You know that portion sizes are one of the big problems with weight control — or at least our inability or unwillingness to reduce them is. You’ve vowed to cut back, eat less, move more.
Joan Adams is looking for large and small — but not Minute — tapioca, and readers have several recommendations.
There’s a sort of unspoken guarantee that every new hotel-casino in Las Vegas will be better — or at least more wondrous, more spectacular — than anything that had gone before it, and that’s certainly the case with the restaurants of CityCenter’s Aria.
Yolie’s is, you might say, the old Vegas version of the churrascaria.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.