Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Batali's Vegas Vacation

Mario Batali has opened up two new restaurants in Las Vegas' Venetian Hotel. He's opening up the B & B Restaurant (Mario Batali and his partner/ winemaker Joseph Bastianich make up the B & B), which is supposed to be the Vegas version of Babbo (which is my favorite restaurant in the U.S.A.) and Enoteca San Marco (which is supposed to be like NYC's Otto).
On one hand I think this is great. On the other, I'm kind of sad that these are opening over there. I feel like they're a part of New York that has now just become another example of commercialism. Of course, Batali is a "celebrity chef," so commercialism should be expected...

2 comments:

thor iverson said...

a part of New York that has now just become another example of commercialism

Yeah, because you know, that's never happened before.

Louie said...

yeah yeah yeah... I realized the ridiculousness of the statement when I was writing it, but it's how I felt, so there it goes.