Have your Las Vegas fine dining at home

Added: 10/21/2005

Las Vegas, the center of gambling, entertainment, flashing, a colorful nightlife and the world famous casinos, does not loose the status, when we speak about its restaurants. As diverse are the nationalities of guests, visiting Las Vegas, so various are the fine dining options. Las Vegas is the place, where the choice lies not in the question of the restaurant selection, but in the question of how to cope with all the restaurants during your vacations. The number is great; the quality of each is top.

We would like to bring you several examples of Las Vegas fine dining options, as to make you be acquainted with the abundance and variability of options.

1) Chef J. Joho's Eiffel Tower Restaurant is located high atop the picturesque Strip and serves the most perfect French cuisine, available in Las Vegas. Along with the carefully prepared dishes, The Eiffel Tower Restaurant is rising above Las Vegas Boulevard and provides one of the most spectacular views in Nevada. The menu options for this French Las Vegas fine dining are abundant, including the simplest French dishes, as well as the daintiest varieties and the finest French wines.

2) The Ortanique is the restaurant, serving the Caribbean cuisine, prepared in a French tradition. The cuisine is called "cuisine of the sun" and offers exotic dishes both, pleasurable to the tastes of the restaurant's guests, as well as to their eye.

3) Cili Fine Dining is a unique restaurant with an exotically themed gourmet cuisine, presenting both, locals and visitors, with one of the best experiences of Vegas dining. The restaurant is located on the Las Vegas Strip at the Bali Hai Golf Club. The restaurant is finished in rich South Pacific décor, creating the most splendid surroundings for the experiencing of the Regional American Cuisine with Thai and Asian influences. The exceptional meals are seasoned with the finest wine, available in a great variety.

4) Les Artistes is the most beautiful dining room in Las Vegas. It astonishes its visitors both, with the Impressionist art and the specials of Las Vegas fine dining, including the bone-in filet mignon and salt-crusted prime rib.

Finally, consider the following recipe from the Les Artistes restaurant and enjoy Las Vegas fine dining at home in order to avoid the confusion about the number of restaurants and the hardness of choice making of each unique and peculiar Las Vegas restaurants:

16oz Bone-in Filet
4 16 oz. bone-in filets - Salt and pepper to taste, 8 oz. yellow wax beans,
8 oz. green beans, 4 oz. baby carrots. For Provancale Tomato: 1/4 oz. parsley, 1 clove garlic, 2 tomatoes1 oz. bread crumbs, 1/4 oz. thyme, 1/4 oz. basil, 1 tsp. olive oil.
For Bearnaise Sauce: 4 egg yolks, 1 lb. clarified butter, juice of 1/2 lemon,
1 oz. tarragon, 1/2 oz. shallots, 1/2 cup red wine vinegar, 1/4 tsp. paprika,
Salt and pepper to taste.

Clean the beans and the baby carrots and blanche the vegetables in salted water. Broil the bone-in filets until medium rare.

When serving, arrange the vegetables on the plate next to the filet and serve the Provancale tomato with the Bearnaise Sauce on the side.

To make Provancale Tomato: Combine breadcrumbs with parsley, garlic, thyme, basil and olive oil. Mix well. Sprinkle mixture onto tomato halves.

To make Bearnaise Sauce: Sautee tarragon and shallots in the red wine vinegar over an open flame until all the liquid is gone. Beat egg yolk over a bain-marie until thick and creamy. Add the clarified butter one teaspoon at a time until combined. Stir in lemon juice, paprika, and tarragon reduction. Salt and pepper to the taste.

One of the finest wine types, such as Sauvignon Blanc, Matanza Creek, Sonoma; Pinot Grigio, Robert Mondavi "La Famiglia", California; or Chardonnay, Stonestreet, Alexander Valley will be quite handy for such an occasion.

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