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Hopefully we get something like I’m really impressed with the way they handled that coin toss decision you gotta hand it to them it wasn’t easy

I hadn’t noticed but now the Peppermill restaurant is open 24 hours/day on weekends again. That info may come in handy you never know.

New Jose Andres restaurant opens Wednesday: José Andrés will celebrate all things briny, beachy, and seafaring at his newest restaurant, Bazaar Mar, which opens next week with a stunning dining room, whimsical dishes, and even a brand new coffee shop concept. The new restaurant opens on Wednesday, August 7, inside the Shops at Crystals on the Las Vegas Strip, down the street from Bazaar Meat — Andrés’s ode to all things carnivorous — at the Sahara. Manuel Echeverri, the concept chef and partner for José Andrés Group, leads the sprawling menu with dishes that are rooted in Spanish flavors with playful elements. Take, for instance, the Sea Anemone, a cluster of oyster mushrooms meticulously arranged with pickled mushroom cups and citrus leaves in an anchovy aioli. “It looks like a sea anemone with life coming out of each layer,” says Echeverri. Fans of Bazaar Meat will recognize the salmon roe cone. Here, a crunchy two-bite cone is filled with both smoked and fresh trout, plus preserved Meyer lemon and crème fraîche. Visitors will have the option of selecting a whole fish from a market section, with seasonal choices like branzino, snapper, or sea bream, that can then be grilled in a wood-burning oven, baked in salt, fried, or prepared as sashimi, and then served tableside. The menu has more than 50 items — including small bites like a take on crispy rice sushi but with a filling of ricotta spicy tuna, and fresh sashimi in a puffy hollow bread. Another dish is a play on popcorn shrimp but with baby squid. A plate of delicately sliced ora king salmon carpaccio comes with crackers in the shape of salmon. “We wanted to represent that salmon’s travel and jumping out of the water by having the fish crackers almost jumping out of the fish,” says Echeverri. For desserts, a key lime pie gets a beachy spin with ice cream molded into the shape of seashells and sea stars, a lime foam and cream to emulate sea foam, and a graham cracker sand castle. The wine list has a heavy Spanish influence and the cocktails will similarly lean into playful takes on the beachy theme. The 7,428-square-foot restaurant will have an open kitchen, private dining room, and a tapas bar. With shades of emerald green and orange, Bazaar Mar also has a centerpiece bar, velvety seating, a mural, and sculptures of centaurs. Like Bazaar Meat, Bazaar Mar will have a Bar Centro. Located one story down from Bazaar Mar, the bar will offer lounge service in the evenings with caviar and cocktails. But, in a first for the restaurant group, it will open as a sophisticated coffeehouse in the morning and afternoon. “There’s no syrups, no Frappuccinos, no blenders, none of that,” says Echeverri. The drink menu will have coffee and espresso drinks for mall-goers to dine in, order to-go, or even linger over a mug with their laptop out. The bakery will sell laminated spiral ensaïmada pastries with fillings like berries and cream or chocolate and hazelnut. Other bites include sugary Spanish xuixo pastries, Basque cheesecake, and pressed sandwiches. ”I’m so excited that we’re doing this,” says Echevarri. “I’m having a really hard time finding good coffee around here.” https://vegas.eater.com/2024/8/2/24212157/new-las-vegas-strip-restaurant-jose-andres-celebrity-seafood-fish-good-coffee

— Costco shares added nearly 3% after the wholesale club raised its membership fee for the first time since 2017 . The company hiked the cost of its annual membership by $5 in the U.S. and Canada and increased its higher-tier plan by $10.

Las Vegas blistered past the previous all-time high temperature record, hitting 120 degrees at 3:38 p.m. Sunday. “We thought it couldn’t go any higher and then it did,” said National Weather Service meteorologist Ashley Nickerson. The morning low at Harry Reid International Airport, the official measuring station, was 88 at 5:20 a.m., well short of the July 7 highest low of 93 set in 2018. The temperature hit 100 at 8:35 a.m. and climbed again to 106 around 10:45 a.m.

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Pro tennis update for our guys

Eagles to the Sphere

Signed a Swedish kid https://texassports.com/news/2024/5/28/mens-tennis-mens-tennis-signs-international-standout-sebastian-eriksson.aspx

We’re on the last 9 holes and now 6 shots back of the match play not looking good at this point

Long story and a good one https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/golf/how-texas-golf-is-the-host-of-the-ncaa-championships-on-a-course-1300-miles-away-bohls/ar-BB1mWBVl

Unfortunately we lost the doubles semifinal in straight sets

Jose Andres rumors: We’re hearing Bazaar Meat restaurant, brainchild of chef and philanthropist Jose Andres, is expected to close in the next few months. This chatter comes on the heels of Andres revealing the name of a new restaurant he announced back in March 2023. Bazaar Mar will open at the The Shops at Crystals, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Zaytinya is set for the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace. We told you Caesars was getting a Jose Andres restaurant way back in 2021. Bazaar Meat is considered by many to be one of the best steakhouses in Las Vegas. The outstanding restaurant has been hobbled by being located at the Sahara casino, whose asshat owner filed a baseless lawsuit against this blog about a rumor related to the resort’s financial struggles, a mistake which cost him substantially more than $95,000 in our legal fees when he and his buffoonish lawyers got their asses handed to them in court. Multiple times. Fun read, not a particularly fun nine months for us. The First Amendment won, legal bullying lost. Our free speech doesn’t chill, sorry. Anyway, we haven’t talked about Sahara for several years, because they don’t deserve our patronage or attention (we were the resort’s most vocal fan until the aforementioned asshattery), but a potential Bazaar Meat closure is big news because we’re excited Chef Andres and his team can now throw off the yoke of a toxic casino owner and expand their family of dining offerings in Las Vegas. Andres also operates the well-regarded Jaleo and E by Jose Andres at Cosmopolitan. Yes, it’s supposed to be “é” (pronounced “ay”) but we don’t do stylistic affectation, sorry. Please ignore our use of the first person plural so we don’t seem like a complete hypocrite, thanks. We are a big fan of Jose Andres and his World Central Kitchen. The organization was recently in the headlines for horrific reasons. Seven World Central Kitchen workers died in Gaza following an air strike. Yeah, the world is fairly FUBAR at the moment. Word of the looming closure of Bazaar Meat was passed along by multiple employees, according to a source. The rumor is the restaurant will “probably be gone within three months.” There has been no official announcement of the closure, nor any confirmation of the rumor. We have not heard back from Bazaar Meat or Sahara about this rumor. We aren’t exactly on speaking terms with Sahara, despite our love and compassion for its employees, so we aren’t holding our breath for a response. Our fondest wish is when Bazaar Meat closes, they take the Sloppy Joe to one of the chef’s new restaurants. We miss it so. https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/rumor-look-for-closing-of-bazaar-meat-in-next-few-months/