Vegas has become quite the holiday vacay spot for me. I've been there for Christmas twice, went there Thanksgiving week last year, and now going there for Easter. This time there's a group of eight of us, which should be fun. Five people from work and three significant others...we've got four rooms in the Luxor pyramid.
Not much planned, except that I want to make sure I make it to Lotus of Siam this time. LOS is basically legendary is food-and-wine circles and I've almost gone several times but never actually made it happen. While Vegas is known for high-falutin' big-name chefs opening high-priced high-end restaurants in amazing spaces, LOS is an inexpensive unassuming Thai restaurant in a dumpy strip mall about a mile away from the strip.
Most courses are about $10 and there's nothing special about the menu, but the food is supposedly top-notch. Gourmet Magazine called it the "single best Thai restaurant in North America".
And, then there is the wine list.
Asian food is notoriously wine-unfriendly, but tends to work quite well with German rieslings and Alsatian gewürztraminers and pinot gris. Most Thai restuarants generally avoid the issue altogether by serving a couple of house wines, a handful of beers, and sodas. LOS has a 34-page wine list filled with wines from all over the world, but heavily focused on German rieslings, all sold at more than reasonable prices.
I just learned that a friend and former co-worker, Ellen Kane, will also be in Vegas for the weekend. Her sister's getting married there on Friday, but we're going to try to meet up at some other point during the weekend. And, my old friend Dylan Rivas is arriving Sunday - just a few hours before I'm heading back - so we're going to try to meet up as well.
Should be a good weekend...
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