ELV word: I’m bored with updating my resume. After 21 years of restaurant writing I don’t really feel like I’ve to point out anybody a curriculum vitae to justify my opinions or experience. Plus, resumes are a ache within the ass. In case you don’t know who I’m or what I do, then I recommend you google my identify and discover out. In case you insist, that is the final one I feel I’m ever going to do:
John A. Curtas has been the voice of the Las Vegas meals and restaurant scene since 1995. As a resident since 1981, he has seen Vegas develop into one of many main restaurant cities on this planet. His weekly radio commentaries air had been heard on KNPR-Nevada Public Radio, 88.9 FM www.knpr.org for 15 years, and since 2008, he might be seen Friday mornings as “Las Vegas’ Favourite Foodie” on KSNV (NBC) Morning Information in Las Vegas (http://news3lv.com/information/wake-up-with-the-wagners). He’s the creator of EATING LAS VEGAS – The 50 Important Eating places, which could have its 5th version printed in December, 2016, in addition to being the creator of the Consuming Las Vegas web site (www.eatinglv.com). Mr. Curtas can also be the Las Vegas correspondent for FoodieHub (www.foodiehub.com), and has been the restaurant critic for the Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas Life, SCOPE and Desert Companion magazines. He additionally and writes (or has written) on Las Vegas eating places, meals and wine for a wide range of publications and web-based websites, together with VEGAS journal, VURB, BestPlaces Las Vegas, Fodor’s Las Vegas, TimeOut Las Vegas, and the Digital Connoisseur (www.JohnMariani.com). He has additionally been a member of the North American voting panel for Restaurant Journal’s 50 Greatest Eating places within the World concern and has been the Las Vegas voting correspondent for the James Beard Basis. John has additionally made plenty of appearances on nationwide TV exhibits, together with as a choose for the finale of High Chef Masters (twice) and Iron Chef America (4 episodes), and can seem in 2017 as a featured critic on the brand new Man v. Masters TV present debuting in 2017 on the FYI Community.
If you wish to see what a few of my earlier profiles learn like (or, if you happen to’re having bother sleeping), by all means, preserve studying…
ELV word: After we launched this Web page on April 1, 2008, the next was true:
John A. Curtas has been the voice of the Las Vegas meals and restaurant scene since 1995. As a resident since 1981, he has seen Vegas develop from The City That Style Forgot, to one of many main restaurant cities on this planet. His weekly radio commentaries air on KNPR-Nevada Public Radio, 88.9 FM www.knpr.org, and he can been seen Friday mornings because the restaurant critic for KLAS TV, CBS Channel 8 in Las Vegas, www.klastv.com.
Along with these duties, he’s the restaurant critic for Las Vegas Weekly journal and has served because the native correspondent for The James Beard Basis, and writes (or has written) on Las Vegas eating places for a wide range of publications and web-based websites, together with VEGAS journal, Citylife, Las Vegas Life, Desert Companion, VURB, BestPlaces Las Vegas, Fodor’s Las Vegas, TimeOut Las Vegas, and JohnMariani.com. He’s additionally a member of the North American voting panel for Restaurant Journal’s 50 Greatest Eating places within the World concern.
Together with Max Jacobson and Al Mancini, he shall be publishing Consuming Las Vegas – The 50 Important Eating places via Huntington Press in November, 2010.
John Curtas might be reached at both johncurtas@mac.com or john@curtaslaw.com (his regulation workplace which pays (most of) the payments for his costly and outrageous gastronomic habits).
Issues have modified within the six years therefore (to say the least):
Our e-book went via three editions of being printed (2011-2013); after 15 years on the air, we’re not with KNPR (your guess is nearly as good as ours as to why not); and we made plenty of appearances on nationwide TV exhibits together with High Chef Masters (twice) and Iron Chef America (4 episodes).
(We additionally bought right into a Twitter feud(s) with Anthony “Fuck Nuts” Bourdain, and a Japanese-American blogger of questionable intelligence, however the much less stated about them the higher. We additionally wasted a 12 months of our life filming a silly TV present that may by no means see the sunshine of day…and the much less stated about it actually the higher.)
As a substitute of being on KLAS TV Channel 8 in Las Vegas, now you can see our cheerful countenance each Friday on KSNV TV (NBC) Channel 3, the place we sometimes Wake Up With the Wagners and sometimes be a part of them for his or her Information 3 at Midday program to report on our native meals and restaurant scene. We’re nonetheless the native correspondent for the James Beard Basis, and sometimes write for different critical restaurant Websites similar to John Mariani.com.
2015 marks our twentieth 12 months of reporting on the Las Vegas meals and restaurant scene, and at this level, we are able to confidently declare to have eaten in additional eating places in Las Vegas, extra usually, than all different critics, critic-wannabes, Yelpers, bloggers or free ‘zine freeloaders mixed. No brag, simply reality.
(For the report, we contemplate Yelp to be a worthwhile useful resource software, however contemplate its contributors to be largely youngsters taking part in in a sandbox.)
If you wish to contact me personally, please use johncurtas@me.com. In case you go away feedback on the positioning, they are going to be welcome, irrespective of how contentious or contrarian. (The one factor we prohibit is witless profanity or advert hominem stupidity.)
Greatest and bon appétit,
ELV
