Mario batali's new Vegas restauraunt

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In front at the reservations desk they have sitting on the top of the
desk greeting customers a worn pair of his orange Crocs. There's not
much more disgusting than the semiotic of those staring you in the
face as you enter. The food was pretty good though, even if a little
over-involved. Paradoxically, one of the best tasting things was the
relatively simple bolognese pasti.

Pasti? Is that the plural of Pastus? That guy is so pretentious

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CliffB <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1181507644.731036.316500
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In front at the reservations desk they have sitting on the top of the
desk greeting customers a worn pair of his orange Crocs. There's not
much more disgusting than the semiotic of those staring you in the
face as you enter. The food was pretty good though, even if a little
over-involved. Paradoxically, one of the best tasting things was the
relatively simple bolognese pasti.

Pasti? Is that the plural of Pastus? That guy is so pretentious.

Skitt's Law!

Pappardelle Bolognese, according to the menu.

http://www.venetian.com/venetianeng/Assets/Files/BBmenu.pdf
Very reasonable prices, too.

Kris

On Jun 10, 7:08 pm, "Rev. Vegetable Lasagne" <[email hidden]> wrote:

That guy is so pretentious

Vive le Mario!
Dee Dee

Kris Baker said:

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Pasti? Is that the plural of Pastus? That guy is so pretentious.

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Skitt's Law!
Pappardelle Bolognese, according to the menu.

Now, that's the correct type of pasta for "a-la Bolognese" ragout. Out of
Italy one usually reads "spaghetti bolognese" on menus, but thats' got very
little of traditional in it, since spaghetti are from the South while
Bologna is in the north, and the biggest difference is that spaghetti are
made of "hard" wheat and no eggs, while pappardelle in Bologna are made with
"tender" wheat and eggs.

BTW - one thing I love to do during lazy Sunday mornings: take 2 eggs, some
flour and start mixing them up, adding flour as needed to get a good
consistency, and make my own egg pasta, making long stripes about 3-4" wide
per 2-3 feet long. Then I just roll'em plying the stripe every 4" and start
cutting thin slices, which I subsequently unroll in pappardelle /
tagliolini. Butter and grated parmesan if I'm lazy, otherwise ragout.
Heaven.
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Vilco
Think pink, drink rose'

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In front at the reservations desk they have sitting on the top of the
desk greeting customers a worn pair of his orange Crocs. There's not
much more disgusting than the semiotic of those staring you in the
face as you enter. The food was pretty good though, even if a little
over-involved. Paradoxically, one of the best tasting things was the
relatively simple bolognese pasti.

Pasti? Is that the plural of Pastus? That guy is so pretentious

It's the plural of pasto or meal. It was probably a typo. Never make
those yourself?

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In front at the reservations desk they have sitting on the top of the
desk greeting customers a worn pair of his orange Crocs. There's not
much more disgusting than the semiotic of those staring you in the
face as you enter. The food was pretty good though, even if a little
over-involved. Paradoxically, one of the best tasting things was the
relatively simple bolognese pasti.

Pasti? Is that the plural of Pastus? That guy is so pretentious

It's the plural of pasto or meal. It was probably a typo. Never make
those yourself?

I assumed it was that way from the menu, no reflection on the poster. I
don't pick on typos in posts.

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> relatively simple bolognese pasti.
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Pasti? Is that the plural of Pastus? That guy is so pretentious

It's the plural of pasto or meal. It was probably a typo. Never make
those yourself?

I assumed it was that way from the menu, no reflection on the poster. I
don't pick on typos in posts.

The menu might have said paste, to mean multiple types of pasta were
available. Batalli is Italian and seems to be trying to keep his
restaurants within the basic rules of Italian cookery, so I see nothing
wrong with his using Italian words in his menus or signage. Certainly
when American foods expatriate they often keep their names. A hamburger
remains a hamburger.

If I as an American walk into a US butcher's and ask for manzo macerato
that's pretentious. If I do it in Italy, that's sensible. If I open a
US restaurant in Rome, I'd probably say the meatloaf was both meatloaf
and polpettone, because lots of Italians don't speak English. But to
me, saying only meatloaf would be correct and non-pretentious, but maybe
hard to sell.

Just because some Americans say "antipasta" it doesn't make it right.
Either call it appetiser or antipasto. Choose one language or the
other, or use both, but don't change the foreign word. It is NOT
"brooshetta" anywhere in the world.

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