December’s always a race. To hastily fulfill old resolutions. To figure out your gifting situation. To bring on-tap rarefied vodkas to the masses. Maybe that last one’s just Vegas. Behold the last dining, drinking, dancing and all-of-the-above openings of 2012. If only there were some event to celebrate them...
Red Square is back. Back with chicken Kiev. Back with its headless statue of V.I. Lenin (you can tell it’s him by the shoes). Back with a four-course, martini-fueled New Year’s Eve dinner with the possibility of a beluga-induced coma. Oh, those crazy Russians.
It’s a classic tale. You’re on a heater at the Palms. Then, you’re... not. Your plan: leave the scene of the crime. Duck into this tiny, 200-square-foot, just-off-the-floor cocktail enclave next to N9Ne Steakhouse and order a luck-changing Negroni. Then, a few more Negronis. Okay, now back to craps.
If you’re not into vodka, stop reading... For the rest of you, there’s this: the vodka situation that’s now happening at Encore (right next to the just-opened Andrea’s). They’ve got 150 rare and small-batch vodkas, bacon, basil and peanut butter infusions, and a speed tap. You know, if you’re feeling the need...
Four years. That’s how long it’s been since the leather-clad den of champagne-sprayed hedonism known as Body English was open. Well, consider this national nightmare over, because it’s back starting Friday night. For the opening: M83. For NYE: a multi-DJ rager. Just like old times.
Runway models and steakhouses: an inseparable tandem since the dawn of never. But that’s pretty much what’s happening at this 1920s-themed outfit from Eva Longoria (yes, she’s a steak tycoon now). Think cryogenic fog, falling sheets of water, NYE vodka-and-champagne service and other things you don’t regularly associate with beef.
