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    Restaurant Awards

    Nov 28, 2017

    Our annual celebration of Las Vegas’ best dining spots, dishes, and chefs

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    2016 Restaurant Awards

    Nov 30, 2016

    As you dig in to our annual honor roll of the valley's best chefs and restaurants this year, you'll come across the words revolution, revolutionize and revolutionare a lot.

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    Side Dish Awards 2015

    Nov 23, 2015

    More dishes and dining trends of 2015 that our critics savored.

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    Lago Server Dish
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    The 19th Annual Restaurant Awards

    Nov 23, 2015

    Desert Companion’s 19th Annual Restaurant Awards

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    Desert Companion Restaurant Awards

    Dec 01, 2014

    2014 was an anxious year for foodies — but a good kind of anxious. The kind of anxious that comes from maintaining a feverish, nearly athletic dining schedule to try to keep up with all the new restaurants that opened this year.

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    Side dish awards: More raves and faves from a great culinary year

    Dec 01, 2014

    The Forager at Five50 Pizza Bar

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    The 17th Annual Desert Companion Restaurant Awards

    Dec 01, 2013

    The post-bubble economy may have inspired a new embrace of comfort food and casual fare but, thankfully, some chefs realized that not all of us need a celebrity-branded gourmet burger to heal our souls. Come on: Thrill us! They did.

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    Restaurant awards:Chef Quotes

    Dec 01, 2013

    Where I eat “With three kids, we mostly eat in the neighborhood and of the moment. Being spontaneous seems to be our best bet.

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    Side Dish Awards

    Dec 01, 2013

    Surprise of the Year Yonaka. Brilliant new Japanese cuisine is popping up all over the dining scene, but no one expected a former French café at Flamingo and Decatur to emerge as a palace of future-sushi, a thoughtfully experimental kitchen where any fresh, bright ingredient you can think of — and many you can’t — find their perfect place on a plate with raw fish.

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    The 16th annual Desert Companion Restaurant Awards

    Dec 01, 2012

      Downtown upstarts with fresh moves and fine-dining citadels on the Strip upending their own traditions — 2012 was a year of surprises, mashups and fertile chaos. The gastropub dished up a remix of the artisanal and casual; desserts refused their status as sweet epilogues and rushed the stage; and Vegas culinary institutions strove anew not to just meet a standard, but to forge a new one.

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    The Desert Companion 15th Annual Restaurant Awards

    Dec 01, 2011

    We bet you’ve got quite an appetite right about now. After all, 2011 was a year of hard work, hunkering down, and holding on beneath thundercloud headlines about halting recovery and slow economic comeback.

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    The Side Dish Awards: a tasty spoonful of honorable mentions

    Dec 01, 2011

    Friendliest Mom & Pop Joint of the Year: Frank & Fina’s Cocina. It’s a testament to the warmth of Frank & Fina’s Cocina that when it closed its original, more central location on West Charleston Boulevard about three years ago to focus on its larger restaurant near the Beltway on Flamingo Road, regulars followed their favorite Mexican cuisine into the tony ’burbs.

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    The 2010 Restaurant Awards

    Nov 01, 2010

    The envelope (and the check), please. It's time for our annual Desert Companion Restaurant Awards.

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    Restaurant Awards

    Nov 28, 2017

    Our annual celebration of Las Vegas’ best dining spots, dishes, and chefs

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    2018 Restaurant Awards

    Nov 26, 2018

    Our 2018 Restaurant Awards capture the year when the scales tipped, when the cosmic balance changed. This is the year that local restaurants snatched the Promethean flame from Las Vegas Boulevard.

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