"A lot of hooey"

I was on the phone with grandma last night telling her about my trip to Las Vegas this weekend.  A friend is one of Bette Midler's Harlettes and so a visit to see her perform was combined with a birthday blow-out for my good friend Staci.

Grandma loves Las Vegas so had a lot of questions about what we did, and how everything was.  "It was great," I told her, "but I spent way too much money."  She agreed that it could be very expensive, but that it's possible to do it on the cheap. 

"It's just that there are so many restaurants there now that are run by famous chefs that you end up wanting to go to nice restaurants the whole time," I told her.

"Let me tell you what I think about that," she interrupted. "It's a lot of hooey."

"I like the Bellagio buffet," she continued.  "It's the best place to eat in Las Vegas.  I don't like Emeril and Wolfgang and all of those famous guys.  Their food doesn't even look that good."

To hell with Michelin and one accolade after another.  Grandma has spoken.

Comments

[Dr. Biggles]

Yeah ! Go Grams !!!

She's right you know, it is a bunch of hooey.

Biggles

[sam]

It is mostly a lot of hooey. Ok it's all hooey except for Joel. But since she didn't call him out by name maybe he's not famous enough and she'd like him just fine?

[Anthony Nicalo]

While it is certainly difficult to find locally grown food in Vegas, I am pretty sure that there is nothing local or sustainable under the sneezeguards, even at the Bellagio.