Gino Ferraro, who has spent more than four decades building Ferraro's Ristorante on Paradise Road, has a new book called From Calabria, An American Dream: A Passion Worth Serving. It's part memoir and part cookbook, following him from a poor childhood in Calabria to New York in 1966 and Las Vegas in 1976, where an Italian deli and pizza shop grew into Ferraro's. He doesn't hold back on customers, critics or California wine (a diner who wanted firmer gnocchi was told hard gnocchi are just "sinkers"), and the recipes include the restaurant's osso buco, pasta e fagioli, veal piccata and Pappardelle Mimmo. You can buy it at the restaurant, which can also ship copies, or on Amazon. If you'd rather eat the food, Executive Chef Mimmo Ferraro's next wine dinner is Sun Oct 25 at 6 p.m., four courses paired with La Gerla wines from Montalcino for $195++ a person, and those reservations are final.
Jason Aldean's Kitchen + Bar at 63 CityCenter is pushing its Boots & Brunch, served Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with live country music and $28 bottomless Bloody Marys or mimosas (two-hour limit). The Southern menu runs from shrimp and grits and chicken fried steak to biscuits and gravy, blackened salmon tacos and a waffle sundae topped with a waffle cone, with plates from $17 to $25.
Oscar's, the steakhouse in the Plaza's glass dome over Fremont Street, is serving a three-course Thanksgiving dinner for $110 on Thu Nov 26, with seatings from 4 to 9 p.m. You get butternut squash soup with sherry cream, a traditional turkey plate with the chef's pick of classic sides, and maple pumpkin or chocolate pecan pie, and you can also order those courses à la carte or stick with the regular menu. Reservations are recommended, online or at 702-386-7227.
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