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| - The Carnevino Italian Steakhouse at the Palazzo Hotel Casino will make you glad to be a carnivore. Chef Mario Batali is better known for his Italian cuisine, but here he celebrates beef and we are all the benefactors.
Speaking of celebrity chefs, why does the food they prepare taste always better on TV? I digress.
USDA "Prime" beef is the top level of the USDA grading scale, followed by "Choice" and then "Select". But within these categories are 2 or 3 sub-categories. Carnevino places their own inspector on the line at the beef-processing plant. He hand-selects the very best "Prime" at the exact moment that it is being graded - so when you eat a steak here you are getting the prime of the prime.
The sides and starters are idyllic, and the service impeccable. For the main event, we had the 5-course beef tasting. The 90-120 day dry aging process of their steaks is over-the-top. Chopped steak tartare, baby artichokes and parmigiano, veal pasta with ricotta, melt-in-your-mouth Beef Cheek, and the not-soon-to-be-forgotten: Bone-In Rib Eye Steak.
And to top it off, Lemon Curd Semifreddo with a candle for the wife's b-day.
Thinking about the experience, I feel a radiant, ineffable joy.
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