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Food & Drink: June 8, 2023

Posted on June 8, 2023   |   Updated on September 30, 2025
Scott Dickensheets

Scott Dickensheets

Man eating ice cream cone while listening to podcast

Treat yourself to a podcast while you nibble. Suggestions below. (Westend61/Getty)

🥐 The Main Thing

Those pockets of local social media that follow food topics have been burbling since Monday about 1228 Main, a new bakery-forward restaurant in the Arts District. “Bonkers,” is a trusted source’s admiring judgment on the food. [Review-Journal]

🏳️‍🌈 Deep Pride Food

Here are eight food and cocktail specials themed to Pride Month. [Review-Journal]

🎧 Chew With Your Ears Open

Here are some recent City Cast Las Vegas episodes about dining and Vegas; dial up the podcast every Thursday for more hot food takes.

🎧 Chef tips on cooking with cannabis.

🎧 What are natural wines? And where do you get some?

🎧 Let’s talk about Las Vegas’ classic restaurants!

🎧 Are food halls replacing buffets in Vegas?

🤦 Ooh, My Aching Headline!

A perceptive reader writes in to question the unnecessary negativity in the Review-Journal’s headline about three Las Vegans up for prestigious honors: “3 Las Vegas finalists fail to win in 2023 James Beard Awards.” That’s the framing you want to go with, paper of record? (The story itself is more even-toned.) Says our reader, “This is one of those times when just being nominated (and making it to the finals) deserves to be celebrated!”

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