Physical space, menu, and service design
Confession: I can’t handle a seven-course tasting menu anymore. Not because I don’t want to. Because I physically can’t. Roughly 8% of U.S. adults are now on GLP-1s (I’m one of them). Many projections suggest this number will at least double before the end of the decade. Meanwhile, restaurants are leaning further into longer formats:…
Chief Hedonist invited me to contribute a guest column on Las Vegas’s food and drink landscape. While I’ve written about the Vegas restaurant scene before, I took a different spin this time: organizing three dozen of the city’s best spots by appetite, mood, and personality. Read the post here: Vegas Eats: Choose Your Own Adventure.
We’ve always been a city of splurges. Whether an exclusive wine dinner, a Michelin-worthy repast, or a one-night-only chef collab, there’s no shortage of high-impact, big-ticket prix fixe tasting menu experiences in Las Vegas for those seeking them. In the right context, they’re worth every dollar. But in a summer marked by slower tourism, shakier…
Spotify has “Wrapped.” We have Taste Track. Just as Wrapped rounds up a listener’s habits and highlights, Taste Track is our midyear restaurant recap, reflecting how we ate dinner out in the first half of 2025. As strategic, analytical types, we turned the lens on ourselves: when and where we dined, how often, which new places stood…