Filed under: CitySpoon, Events, Spooning People | Tags: Alize, Bar Masa, BOA Steakhouse, charity, chef, City Spoon, Cityspoon, foodies, Holstein's Wazuzu, Island Sushi, Jet Tila, Lavo, mixologist, No Kid Hungry, Nobu, NOVE, Palms, Roy's N9NE Steakhouse, Sushi Roku, TAO, Taste of The Nation, Union Steakhouse, Vegas, Wazuzu
The official CitySpoon website will be up and running on June 1st. What better way to kick off the site than help support No Kid Hungry in Nevada at Taste of the Nation inside Rain at the Palms. It was a wonderful even filled with great food, great chefs, mixologists, and non the less great supporters all for a great cause. One hundred percent of funds raised went to local Las Vegas beneficiaries Three Square Food Bank, Project Mana, Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada, and UNCE Chefs for Kids 
Las Vegas is the home of some of the best restaurants in the world, and many of them were at the Palms that evening showcasing their exquisite recipes for food and cocktails in which CitySpoon will share the hottest deals and places throughout Las Vegas for the benefit of the people.
Restaurants including Alize, Island Sushi and Grill, Bradley Ogden, Union Steakhouse, Bar Masa, Roy’s, N9NE Steakhouse, TAO, NOVE Italiano, BOA Steakehouse, Nobu, LAVO, Sushi Roku, Holstein’s, Wazuzu and many more contributed and created the most mouth watering dishes I have ever been in the presence of in one area. 
Above is Executive Chef Drew Terp with Bar Masa, which offers a Modern Japenese Cuisine, located in the ARIA Resort and Casino. Chef Terp had prepared Australian Kobe Beef skewers with a yuzu spice among a other flavorful dishes that included the highest grade beef you can get in the United States. Thanks Bar Masa, Delicious!
The pool outside the Palms was surrounded by aroma’s of mojitos, food trucks, and an overwhelming amount of 5 star dishes.
Inside Rain Nightclub, many other unique dishes were being created by a whole bunch of creative and hard working chefs. If I only had enough room in my stomach to try it all, trust me I would have. From dishes that I could not pronounce to red velvet mini cupcakes with cream cheese frosting as well at mini meatball sliders with fried mozzarella and pepperoncinis from Simon’s Restaurant Lounge inside Palms Place there was nothing that I would eat five of. 
Filed under: Spooning People | Tags: Anthony Bordain, Asian Cuisine, City Spoon, Food Network, Gastronomy, Giada De Laurentis, Guiness Book of World Records, Jet Tila, Las Vegas, Le Cordon Bleu, Los Angeles Times, No Kid Hungry, Strength.org, Taste of The Nation, Thai Food, The Encore, Wazuzu
Jet Tila is a nationally renowned chef of all styles of Asian cuisine. His passion for Asian food began at an early age. As a boy, he spent time learning the ancient traditions of classical Asian cuisine in family restaurants and at the Bangkok Market. At age 10, Jet realized his deep connection to food sprung from a deeper connection to his history; learning family traditions from his Cantonese grandmother further piqued his interest. In his early teens, Jet was making appetizers at his family’s restaurants. At 22, he was teaching cooking classes in his backyard a phenomenon that caught the attention of The Los Angeles Times.
Chef Jet’s Le Cordon Bleu education, coupled with his extensive knowledge of Asian gastronomy, have given him a wide range of ideas to draw upon and a broad framework to craft incomparable and innovative cuisine. � In culinary school, Jet began to develop his style by seeking novel and inventive ways to approach Eastern ingredients with classical French technique. He has also completed an intensive program of study at the California Sushi Academy.
Chef Jet has written two cover pieces and several articles for the food section of The Los Angeles Times and has been featured in Los Angeles magazine. He has appeared on Food TV’s “The Best Of,” “Food Finds” and “The Secret Life Of”; The Learning Channel’s “No Reservations” with Chef Anthony Bourdain and “Take Home Chef”; HGTV’s “Smart Solutions” and “Weekend Entertaining”; PBS’s “Visiting With Huell Howser”; and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio’s “Good Food” with Evan Kleiman.
Chef Jet was awarded the Los Angeles Times best recipe of the year for his Tom Yum soup and his Tom Kha Gai soup was named one of the 10 best recipes of 2000.
He holds the Guinness World Record for the “World’s Largest Stirfry” at 1,805 pounds. Chef Jet is highly sought after to consult, teach cooking classes and cater meals; he is the Asian food consultant to the Bon Appïtit management company.
I met Chef Jet 3 years ago at an event called Taste of The Nation where he served the biggest portion in the event. I went to his restaurant Wazuzu at The Encore shortly after and I must say it’s pretty amazing. Although I never really got to share or make drinks or cocktails for Chef. I will one day find an oppurtunity to because he’s a talented chef. I’ve watched him grow in the Las Vegas community with so many different web shows, tv, Whole Foods Demonstrations and I definitely am a big Jet Fan. I would love to some day work with him on a collaboration of drinks and asian fusion or even traditional asian faire. If you’re in Vegas or visiting, go see Chef Jet at Wazuzu inside the Encore Resort and Casino!
Maybe I need to pitch a Food Network show spinoff of the “Best Thing I Ever Ate” to the “Best Thing I Ever Drank.”
Note to self: Send Jet an note regarding being a BAMF in the kitchen. Because that’s what I am!
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