![]() ![]() I’m not used to watching women cook in high-stress situations, but she’s surprised the shit out of me. René is doing pancakes and French toast-he’s so strong, he just pushes it out-and we have Debbie on the eggs Benedict. “We’ve got Martin, the omelette man, and Joel on over-easies. Then he leaned over to read a handwritten sheet taped on the door by his assistant chef. He checked the pocket on his left sleeve for his kitchen implements, which were color-coded for quick access: blue thermometer, red paring knife, black pager, yellow highlighter. When I came out at midnight, the streets were packed.” He scanned the inventory list on his computer one more time-on an average day, the Tropical Breeze consumes some three hundred pounds of bacon alone-then buttoned up his white, double-breasted jacket. “You can feel it building,” he said, sitting in his cramped office next to a walk-in refrigerator. Scott Gutstein, the café’s head chef, could hear the white noise of their chatter picking up volume, like the leading edge of some oceanic weather system. As a woman at the local Culinary Workers Union put it, “Egg cooks are worth their weight in gold in this town.”Īt six o’clock on a recent Saturday morning, a few early risers and ashen-faced all-nighters were already gathered in front of the café hostess. Last year alone, the cooks at the Tropical Breeze cracked well over a million of them. Still, a good egg, honestly cooked, is what brings in most customers, and they eat them in staggering quantities. Its nicotine-yellow walls have been repainted a sunnier shade, and it looks out on a water garden populated by turtles, koi, and some disgruntled-looking penguins from southern Africa. It calls itself the Tropical Breeze Café now. ![]() (The MGM Grand, which has 5,044 rooms, is the largest the Flamingo is eighth, with 3,545.) Up the street, at the Wynn hotel, which opened this spring, two eggs can cost eleven-fifty, and a caviar breakfast for two with Dom Perignon is three hundred and fifty dollars from room service. ![]() The empty stretch of desert where Bugsy Siegel built the Flamingo, in 1946, has become the center of the Strip, home to America’s thirteen largest hotels. The ninety-nine-cent special has been lost to history: the new Vegas rarely stoops to giveaways. They said, ‘Does this mean my food will take longer now?’ ” Pretty soon, the hood caught on fire and the extinguishers went off with that chemical that looks like smoke, and then the Fire Department came in. “One time, so much grease built up in the ceiling that it came down the walls and set fire to the flat-tops. “They used to line up down the hall for the ninety-nine-cent special,” a cook from the old Lindy’s café in the Flamingo told me. In the early days, when depositing your savings in machines designed to cheat you still seemed a dubious proposition, the casinos offered cut-rate rooms and airfares. But the energy for all that vice had to come from somewhere, and mostly it came from eggs. Sex and gambling, too, of course, and divorce and vaudeville and the creative use of neon. and speak with one of our professional and courteous staff members that will help you order exactly what you want! We can deliver it to your door or you can pick it up at your convenience.Las Vegas is a city built by breakfast specials. Don't worry as we got you covered! We will cater to you! You can call us from your Hotel Room at (702) 900-7156. Now, also we realize that privacy and discretion is very important to some of our customers. You will always think of the Las Vegas Smoke and Tattoo shop when you tell others about your trip! Once you are here it will be a experience you will never forget! Of course our locations are in the “HEART OF SIN CITY”! We love seeing new faces walk into our shop and WOW! At our product selection and the knowledge of the owner and associates. The smells are HEAVENLY! And of course if you are looking for that perfect tattoo than you are in the “BEST of HANDS” We carry water pipes,”to get that easy warm feeling” Hookahs, Hookah Pens, Vapor Pens, Imported cigars, papers of every kind, and of course Incense and concentrated oils. Relax you, help you to unwind,and just take in the sensations. Rather you are a cigarette smoker or herbal smoker we have the product that will ![]() You asked for a smoke shop that had a wide variety of products from around the world! Well, we have found the best of the best and expanded our product line to include everything your heart desires at the best prices you will find anywhere! You, our customers told us what you liked and we We HAIL to the criticized smoker,and our popularity has allowed us to open 4 new stores in the last 13 months. When you walk in to our Las Vegas Smoke shop, you will realize right away that we are NOT like any other smoke shop you have visited! ![]()
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