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[Best of Vegas 2015]

Chef We’d Like to Hire as Our Own: Michael LaPlaca

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One of Portofino’s beautifully delicious pasta dishes: burrata-filled agnolotti with lobster and chanterelles in roasted corn butter.
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We can’t move into Portofino at the Mirage, so we’d rather he come to our kitchen and make a different pasta every night. Today, burrata agnolotti with lobster. Tomorrow, braised oxtail lasagna. Dude invented a pasta—“ripatelli” with lamb sausage and peppers—so he’s got the job. Mirage, 866-339-4566.

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