Restaurant Reviewer: Top Chump | Restaurants

Restaurant reviewer John Curtas says "Top Chef" judge and celebrity chef's Tom Colicchio's new restaurant is not close to being worth the trip to the Strip. 

Tom Colicchio’s Heritage Steak was everything we thought it would be, and less. Calling it a copy of a copy is being kind.

We anticipated Craftsteak-lite — a typical, Vegas, force-fed “concept” operation, direct from an absentee/celebrity chef to the gullible hoi polloi — with lots of nods to overdone/outdated culinary signposts (Vandouvan spices! bone marrow!) and barely enough execution by union cooks to justify the shameless tariffs imposed.

To say it disappointed even on those terms is an understatement.

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