Mesa Grill Wins Award; Best of Vegas Shuns Red Lobster

CAESARS PALACE — Mesa Grill earned the Gold Plate donor award from Three Square Food Bank for the fall and spring versions of Las Vegas Restaurant Week. Mesa Grill sold 1,614 Restaurant Week covers in the fall and 1,732 covers in the spring translating to a $16,730 donation in 2013 or nearly 51,000 meals for Southern Nevada. [EaterWire]

LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Review-Journal's Best of Las Vegas came out on Sunday and surprise, Olive Garden and Red Lobster did not win best Italian and seafood respectively in the reader's choice. Instead, those honors went to Terra Rosa at Red Rock Resort and Joe's Crab Shack. Olive Garden however did win the reader's best family restaurant. Head here for the giant linkbait. [LVRJ]
Mesa Grill [Photo: Caesars Palace]