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PHOTOGRAPHY BY BILL MILNE (ANDIRON); COURTESY OF EL DORADO CANTINA RESTAURANT & BAR (EL DORADO); COURTESY OF MANDARIN ORIENTAL, LAS VEGAS (TWIST); 1. A huge congratulations to Elizabeth Blau and Kim Canteenwalla on the opening of Andiron Steak & Sea in Summerlin. What separates the chic bar from the gorgeous restaurant? An andiron, of course! 2. Having been born and raised in Mexico City makes me a Mexican-food connoisseur, and El Dorado Cantina Restaurant & Bar's three types of mole and street-style tacos and tortas get two dedos (thumbs) up. 3. I had the distinct pleasure of being a guest at Twist by Pierre Gagnaire at Mandarin Oriental Las Vegas for an eight-course Glenmorangie single malt Scotch whisky – paired extravaganza. 1 2 3 // this issue // ON MY R ADAR Follow me on Twitter at @josefvann and on vegasmagazine.com. FROM LEFT: Meeting with my esteemed partner Mari Landers to discuss Vegas Dozen 2015; when Johnnie-O (aka John O'Donnell, bar master general at Crush at MGM Grand) texts that he has VIP tickets to the Pac-12 finals at MGM's Grand Garden Arena for you and your wife to see your alma mater, you run down to Crush. JOSEF VANN WELCOME TO SPRING IN LAS VEGAS! Our weather isn't the only thing heat- ing up nicely. For starters, Hakkasan Group has just opened its extravagant nightclub Omnia, occupying Pure's former space at Caesars Palace. But the excitement doesn't end there. Hotel casinos are opening up their dayclubs, and some of the city's biggest conventions are getting under way. The Nightclub & Bar Show takes place from March 30 to April 1, attracting 40,000 attendees; 100,000 con- ventioneers will descend upon the city from April 11 to 16 for the National Association of Broadcasters Show; and the ever-popular CinemaCon arrives on April 20. On the performance circuit, we welcome Diana Ross to Venetian, celebrate Elton John's return to the Colosseum at Caesars, and look forward to the first-ever Rock in Rio festival in Vegas, starting May 8. On the 28th of April, our very own magazine celebrates the dozenth anniversary of Vegas Dozen, in which, together with our won- derful partners at Saks Fifth Avenue and Keep Memory Alive, we get to honor a new class of 12 philanthropic gentlemen. Of course, the most attention-grabbing event of the season is undoubtedly Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s square-off against Manny Pacquiao in MGM's Grand Garden Arena for the welterweight unification fight on May 2. This will be the richest boxing match in the world, expected to shatter pay-per-view records and guaranteeing purses of $120 million for Mayweather and $80 million for Pacquiao. And those tickets? They'll be as pricey as $250,000. Enjoy a fantastic spring season and our Late Spring issue of Vegas magazine. 24 VEGASMAGAZINE.COM LETTER from the Publisher