Primarily a Midwest phenomenon, the White Castle chain has expanded westward to include a handful of restaurants in Arizona and Nevada, including one that just opened last month in Henderson. On a recent afternoon, cars were lined up 10 deep at the drive-thru of the Henderson store, a former Carl’s Jr. ...
In the 15 years since he began “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,” his Food Network flagship, UNLV graduate Guy Fieri, 54, has become perhaps the most powerful and bankable figure in food television, the éminence grise of the eminently greasy. And by dint of that show’s success — and Fieri’s runaway celebrity, and that golden porcupine of hair, and maybe that one review of his Times Square restaurant a while back — certain perceptions have attached to him through the years, perpetuating the caricature he still often seems eager to play.
With roots in both Ukraine and Russia, the food truck owners said the decision to donate to Ukraine causes was barely a conversation: How could they not help, they questioned, when their own friends and family members were protesting in Russia, fleeing to Poland or seeing their home break down around them?