Gil's Thrilling (And Filling) Blog

The fried catfish at the Gritz Cafe is so good I’d walk through fire for it…but only if owner Trina Jiles is on hand to put out the flames.  At age 22, Trina became the very first black female firefighter in Clark County and the second in the state of Nevada.  Not one to stand pat while breaking barriers, Trina also became the county’s first Black female arson investigator. ...

On 5 November 2026, Guy Fieri and his Guy Fieri Foundation team visited Nellis Air Force Base just outside of Las Vegas to host a special Honoring Heroes Day event for military members, veterans, and first responders. John Mull’s Road Kill Grill and other Las Vegas business establishments joined in to assist the Foundation’s efforts on-site, delivering nearly 4,000 nonperisha...

At the heart of Thai cuisine is the harmony of five fundamental flavor pillars: sweet, sour, salty, spicy, and savory (umami), often with a subtle touch of bitter to ground rich dishes. This doesn’t mean individual dishes require every single flavor profile. Most Thai dishes combine at least two or three of the five flavor profiles to create harmony (like a musical chord), ra...

Shift Kitchen & Bar may just change your perspective on what fine dining is….at least fine dining in a burgeoning mountain town.  It will certainly demonstrate that a  Flagstaff eatery can serve the type of elevated cuisine you would expect in Scottsdale. Shift is definitely a deviation from expectations, a cut above. With menus that change with a shift in seasons, Shif...

“Cheese The Day.”  In Latin, that would be “Carpe Caseum.”  In Spanish, it’s “agarra el queso.” No matter how you say it, if you want an elevated grilled cheese sandwich, all you have to do is “Say Cheese.” That’s Say Cheese as in the restaurant that first fired up its grills and panini presses in Albuquerque back in December, 2025. That’s also Say Cheese as in what photog...