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Blog World Expo – Dinner with Kontera

written by John Chow on November 9, 2007

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Mike Glover from Kontera Technologies was kind enough to invite us to dinner at one of Las Vegas most famous and most expensive restaurant. Located in The Forum Shops at Caesars, Spago is synonymous with fine food and celebrity clientele. Spago is a place to see and be seen. The indoor patio is great for people watching. Inside, the restaurant offers a dramatic, yet warm interior that is very much in keeping with the California-style cuisine of Chef Wolfgang Puck.

Spago features seasonal American cuisine with influences from locales spanning the globe. Executive Chef Eric Klein creates a daily-changing menu featuring a variety of fresh, innovative dishes including specialty dishes such as the Roasted Beet and Goat Cheese Napoleon, Handmade Sweet Corn Agnolotti and USDA Prime Nebraska Corn Fed Côte de Boeuf.

Oyster and Crab Claws

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This was a great opening. Both the oyster and crab were super fresh.

Pasta with White Truffle and Truffle Oil

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This dish taste as expensive as it look. That may explain why Executive Chef Eric Klein came out to shave the truffles onto the dish himself.

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Pan Seared Sea Scallops

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This was Sarah’s main course. It was served with sweet Maine shrimp risotto, tomato confit and shellfish broth 35. It was not the best scallops I’ve ever tried but it was very close.

Australian Waygu Beef, New York Cut

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Australian Waygu is the almost the same as Japanese Kobe beef. The 5 oz New York cut of beef was served with confit fingerlings, creamed spinach and a Bordelaise sauce. This was one of the most tender steaks I’ve ever tried. It was also one of the most expensive. At $74, it cost more than the 22 oz USDA Prime Nebraska Corn Fed Côte de Boeuf.

The Desserts

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Spago Creme Brulee and 17 layer mocha cake. The cake really had 18 layers. Yes, I counted it. Both desserts were very good and finished off the meal with a bang.

I want to thank Kontera for taking us out to dinner. They are great ad network for me and I higher recommend you join them. We look forward to meeting Kontera again in San Fransisco.

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great food and hotel suites that are cheap. you gotta love vegas baby. just don't gamble too much

I'm not as interested in the food as I'm intersted in Kontera. Ever since I got my "banned by adsense for invalid clicks" Dear John letter two weeks ago, I replaced the Adsense in my forums with Kontera and the ads on my blogs with Ads-Click. Even though Google contacted me a few days ago saying it was an error and my account was re-instated, there's no way in heaven or hell I'm dropping Kontera on my forums for Adsense. It was actually a blessing for me because I've made more with Kontera, Linkworth and Ads-Clicks in two weeks than I used to make with Adsense in a month. I guess I'll just use Adsense on my newer, less estabilshed sites.

Kontera rocks, anybody who is a forum owner, I can't recommend it hard enough. It's the absolute best monetizing solution of forum owners.

Oysters and dessert looked sick!

John, sorry we didn't get a chance to talk at BlogWorld. This looks like typical Wolfgang Puck. Loved his restaurant in Palo Alto - too bad they closed it.

Wow that food looks amazing! I am starving right now. So thanks for making my stomach growl even harder lol.

The beef and the scallops look yummy. The pasta could have been a bit better presented but I am sure it was tasty too.

Yes, I wonder why you no longer run Kontera on your blog? You had another plan?

John I will be in Vegas for webmasterworld.. I will definitely have to check it out. I ate at the one in Hollywood, and it was just OK.

Kontera is definitely trying to butter you up. The way to John Chow's heart is through his stomach. Most definitely! :razz:
-Raymond

Yammy yammy.... how i envy u, John. U have good food and great companion! :shock:

>>We look forward to meeting Kontera again in San Fransisco.

After seeing the dinner bill, I think Kontera will run like hell when they see you again

:mrgreen:

please send the cake to Salzburg :lol:

This is cool! I am now beginning to be a fan of John, and his food taste. I did not only like it, I even stumbled it!

thats my tummy rumbling mmmm

I wrote a review about blogworldexpo but only my mom cooked a dinner for me :???:

John, but you're no longer running Kontera, why?

Kontera is still running on this blog.

The pan Seared scallop does look amazing and tasty!

I was waiting for that. How can John Chow and food be apart from each other for long? As usual, fantastic photographs. My compliments.

That reminds me, I had some awesome sushi at this Japanese restaraunt in Calgary.. Tomorrow Im gonna blog about it!

Hungry! Gonna eat my leftover steak from last night...

Nice dinner :)

YUM YUM! Who else is hungry? I don't care......

Please stop posting these yummy food pictures. I am always getting hunger at times were it just isn't healthy to start eating ... :wink:

That is one hell of a dinner, like you have named it, this dinner don't come cheap. I must say this dinner is worth attending for.

What's that between the creamed spinach and fingerlings?

Bone marrow. It was very tasty.

Mmm. I've never eaten bone marrow. I'm sure my wife has - she's from the Phillipines and seems to have eaten all kinds of funny things.

Looks like a fantastic meal though!

Free meals are always very nice :) It's good to be a sponsor, especially when it seems like John just gets $1000 for having a very low density :evil:

Sans Fransisco ? I like that better than San Francisco... :P

Hey John what with the Shoemoney tshirt? Did i miss anything? Was that a part of that RSS comp betw. you two guys? Else how much would he need to pay for THAT??

Oh i think it's really just friendly competition to drive traffic to both sites. "Evil masterplan" by Shoe and John... :evil:

that looks delicious! yum yum :)

Steak looks fantastic, not surprising it reminds you of Kobe seeing as the Wagyu beef bred was introduced into Australian about 20 years ago from Japan. Makes me want to go out and drop the $100 plus on a Kobe steak tonight!

I am really hungry now!

Well you should see the food we've been dining out on at Angel World Expo. I know which expo I'd rather be at!

I always envy your good food moments, John.... :razz:

Enjoying the pics from BlogWord John - cheers.
Did you guys get a discount for pimping their food and service?
Cheers,
Adam

No discounts that I know.

I had they had to pay extra 30% to speak about them :P

huhu..i tempted..oh nyam nyam nyam..would you care to post some of the meal to me :P

Finanlly you post some good looking food... :lol:

YUM! I have enjoyed Kontera - thanks for hooking me up John!! Haven't quite made enough to pay for a meal like you're receiving, but hey - I'll enjoy it through you!

If you think that this is expensive, then come to Moscow and see a really expensive food :)

John! You are so lucky, attending the blogworld expo is one of the reasons but more importantly getting to dine with Kontera and all the other leaders in the blogosphere!

Lucky you, have a great time John!
The pictures are great, keep them coming!!

FabZ of SmallFishBigMoney.Com

Spago is amazing. I didn't make it there this time around, but I remember it being the highlight of my meals last year in Vegas.

Sorry, it's OOT. :???:

Just wonder if anybody knows why the Feedburner readers' number is always low on Friday night? Right now, John's number is only 9102 and Shoe's number is only 6068. Yeah, I noticed that those numbers will return after the weekend. But why?

Yes - I noticed this earlier on Shoemoney's page... It is quite likely that feedburner counts hits in the last 24 hours, and since it's Friday - they drop down, and come back up on Monday. Now, having said that, I would expect that to drop on Saturday, not Friday?