Blog World Expo - Dinner with Kontera
written by John Chow
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
This was a great opening. Both the oyster and crab were super fresh.
Pasta with White Truffle and Truffle Oil
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.
Pan Seared Sea Scallops
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
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
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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(8 votes, average: 4.63 out of 5)
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mmmm… now you’re making me hungry.
Sounds like a good trip John
Yeah, I could sure dive into those Oysters and Crab Claws!
me to I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOove crabs
Oh more than hungry…he is making me mad
He could of tell us before the dinner so we could prepare some questions for Mike, damn it John…I wanted to ask him when in the heck are they going to let me know if my app has been accepted or denied 
awesome meal and thats so nice of kontera! but i wonder how much money john has made them over all to deserve such an extravagant meal!
Oh i think the dinner was paid from what John made them earn and also the tip for the waiter or waitress was included
But in any case that is very kind from the owner of Kontera to socialize up to some level with the publishers of kontera
I have responded to SEO Optomization and he is quite happy with the results from kontera.
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?
I think it’s Google’s messup again… Google is not even showing up on my blackberry sometimes…
Yup it’s google that messed up. There is no google fetcher stats again.
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.
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
If you think that this is expensive, then come to Moscow and see a really expensive food
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!
Finanlly you post some good looking food…
huhu..i tempted..oh nyam nyam nyam..would you care to post some of the meal to me
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
I always envy your good food moments, John….
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 am really hungry now!
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!
that looks delicious! yum yum
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…
Sans Fransisco ? I like that better than San Francisco…
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 
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!
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.
Please stop posting these yummy food pictures. I am always getting hunger at times were it just isn’t healthy to start eating …
YUM YUM! Who else is hungry? I don’t care……
Nice dinner
want to eat!!!!!
Hungry! Gonna eat my leftover steak from last night…
That reminds me, I had some awesome sushi at this Japanese restaraunt in Calgary.. Tomorrow Im gonna blog about it!
I was waiting for that. How can John Chow and food be apart from each other for long? As usual, fantastic photographs. My compliments.
The pan Seared scallop does look amazing and tasty!
John, but you’re no longer running Kontera, why?
Kontera is still running on this blog.
I wrote a review about blogworldexpo but only my mom cooked a dinner for me
thats my tummy rumbling mmmm
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!
please send the cake to Salzburg
>>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
Yammy yammy…. how i envy u, John. U have good food and great companion!
Kontera is definitely trying to butter you up. The way to John Chow’s heart is through his stomach. Most definitely!
-Raymond
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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.
Yes, I wonder why you no longer run Kontera on your blog? You had another plan?
delicious food