EVENTS
GREAT ELDORADO ITALIAN FESTIVAL THE SIGHTS, SOUNDS, AND FLAVORS OF ITALY COME TO DOWNTOWN RENO. For 32 years, the Eldorado Hotel and Casino has celebrated Italian culture, traditions, and cuisine in downtown Reno during the annual Great Eldorado Italian Festival. The two-day festival will be held on October 12-13. Festivalgoers can expect a weekend full of activities, including a pasta sauce cook-off, grape-stomping competition, children’s gelato-eating contest, Ferrari display, and bocce ball. There is live entertainment on two stages, featuring Michael Barimo, Ray Massa’s EuroRythms, Moreno Fruzzetti, the Nevada Opera, PLAN YOUR TRIP and more. Great Eldorado Italian Festival The heart and soul of any Italian festival is the food, and the Great Eldorado Italian Festival is Oct. 12-13 definitely not lacking. Attendees can enjoy an Italian farmers market and various street vendors. If eldoradoreno.com you want to taste a wide range of Italian culinary creations, don’t miss the Italian buffet inside the 775-786-5700 Eldorado.
LAUGHLIN ITALIAN FESTIVAL SOUTHERN NEVADA TOWN SERVES UP TRADITIONAL ITALIAN CUISINE. The fifth annual Laughlin Italian Festival, happening September 27-29, gives attendees a chance to taste authentic Italian cuisine on the Laughlin River Walk. Visitors can sample such festival favorites as authentic lasagna, sweet Italian sausage with peppers and onions, and pizzas and pastas with a variety of sauces. Festival desserts include cannoli, Italian ice, tiramisu, and zeppoles (doughnuts filled with custard, jelly, or PLAN YOUR TRIP cannoli-style pastry cream Laughlin Italian Festival and topped with powdered Sept. 27-29 sugar). Beverage tents alvisitlaughlin.com low attendees to sip Italian 800-452-8445 wine and imported beer. 16
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