We were so upset during our most recent visit to The Flame, we may have dry-humped a chair. Is that wrong?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFind out more about the Flame Steakhouse at the official El Cortez site, strangely devoid of information about the impending closure. Quite possibly because they don’t want people humping their chairs. Just a hunch.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A beloved downtown restaurant, the Flame Steakhouse at El Cortez, will close Aug. 31, 2014. Because there wasn’t quite enough WTF happening in Las Vegas already. A new 24-hour restaurant is planned for the Flame space, Siegel 1941. The name is a reference to mobster Bugsy Siegel who was one of the co-owners of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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