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Excalibur Crowns Beni Velázquez as New Exec Chef

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Velazquez Photo: Excalibur

Remember Excalibur? The (probably awesome) medieval restaurant in Downtown tells us they have a new executive chef in ye olde royale kitchen: Lord Alfred Wellington the Fifth of Mumford. We kid, we kid. It’s actually a dude named Beni Velázquez, a former Four Seasons chef and the founder of Bar+Bistro in Las Vegas. Velázquez is already re-tooling the menus here, adding weekend brunch of blackberry currant French toast and three-cheese quiche, and swears he’s having a blast melding market ingredients and fish from Santa Monica Seafood market with the sword and sorcery theme. Check out the chef’s full menu online.

Excalibur Crowns Beni Velázquez as New Exec Chef