While Las Vegas dazzles visitors with mile-high seafood towers and gold-flecked desserts, locals slip away to a modest diner serving what might be the most honest-to-goodness plate of chicken fried ...

The chocolate shake is the Platonic ideal of what a chocolate milkshake should be—rich and indulgent without being overwhelmingly sweet. The vanilla isn’t “plain vanilla” in the boring sense—it’s a ...