I found the weirdest looking potato chip ever. I found it at Big Lots. The brand is called Long Chips. they are called Mashed Potato Snack. The flavor was honey BBQ.
They are super thin and you can almost see through them. to my surprise they taste ok……..Kinda good actually.
I wasn’t able to find any information on them on the web.
Don’t know if I will ever come across them again.
These Long Chips were the FORKING Weirdest Looking Potato Chips ever!
Skye Bar & Grill is a 24/7 Sports Bar in the north/west part of Vegas with All Day Breakfast, A large Varied Menu of Food, Some Gaming, and Happy Hour Foods and Drinks. They have a very large bar with lots of big screen TVs.
Besides bar seating they also have high top tables, some traditional tables, and a few half booths.
We tried some happy hour margaritas. GOSH they are cheap ($5.50) and STRONG!
For dinner I tried the fish of the day (salmon with Boursin Mashed potatoes and vegetable (asparagus)).
To my surprise the salmon is reasonably good. Cooked but still moist and flaky and nicely seasoned. My only complaint is that the potatoes are over mixed and gluey. Also not enough Boursin Cheese to taste any in the potatoes.
I also tried a little of the macaroni and cheese.
It’s under seasoned but actually very good and made with lots of real cheese.
My husband tried the Brazilian Steak Bowl (skirt steak, peppers, onions, rice, chimichurri sauce).
It has a good flavor but the steak is so tough I can’t eat it. I have no idea how my husband ate it.
Skye Bar & Grill – Hit and Miss still worth a try!
9830 West Skye Canyon Park Drive Las Vegas NV
725-217-1881
www.SkyeBarandGrill.com
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Michoacan Gourmet Mexican Restaurant has a location in the Centennial Part of Las Vegas. This location gets very busy and also has a bar.
They start you off with complimentary chips, spicy salsa, and refried beans.
Most of the entrees also include a cup of Fideo Soup (tomato/chicken broth with thin noodles).
For dinner I tried the Pollo Al Mojo De Ajo (chicken with wine, garlic, and guajillo pepper and house made flour tortillas). It normally comes with rice and beans but I special ordered mixed vegetables instead of beans. They also garnished the plates with some guacamole.
My husband tried the Steak Piccado (N.Y. Strip, Espanela (not sure but translates as cheese and also translates to Brazilian Tequila?), tomatillo, onions, tomatoes, jalapeños, and cilantro). This also was served with rice and beans and house made flour tortillas.
Both meals are reasonably good but entrees ran very mild with heat unlike the salsa……
Michoacan Gourmet Mexican Restaurant is Worth a Try!
Michoacan Gourmet Mexican Restaurant
7870 W Tropical Parkway Las Vegas NV
702-385-4636
www.MichoacanLV.com
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The Bagel Cafe is a bakery, deli, restaurant, and bar. They do have a ghost kitchen location in downtown Las Vegas and a full service location about 15 minutes from the strip. Bagels and other baked goods are baked fresh every day. They also offer a variety of house roasted meats. They offer breakfast, salads, house made soups, Smoked fish plates, over stuffed sandwiches, pizza bagels, meat platters, dinners, a kids menu and They even squeeze their fresh orange juice. They also serve bar drinks.
Up in front is the deli and bakery.
Behind the deli and bakery are packed dining rooms.
Whatever you order they start you off with crispy bagel chips with house whipped cream cheese.
Here’s the house roasted and smoked pastrami sandwich with potato salad.
It taste the way it looks.
Here’s a side order of belly lox (smoked fish here is from Acme or Banner of New York)
The belly lox today taste very good. I’ve been told that certain times of year it runs more salty.
Above is the smoked fish combo platter for one with Nova Lox, Whitefish, and an Everything Bagel (for one person that can eat like two….or more)
The Nova is very good and better than from another well known deli that uses Acme brand lox but uses the pre-cut. – Pretty Good!
The Bagel Cafe is certainly Worth a Fork!
The Bagel Cafe
301 N Buffalo Dr Las Vegas NV
702-255-3444
www.TheBagelCafeLV.com
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Several canned Filipino Foods and several Filipino Condiments have been banned by the FDA.
Above photo shows the banned canned foods and below is the list of other banned foods.
I was told by a Filipino Restaurant Owner that restaurants are allowed to use inventory that they have. They are not allowed to purchase items since banned.
I have not seen this information on the news so it might be of some importance to some especially while dining out at Filipino Restaurants.
I found two different Holiday Edition M&M’s at my local Target so I had to give them a try. I found Toasty Holiday Peanut with artificial flavor and Holiday Mint. The Toasty Holiday Peanut does have peanuts inside that seem larger than regular peanut M&M’s. The peanuts inside have little flavor and seem softer…..But the WEIRD thing is as soon as I put one in my mouth they also almost taste like GROSS ARTIFICIAL COFFEE……..and they leave a weird almost GROSS COFFEE aftertaste……I won’t be getting fat eating Toasty Holiday Peanut M&M’s.
The mint ones aren’t bad. They taste just like an Oreo Type Cookie that is laced with some mint.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Holiday M&M’s Toasty Holiday Peanut & Holiday Mint.
Your FORKING Thoughts may indeed differ.
This is a look back on the restaurants I’ve been to in 2024.
The Pastrami Sandwich from Uncle Paulie’s was possibly the worst pastrami sandwich I ever tried. It didn’t taste like pastrami and had hard crunchy ends and it was on undesirable bread.
All the slices of pizza we tried from Prince Pizza had this sickening sweet tomato sauce on them that grossed us out.
My first visit to Leticia’s I had this fish dish with the most amazing delicious Mojo sauce on it. The second time I had it the sauce was missing that essential citrus taste. I complained and they brought me some lime wedges and then it tasted almost like what I remembered.
This pastrami sandwich from the little Wexler’s in the Aria Food Court does their own cureing and smoking for their own pastrami and lox. Their pastrami & lox makes angels sing. This tiny little food court stand even whips their own cream cheese and makes their own bagels.
The best tuna baguette sandwich came from a tiny French Cafe called Petite Kitchen. They also served delicious crepes. It’s sad that they have closed for business.
Wexler’s Pastrami Sandwich
Wexler’s house made and hand sliced lox and house whipped cream cheese and house made bagel
This doughnut doesn’t look special but it was prepared fresh to order….It was hot and cinnamon-ee and just was delicious as a cinnamon doughnut can be. It came from Federal Doughnuts.
From Amora Latin American Cocina was the most incredibly delicious and unusual salad ever. Nixamized or something like that tomatoes here.
Also from Amora Latin American Cocina –
Their beef sandwich is one of the best beef sandwiches that I ever had in my life…..
The other best beef sandwich in my life was the ribeye minute steak pita from Miznon.
It’s just amazing!……Speachless….
The best chicken sandwich came from Capon’s in the Fountainbleu food court also The gelato from Capons was the best I’ve tasted so far….
One of the best Chinese Dishes was the fish in ginger garlic sauce by China Mama
From Cipriani’s we tried two terrible dishes from our 3 course lunch. Below is a pasta dish with with fishy fish that includes the even fishier bloodline as it’s only flavoring.
Below that is the unseasoned, unflavored lentil soup that tastes like dirt.
The next plate isn’t pretty but those beef balls are amazing. (called beef kebob)
They came from Shawarma Vegas. All the food is pretty good here. They even make turkey shawarma that is very good and moist. Even their white meat chicken dishes is moist and delicious.
The worst salmon ever came from MRKT Land and Sea in the Aliante Hotel/Casino it’s so dry it’s awful.
I complained and about 30 minutes latter they bring me out this……
Dry and crumbly on the ends and raw in the center……Don’t even bother getting salmon from MRKT.
One of the very best dinner plates of the year was this amazing tuna in puttanesca sauce from Mother Wolf in the Fountainbleu
The Bulgogi Tostada from Komex was FORKING TASTY! Just POPPING with flavors
The salmon dinner from 1228 Main was amazing so was a previous chicken dish I tried there. They also make very good baked goods.
Another outstanding pastrami sandwich….not made in-house but the bread was from La Cantine. They also make delicious macarons. Read on Yelp that this place changed their name to 702 Sandwich Shop?
The ground in house prime rib burger from Carve Prime Rib in the Cannery Hotel/Casino is always juicy and tasty.
A Special Pasta Dish I tried from Basilico was exceptional.
The food is always delicious and perfect from Rang’s Cocina Moderne. Below is Chilean Sea bass. The chef there won Rising Chef of the Year from the Nevada Restaurant Association and also was featured in the Las Vegas Weekly.
Another favorite is the Cod Florentine.
The slow roasted Beef Cheek is also very recommended but honestly everything on Rang’s Menu is delicious and perfect every time you order it.
The Chicken Tikka Masala from Able Baker is better than from some Indian Restaurants.
My plate from The Harvest Cafe was hard to stomach.
ICK!
Most of the foods we tried from Flecha Cantina was delicious.
But this goat cheese ball with pistachios, tamarind, and fried pitas is super yummy!
On the other hand this Korean Beef BBQ Rice bowl was very disappointing from Fat Choy. It was like dry and like chewy jerky and no flavor.
The Banana Cream Pie from any Emeril Restaurant is always amazing. (below was from Delmonico Steak House)
All the food from Jose Andres’s Bazar Mar was incredible.
The very best few bites was the mini Lox and Bagel from Bazar Mar. It had so many layers and textures. It was an amazing few bites.
A certain restaurant that went from favorite to down the tubes…..was The Pepper Club by Tom English.
The Japanese Chicken sandwich used to be delicious, moist and flavorful but this one was none of that.
Same with the burger.
No more medium-rare…….I know they changed chefs….Hopefully they will change again.
The Broccolini from Bramare is amazing.
But the Broccolini from Balla Italian Soul was the worst.
It was soggy and over seasoned.
The below picture was awful.
I could only eat the avocado and some of the rice. This was Ser-veh-sah’s signature protein bowl. The chicken was cold and awful tasting…..I couldn’t stomach it.
Below might be the best chicken dish I had this year.
A Chicken dish from 1228 Main.
The bread and house made ricotta are amazing from Monzu Italian Oven. Also the pizzas from Monzu are the very best I’ve tasted in Las Vegas..The chef’s more casual restaurant Old School Pizzeria also offers those pizzas.
The Chicken Tinga from Lucy’s was very good.
The Peanut Pho from Pho Amie was very good.
The Ceasar Salad from Ferrano’s was very well made and it a non traditional style. It’s rare that you get such a well made Caesar.
Possibly the worst Caesar Salad came from Balla Italian Soul.
Instead of Caesar…It taste like RANCH! ICK!
Fron NORMS (below)
ICK!
From Asian Wok – Best Take Out Szechuan Chicken
Toughest beef of the year came from Tastebusz Creole Kitchen.
So tough even a crocodile would have to give up.
Maybe the most unappetizing plate also came from Tastebudz Creole Kitchen.
The sweet potatoes are like those canned type and are breaking down to mush. The macaroni and cheese is also breaking down like it was re-heated too many times. The black crud on the fish might before a pan or flat top that wasn’t cleaned. The fish had a hard texture and was difficult to break peices off but when you got to try some it was so painfully hot that it really wasn’t edible and didn’t taste good at all.
The best restaurant of the year where I tasted the most FORKING FANTABULOUS DISHES was from Safta 1964 by Alon Shaya in the Encore part of the Wynn Hotel/Casino. They banged and banged out so many great dishes.
The hummus is very high quality and the best I’ve tasted in Nevada and pitas that come it are fresh and hot and fluffy.
The Falafels have shattering crisp exteriors and moist herby centers and come well embellished with tahini, amba, and shrug.
The Salatim (dips and spreads) platter did differ slightly on each visit but always contained the most tasty spreads and dips that I haven’t found anywhere else.
Some of the very best vegetable dishes that you could find in Nevada came from here. Loved the crispy eggplant. Up above is the charred cabbage with dukkah, hazelnuts, tahini, and muhamara.
My favorite entree was the branzino in paprika sauce with polenta and the sweetest fresh tomatoes ever.
More desserts can be better than one.
Not one, not two, not three or four but FIVE bite sized desserts. This just has to be the most bountiful and best dessert platter on the strip. (pistachio baklava, chocolate chunk halva, blueberry rugelach, Turkish coffee truffle, mini lemon tart. and not one of each not two but THREE of each. Safta 1964 was a pop up temporary restaurant in the Encore part of the Wynn Hotel/Casino. If you would like to give them a try you’d have to go to The Michelin Award Wining Denver Location.
Hope you’ve enjoyed Most of the best and worst dishes at Las Vegas Restaurants 2024.
Have a Happy New Year!
I heard positive things about Taste Budz Creole Kitchen on Eater Las Vegas so I wanted to give this restaurant a try. It’s a casual mostly Cajun type restaurant with two locations in North Las Vegas Nevada.
I read on Eater Las Vegas that the Chef is someone known as Celebrity Chef Trish. (Her likeness is painted on the wall below.)
It is very casual. You order and pay at the counter.
Lots of bright paintings on the walls to look at while you are waiting for your order.
I tried to eat the Jerk Salmon Entree with Macaroni and Cheese and Sweet Potatoes.
There is gross black stuff on the fish that might be leftover crud from a flat top or pan. The fish has a weird texture and is almost impossible to cut with a fork. But the taste is worst. It is so hot that it is not edible. The macaroni and cheese was re-heated too many times so it’s not so good. The sweet potatoes are like canned and are turning to mush.
The Cajun steak is so tough that even an alligator would give up on trying to eat it…. The food served to us I would consider it to be below standard and I would not recommend.
The toughest beef of the year came from –
Taste Budz Creole Kitchen
1917 N Decatur Blvd North Las Vegas NV
702-245-3067
www.TasteBudzCreoleKitchen.com
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The Veranda is an eloquent breakfast-brunch-lunch type of restaurant located in the Four Seasons Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip that is connected to Mandalay Bay Hotel/Casino. We all know that it isn’t going to be cheap to eat anywhere in the Four Seasons………….I didn’t plan to dine here but got kinda stuck….We were going to the aquarium so I planned to dine in Mandalay Bay at The Border Grill but it was closed for holiday vacation and there are very few choices in Mandalay Bay for lunch. I thought The Veranda offered a nice menu and was walking distance so I gave it a try.
Anyways-
It’s formal inside with a bar and sort of retro seats at the tables. There is a patio that looks nice for when the weather is right.
I ordered an iced tea……I said, “I’d like a plain iced tea.” The server looked at me like I was from Mars and said, “Don’t you want a flavored iced tea?” It took him maybe 15 minutes to bring my ($10.) ice tea.
The highlight of our lunch was the crispy lemongrass cauliflower with sweet chili sauce ($20.).
They do give a generous amount of cauliflower that is breaded and fried to perfection. It lightly laced with lemongrass. It taste good without the sauce……The sauce cancels out the lemongrass taste and you get left with a sort of Chinese Take Out Duck Sauce Taste……This would taste much better with something that compliments like a citrus soy sort of sauce….
I try the Blue Fin Tuna Niçoise salad (I didn’t notice that it is $37…..It’s written real tiny and light on the menu)
To tell The FORKING Truth it’s not awful but it isn’t so great either………Most of it is tasteless. They squirted some tomato vinaigrette on the top that is sort of sweet with very little flavor. The tuna is ok but also with little flavor……..Nothing flavors the vegetables or egg. I almost never add salt and pepper to plates out but had to here. Even the green beans are plain. I asked my husband to taste one……He said, it taste like a boiled green bean. It’s pretty darn disappointing for $37. The blue fin tuna nicoise I had from Matteo’s in the Venetian was only $20. and much better….
My husband tried a Diablo Flatbread ($25.).
He was disappointed because the crust was like a cross between a super thin pita bread and a cracker…..and he thought the surface would have tomato sauce. He said that only around the ends was the tomato sauce topped with cheese, sausage, and pepperoni. It’s also small in size and he left hungry.
I don’t mind paying more for food if it is exceptional but here that is not the case. The most over priced meal of the year was from The Veranda at The Four Seasons in Las Vegas NV.
3960 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV
702-632-5000
www.FourSeasons.com
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Basically this is a variation of Pimento Dip…But different… This one is a delicious base of ricotta cheese mixed with mostly cheddar cheese, some cream cheese, roasted peppers and Calabrian Chili Paste. I mixed it up together and it tasted amazing…..I mean FORKING AMAZING. My husband usually HATES Pimento Dip but he said that this one is delicious. I’m serving it with thin crisp breads that is published on my site.
1 lb ricotta cheese
7 oz cream cheese (preferably a quality brand without gum in it) room temperature to mix in easily
1 lb aged cheddar – shredded
Around 12 oz. roasted red peppers – seeds and stems removed around 1/2 fine chopped and the other half blended
Bomba Calabrese to taste – each brand does taste different and also has a different amount of heat. Today I used Italian Harvest Brand. I used about a heaping Tablespoon.
Directions
Just mix together the ingredients and you are done.
It’s FORKING DELICIOUS!
