Featherblade Craft Butcher recently opened in Centennial Hills. I’ve heard good things about their Summerlin location so when this butcher shop opened closer to me I thought I had to give it a try. It looks like your typical Butcher Shop inside. Different cuts and types of meat to pick from. They also sell various seasoning blends, snacks, soaps, frozen meats, and a bit more.
Decided on two filet mignons for dinner.
We’ll see how it goes. My husband cooked the filet.
It lookalike it was cooked nice. To be honest it doesn’t have much beef flavor. My husband said, “That’s because it is a Filet Mignon and they never have much flavor” – so ? Guess we will have to try something different next time.
Cured & Whey is a small casual deli, CHEESE, wine shop, and more kind of place. It is not a fancy place. It is located in an Industrial Center near the Las Vegas Strip a short ride from Mandalay Bay. They have limited seating inside and one outside table.
They also offered two sandwich specials today.
We looked around and they offered all kinds of deli meats and lots of CHEESES, pantry items. Fancy salts, rice, pastas, jams, jellies, honey, beans, jarred peppers, frozen meats, and more. We decided we had to share a cheese board and also try a sandwich. We knew that would be too much food so we had 1/2 our sandwiches wrapped to go and latter had some of the cheese board wrapped to go.
Sandwiches came out first.
The sandwiches came out with chunks of cheese.
The girl working there put half of each HALF sandwich in two baskets. (I guess she thought we each wanted both sandwiches?) We switched the odd pieces.
I tried the tuna melt. It is on very good sour dough bread. The tuna is actually very good and does taste much better than from the can. The tuna is embellished with tomatoes, pepperoncini, and provolone. The cheese is mixed into the tuna salad so it’s different instead of being melted on the top.
My husband said that the mortadella sandwich is also very good. He said that the mortadella is better quality than what he gets at most places.
Then we get the cheese board.
We got a goat cheese, cheddar, Comte, brie, and a pepper jack. Not shown in picture is also a gouda/truffle cheese. There are also corn nuts, sour dough bread, figs, and chocolates. I do have to say all these cheeses are VERY GOOD and are BETTER than what I can buy at my local stores.
The BIG Surprise of the week was FORKING AMAZINGLY delicious and tender food from the newly opened Chef’s Kitchen. They offer globally inspired Brunch and Lunch. We tried the Romanian Short Rib and the Supreme De Poulet Farci (Chicken stuffed with Rice). OMG!!!!!!!! Both dishes were the most tender meats that I have ever tried anywhere and BOTH had perfect concentrated flavors to them. Oh and that Ice Cream Sandwich Croissant is sure MIGHTY TASTY! too!!!!
We also went to Rang’s Cocina Moderne. They offer an unusual menu of Italian, Spanish, mixed with a little Asian. We regularly go there because the food and service is always perfect. This time we had the smoked salmon toasts appetizer, the three cheese garlic salmon, and the carbonara. Don’t know if you know but it is very hard to find restaurants that cook salmon to perfection. Rang’s is among the few where you can order the salmon and it will be perfect and delicious.
In other Food News –
March 27 – Fiorella Pasta by Marc Vetri – CLOSES (Durango)
March 28 – Cantina Contramar opens – Fontainebleau
March 27-29 – Foodieland – Las Vegas Motor Speedway
March 31 – LPM to CLOSE – Cosmopolitan
April 4 – Haru Matsuri Spring Festival (Japanese) – Lorenzi Park 10am-4pm 720 Twin Lakes Drive
April 11& 12 – Tacos and Tamale Festival – Desert Breeze Events Center – 8455 Kids Zone Pkwy
April 16 – May 31 – MICHELIN STARED & James Beard Awarded – Alinea Pop Up at Bellagio (Micheal Mina Restaurant)
April 18 – Taste of Station – Red Rock Resort Pool – Unlimited tastings and sips – GM $100.PP & VIP $175.PP
My local Sprouts Grocery had a variety of chocolates on clearance a few weeks back and this bar was 7 or $8. dollars off so I thought I’d give it a try. It’s by a company called MAEVE and it has a long name on the front that reads Valentine’s Romance Classic – The Peanut-Butter Banana Affair. Then under that it reads Peanut Butter and Banana Dark and White Chocolate Truffle Bar –
Whatever-
I open it up.
I break off a section to try.
There’s a LOT of cream in the center………(bah)
Here we go.
WOW the dark chocolate really is very good. Not too bitter. Not too sweet with lots of GOOD chocolate flavor. It also melts in the mouth just right.
I’m not crazy about the filling.
I can taste peanut butter and bananas but it’s not a satisfying amount of either flavor and the chocolate overs powers those flavors. There are also same crunchy objects inside that are odd.
Maybe a different variety of this bar is very good but I’m not paying the Sprouts regular price for these bars.
Those were my FORKING Thoughts on MAEVE Peanut Butter Banana Affair Bars. Your Forking thoughts may differ.
Mo’Bettah’s is a chain of Hawaiian Style Restaurants that offer a limited menu of the Hawaiian Plate lunch. In case you know what a Hawaiian Plate lunch is – It’s usually a lot of meat, a lot of rice, and macaroni salad that is packed into a styrofoam container.
It’s not a fancy place. You can sit inside or at one of the two patio tables that is outside.
This time I tried a mini lunch plate with pulehu chicken, katsu chicken, veggies, brown rice and katsu sauce.
The mini is plenty and I am happy to say both chicken entrees are flavorful, moist, and tasty. The rice is much better today than last time (last time the rice was hard) and the vegetables make it seem lighter and healthier. I had some help finishing my platter.
My husband had the regular lunch plate with kalua pig, pulehu chicken, macaroni salad, brown rice and spicy yeobo sauce.
The one thing he said was amazing today was the kalua pig. He said it was the single best thing he tasted at any Hawaiian Restaurant in Vegas so far. For his taste the pulehu chicken was good but too plain. Last time we enjoyed the macaroni salad. This time it has a weird taste to it?
They gave us a coupon for a free mini meal so we recently went back. I had the same plate as last time.
This time the Pulehu Chicken is actually better and tastier. But the katsu isn’t freshly made as last time and taste left over like it might have been made yesterday or several hours before. Brown rice and vegetables were good.
Sadly the Kalua Pig was all dried out today so we may not be back?
Hearthstone is an American Restaurant and Bar that is located in the Red Rock Casino/Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada.
You can enter from the front pictured above or from inside Red Rock.
Inside is bar seating, lounge seating, traditional tables, and half booths. Below is only a small part of the restaurant.
The daytime menu is pretty brunch forward but does offer some items for lunch.
We started with a Lox and Bagel Tower. The lox was cured in house.
For my main I tried the Heirloom Tomato Salad.
It is small. Heirloom tomatoes, Soft Creamy Cheese, Blackberries, Basil, and Balsamic. After this you will still have room for desert.
My husband tried a more filling lunch. He had a Smash Burger with Fries.
We tried the Samoa Sundae.
It’s different – Coconut Soft Serve that’s not creamy but sort of Ice-y and light. It’s embellished with fudge, caramel crumbs, cookie crumbs, and coconut.
Calabash African Kitchen is a West African Style Restaurant and Bar located in Las Vegas Nevada. The Chef is James Beard Nominated for 2026 Best Chef Southwest. It’s modern inside. You can sit at a traditional table or the bar.
I tried a Kenyan Black Tea. It’s richer than regular black tea and is interesting.
We shared a Fataya Pies (vegetarian empanadas) appetizer.
The pies are fried nicely and seem free of oil. They also eat much lighter than you would think and are delicious! Inside are some potatoes and some other things. The red sauce on the side is tasty and a bit spicy.
We also shared the Fried Red Snapper Platter.
It came with citrusy mostly cucumber and tomato chunks and a side of spiced caramelized onions. I picked the plantains as my side. Today the fish is slightly over cooked and is slightly dry but the flavors are all delicious!
We also shared their famous Jollof Rice with Chicken.
This is mighty flavorful….The chicken and also the rice. I’ve had Jollof rice a few times but none of the others was as flavorful as this one. I thought both dishes tasted great but the chicken is more complex with flavors than the fish.
Most fantastic bites of the week came from the newly opened Hayworth in Henderson. It’s an unusual steak house with elevated delicatessen foods. (The sablefish is to die for. Even my husband who rarely ever orders fish said that it was so good that he could order it).
Also tried The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills POP UP at Red Rock Resort. Gosh we had to wait an hour in line. Some people waited several hours. The food was ok and they gave out lots of complimentary cheese.
In other FOOD news –
Soon – Fogo De Chao opens in Venetian
Soon – Hello Kitty – (Shops at Caesars) 3500 S Las Vegas Blvd
Soon – Mariacheez Pizza opens – 5770 Centennial Center Blvd
Feb 28 – Ciao Vino CLOSES in Boca Park
March 27 – Fiorella Pasta by Marc Vetri CLOSES (Durango)
March 28 – Cantina Contramar opens at Fontainebleau
March 27-29 – Foodieland – Las Vegas Motor Speedway
March 31 – LPM to CLOSE in Cosmopolitan
April 11 & 12 Tacos and Tamale Festival – Desert Breeze Events Center – 8455 Kids Zone Pkwy
April 16 – May 31 – MICHELIN STARRED & JAMES BEARD AWARDED – Alinea POP UP at Bellagio (in the Michael Mina Restaurant)
April 18 – Taste Of Station – Red Rock Resort Pool – Unlimited tastings GM $100.PP & VIP $175.PP
April 26 – Unstripped Food Festival – Palms 6-9pm
Spring – Blue Martini – (Planet Hollywood Miracle Miles Shops) – 3665 Las Vegas Blvd
Spring – Porfirio’s Place (Mexican) 6085 S Rainbow Blvd (in a gas station)
Spring – Able Baker Bomb Shelter – 6371 Centennial Center Blvd
Spring – The Hat – (Pastrami Dip restaurant from CA)
Fall – Finney’s Craft House & Kitchen (Town Square) – 6563 S Las Vegas Blvd
Winter – Finney’s Craft House & Kitchen – 10955 Oval Park Dr
This Year – The Lucky Otter (Irish Pub) 10 W Wyoming Ave
This Year – Killer Whale Creamery – 2500 – 2550 Paseo Verde Pkwy – Henderson
This Year – The Barista Botanist – 2500 – 2550 Paseo Verde Pkwy – Henderson
End of Year? – Losee Village Retail Complex and Eateries – North Las Vegas
And in Silly and or Cute Food News – My Dogs enjoying chicken from Mezzo Italian Bistro.
That was The FORKING Las Vegas FOOD Buzz of the week.
These are Foods that YOU can make too. Most of the recipes can be found here on www.TheFORKINGTruth.com
up above are –
Non traditional tacos made with ground turkey and pico de gallo. Some have lightly pickled avocado on them and the others have home made Boursin type cheese on them.
Also home made crackers with sesame, poppy seeds, and sea salt that are topped with a swirl of cheese ball. (Cracker recipe is shaped different and called crisp bread under recipes)
WOW! Did these vegetable egg rolls go fast!
I did get compliments on the pickled beets with cinnamon spiced goat cheese too.
Here’s the recipe for the Thai Style Peanut sauce I served with the egg rolls. I also served spicy Chinese Mustard too.
Mac-N-Cheese stuffed potatoes
Tasty Cheesy Rice Balls (these were so good people were packing them up to bring home)
Mac-N-Cheese stuffed potatoes (people always love them)
Home made cracker with taleggio cheese and pistachio pesto
Fried Potato and Cheese Pierogi
Tacos made with ground turkey all are topped with pico and 1/2 have pickled avocado and the other half have a swirl of home made Boursin type cheese (always a hit)
Potato and Cheese Pierogi
Falafel Spiced Turkey Meatballs with Hummus
Nacho Potatoes (no recipe combo of my homemade salsa and a variety of cheeses)
Maple Bourbon Walnut topped spice Custard Filled Squash
People love these non-traditional tacos
Taco weenies (made with ground turkey) and potato and cheese tacos
These are just some of the FOOD that YOU can make too!
Ada’s Food and Wine is a globally inspired American Restaurant and Wine Bar that is located in downtown Las Vegas in the Arts District.
The main dining room has a view of the open kitchen and also has a wine bar to one side.
Off to the other side is another wine bar not pictured.
If you drink wine then you will probably order wine here. They’ve won some awards for one of the BEST wine list in the country.
It’s mostly small sharing plates here.
We started out by trying the Maitake Mushrooms with Miso Fondue.
Really meaty perfectly cooked mushrooms with flavors that go really well together.
Next was Beets with (non-traditional) Salsa Matcha.
Different but tasty.
The only off dish was the Tagliatelle with Lemon Cream.
The pasta was cooked perfect but they added so much salt that I couldn’t eat it.
I am relieved or happy to say that the Halibut with (non-traditional) Harissa and Carrots was very good.
And the halibut was cooked perfect too. (that is pretty rare – most people over cook halibut)
They were very nice at Ada’s and they did offer to give me another plate to replace the pasta and a manager also offered to remove the pasta from our bill but we declined because my husband still ate the pasta. He said it was salty to him but somehow was still able to eat it.
Ada’s Food and Wine is at least – Mostly very good! – Worth a Try!
