Dining Out With DOGS in Las Vegas NV – May 2026

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Dining out with dogs is just a “Fluff” story about taking my dogs out to eat. It all sort of started with my late dog Louie. He always enjoyed going out to eat. When he got elderly he came down with aggressive cancer. We were told he probably only had three months or possibly up to 6 months to live. Since Louie enjoyed going out to eat I took him out as often as possible and Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.

My dogs got to go to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill and enjoyed some Gyro Meat from my husband’s platter.

The dogs also got to enjoy some cucumbers, chick peas, and salmon from my salmon rice bowl too!

They always enjoy going to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill.

6540 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

702- 749-8582

www.TheGreatGreek.com

It was almost too hot to take the dogs out but we made to Mezzo Bistro & Wine Bar. The Dogs always love going to Mezzo.

They always enjoy starting out with a little bit of bread.

Then they get to enjoy some of my pesto chicken wrap.

and also some of my husband’s chicken parmesan platter.

The Dogs always enjoy going to Mezzo Bistro & Wine.

4275 N Rancho Drive Las Vegas NV

702-944-8880

www.MezzoBistro.com

This week it was around 100F so it was too hot to dine out with dogs. So they got a car ride to In-N-Out Burger. The Giant Aussie tried to push the Beagle Mix out of his seat but he kept sitting down every time she pushed him and got to stay in his seat.

Then we got home.

Here you go-

They always enjoy an In-N-Out Burger.

www.In-N-Out.com

Still HOT so it was a In-N-Out Car Ride again.

Here are driving away with a bag of their burgers.

They always enjoy In-N-Out Burgers.

www.In-N-Out.com

That was Dining Out with DOGS for May 2026. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.

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In Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017

My Trip to Braseria By Edo for Happy Hour – Las Vegas NV

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Braseria By Edo is a fancy Spanish/French Style Restaurant and Bar located near to the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas Nevada. It’s located on a second level so you either walk up a flight of stair outside or use an elevator to get there,

We didn’t have a reservation so we were told that we could only sit at the bar.

They gave us happy hour menus so that’s what we tried.

I tried the Burger & Frites (with grilled onions, pickle, and brava sauce and I asked for a medium cook)

I was told that this is a 10 ounce burger? (My husband thought he heard 8 ounce???? so I’m not sure) anyways I cut it in half. That mess isn’t cheese either. It’s brava sauce and onions.

It’s full of juice but it is a sloppy mess.

I think it’s cooked pass medium

I try to eat it and when I pick up just half pieces of the burger fall off.

I can’t pick this up and eat it.

It’s too squishy and messy and falling apart.

I have to eat it with a knife and fork. It’s doesn’t taste bad.

Can’t eat the pickle because it is way too strong with acid for me.

Try the fries….and the house made ketchup vinaigrette. At the time I didn’t know if the fries or the ketchup was hot and spicy that builded up and kept getting hotter. It was too hot for me and I couldn’t eat many fries. Latter I figured out that it was the ketchup that was too hot.

My husband tried the Skirt Steak with Frites cooked medium-rare.

He said that the steak was cooked unevenly and maybe half of it was rare and very stringy. He said the green pepper sauce that came with it didn’t have much flavor.

That was my trip to Braseria By Edo.

3900 Paradise Road Las Vegas NV

702-641-1345

wwwBraseriaByEdo.com

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Heavenly Pizza & Trattoria – Las Vegas NV – James Beard Award Wining – Worth a Try!

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I read that Heavenly Pizza and Trattoria was by a James Beard Award Winner Chef so I thought it was Worth a Try!

It’s a little humble casual family-type little pizzeria with an amazing long and large wine list. (With MANY expensive bottles like $500.+)

My favorite of what we’ve tried was the slice of cheese pizza. It’s special and different. I never had pizza like this anywhere else before.

It’s a thin but very crisp crust that is charred on the bottom. The cheese seems like a good quality and the tomato sauce was rich. The pizza is also embellished with seasoning to make it taste just so.

Very crisp pizza – almost cracker or matzah like. Not like bread.

Then I had the branzino

It was topped with sweet roasted tomatoes and lots of mushrooms. The fish is cooked perfect and so is the rigatoni in a well made sauce.

My husband tried the Chicken Parmesan.

The chicken isn’t breaded.

Good sauce embellished with roasted sweet tomatoes. Nicely prepared rigatoni. Over cooked dry chicken.

Worth a Try for the pizza and some things.

Heavenly Pies & Trattoria

11370 South Highlands Las Vegas NV

702-338-9804

www.HeavenlyPies.com

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The FORKING Las Vegas Food Buzz of the Week

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Enjoyed the #27 Spicy Peanut Pho from Pho Aimie in North Las Vegas

Had a HK burger from Marche Bacchus.

It was really odd. Supposedly it’s ground in house or so I was told by the server. It has almost no beef flavor and the bun tastes burnt.

In other FOOD News –

Till May 31 Michelin Starred and James Beard Awarded – Alinea POP UP – Belaggio – Micheal Mina Restaurant

May 31 Last Day for MGM Grand Buffet

Spring? – Snappy’s Burger (Drive Thur & Drive In Movies) W Cheyenne Ave & Allen Lane NORTH Las Vegas

Spring? – Mikaelas Taste of Asia – 707 Fremont Street

Spring? – Bartho’s (Beer Bar) 1563 S Commerce Street

Spring? – Cobra Clutch Cocktail Bar – 1201 S Main Street

Spring? – Wings Korean Chicken – 5105 S Fort Apache Road

Spring? – Everything Philly & Co (ghost kitchen) – 110 S Rainbow Blvd

Spring? Whole Lotta Sweets Cafe – 5695 E Charleston Blvd

Spring? – Sizzling Steak Burger – 3585 S Fort Apache Road

Summer? Siegel’s 1941 (breakfast & lunch) Alex Steakhouse (same spot dinner) El Cortez

August 26 Michelin Guild Ceremony – Invitation only – Fontainebleau

Fall? – Stix Asian Food Hall – Uncommons

Silly and or Cute FOOD News – My Dogs enjoying an In-N-Out Cheeseburger

That was The FORKING Las Vegas Buzz of the Week

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FORKING AMAZING MINI Bagel Recipe

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I make pizza dough often and bagel dough is similar but heavier with an added secret ingredient (malt flour) You also need a stand mixer to make this dough. I thought this would come out best making the dough day one and boiling and baking the bagels day two. I don’t mean to brag but these bagels really did come out FORKING AMAZING. At the moment they are the best bagels me or my husband has tasted in all of Vegas and in all of the Phoenix area.

Ingredient for up to 50 mini bagels

Dough

2 3/4 cup 110F filtered water

2 Tablespoons honey

1 pack dry active yeast (2 1/4 teaspoons)

1 teaspoon sugar

6 3/4 cups bread flour

2 Tablespoon course sea salt

2 Tablespoons malt flour

Boiling water to start the cooking process for the bagels

add 2 Tablespoons honey

2 Tablespoons baking soda

Bagel toppings –

You also need to add sesame seeds

Poppy seeds

Everything bagel mix

non stick spray

Two day directions

Have your 110F water ready in a tub or bowl. Add the sugar, 2 T. honey and the yeast to that water and mix well and cover with a lid or plastic wrap. It need about ten minutes to make a foamy top.

In your mixer add the flour, malt flour, and salt. Use dough hook.

After water is foamy then you can add it to the flours.

The directions for my Kitchen Aid Mixer say not to use above speed number two with the dough hook so I did mine on speed number 2 for ten minutes. Depending on your brand of flour the recipe can be up to two tablespoons light or heavy with the flour or water. YOU NEED to look at the dough and decide it it needs slightly more water or more flour. The dough needs to stick together and pull away from the bowl.

Put the dough in a tub(s) or Bowl (s) and cover with lid or plastic wrap. Refrigerate over night.

DAY TWO

Cut the dough in quarters. Start with one quarter and roll it as long as your cutting board. Then cut that dough in half longways so you have two long thinner doughs and roll it smooth.

You need a couple sheet pans sprayed lightly with non stick spray.

For mini bagels you need to wrap dough around two fingers.

Then squish the ends into the dough.

Keep going.

Now you need your boiling water with the baking soda and honey added.

You also need your bagel toppings set up.

Pan of sesame seeds

Pan of poppy seeds

Pan of everything bagel mix

You also need to set your oven on air fry.

I boiled the bagels only maybe two minutes after they floated

Then they got dipped on both sides with seeds and back on the sprayed sheet pans t

They went in my oven set at air fry for only 10 minutes.

My first ones I made too small and were super mini. These I only wrapped around one finger.

Not perfect but they taste amazing.

Did a bit better with my 2nd batch with the dough wrapped around two fingers.

I also figured out a lox recipe to publish soon.

FORKING Amazing Mini Bagels

ENJOY!!!!

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Little Avalon Cafe – GOOD but not perfect – Las Vegas NV

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Little Avalon Cafe is a casual coffee and healthy eats sort of place with three locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The newest North Decatur Blvd location (as of this posting) is not yet listed on their website. You come here for coffees, lattes, breakfast, all kinds of heathy bowl meals, fancy toasts, salads, smoothies, sandwiches, and even fish and chips.

It’s casual. You order and pay at the counter. They either call your name when something is ready and sometimes they run some things out to you as they are ready.

You can seat yourself on the community patio.

Or inside at a table or the counter.

I thought that the strawberry mix salad sounded good so I tried it with added salmon.

The salmon is grilled nicely with nice grill marks.

It’s also prepared surprisingly perfect with a moist medium center.

The soft greens and strawberries are nice and fresh and taste good.

But my salad is missing the candied walnuts.

It does have the quinoa but it is such a small sprinkle of quinoa that it just gets caught in your teeth. (I doubt it even amounts to a teaspoon of quinoa).

Still a good salad but missing the candied walnuts and not enough quinoa to be satisfying.

My husband tried the Philly Cheesesteak with Waffle Fries.

The sandwich is on a good quality sourdough seeded roll that is generously (maybe too generously) slathered with butter. The shaved ribeye is nicely caramelized and tastes good with the onions and bell peppers but HARDLY CONTAINS ANY CHEESE. It’s still a good sandwich but slightly disappointing with the lack of Cooper Sharp Cheese. I do note that the waffle fries are very good and are fluffy inside, freshly made and nicely seasoned.

Both meals Good

Both Meals NOT PERFECT.

Little Avalon

6584 N Decatur Blvd Las Vegas Nevada

725-204-1968

www.LittleAvalonLV.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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Tres Tacos Birria De Res FOOD TRUCK North Las Vegas NV is Worth a Fork!

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Tres Tacos Birria De Res Food Truck is located at the Murphy Express Gas Station (6035 Losee Rd) in North Las Vegas Nevada 4pm-? Tuesdays-Sundays. They offer a limited menu of Mexican Foods.

There is no seating so you do takeout or stand at a shallow table.

On our first visit we just shared street sized double shelled chicken tacos (without the sour cream).

We were very surprised on how good the chicken tacos were. They were well packed with flavorful moist chicken.

We went back and my husband tried one of each taco they offer. (without the sour cream)

Top left – chicken taco

Top right – adobada (beef)

bottom left – asada

bottom right – birria

All were at least good. A fav might be the adobada?

I had three. (without the sour cream)

Left to right birria, chicken, asada. All good. Like the birria and chicken best.

We also shared some Mexican Rice and Beans.

On another visit my husband tried a quesabirria taco and said that it really was very VERY good!

Tres Tacos Birria De Res seems to be Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Tres Tacos Birria De Res

6035 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV (in the Murphy Express parking lot)

725-321-2718

I haven’t found a website for this business but they do have a Facebook Page.

Every THING is subject to change.

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Seventy Six Lamb by Station Casinos is mostly good and is Worth a Try! – North Las Vegas NV

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The Lamb Boulevard location of Seventy Six Station Casino offers a 24/7 bar, gaming, and restaurant that also offers all day breakfast. They also offer a mostly American Menu of various lunch and dinner choices.

So far everything has been at least good (except for the salmon because it was over cooked and not flavored well)

It looks like the typical 24/7 bar, gaming and food places that we have all over town. With lots of big screen TVs and a combination of bar seating, traditional seating and high tops.

So far we’ve tried-

Poblano Rings (not on current menu)
Filet Tips
Salmon (only dish so far that I wouldn’t recommend)

Fish and Chips

American Burger with Onion Rings

Smokehouse Salad with BBQ Chicken

Pot Roast Melt with Tator Tots

So far everything was at least good (except the salmon)

Seventy Six Lamb by Station Casinos is Worth a Try!

6345 N Lamb Blvd North Las Vegas NV

702-631-7000

www.SeventySixTaverns.com

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The FORKING Las Vegas FOOD Buzz of the Week

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We went to the Great American Foodie Fest this week but my best taste of the week was a chicken sandwich that came from a food truck that was at the Henderson Art Festival called Good Hood.

Hot Honey Chicken Sando – Fried Chicken served with brined chillies in honey with pepper jack cheese, arugula, tomato, and signature sauce on a toasted brioche bun

It was just a really GREAT Juicy delicious sandwich packed with layers of flavors. Actually this was my husband’s sandwich and I only had a bite but it was amazing.

The food I tried at the Great American Foodie Fest wasn’t bad but it didn’t blow me away. (keep in mind that I wasn’t able to try much there because portions were full size so we got done fast)

In other FOOD News –

May 15 NADC (Not A Damn Chance) Burger opens – 124 S 6TH Street

May 16 Flavors of Aloha Festival – Craig Ranch Park

May 16 With Love Always (smash Bbrgers and custard) Red Rock Casino

May 16 Tailgate Beach Club – Mandalay Bay – Snoop Dog is expected to preform

May 19 Zippy’s – 5485 Camino Al Norte – NORTH Las Vegas

Till May 31 Michelin Starred and James Beard Awarded – Alinea POP UP – Belaggio – Micheal Mina Restaurant

May 31 Last day for MGM Grand Buffet

Spring? Bartho’s (beer bar) 1563 S Commerce Street

Spring? Cobra Clutch Cocktail Bar 1201 S Main Street

Spring? Wings Korean Chicken 5105 S Fort Apache Rd

Spring? Everything Philly & Co (ghost kitchen) 110 S Rainbow Blvd

Spring? Whole Lotta Sweets Cafe 5695 E Charleston Blvd

Spring? Sizzle Steak Burger 3585 S Fort Apache Rd

Summer? Siegel’s 1941 (Breakfast & Lunch) Alex Steakhouse (same spot for dinner) El Cortez

August 26 Michelin Guild Southwest Ceremony – INVITATION ONLY – Fontainebleau

Fall? Stix Asian Food Hall – Uncommons

And in Silly and or Cute Food News – It’s HOT here so my dogs got a car ride to In-N-Out Burger and ate the burger at home.

That was the FORKING Las Vegas Buzz of the Week

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My FORKING Thoughts on Maeve Dirt Pile Rich Dark Chocolate Bars

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My local Sprouts Grocery had a sale on a selection of Maeve Chocolate Bars on sale so I picked what sounded like what was the most interesting flavor that day. It was called Dirt Pile Rich Dark Chocolate Bar. It said that it was made of Dark Chocolate, Mini Chocolate Chips, Crunchy Cookies, and Cocao Nibs.

Sounds good

I open it up…..it’s slightly broken….Maybe that is why it was reduced so much?

Take a piece

When you just eat it then it’s hard to tell what is in the chocolate.

When you let it dissolve in your mouth then you clearly can identify cookie crumbs and the bitter cocao nibs. I didn’t identify mini chocolate chips and I think maybe they just melted into the bar.

The bar does have a nice rich chocolate flavor and isn’t waxy. It’s good but also small. I wouldn’t pay too much for it.

Not bad and Worth a Try!

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on the Maeve Dirt Pile Rich Dark Chocolate Bar. I do note that your FORKING THOUGHTS may indeed differ.

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