Calabash African Kitchen is Worth a Fork! – Las Vegas NV

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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.

Calabash African Kitchen is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Calabash African Kitchen

1750 S Rainbow Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-331-6440

www.CalabashLV.com

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The FORKING Las Vegas FOOD Buzz of the Week

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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.

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Foods that YOU can make too

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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!

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Ada’s Food & Wine – Las Vegas NV – Mostly Very Good! – Worth a Try!

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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!

1130 S Casino Center Blvd Las Vegas NV

725-252-0528

www.AdasLV.com

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My Trip to The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills POP UP at Red Rock Resort – Las Vegas NV

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I read in the Las Vegas Review Journal that the Cheese Store of Beverly Hills was doing a POP UP at Red Rock Resort 12-5pm February 28th. I latter found out by my husband who read on Red Rock’s website that the hours were 11-4 and not 12-5. I did plan to arrive about a 1/2 hour early because the pop up at Red Rock are big events. I saw a short menu of a few sandwiches, a salad, and a few desserts. We arrived around 10:30 and waited about an hour in line.

When we finally got closer there was a lot of complimentary cheese to try and also some lunch meats and crackers.

Then we looked at the condiments that were for sale.

Then guess what?

Another cheese tray to sample.

When we got to order we found out that everything was premade so no special orders or request could be made.

Also no seating but you could stand up at a high table. We choose to find the food court so we could sit down. When I opened the bag I saw that they skipped out on giving us napkins and they didn’t even give a FORK to give me a fork! My husband had to steal napkins and a fork from the food court.

I tried a Jidori Chicken Caesar Salad. It’s not bad at all but kinda average.

My husband tried the La Macellaia Sandwich (prosciutto cotto, finocchiona,coppa, spicy ventricina salami, red onions, provolone, iceberg, oregano vinaigrette).

He said that the bread was good. He thought it seemed like the sandwich might have been made the day before because the inside was just squished together and didn’t have that fresh made sandwich texture. He also thought that the provolone seemed like not the best.

So GLAD I didn’t come at 12 because the line was so longs I’m certain that over a thousand people were there and it was relatively a short line when I waited an hour. I’m sure that these people would have to wait several hours to get what we had that is if they got in at all.

That was my trip to The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills POP UP at Red Rock Resort.

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Newly Opened HAYWORTH – Possibly the MOST UNIQUE Restaurant near Las Vegas NV – Henderson NV – With a Fork!

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Have you ever been to a steak house that offers elevated delicatessen? Hayworth recently opened in Henderson Nevada. It’s by chef Alex Resnik who was a Bravo Top Chef Contestant and also did some Food Network TV shows and actually beat chef Bobby Flay on the Beat Bobby Flay TV Show.

Hayworth is a steak house that offers prime steaks cooked on live fire and also offers many delicatessen items. Some of the delicatessen offers are challah with schmaltz, a delicatessen platter, smoked whitefish, salmon lake, beef tongue agnolotti, potato kugel, sablefish, and 24 hour WAGYU PASTRAMI.

It’s nice and rich looking inside.

They have traditional tables, 1/2 booths, bar seating, and it looks like an outdoor patio is in the works.

We started out by sharing a romaine salad that is described as Caesar-ish.

It’s different but good. It some sort of artsy chef-ee creation.

We also shared the lox and latke.

For my taste it could use more cream cheese (Temptee) but is good.

The Sablefish entree was really FORKING Amazing.

This mild whitefish was so darn perfect it just melted in the mouth. It was in a very unusual unique tahini, apple, honey, beurre blanc sauce with parsnips and embellished with trout roe and sea beans. This plate really was amazing.

The 24 hour Wagyu Pastrami was also very good.

The Pastrami was tender and flavored well. We liked the beets. Brussels Sprouts were slightly hard.

Then we had to try the chocolate babka.

It tastes how it looks. Chocolaty with pistachio embellished cream on the sauce in chocolate sauce.

I have to say Hayworth is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Hayworth

1450 W Horizon Ridge Pkwy

702-268-7682

www.HayworthLV.com

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The FORKING Las Vegas FOOD Buzz of the Week

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It was a pretty exciting week. The New Marketon Super Market Just Opened on Craig Road. They offer your usual Grocery Items and a lot of Latino Foods and More!

We also got to try the also newly opened Amata Modern Thai Restaurant. It’s by the former executive chef of what was considered one of the best Asian Restaurants on the strip. I’m happy to say what we tried was very good.

We also enjoyed very good sandwiches from 702 Sandwich Shop.They used to be called La Cantina. Same place same people. Great sandwiches and also great desserts there too.

In other FOOD News –

Later This Year – The Michelin Guide Returns to Las Vegas after 17 years.

SOON (reservations being taken now) – Fogo De Chao opens at Venetian

SOON? – Mariacheez Pizza 5770 Centennial Center Blvd

CLOSING – March 27 Fiorella Pasta by Marc Vetri (Durango)

March 27-29 – FOODIELAND – Las Vegas Motor Speedway

March 27 – AAKS Food Fest 2026 (free admission) Silverton Casino Lodge

March 28 – Cantina Contramar – Fontainebleau

April 11 & 12 – Tacos and Tamale Festival – Desert Breeze Events Center – 8455 Kids Zone Pkwy

April 18 – Taste of Station – Red Rock Resort Pool – Unlimited Tastings Drinks & More GA $100PP+ & VIP $175.PP+

April 26 – Unstripped Food Fest 6pm-9pm Palms

Spring – Porfirio’s Place (Mexican) – In a gas station 6085 S Rainbow Blvd

Spring – Able Baker Bomb Shelter 6371 Centennial Center Blvd

Spring – The Hat (Pastrami Dip Restaurant from CA)

This Year? – The Lucky Otter (Irish Pub) 10 W Wyoming Ave

End of Year? – Losee Village Retail Complex and Eateries – NORTH Las Vegas

In Silly and or Cute Food News – My Dogs eating some Riva’s Mexican Food.

That was The FORKING Las Vegas FOOD Buzz of the Week

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NEW WeiRD DIFferenT Limited and Special Edition Foods out there February 2026

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There is always something new, weird, different, limited, and special edition in the supermarket. These days you never know WTFork you will come across when you shop for food.

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DIFFERENT – Fiber One 100 Calorie NATURALLY Flavored Chocolate Donuts. Do-Nut worry be happy only 100 calories HA!

LIMITED EDITION – Cheez-It ….In something called Wendy’s Baconator ?????? Oddly these are vegetarian so there is nothing to pig out on.

NEW – Cheez-It Crunch in Kick’n Nacho Cheese, Zesty Jalapeño Cheddar, Sharp White Cheddar

DIFFERENT – Cracker Barrel Macaroni and Cheese – Sounds good but don’t know if it is.

DIFFERENT – Cheetos Mac’n Cheese Four Cheesy flavor with OTHER? natural flavors

DIFFERENT – Cheetos Mac’n Cheese Bold & Cheesy

DIFFERENT – Lay’s Sweet Southern Heat Barbecue

WEIRD – Success Import – Green Pepper Mini Twist Pastry – I think that Green Pepper is a strange flavor for a pastry

DIFFERENT – Garleek – We know garlic we know leeks now there is Garleek

DIFFERENT – Guy Fieri’s Flavortown (Frozen) Buffalo Chicken Pasta

DIFFERENT – Chef Ramsay (Frozen) Chicken Pot Pie Bites

DIFFERENT (and leftover) Peeps Marshmallow Gingerbread Men

DIFFERENT( and also leftover) Frosty The Snowman Gummies

DIFFERENT – Hershey’s Kisses in Cafe Moka (Don’t understand the spelling)

DIFFERENT – Hershey’s Kisses in Strawberry

DIFFERENT – M&M’s Caramel POP’d crunchy and airy?

DIFFERENT – ARTIFICIALLY flavored honey bun caramel creams – Oh Boy!

DIFFERENT and HILARIOUS – Ricolino KRANKY Chocolates

And there is usually something Oreo

DIFFERENT – Nabisco Oreo Irish Cream ARTIFICIALLY flavored cookies

DIFFERENT – Oreo Thins – ARTIFICIALLY Flavored Tiramisu Oreo Cookies

DIFFERENT – Nabisco Minis with Peanut Butter flavor cream

That was the New, Weird, Different, Limited, and Special Edition Foods for February 2026. Who knows WTFork we will come across next month?

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Dining Out With DOGS in Las Vegas NV – February 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. Unfortunately poor old Louie came down with aggressive cancer. We were told that Louie probably only had three months to live but could possibly live up to six months. The one thing that Louie really enjoyed was going out to eat. So I took Louie out to eat as often as I could. Instead of the 3-6 months aloe made it another 17 months. Today I take current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.

The dogs recently got to go to the California Fish Grill.

WOW was it cold here and windy. We asked them to turn on one of the wall heaters for us. Nobody did so since it was to cold (62 and very windy) We took the food home as a to go. The dogs helped me eat my salmon from my Salmon Wasabi bowl.

They always enjoy the California Fish Grill.

www.CAFishGrill.com

Got lucky and the next week was warm so we went to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill. The dogs got to eat gyro meat, salmon, cucumbers with feta cheese, and chickpeas.

“The salmon is a little over cooked today.”

“I’ll eat it!’ “I’m hungry”

“The Chickpeas are good!”

“I can eat more!”

“We enjoy going to the Great Greek Mediterranean Grill!”

6540 Losee Rd N Las Vegas NV

702-749-8582

www.TheGreatGreek.com

The Dogs also got to go to The Market Grill Cafe. Here they actually have a DOG MENU and they got their very own Beef & Rice and Chicken and Rice Bowls.

My Husband had the Chicken, Vegetable, and Shrimp Skewer Platter.

I Had the Pomegranate Chicken Salad.

I was slowly feeding the dogs their bowls but they also got some of the skewers too. My plate isn’t healthy for dogs so I gave them a little feta cheese too.

They enjoyed themselves at the Market Grill Cafe.

Market Grill Cafe

7070 N Durango Dr Las Vegas NV

702-396-0070

www.MarketGrillCafe.com

The following week we went back to Mo’Bettah’s. It’s a casual Hawaiian Plate Lunch Restaurant with two outside tables. This time I got a mini plate lunch with pulehu chicken, katsu chicken, brown rice, and vegetables.

The mini plate isn’t so mini and everything is reasonably good.

My husband got a full size plate lunch of kalua pig, pulehu chicken, macaroni salad, and brown rice.

Then the dogs got to help us with our large generous platters.

They also enjoyed everything they tried!

Mo’Bettahs

1020 E Craig Rd North Las Vegas NV

725-285-0280

www.Mobettahs.com

That was Dining Out with DOGS for February 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 the Newly Opened Marketon Supermarket – Las Vegas NV

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A Brand New Marketon Supermarket recently opened at 5831 W Craig Rd in Vegas. They offer your usual grocery store items and also Latino specialties that are hard to find.

Below is a bit of what I saw there. I saw lots of lard there.

I saw some things that I never have seen before.

I also saw these hard to find special peppers here fresh and not dried.

I saw different snacks here.

I thought produce was very expensive here. A smaller sized cauliflower was $5.99 today. Five pound bags of flour were also very expensive and were $8.00 today. But they also had specials to counter some of the higher prices like large grinders of pink sea salt for $1.99.

That was a peek of the new Marketon.

5831 W Craig Road Las Vegas NV

702-570-2070

www.Marketon.com

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