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Dining Out and In With DOGS In Las Vegas NV September 2024

Around the beginning of the month it finally started to get cooler in Vegas so we were able to Dine Out With Dogs. Dining Out With Dogs sort of started with my late dog Louie. Good Old Louie always enjoyed going out to eat. When he got diagnosed with aggressive cancer I took him out as often as I could and instead of the 3-6 months they thought he had Good Old Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when the weather is right and when I can.

We made it to the #1 Hawaiian Barbecue. They don’t have their own patio but only two doors down is a community patio.

I got….I mean we got the maui maui healthier plate (salad & brown rice makes this healthier than white rice and macaroni salad)

My husband (and dogs) got some of the spicy chicken plate.

Gotta feed the dogs some fish.

Mine also came with a hard boiled egg so I shared that with the dogs too!

#1 Hawaiian Barbecue

5870 N Losee Rd N Las Vegas NV

702-642-4600

www.BestHawaiianBarbecue.com

Who knew the next week would be too hot to dine out with dogs?….So we brought them back a Five Guys Cheeseburger.

They would rather dine out but they always enjoy a Five Guys Cheeseburger.

The next week it was hot again so the dogs went for a ride to the In-N-Out Drive Thru.

Here’s their cheeseburger.

They get to eat the meat & cheese.

They always enjoy In-N-Out Cheeseburgers.

The following it was borderline cool enough to dine out. We tried to dine at SNS Diner BBQ. But they were having some sort of meltdown that day. We’ll try them again in the near future.

We did get to make it out to Those Guys Pies in North Las Vegas. They specialize in Pizzas and Cheesesteaks. If they seem familiar to you it’s because you might have seen them on Food Network’s Diners Drive Ins and Dives. They love dogs here and have a craft dog biscuit vending machine inside. Today they enjoyed some craft chicken dog biscuits.

They also enjoyed chicken from my Lakeside Salad.

They also got to enjoy some cheesesteak.

The Dogs always enjoys all their trips to Those Guys Pies.

Those Guys Pies

5585 Simmons Street North Las Vegas NV

725-251-5826

www.ThoseGuysPies.com

Well that was dining out and in with dogs for September 2024. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.

The Forking Truth
In Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017

A Little Taste Of Aromi Italian Restaurant Las Vegas NV

Aromi Italian Restaurant is located in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas NV. They offer most of your favorite Italian dishes but also offer a very large lunch menu with lots of choices.

They also started us off with toasted bars of rosemary bread and our choice of oil or butter (we picked oil).

I thought that the bread was good but the oil had something bitter in it that I found unappetizing….

I tried the lunch Branzino.

The fish was prepared reasonably well and did come out with a shattering crisp skin, fancy carrots and asparagus spears in a lemon butter caper sauce. It looks nice this way but the skin would have stayed crisp if the fish wasn’t placed skin side down.

My husband got the mushroom raviolis with short rib.

He said that the ravioli were made nicely. The short rib was good and succulent. Probably great for most people but fattier than I can eat.

That was a Little Taste of Aromi Italian Kitchen

2110 N Rampart Blvd Las Vegas NV

725-204-6196

www.AromiLasVegas.com

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The Forking Truth

Bazaar Mar Las Vegas NV – Seafood Tapas by Jose Andres & Team – AMAZING – Worth a Fork!

Bazaar Mar is a Seafood Tapas Restaurant with Spanish Embellishment by Multi Award Wining and Michelin Stared Chef and Restauranteur Jose Andres and Team. The Las Vegas Location is located in The Shops At Crystals on the Las Vegas Strip.

There’s a large bar that sits in the middle of the restaurant.

At the end of the bar area is an open kitchen with today’s fresh flown in fish on display.

We start out with two River Trout Cones embellished with very light smoke, preserved lemon, and fresh dill.

My husband enjoys Jamon Iberico ham so he had a Jose’s Taco (Jamon Iberico De Bellota, Ossetna Caviar, gold leaf, and nori)

This one was hard to share but possibly was my favorite small bite of the evening.

This is listed under mini sandwiches. It’s called bagel and lox and is made with Russ & Daughters smoked salmon. It’s a hallow but very crisp fish shaped bread with seeds. It’s filled with the airiest cream cheese ever. The bread is topped with silky lox that is embellished with crisp capers and fresh dill.

This one was great too but also was my husband’s favorite small bite plate. It’s the Bluefin Tuna and fried quail egg. It’s in a soy dashi broth with nori.

It might not look so small but you roll up the fish around the quail egg to eat it and it turns into a small bite.

Next was our main plate. We shared a grilled branzino type fish. it sits in a donostiarra sauce (Spanish sauce possibly made with parsley, sherry vinegar, garlic, and paprika) and is topped with sliced garlic and sea salt.

I accidentally got a few bites with too much salt for my taste but most of the fish was very good and melted in the mouth.

We also shared an incredible plate of Japanese Baby Peaches (with stracciatella cheese, hazelnuts, something crunchy, and za’atar).

It’s so interesting and so different! It’s also sort of light and refreshing. You are suppose to get a little bit of everything on your spoon and try it that way.

I thought the perfect dessert for tonight was the Arroz Con Leche Merengon (Meringue, Arroz Con Leche Espuma (foam), blood orange granita, Thai Basil)

It was light and refreshing. I thought it went perfect with all the plates we tried.

Then it was somebody’s birthday so they gave us this and two complimentary sparkling wines.

Service was amazing and the food was just incredible!

Bazaar Mar is certainly Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Bazaar Mar

3720 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-803-1100

www.TheBazaar.com

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The Forking Truth

Showing Off

Showing Off is just to show you that I am still cooking or baking things.

Up above is a plain pizza with a good amount of fresh mozzarella on it.

Next is a slightly different onion galette. I used asiago cheese and added seeds and flake sea salt to the ends of the crust.

Below are spaghetti cupcakes

Next are-

Baked Salmon Mousse Balls and I also made a Mandarin Ginger Sauce to go with them and they sit on these cute little cracker bowls.

Sweet Potato Hand Pies

From the leftover sweet potato filling I just added an egg, more sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, pomegranate, and a few chocolate chips, and then embellished the tops.

Sweet potato bites with pomegranate and chocolate chips

Lightly Pickled Deviled Eggs

I packaged them like this.

That was a little bit of showing off.

The Forking Truth

My Trip To Servehzah Bottle Shop & Tap Room North Las Vegas NV

Servehzah Bottle Shop and Tap Room’s original location is in the Las Vegas Arts District and a second location is in North Las Vegas Nevada. Besides all kinds of craft beers they also offer food. Some of the offerings are shareable snacks like nachos, chips and dips, quesadillas. The specialty plates are the protein bowl and the street hot dog. They also offer tacos, burritos, desserts, and a few brunch dishes.

The North Las Vegas Location has an outdoor patio.

Inside is spacious with a bar and tables but there is no wait service. In the middle of the room is a refrigerator with many cans of beer. At the bar are many beer taps. They also have many big screen TVs across the room.

They also have these cards on the tables to remind you to order and pay at the bar.

My husband tried 4 tacos. (asada, chicken, shrimp, bang bang cauliflower)

They look good but taste is another story. All four arrive cold. Nothing was heated up. We don’t know but the fried ones (shrimp & cauliflower) have a breading that is wet, cold, and falling apart. Don’t know but they seem premade and frozen and didn’t thaw right?

I tried a specialty dish the protein bowl with chicken (that also arrived all cold).

The only parts that I can stomach are the avocado, chick peas, and fried onion. Something is also wrong with the dressing….It’s hard like cold cream cheese and doesn’t pour or taste edible.

I do NOT plan to ever return to Servehzah Bottle Shop & Tap Room nor do I recommend.

Servehzah Bottle Shop & Tap Room

640 E Deer Springs Way N Las Vegas NV

702-779-3176

www.Servehzah.com

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The Forking Truth

Bites Of Europe – Las Vegas NV – Pierogi, Schnitzel, Cabbage Rolls – Worth a Try!

Bites of Europe is a European Style Restaurant and Bar in Las Vegas Nevada.

They offer European Style foods that you might be familiar with like pierogi, schnitzel, and cabbage rolls. They also offer some Other Foods that you might not expect like Norwegian Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs, Lunch Paninis, Pumpernickel Fries, and Fish and Chips.

We started out by sharing the Norwegian Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs.

They are milder softer deviled eggs embellished with dill and capers wrapped with smoked salmon. Good but I personally would have preferred the capers to be fried crisp instead of fried moist.

We also shared the fried potato and cheese pierogi.

These pierogi are fried very nicely and also come with very good caramelized onions. The pierogi dough here is whisper thin. Inside is different…. I don’t really taste the cheese but I can tell some dairy is mixed into the potato filling. My guess is that maybe a little bit of Farmer’s Cheese might have been used here?

For our main we share the Turkey and Rice Cabbage Rolls (no sour cream at my request). With mashed potatoes.

The sauce is much thicker and a lot less sweet than what I’m used to. Inside seems mostly like ground turkey…..tasty

We have to try the dessert of the day that was lemon semifreddo with peaches.

It was a nice sweet ending to a nice meal out.

Bites Of Europe is Worth a Try!

10040 West Cheyenne Ave Las Vegas NV

725-254-0095

www.BitesOfEurope.com

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth

Spaghetti Cupcakes Recipe

They had a pasta sale at my local Smith’s Grocery. Pasta was only $1.00 a box so why the Fork not? This is pretty easy to prepare. You will get around 10-20 servings depending on if your serving size is one or two. I think some people will eat one and at least half the people out there will eat two so I’ll say 15 servings.

Ingredients for around 15 servings

1 lb spaghetti

2 cups spaghetti sauce

1 egg – beaten

1 cup ricotta

1/2 cup parmesan – grated – plus extra for serving

2 oz cream cheese – room temperature

1 egg

1 cup spaghetti sauce

sea salt to taste

ground black pepper to taste

non stick spray

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F and spray two cupcake pans with non stick spray.

Boil spaghetti 2 minutes less than box suggests.

Drain spaghetti and mix with 2 cups sauce and beaten egg.

Fill about 21 cups from the cupcake pans with the spaghetti.

In a medium bowl mix together the ricotta, parm, cream cheese, egg, salt and pepper and set to the side.

Next they get topped with the cup of sauce.

Next use a spoon or a small scoop and top each with some cheese mixture.

About 20 minutes on the middle or lower rack and they are done.

Spaghetti Cupcakes

Serve with extra grated parmesan, hot red pepper, and if you have them some fresh basil.

ENJOY!!!!

The Forking Truth

My FORKING Thoughts on Savoursmiths Truffle Rosemary Vegan Luxury English Potato Chips

I noticed these Savoursmiths Truffle Rosemary Potato Chips for around $6.99 a bag at my local Sprouts Grocery. They became discontinued and were marked down to a $1. a bag so I decided to give them a try.

The bag is marked Vegan and the ingredients don’t seem too far out so they seem safe to try.

I open the bag and take a whiff.

They smell strange…………Maybe a little like a herbal soap?

I pour some out.

The chips differ in size from small to large in size and do appear to have bubbly layers in the chips……

Texture-wise the chips are amazing. Crisp but not too crisp with layers also dry and not oily.

but-

The chips are coated very heavy with powders and are over seasoned. They even seem cheesy but cheese is not listed in the ingredients.

Between the cheesy taste, mushroom, onion, garlic, thyme, rosemary, truffle it is all too much and is far too powdery to enjoy.

Those were my FORKING Thoughts on Savoursmiths Truffle and Rosemary Chips.

Your FORKING Thoughts may indeed differ.

The Forking Truth

Juan’s Flaming Fajitas – North Las Vegas – Worth a Try!

Juan’s Flaming Fajitas is a Mexican Restaurant and Bar with Three Locations in Las Vegas. The North Las Vegas location often has live music at night. This is the type of Mexican Restaurant that gives you complimentary house made chips and more. They offer most of your usual favorites, FLAMING FAJITAS and they do sing, “Happy Birthday” to birthday guests.

And makes their own tortillas.

With whatever you order they always start you off with hot chips, bean dip, green salsa, and red salsa.

Then they give you Fideo Soup (chicken broth, tomato, short noodles).

Most likely you are going to order a fajita.

This is a double steak and chicken fajita (Steak, chicken, peppers onions). The fajitas are served with tortillas and a side dish.

Above is a side dish of rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de Gallo.

Juan’s Flaming Fajitas is always Worth a Try!

2660 W Centennial PKWY North Las Vegas NV

702-473-5529

www.JuansFlamingFajitas.com

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The Forking Truth

Cafe Breizh – Las Vegas NV – FINE French Baked Goods and More!

Cafe Breizh is located in Las Vegas Nevada. They offer fine French Baked Goods, some grocery, and also serve breakfast and some French Cafe Type Meals like galettes, crepes, salads, hot & cold sandwiches, and platters.

As you enter you get so see so many pastries……

YIKES! This is only a small fraction of what to see…………What to get? think I’m gaining weight just looking at all of them.

Then you make it to the dining room if you are ordering a meal.

My husband tried to order the croque madame but we were told they were all sold out of them today so he went with the La Tartiflette Galette not knowing that it was a buckwheat crepe……In America galettes are flat pies.

This Galette is stuffed with prosciutto, roblechon cheese, potatoes, onion, and cream.

I tried a salmon platter.

I got toasted brioche bread, smoked salmon with capers, cucumber slices, sweet tomatoes with onions, lemon, and chive cream.

I thought both desserts we tried were fabulous!

Lemon Tart

Brownie – quality chocolate and lots of it but very rich…..

That was a little taste of

Cafe Breizh

3555 S Fort Apache Las Vegas NV

702-209-3472

www.CafeBreizh.com

Every THING is subject to change.

The Forking Truth