The Peppermill & Fireside Lounge is a famous American Style Diner and Bar located on the Las Vegas Strip. All kinds of BIG TIME celebrities have dined here. This place has also been featured in movies and TV Shows (maybe because of all the Neon inside).

They do have a partially open kitchen so you can see some of the kitchen action.

We tried lunch last time. We tried a cauliflower appetizer that isn’t on the current menu.

A salad.

and a burger.

It was all reasonably good.

We went back eventually and this time tried dinner.

Our dinners started with Caesar Salads that I forgot to photo. They were generous in size but the dressing lacked full flavors. ( I don’t know but think it wasn’t real Caesar…I don’t know but think it was missing the anchovies and could have used a little more garlic. It just seemed kinda flat and bland)

We were with two other people. Maybe? the best dish of the evening was the crab cakes because the person that had them said that they were ok but they felt that the restaurant over sauced her salad with salad dressing.

The other three dinners were ALL BAD! Everything was cold, hard, tough, or over cooked, either unseasoned, or slammed with too much salt. Nothing was good.

Maybe the worst one might have been with the person who ordered the New York Strip? EVERYTHING on the plate was BAD. Someone spilled A LOT of salt on the steak. The Steak was tough and COLD. The mushrooms were COLD. The potato wasn’t a russet but was a wax potato and also was COLD AND HARD. You couldn’t get butter to melt on it if you tried.

My Meal was the the Hot Honey Halibut with Gochujang mixed vegetables, rice, and garlic bread. (and I didn’t get any garlic bread)

The Halibut was over cooked and only tasted sweet like honey. The vegetables tasted completely unseasoned and were served cold. The rice was also cold.

My husband had a cold tough pork chop with gummy mashed potatoes, and cold unseasoned vegetables.

BLECH!

Maybe the worst part was that nobody from the restaurant seemed to care.

Maybe you will do alright if you order a breakfast or sandwich here?

Those where my trips to The Peppermill & Fireside Lounge.

2985 Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-735-4177

www.PeppermillLasVegas.com

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L&L Hawaiian Barbecue is a Casual Hawaiian Food Chain with TWO HUNDRED locations and growing more. We happen to have many similar restaurants in Las Vegas and also many in North Las Vegas. These places specialize in the Hawaiian Plate Lunch. That means that you get a styrofoam box that is jam packed with a lot of meat, rice, and other stuff. It’s casual. You order at the counter or on-line. You grab a seat inside or on the community patio if the weather is right.

I never tried L&L Hawaiian Barbecue when I lived in Phoenix because we had Leo’s Island BBQ nearby in Peoria AZ that was very good. We used to enjoy one of the near by Hawaiian Barbecues until it changed and sort of went down the tubes. (below is from the last thing I tried there)

Anyways-

One of my neighbors said that their favorite Hawaiian BBQ Restaurant was L&L Hawaiian Barbecue so we gave it a try. This location shares a community patio that is only two doors down. The weather was nice so we brought the dogs with us to help eat up the massive amount of food.

We shared an order of chicken potstickers that were tasty (and also had a bunch to bring home).

I tried the Healthier Chicken BBQ Plate. It came with two scoops of brown rice, salad, and ranch dressing.

They gave me THREE nicely browned and juicy chicken thighs. This is very tasty and is enough for THREE lunches.

My husband tried the Spicy Beef.

This is kinda sweet and spicy. I can’t chew the beef but my husband can. Maybe my teeth aren’t sharp enough?

Dogs didn’t have a problem eating it either.

He also had a coupon for a free Spam Musubi so he enjoyed that too.

We also sampled one piece of Fried Fish.

Not sure if I will try fish again here. It has that like frozen fish from the supermarket taste.

The dogs enjoyed it.

They also enjoyed brown rice, chicken, and beef.

L&L Hawaiian Barbecue

2520 E Craig Rd N Las Vegas NV

702-399-9898

www.HawaiianBarbecue.com

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Cantinetta Pizza & Pasta is an Italian Restaurant and Bar located in Las Vegas Nevada. It’s under the same ownership as Brunello LV in Summerlin and both restaurants are embellished with Sofia Loren Photos all around.

They offer the usual Italian Foods that you would expect to find on the menu but they also offer some plates that you wouldn’t expect like beet carpaccio, salmon carbonara, and chocolate fettuccini.

Whatever you order they start you off with warm bread with sun-dried tomato oil.

We shared the Fried Eggplant Appetizer.

It comes on top of a creamy walnut sauce. The eggplant is fried very nice and seems free of oil. The eggplant itself is very sweet and taste like a white eggplant. I’m not sure if the walnut sauce does much for the eggplant but it’s different and ok.

The chicken piccata was traditional and good.

It’s in a white wine lemon caper sauce and came with nicely prepared fresh vegetables and some potato.

The rigatoni picante is a bit different.

Instead of being made with sausage it”s made with nduja (spreadable SPICY sausage made with Calabrian Chili) My husband said that it was good but much spicier than he was expecting.

We were pretty full but managed to fit in a gelato. They were nice enough to offer 1/2 and 1/2 gelato so we went with pistachio and Amareno Cherry.

That was our sweet ending to a nice meal out.

Cantinetta Pizza & Pasta is Worth a Try!

3665 S Fort Apache Rd Las Vegas NV

702-780-4976

www.CantinettaLV.com

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Wexler’s Deli was a popular Jewish Style Deli from California. Chef Wexler formally worked at Craft by Tom Colicchio and L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon. The late restaurant critic Johnathan Gold wrote that Wexler’s O.G. Pastrami Sandwich was superb. Now all the Wexler Locations are gone and only a small Wexler’s Food Court Location remains. I read that Wexler’s is one of the few delis in anywhere that cures and smoked and also hand cut their own pastrami and lox. The tiny little Las Vegas location in the Proper Eats Food Hall also cures, smokes, and hand slices their own pastrami and lox and might also be the only deli in Las Vegas that does so.

We ordered our usual. We split a lox on an everything bagel and also split the OG Pastrami.

The lox and cream cheese has capers under the lox. It’s sliced masterfully thin and might be the finest lox sandwich that you can get in Vegas.

Today the pastrami is maybe a more generous serving than usual but also is more fatty. It’s masterfully tender but I think it is also flavored slightly different. It has more bark than the last couple times, maybe more fat, and is a brighter color. (I suspect a heavier amount of curing salt..) HOWEVER it is still one of the very best pastrami sandwiches anywhere.

Prior pastrami sandwiches did differ slightly.

Above was my first Wexler’s Pastrami Sandwich

A prior pastrami sandwich

They all were masterfully tender and delicious. The Lox and Cream Cheese must be the very best one in Vegas.

Worth a Fork!

Wexler’s Deli in the Proper Eats Food Hall in the Aria on the Las Vegas Strip

3730 S Las Vegas Blvd

702-590-8664

www.WexlersDeli.com

www.ProperEatsLasVegas.com

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Marche Bacchus is a French Bistro and Wine Shop located in Summerlin by Lake Jacqueline. They offer a French Mediterranean Menu that includes steak, seafood, pasta, and more! It’s very large inside with several dining areas.

As you enter there is a bar area.

The other side of the bar area holds many refrigerators packed with wines and champagnes. You can buy a bottle in the store here and they charge just $10. over price of bottle to serve it to you in the restaurant.

To the left is a formal dining area (no photo).

Pass the bar is this area –

Then I got seated in this area.

With stunning views –

We also saw a variety of wildlife here. I saw rabbits running around. A variety of birds flying over and swimming. Turtles and a variety of fish swimming and also someone in a boat.

We started off by sharing the Leeks in Vinaigrette (grilled leeks, lime vinaigrette, crispy garlic, finger limes, shaved hearts of palm, frisee)

Good but I expected it to pop more. I could taste lots of lime but didn’t get the finger lime texture anywhere that I was expecting. I will try something else next time.

Had the Niçoise salad (tempura anchovies, sesame seared tuna, potatoes, green beans, tomato, hard boiled egg, herb salad, butter lettuce, olive tapenade, gigante beans).

Good and it was nice that they seasoned the egg. Probably good for most people but the olive tapenade is a bit strong for me.

My husband enjoyed the French Dip (Angus beef, provolone, baguette, au jus, creamy horseradish) He did say that this was maybe the best French Dip that he has ever tried.

A sweet ending was the Orange Ricotta Poached Figs a la mode with Vanilla ice cream, fig coulis, and phylo crisp

Very Good

A few weeks latter we came back for dinner.

They started us off with whipped butter and a tasty sliced baguette.

We tried the Truffled Goat Cheese Napoleon.

It’s a bunch of layers of light crisp pastry with super creamy truffled goat cheese.

For dinner I tried the Trout Almandine.

It’s a large portion of Boneless Trout. It came out with a crisp skin but in a while the skin turn soft. The flesh is mild and meaty for trout. Toasted almonds, butter and fresh herbs adorn the fish.

My husband said that the Beef Bourguignon was very good.

He said that it was tender with delicious flavors.

I brought back 1/2 my dinner home so we could share the Chocolate Indulgence Dessert.

Now this is very good. I can taste rich and quality chocolate with nice textures. Under is a slice of moist chocolate cake. The middle tastes like chocolate pots de creme. On the top are multiple little crunchy things.

Stunning atmosphere and At least Worth a Try!

Marche Bacchus

2620 Regatta Dr Las Vegas NV

702-804-8008

www.MarcheBacchus.com

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