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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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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

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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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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

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Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano at the Venetian Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano is a North Italian Type Full Service Restaurant located on Restaurant Row in the Palazzo part of the Venetian Hotel/Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. (Not pictured) is a cocktail bar on one side of the restaurant and on the far end (not pictured) is a pasta bar and in the middle is the main dining area.

Whatever you order they start you off with complimentary ciabatta, oil, and balsamic.

We shared an appetizer of sweet and spicy peppers stuffed with soft cheese.

They were adorned with pesto, grana padano, arugula, and oil.

For my main I had the Insalata Nizzarda.

This bountiful salad was made with confit blue fin tuna, seasoned hard boiled egg, olives, green beans, potatoes, and a salsa verde aioli.

My husband had the Gnocchi.

This plate was made of semolina dumplings, pork sausage ragu, onions, spicy tomato passata and cheese.

Everything was perfect and delicious.

Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano at The Venetian (Palazzo Restaurant Row area)

3355 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-414-1222

www.VenetianLasVegas.com

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Famous Chicago Style Tacos North Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

Famous Chicago Style Tacos is a small casual order at the counter taco restaurant located in a strip mall on Craig Road in North Las Vegas NV.

Besides tacos they also offer a few breakfast items, burritos, a quesadilla, nachos, tortas, a taco salad, and fries.

I got three tacos. Two chicken tacos and one carne asada.

I got small sized but very well packed double shelled corn tacos. I like the chicken tacos more than the asada…………because the asada doesn’t have much flavor to it…..On the side are three bottles of house salsas to try with them. One of the green salsas is FLAMING HOT…..The red salsa seems medium to me, and the mild green salsa has much more flavors in it than the others………I like using the mild because of all the flavors and in the middle I use one of the spicier salsas and it works well for me that way.

My husband got four tacos with rice and beans.

Rice and beans are average. Some tacos are better tasting than others…….

(carnitas good but a little dry today. barbacoa maybe the best tasting of all the tacos. cecina ((thin salted steak)) a little dry and not as delicious as the barbacoa. chorizo good.)

Reasonably priced and Worth a Try! (Lunch for two was under $30.)

Famous Chicago Style Taco

3415 W Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

702-823-2315

I haven’t found a working website for this restaurant.

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Namu Korean Tapas & BBQ Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try! (If you skip the Kalbi Patties)

Namu Korean Tapas & BBQ is located in the North/West Part of Las Vegas Nevada. This restaurant offers a menu of Tapas items and also Korean BBQ. Soft Beverages and Soju, and beer are served here.

The main dining room is a mix of tables and booths. Smaller rooms are also available.

They start you off with radish, kimchi, and fish cakes.

Then it’s up to you on what to try………..

We started with the fresh “MADE IN HOUSE RICOTTA” Salad.

It sure isn’t “Tapas” sized to me but both of us thought that this was an unusually delicious salad. Something about the creamy fresh cheese, almonds, and vinegar is so good! We packed most of this up for latter.

Felt different about the next plate. It’s a BIG FAT NO!

These were Kalbi Short Rib Balls. They came out all dried out and not so tasty…..I can NOT recommend getting them to anyone 🙁 🙁 🙁

The salmon carpaccio was interesting and different with pesto on it……..This was good.

Tasty…..and have leftovers to bring back for latter.

They called this a bulgogi arancini………..To us it is not arancini but really was tasty…They should call it Korean Bulgogi and parm rice ball.

My husband can fit in another plate so he tried the Korean Sausage with a tasty honey mustard.

He called this hot dogs…..

Namu Korean Tapas & BBQ is Worth a Try! (If you skip the Kalbi Patties)

702-489-3981

3350 Novat Street Las Vegas NV

www.NamuTapas.com

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A Little Taste of Double Zero Pie & Pub – Las Vegas NV – Top 50 Pizza in USA

Double Zero Pie & Pub is located in China Town in Las Vegas Nevada. They say that they are a Neo-Neapolitan Tokyo Style Pizza Shop. (on my visits I noticed the double Duo does periodically change)

A few of the appetizers have ingredients in them such as yuzu kosho, aged fish sauce, and enoki mushrooms.

It’s not a big place so you might need a reservation.

Here’s the Burrata E Pesto Pizza (white sauce, for Di Latte, Dorati Tomatoes, Basil, Pistachio Pesto, Burrata, Parmesan Frico, Balsamic Glaze)

The crust is thin with a thick chewy blistered edge and is developed with flavors. I don’t really notice a white sauce but there is a very good play of flavors between the cheeses, pistachio pesto, tomatoes, and balsamic.

The Funghi Pizza has a white sauce that also isn’t very noticeable. It also contains fior di latte, mozzarella, garlic butter mushrooms, charred green onion, parmesan, chives, and sea salt. Today the mushrooms are kinda hard and slightly burnt tasting but the crust is very good.

TheEggplant Caponata also is made of red sauce, fior di latte, Dorati Tomatoes, Calabrian Chili Oil, olive tapenade, herb labneh, and chives. Tasty but I’m not really feeling caponata here….Maybe more like eggplant pizza only because I’m not getting the sweet and sour that caponata normally has.

The Diavola (Red Sauce, Fior Di Latte, Spicy Sausage, Giardiniera, Spicy Soppressata, Marinated Roasted Peppers) Is not for Tenderfoots and so far is my husband’s favorite pizza that he tried here.

That was a little Taste of Double Zero Pie & Pub.

3853 Spring Mountain Rd

702-463-0755

www.DoubleZeroPie.com

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Tony’s Mexican Food North Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

Tony’s Mexican Food is a Mexican Restaurant with three locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The North Las Vegas Location offers breakfast, a very wide assortment of Mexican favorites, a child’s menu, desserts, soft beverages, beer, margaritas, and more!

For our first visit we tried take out.

We took out a carnitas burrito with red and green sauce on the side.

A Chile relleno with sauce on the side.

and two fish soft tacos with a half avocado on the side.

Everything was packaged nicely. Everything was prepared reasonably well and everything was tasty.

Tony’s Mexican Restaurant is Worth a Try!

Tony’s Mexican Restaurant

3053 W Craig Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-646-1110

www.TonysMexicanFoodLV.com

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Basilico Ristorante Italiano – Not Your Grandpa’s Italian Restaurant – Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

Basilico Ristorante Italiano is a Modern Italian Restaurant located in Southwest Las Vegas Nevada.

Inside is kinda modern mixed with a little bit of old fashioned.

They happen to have indoor-outdoor bar seating.

Inside they play old Italian movies inside.

Tonight they happened to offer a tasting menu that features flavors of Sicily so we decided to try that.

They started us off with a Yellowtail Tuna Tartare made with tomato relish, olive powder, fried capers, and lemon gel.

Next was an eggplant parmesan like no other.

Part of it is mozzarella mousse, tomato coulis and basil pesto.

After this are two generous pasta courses.

Lamb ragu rigatoni with ricotta salata.

Swordfish in long twisted pasta in romesco.

The main was a chicken marsala like no other.

The chicken is melt in your mouth tender as can be. The mushroom, corn, farro, side is extra tasty….

We took home the cannoli that were the sweet ending and had the table side parmesan gelato.

This sure isn’t your grandpa’s Italian Restaurant.

Made fresh to order parmesan gelato with lemon ginger cake, Vin Brule poached pear, Saba and something crisp and crunchy.

Basilico Ristorante Italiano is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Basilico Ristorante Italiano

6111 South Buffalo Drive Las Vegas Nevada

702-534-7716

www.BasilicoLV.com

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