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!

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 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 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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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 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 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!

Basilico Ristorante Italiano

6111 South Buffalo Drive Las Vegas Nevada

702-534-7716

www.BasilicoLV.com

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Eureka Discover American Craft has a location on Fremont Street in Las Vegas Nevada. This is a casual American Bar and Restaurant. It’s part of the El Cortez Hotel/Casino that is across the street. They offer things like burgers, fried chicken, snacks, salads, desserts, beer, small batch whiskeys, and cocktails. It’s woody and dark but not too dark inside.

We started out by sharing the Mac-N-Cheese Balls.

They are fried nicely and have a thin shattering crisp exterior. On the side is modern ranch dressing (modern means doesn’t taste like buttermilk). They have a nice kick to them from some a chili pepper but also have a Velveeta type taste too.

For my main I had the Al Pastor Tacos.

I got three well packed street sized tacos that are single shelled with a side of arugula salad. The fish (maui maui) isn’t fish house quality but does taste very good with the pineapple and addition of tomatillo sauce. It’s a very tasty platter.

My husband tried the BBQ Bacon Burger.

It’s pretty good. They prepared the burger medium-rare and they didn’t over cook the bacon. But they over cooked the bun on the one end.

Eureka not perfect but pretty good.

Worth a Try!

Eureka 520 E Fremont Street Las Vegas NV

702-570-3660

www.EurekaRestautantGroup.com

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Buenos Dias Mexican Eatery is a casual order and pay at the counter type of restaurant located in North Las Vegas Nevada. They offer breakfast tacos, breakfast burritos and breakfast bowls. They also offer ten varieties of tacos, bowls, burritos, and quesadillas. Soft beverages are available here.

They do offer a variety of seating options. They have traditional tables, booths, counter seating, bar seating, and outside is a community patio.

The food is fresh made to order so it takes a while.

The rice and beans came out first. They were garnished with chips.

A few minutes latter the tacos come out.

There’s a carne asada taco with avocado, a salmon taco, a fried fish taco, a birria taco, and a pollo adobo (chicken) taco. The tacos in general are good but very heavily sauced. For my taste some shine a little more than others but none are bad. To my surprise the salmon is one of the better tacos. The salmon was fresher tasting than I expected it to be and is seasoned in a tasty way. The chicken tacos is also among the better tacos today. It is also well seasoned and very tasty. The asada is tender but maybe they forgot the seasoning? The birria is ok…..but they didn’t bring the consommé that goes with it till long after the taco was finished. The fish taco was ok but could use a little embellishment.

My husband ordered the shrimp burrito and asked for no sauce.

It was grilled nicely but came with LOTS of creamy sauce.

They made him another one without sauce and he said that it was VERY GOOD and he would get it again next time.

Buenos Dias is Worth a Try!

6584 S Decatur Blvd North Las Vegas Nevada

725-204-1968

I haven’t found a website for Buenos Dias and I also haven’t found them on Facebook.

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safta 1964 by Alon Shaya is a very nice Mediterranean Restaurant by James Bread Award Wining Chef Alon Shaya. This restaurant is located in the Encore part of the Wynn Hotel/Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.

The notable “MUST GET DISHES” are –

The Chef’s Salatim Platter full of dips, spreads, vegetables……

The Salatim Platter comes with hot fluffy pita bread and a lot of delicious side dishes such as Luenitsa (our fav. made eggplant and red pepper), Labneh, Smoked Trout Roe with Cream Cheese, Pickled Vegetables, Lima Beans, Baba Ganoush, Caramelized Tomato Olive Tapanade, & Candied Almonds.

You also must get the hummus because it is by far the best I’ve tasted in Nevada…….

You also must get The Safta’s Delights for Dessert.

Three of each ultra mini pistachio baklava, marble halvah, chocolate cake, blueberry rugelach, mini lemon tart.

The Salatim Platter, The Hummus, & the Safta’s Delights from Safta 1964 by Alon Shaya are among the most notable Las Vegas Strip dishes from Restaurants to get and are Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Safta 1964 by Alon Shaya

Wynn Encore Las Vegas 3131 Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-770-5310

www.WynnLasVegas.com

Cheba Hut is a group of hoagie restaurants with somewhere around fifty locations in the United States. The Newly Opened North Las Vegas Location offers 26 hoagies on your choice of white, wheat, or garlic herb bread. They offer a variety of different meats and also some vegetarian options. Besides hoagies a few of the other things they offer are things like French Onion Soup, cups of meatballs, pretzel nuggets, and cookies. This location offers soft beverages, beer, and spirts.

It’s casual. You order and pay at the counter and seat yourself.

There is a bar in the corner. Lots of natural light fills the room during the day.

The atmosphere is LOUD with music. A combination of hip hop, rap, and Reggie is what we heard today.

The sandwiches come in small medium or large or as a salad.

I tried a small tuna melt on wheat called the Pacific Blue (tuna salad, cheddar, lettuce tomato onion, pickle, house dressing)

I didn’t get my tomato slice but the rest is pretty good.

My husband tried the medium sized La Canna on white bread (smoked ham, Genoa salami, prosciutto, olive, provolone, lettuce, tomato, pickle, shake and house dressing)

His sandwich is also missing the tomato but it is still pretty good.

Cheba Hut – Worth a try!

345 W Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

725-286-1256

www.ChebaHut.com

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