Bagelmania is a large full service Jewish Delicatessen and Restaurant with a few locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The original location is by the strip and next to the convention center. You can find everything that you can think of in the deli and more. Doughnuts, Pastries, Cookies, Breads, BAGELS, Cream Cheeses, Lunch Meats, Cheeses, Smoked Fish, Knishes, and more.

Or maybe you want to order off the menu in the restaurant. They offer breakfast, sandwiches, salads, fish platters, and more!

This time my husband had a brisket latke slider plate with potato salad and curly fries.

I had the fish combo plate. (Nova Lox and I asked for White Fish but they accidentally gave me white fish salad that I sent back….Then it came out by a manger as sturgeon.

He wrongly told me that sturgeon is whitefish.

Then latter he brings me out whitefish and says it was a kitchen error.

I guess most restaurants have an off day sometimes.

Usually the food and service is good.

Joey Chestnut the competitive Eater has participated and won the bagel eating contests that were held here the past two years. His award belts hand on the wall near the entrance. Also this year the owners of Bagelmania bought the Italian Restaurant Piero’s. (I doubt they will serve bagels there) (I also bet one of the Piero’s Managers was working here on my last visit……You know the guy who didn’t know whitefish from sturgeon)

That was a taste of Bagekmania.

Bagelmania

252 Convention Center Dr Las Vegas NV

702-369-3322

www.SiegelsBagelmania.com

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The Cantina is a 24/7 Bar, Restaurant, and Gaming type place with a couple locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The Centennial Location offers a limited Mexican Food Menu and also Smash Burgers. Inside it’s kinda dark with Day of the Dead Decor, Big Screen TVs, and Country Music filling the air.

They start you off with a basket of chips and two very good but spicy salsas.

My husband starts out with a carnitas taco (but without the avocado).

He said that it was VERY GOOD!

We also shared a chicken & steak fajita. Below is the rice, refried beans, pico, sour cream, and guacamole.

Below are can tortillas

Below is the chicken and steak fajita. (they said that they needed to add on more steak so a few minutes latter they ran out a little more steak.)

This fajita is VERY GOOD. The chicken is moist, tender, and flavorful. The steak is tender with a DELICIOUS char. I think that this is the best steak I ever had for a fajita.

The Cantina is certainly Worth a Try!

The Cantina (Centennial)

6050 Skye Point Drive Las Vegas NV

702-710-4220

www.TheCantina247.com

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The 702 Sandwich Shop is located in the north part of the Summerlin part of Las Vegas Nevada. This small restaurant was formally known as La Cantine French Sandwich Shop. They offer a limited menu of sandwiches made on French style house baked breads, a few varieties of quiche (maybe? no quiche anymore? wasn’t on menu but they were soon to close for a long vacation?), soup, salad, and macarons (and a few other desserts). Below is the latest menu. (***Temporary closed for vacation. reopens January 5-2026)

It’s casual and you order and pay at the counter or do take out like most people I saw.

Some of the things we tried were –

Special – Chicken Char Siu Banh Mi Sandwich

Cuban Sandwich

This is what was in the dessert case on my last visit.

We tried a few of the desserts like –

Dubai Chocolate and Pistachio Macaron

702 Sandwich Shop – Great Sandwiches and some Nice Desserts – Worth a Fork! (NOTE***temporary closed for vacation and set to re-open January 5 2026)

702 Sandwich Shop

3250 Tenya Way Las Vegas NV

702-749-7400

www.702-Sandwich-Shop.Res-Menu.com

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Harvest Cafe recently opened a second location in North Las Vegas Nevada. It’s really not too far from their original location on Craig Road. The new Losee Road location only serves Breakfast and Lunch. They are open from 7am-3 every day.

Inside is a mix of traditional tables and booths.

I tried a balsamic chicken salad.

It’s not perfect but is ok. It came out a bit warm and over dressed. I would recommend to ask for the dressing to be on the side. But the chicken in it is very good and moist and developed with flavors. This salad was also adorned with feta cheese and walnuts. On the side was toasted buttery garlic toast.

My husband tried a medium/rare cheeseburger with onion rings.

It came out medium/rare so he was happy. The onion rings were made nicely and were crisp and seemed free of oil.

Harvest Cafe (Losee Rd) is Worth a Try!

6412 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

725-204-o475

As of today the Losee Road location is not on the website for the Craig Road location. They have different hours and a slightly different menu.

Often I see $8.00 off coupons for The Harvest Cafe in the local Neon Magazine that they give away for free at our local Smit’s Supermarket.

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What’s Zaap Thai For is located in Las Vegas Nevada just minutes way from Red Rock Casino and minutes away from The Durango. If they seem familiar to you then maybe you caught them on Food Network’s Diners Drive Ins and Dives TV Show. A loop of that episode is continually playing on a TV there. In case you care to know Zaap means Next Level Great in Thai and it really is from what I just tasted here!

Several awards are under the TV and one is from Yelp that rates What’s Zaap as #35 of the top 50 restaurants in Vegas.

It’s a smaller restaurant. I noticed a few patio tables outside but I am not sure if they ever get used.

We started out by trying the crispy spring rolls.

They are just spring rolls but as soon as we started eating them they suddenly became the best spring rolls we ever tried. They have a special fresh taste I don’t usually get and the sauce is different but very good. Off to the side (not pictured) is the chef’s condiment tray with a special chef recommended hot sauce sauce that embellishes the food even more.

Check this out! Look how beautiful the Salmon Green Curry is.

Not only is this green curry layered with delicious flavors and adorned with tiny sweet baby eggplants and baby corns……..

THE SALMON IS MASTERFULLY PREPARED!!!!!

Crisp and seasoned on the outside. Moist and rich inside. Very few places prepare salmon this well. This is next level. Even my two closest steak houses don’t prepare salmon even close to this masterful.

The Spicy Basil (Pad Gra Pow) with Beef is the VERY BEST Spicy Basil Dish that I’ve tried in Las Vegas so far.

They are the only Thai Restaurant in Vegas that offers (a $2.00 upgrade) to use Holy Basil in the dish as it should be made with Holy Basil for the correct taste. They also hand chop the meat for more surface area and that holds in more flavor. Also the beef by the way is very good. This by far is the best Pad Gra Pow that I tasted in Vegas so far or at this time.

What’s Zaap Thai Food is Worth a Fork!

What’s Zaap Thai Food

9575 W Tropicana Ave Las Vegas NV

725-433-2756

www.WhatsZaapThaiFood.com

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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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