Cipriani is a Italian with a limited Japanese Menu Restaurant with locations in Italy, Europe, Asia, and the United States.

The Las Vegas Location is located in the Wynn Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.

The atmosphere is rich and inviting but the food is mostly BLAND.

I wanted to dine here because I read on EaterVegas that Cipriani offers one of the best lunches in all of Vegas. It actually makes the 19 Essential lunch spots of Las Vegas.

Our lunch started with quality balsamic, olive oil, and bland bread and breadsticks.

Then I started with a BLAND bowl of lentil soup that completely lacks depth.

My husband started with the mortadella and high content vinegar cornichons.

He said that the mortadella wasn’t bad but not the best…..He only saw one piece of pistachio in it.

We both had the Cipriani Tagliolini with Branzino and Cherry Tomatoes. The pasta seems fresh made and is cooked perfect…..but…

It’s almost flavorless.

Except for fishy blood-line left on some pieces.

Desserts were better.

The Ricotta Cheese Cake isn’t bad but it differs from other ricotta cheese cakes out there…..It’s like cake batter mixed with lots of ricotta and mixed berries.

We also shared sorbet. We were expecting Yuzu Sorbet and Lemon Sorbet…..But we were served mango and lemon sorbet because they were out of yuzu sorbet.

Both sorbets are very good. I could come here for only lemon sorbet but I doubt I will.

Cipriani – At The Wynn – BLAND

3131 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-770-7390

www.WynnLasVegas.com

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Meráki Greek Grill has around 6 locations in Las Vegas Nevada (5 locations and a soon to be 6th location at the time of visit). This is a casual restaurant. You order and pay at the counter, and then grab a number and seat yourself (inside or on the patio).

We started out by sharing a side order of falafels.

The falafels are soft with soft exteriors but are herby and flavorful inside.

We both tried the signature Meraki Bowls.

My husband got his with gyro meat and rice.

Here the gyro meat is cut thicker so it’s stays slightly more moist. The bowl come with a generous amount of feta cheese, it also comes with garbanzo beans, olives, radish, tomatoes, and greens.

I tried my Meraki Signature Bowl with Norwegian Salmon and Quinoa.

The salmon has very nice grill marks on it but……….

It’s really over cooked and contains the whole bloodline that needs to be removed.

Not counting the salmon……… The salad is generous in size and is good. I just wouldn’t recommend getting the salmon. But maybe it depends on who is cooking? At the “OTHER” Greek restaurant….The one with a similar menu…..Sometimes their salmon is very good and sometimes it is dry and over cooked….Could be the same story here?

I’ll try chicken next time here.

Metal Greek Grill – Worth a Try

6420 Centennial Center Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-445-6104

www.MerakiGreekGrill.com

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Monzu Italian Oven & Bar is obviously an Italian Restaurant and it’s located not too far away from the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.

Besides the usual Italian Foods like antipasti, insalate, pasta, steaks, chicken, fish and more. This restaurant starts you off with their special bread that takes five days to prepare. It’s gets it’s unique taste from an all natural over three hundred year old family mother starter made from apricots.

They serve the special bread with oil and house made ricotta cheese.

We’ve so far have always ordered the 7 or 8 course (depending on how you look at it) $62. Chef’s Menu because it just might be the best FORKING Deal in Vegas.

It’s always different…..But tonight it went like this…..

First is Antipasti-

Starting top left going clockwise is – Grilled Artichokes, 4 kinds of cheese, marinated olives and pickled vegetables, Italian sliced beef, cheese stuffed squash blossoms, and fried breads.

Next were salads.

Fried kale salad with pomegranate, blood orange, and walnuts and a crispy fennel salad.

Risotto Verde with artichokes, peas, fava beans, fennel, and topped with grated cured egg.

Potato Gnocchi in gorgonzola cream sauce with walnuts.

Mortadella Pizza made with taleggio and mozzarella cheese, artisan mortadella, pistachio pesto, and basil with sides of marscapone cream and crushed Calabrian chili peppers.

Lombatello – (hardwood grilled hanger steak) with salsa verde and potatoes.

(The FORKING Truth……..This steak really was tender as butter)

Pollo I Vernizzi – chicken in wine sauce with onion, garlic, and potatoes

All kinds of desserts

This really was far more food than we could eat so we brought back enough for another dinner.

Everything was delicious and service was perfect.

Monzu Italian Oven and Bar is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Monzu Italian Oven & Bar

6020 W Flamingo Rd Las Vegas NV

702-749-5959

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Greens and Proteins is a local group of healthy eating restaurants in Las Vegas Nevada. They all offer all day breakfast, soups, salads, thin pizzas, burgers, wraps, sandwiches, bowls, a kids menu, and smoothies. Some locations offer meal prep.

It’s casual inside. You order and pay at the counter and seat yourself. They run the food to you when it’s ready.

I tried the Thai peanut Chicken Bowl. It’s suppose to be a bowl of chicken with basmati rice, squash, zucchini, mushrooms, asparagus, peanuts, sesame seeds, spicy peanut sauce.

My husband was disappointed with his Bulgogi Korean Steak Bowl because the beef was tough and chewy and didn’t taste so great. He also didn’t enjoy the undercooked hard crunchy brown rice.

I got this-

The squash are ok…….The chicken is very dry and tough and doesn’t have much flavor. My bowl is missing the asparagus and mushrooms. The basmati rice is very mushy today. I think some ingredients might be missing from the sauce because it’s pretty tasteless and isn’t spicy at all.

I do not plan to return to Greens and Proteins.

Greens and Proteins

6180 N Decatur Blvd North Las Vegas NV

702-853-0650

www.GreensandProteins.com

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Mezzo Bistro and Wine is an American-Italian Restaurant located in North/West Las Vegas Nevada. If you didn’t make a reservation there is a chance that they will offer you a seat on the patio.

They start you off with house baked bread, and oil embellished with balsamic and lemon.

We shared a grilled vegetable plate appetizer.

Gosh it’s enormous but it is so darn tasty too…….(grilled tomatoes, artichokes, yellow squash, zucchini, and mushrooms). I’ll eat some and bring some home for another day.

I tried something that isn’t normally on any Italian menu…..Sesame Crusted Ahi Tuna with Spinach Risotto and topped with Wasabi Aioli. Melty mozzarella type cheese was on here too.

The fish is in a soy type sauce…..The mozzarella cheese has almost no flavor so it adds richness to the fish. The risotto is very cheesy. I don’t think it really pairs with the fish but you can separate it to a latter course by eating the asparagus after the fish.

My husband tried the Chicken Riggies (New York rigatoni dish with creamy tomato sauce, peppers, and chicken).

The Mezzo Bistro Version also has mushrooms, cherry peppers, prosciutto, capacola, romano cheese, white wine, tomatoes and mozzarella cheese……..(you are not going to leave hungry from this one).

We packed up almost half of what we had so we could try a cannoli.

It was a nice sweet ending.

Mezzo Bistro and Wine – Worth a Try! (make a reservation if you want to sit inside)

4275 N Rancho Dr Las Vegas NV

702-944-8880

www.MezzoBistro.com

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Komex Fusion Restaurant is located in the west side of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer Fusion tacos, burritos, enchiladas, chimichangas, and a fusion toastada that was featured on Food Network’s Taco trip. They also offer a lot of Bulgogi. Some of the bulgogi that they offer are bulgogi cheesesteaks, bulgogi grilled cheese, bulgogi sliders, bulgogi torta, flautas, rice bowls, fried rice, a platter, and bulgogi chow fettuccini. A few of the other things that Komex Fusion offers are musubi, a swai fish platter, won ton soup, a kid’s menu, and Mexican tacos, burritos, torta, and quesadillas.

It’s not a fancy place but it seems clean.

This place has been recognized for it’s food by a number of well knowns such as-

Food Network

The Cooking Channel

All Recipes Weekly

The Buzz Feed

Food and Wine

Las Vegas Review Journal

Desert Champion

We ordered several things to try! But they start you off with complimentary chips and very good salsa. They also offer complimentary bottled water.

We tried-

Bulgogi grilled cheese on Texas Toast (seems like challah Texas Toast?)

The famous fusion toastada that was featured on Food Network’s Taco Trip (the bottom is a crispy rice patty topped with beef bulgogi, Komex slaw, pico de gallo, and topped with Korean hot sauce.

fried stuffed wontons

pork taco

Fish taco on flour tortilla and a chicken taco on double corn tortilla.

Everything really was very good. All the proteins were expertly prepared. My personal favorite was the toastada because it had the most going on with it……It also was more filling than I expected it to be. My husband really enjoyed the bulgogi grilled cheese. He is undecided if he will get it again next time or one of the toastadas. The tacos were very good but next time I think I’d order a little side of the Korean hot sauce for them because it was so tasty.

Komex Fusion is Worth a Fork!

Komex Fusion

633 N Decatur Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-646-1612

www.KomexFusion.com

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Thai Spoon is a Thai Restaurant that is located in the North/West part of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer your usual Thai Favorites and also some vegan dishes and more seafood dishes that you normally see on Thai menus. Some of the seafood offerings are salmon teriyaki, seabass panang, catfish pad cha, seafood curry in young coconut, and house scallops. I noticed that they also offer plenty of bottles of wine here.

For seating they have 1/2 booths and whole booths.

We started out by sharing the chicken potstickers.

Here they are fried crispy all over. Inside they are very mild with juicy moist chicken and a soy type is on the side for dipping.

The seabass panang was seared nicely and prepared masterfully with a melt in your mouth texture.

The curry is smooth, a little basil-ee, with a nice heat. (I picked #7 out of 10)

The spicy basil has that traditional spicy, garlic basil taste.

But instead of hand chopped protein or sliced protein the meat was ground……..To me that is strange because all the spicy basil dishes we’ve tried in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and California the protein for spicy basil was always either hand chopped or sliced…….I’m thinking that ground meat in spicy basil might be a “Nevada Thing.”

Little Green Tomato Candies were given to us with the check. I thought the candy was green tomato but someone wrote to me and said the candy is guava flavored.

That was our first taste at Thai Spoon.

Thai Spoon Las Vegas – 702-430-2221

6440 N Durango Dr Las Vegas NV

www.ThaiSpoonLasVegas.com

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Born And Raised is a 24/7 Sports Bar and Restaurant with four locations in Las Vegas. Besides bar drinks they also offer bar bites like bulgogi tacos, crispy zucchini, and steak poutine. They also offer salads, wraps, burgers, sliders, all day breakfast, and what they call favorites like buffalo chicken macaroni and cheese, dragon bowls, and tequila lime chicken pasta.

You can sit in the bar area.

Or you can have a seat in the main dining area with lots of big screen TVs.

In this room is one strange hilarious chair.

Anyways-

I thought the Bar Signature Salad sounded great so that’s what I ordered.

It’s moist chicken breast (They say it’s blackened but isn’t so blackened but it is tasty and moist so that’s ok). This salad also contains greens, strawberries, oranges, candied pistachios, goat cheese, and strawberry dressing. It was just right for me today. I’d get it again.

My husband said that the Mexico City Prime Beef Burger was very good!

They cooked it to a perfect medium-rare as requested. This burger is topped with pepper jack cheese, an onion ring, pickled jalapeno, and chipotle mayo (left off at request) and comes with lettuce, tomato slice, raw onion, and fries.

Based on this visit I’d say that Born And Raised is Worth a Try!

Born And Raised – 702-202-3698

1125 E Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

www.BornAndRaisedLV.com

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Mother Wolf is a Luxury Roman – Italian Restaurant located in the Fontainebleau Casino/Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. The James Beard Award Winning Chef of this restaurant is Chef Evan Funke. Who is a Master Pasta Maker.

The two stand out dishes offered here are the Sfincione (chef’s Signature focaccia) and his cacio e pepe.

It’s a large formal restaurant with more than one dining area, a bar, and an open kitchen. Rap music fills the air…..

We started out by sharing some of the chef’s signature focaccia called Sfincione.

It’s hot out of the oven. It’s fluffy, moist, and tasty.

Next is our pasta course. This was Linguine Al Lemon (oil, lemon, asparagus, pecorino cheese)

It’s delicious, well seasoned and prepared with perfect pasta….

I ordered the tuna alla puttanesca (big eye tuna steak, tomatoes, Taggiasca olives, capers, basil)

This is drop the mike moment – GET THIS – THIS IS THE DISH TO GET! And you need some of the sfincione (focaccia) to help mop things up.

To start with the tuna is also amazing. It’s a large portion and is maybe the freshest tasting tuna I ever had anywhere. It’s also tender as can be. These tomatoes are also the best tasting tomatoes. There are different flavors of basil here, pops of capers, fancy little olives that are different. This dish is a reason on why you would dine here.

My husband ordered the Saltimbocca (pounded veal, prosciutto, sage, white wine, butter, lemon, with a wild arugula salad.)

Tonight the veal is a little tough and dry….but still edible. Instead of our waiter waiting for us to take a few bites…Instead he asked us how the plates were as soon as they arrived. We told him that the plates looked good……

The wild arugula salad.

My husband said that this salad was very good and insisted that I taste it…..I thought the vinegar used was incredibly harsh. I can’t eat it but then again I am more sensitive.

GET THE SFINCIONE and the TUNA

Mother Wolf

2777 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-678-9170

www.MotherWolfLV.com

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Letty’s De Leticias Cocina is a full service Mexican Restaurant located in the Arts District of Downtown Las Vegas Nevada. They offer a variety of Mexican all day breakfast dishes such as pozole, menudo, chilaquiles, and a few more things. A few of the other items they offer are appetizers like chips and salsa, ceviche, and quesadillas. They also offer soups, and sandwiches on fresh baked bolillo bread. You can also find Tamales, Enchiladas, Burritos, Pupusas, Carne Asada, Grilled Chicken, Carnitas and MORE!

If this restaurant seems familiar to you then maybe you saw them on Food Network’s Diners Drive Ins and Dives.

This is a small restaurant that fills up fast.

We started out with some margaritas and chips and salsa.

My husband enjoyed the steak ranchero burrito packed with cheese, rice, and beans and topped with red guajillo sauce and more cheese.

I tried the birria ramen.

I liked the eggs because they were nice and jammy. The beef isn’t bad because it’s tender and flavorful. They also gave a generous portion of beef. For my taste the broth is too fatty for me to eat it but my husband has a different taste and enjoys this. He will eat it over the next two days.

Worth a Try!

Letty’s De Leticias – 702-476-9477

807 S. Main St Las Vegas NV

www.LettysDeLeticias.com

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