HaSalon is a Modern Israeli Inspired high quality Restaurant located in the Venetian in the Palazzo area on The Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. This restaurant is by seasoned chef, restauranteur, and Masterchef Judge Eyal Shani who has over 40 restaurants around the world and also opened Miznon (a casual counter Israeli Street Style Food Restaurant) in the same hall in the Palazza recently. HaSalon translates to dining room. You are suppose to feel that you are dining in the chef’s own dining room. The menu is daily changing of fresh harvested meats, daily flown in fresh fish, vegetables, and hand made pastas. The early seating is normal and tranquil and the late seating the restaurant transforms to a supper club and is vibrant, loud and maybe wild and crazy. Dancing is encouraged on top of the tables.

We tried the early seating that starts at 6pm.

Whatever you order that start you off with complimentary delicious focaccia and sour cream that was embellished with tomato guts and Chile peppers.

Thought the six pepper appetizer called spicy instrument would go well with the focaccia and other things so we gave it a try.

Everything on the plate tastes different. The dark green is the spiciest. The darkest red is the smokiest and everything else is in-between.

This plate was interesting…..The beet carpaccio was so light it was almost like air. But had lots more flavor than air. It was very earthy but melted in the mouth. It was embellished with creme fraiche and horseradish snow.

Ricotta clouds were highly recommended by our server. She said they make the ricotta in-house.

To my surprise they differed from what I imagined and were actually gnocchi made with whey.

My husband added another plate to our order and we got the eggplant melanza.

It’s four very thin slices of sweet eggplant in a rich but light tomato sauce with cheese.

We shared what they call melting spinach.

It’s a mound of spinach cooked with butter and topped with grated cheese and grey sea salt.

For dinner we shared the hraine (striped bass in spicy tomato sauce).

This was my personal favorite of the dishes. No BAD DISHES were found here but this fish was very DELICIOUS and prepared perfectly. It’s also a large portion (I note that I don’t know if they gave me extra by accident) and feeds two people. The fish is also embellished with tahini, cilantro and scallions. My husband’s favorite dish was the eggplant melanza. It was sort of a sophisticated style of authentic eggplant parmesan. Another special dish to me was the beets carpaccio. The beets were very earthy and almost really did seem like meat.

That was my trip to HaSalon – Newly Opened

HaSalon

Venetian, Palazzo 3325 S. Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-607-7777

www.HaSalonVegas.com

www.VenetianLasVegas.com

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Little Hong Kong Chinese and Filipino Favorites Restaurant is located in North Las Vegas Nevada. It’s a small casual restaurant with some wait service Filipino Food, American Chinese Food, soft canned beverages, and bottled water. They only have a few tables in this restaurant and I noticed most customers do take out here. This restaurant has an impressive 4.5 star average on Yelp so I thought it would be very good.

This dish is hard to find on menus so we tried vinegar marinated milkfish that is fried crisp with black pepper.

We also tried Mandarin hot braised vegetables to share.

and Szechwan beef. Both dishes are made with nice variety of the same fresh vegetables (bok choy, broccoli, red bell pepper, mini corn, carrot, onion, green pepper) But…….Both the Mandarin vegetables and the Szechwan beef taste exactly the same and are both in a sweet flat sauce that doesn’t even have a hint of heat.

Also the fish and the beef are not cooked properly. Both are dry and chewy. (It’s unusual to be served chewy dry fish). Sadly this is substandard. We also were the only table dining in and weren’t checked on. We even had to ask for the bill.

I don’t know what happened to this restaurant today so I can’t say…………But today sure wasn’t worth a try and certainly WASN’T Worth a Fork!

That was my trip to

Little Hong Kong

445 West Craig Road North Las Vegas NV – 702-643-3601

www.LittleHongKongVegas.com

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Pho Aimie is a full service Vietnamese Restaurant located in North Las Vegas Nevada. They offer around twenty varieties of pho (usually a beef noodle soup). One variety of pho that they offer is a rare steak spicy sate noodle with peanut thick soup that is not often on menus. They also offer vermicelli entrees, rice entrees, varieties of rice and egg noodle dishes, Vietnamese ice coffee, beer, and more. I do note that I didn’t notice Vietnamese baguette sandwiches (Banh Mi ) on the menu.

They seat you quickly as soon as you enter.

They have a large open room with hanging carved lantern type fixtures, and bamboo shrubbery.

We started out by sharing the chicken potstickers.

They have crisp exteriors from being deep fried and nicely seasoned chicken interiors.

For my dinner I picked the vermicelli stir fried with chicken lemongrass.

I got a generously sized bowl of lettuce, vermicelli, bean sprouts, carrot-radish-cucumbers, scallions, onions, and tender shaved medium spicy lemongrass infused chicken. This is light and refreshing and just right on a hot day. This can be two meals for some people……but only if you are OK with only a small amount of protein.

My husband tried the shaking beef rice entree.

It came with a bowl (of what my husband said was beef broth) soup. The beef here is tender and was cooked with onions with a soy based sauce with vegetables (carrot radish, cucumbers) and steamed rice.

That was my first taste at Pho Aimie in NORTH LAS VEGAS NV.

2696 W. Ann Rd NORTH LAS VEGAS NV

702-522-8988

www.PhoAimieLV.com

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Carson Kitchen was created by restauranteur Cory Harwell and the late chef Kerry Simon who was often a judge on many Food Network TV Shows. The Las Vegas location is downtown in a midcentury converted hotel that formally was the John E Carson Hotel. It’s pretty easy to miss and just walk by but right around opening time is a small line of people waiting to get in by a door that is hard to notice.

You have options inside. Do you want to sit on the rooftop? Outside, or at the bar? You can sit at the kitchen counter and catch some action.

Or you can grab a seat in the main inside dining area.

The menu offers fine chef quality comfort foods. You can get starters like crispy chicken skins with smoked honey. A few of the other starters are hot dog burnt ends, and asada style venison tacos. They also offer sandwiches and flatbreads. Other plates like beet tartare, macaroni and cheese, three bean salad with ham and green goddess dressing, and gin riggies (rabbit & snake sausage with tomato cream. Some of the entrees are things like chicken thighs, pork meatloaf, salmon with strawberry pico, and short ribs with Mississippi jus and pepperacini pesto.

We were told orders do not necessarily come out together here. They come out of the kitchen as they are done.

We decided to start with the beet tartare.

It’s a bed of whipped goat cheese topped with soft beets, crushed pistachios, and mandarin oranges with thin crisp flatbreads.

For our mains we shared the secret Sunday chicken sandwich with spicy pickle aioli and house prepared tater tots.

About ten minutes latter we also shared the jerk turkey burger that also comes with house prepared tater tots.

The flavors are really great from both the sandwiches. The chicken sandwich is special with that spicy pickle aioli that really cuts threw everything. The tater tots are also exceptional with a very good real potato flavor and are perfectly crisp.

This was my first trip to Carson Kitchen in downtown Las Vegas NV.

Carson Kitchen – Fine Comfort Foods

124 South 6TH Street Las Vegas NV

702-473-9523

www.CarsonKitchen.com

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Salad Works is a national chain restaurant that offers a variety of salads, warm grain bowls, wraps. panini, soups, 1/2 & 1/2 platters, snacks, desserts, kids meals, and organic craft heath minded beverages. The Las Vegas Nevada location has a few patio tables outside. Inside are plenty of tables.

You order off of the menu or can do your salad “Chipotle style” and pick and choose as you like.

For my first try I pick the special that was a Hot Honey Chicken salad.

I thought it was pretty good. It’s a very large salad. It’s a mix of romaine and iceberg. There is also cucumbers, roasted red bell peppers, carrots, cubes of pepper jack cheese, crispy fried onions, hot honey chicken, and chipotle ranch dressing. It also came with a warm mini loaf of bread with butter.

I like the dressing but I do think it is too spicy for some people. The chicken isn’t bad but would be better if they warmed it up. If you want something fast food and not fancy this is a good choice.

My husband did a build your own salad.

He liked the salad but paid $7. more than my salad because he added extra things.

Salad Works- not bad – Worth a Try!

Salad Works

6572 Decatur Blvd Las Vegas NV – 702-485-5595

www.SaladWorks.com

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Mariscos La Lomita De Culiacan is a small casual fresh Mexican Seafood Restaurant located in North LasVegas Nevada. They don’t have a bar but will make cocktails from the kitchen. The atmosphere is loud. The TV plays loud in Spanish TV. They play loud music in the dining room and loud music also comes from the kitchen. I do warn you that English is the secondary language here. Our first server didn’t understand us and a second server came over to serve us who was bilingual. I saw a lot of Mexican seafood rolls on the menu. Each one had cream cheese in them and since my husband doesn’t care for cream cheese I had to pass on them. We tried margaritas. They seemed very strong but had little flavor….

They started us off with tostadas and salsa.

For my main I tried the mojarra fish a la diablo.

I got a large mild white fish that is reasonably fresh and cooked to perfection with a medium spicy but tasty sauce. It sits on a generous pile of rice and the plate also includes soupy refried beans and some salad. We also got white corn tortillas on the side.

My husband tried the Cameron (shrimp) culichi verde (poblano cream sauce with cheese).

This platter also comes with rice, refried beans and salad.

Prices were low and portions were very generous.

Mariscos La Lomita De Culiacan is Worth a Try!

3300 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-988-2252

I haven’t found a website but they are on Facebook

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