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First Taste at Thai Spoon Las Vegas NV

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.

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 North Las Vegas – 24/7 Sports Bar & Restaurant – Worth a Try!

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 at Fontainebleau Las Vegas NV – You MUST get the Tuna and the Sfincione

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

Every THING is subject to change.

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