Monthly Archives: January 2026

The FORKING Las Vegas Food Buzz of the Week

Aroma Latin American Cocina (by a 2024 James Beard Nominated Chef) Has recently closed at their Henderson location. Below are dishes we’ve tried there. All were amazing.

The good news is that Amora Latin American Cocina plans to open in Chinatown in February at 3355 Spring Mountain Road.

In Other FOOD News –

January 30th – Hearthstone expects to officially open at Red Rock

A second location of WSKY is now open in North Las Vegas at 720 E Cheyenne Ave.

North Las Vegas has a NEW casual Indian Restaurant….SORT OF……….

It’s called Spice Bomb-Bay and it shares the Hummus Republic Restaurant Building. 2546 E Craig Road

Noticed Slim Chicken’s Restaurant being built on Craig Road almost across from Pandora’s Burgers.

Also noticed a Vegas 888 Buffet being built on Decatur Rd

In even more FOOD News –

Maybe Spring? – Able Baker Bomb Shelter – 6371 Centennial Center Blvd

Maybe Spring – Istanbul Mediterranean Restaurant at 505 Fremont Street

Maybe this year? – Mediterranean Latin Grill 1216 Owens Ave.

Maybe this year? – Nashville Cats Cafe – somewhere on the strip

This Year – China Mama 2233 N Rampart Blvd

May-June? – China Mama 2550 Rose Parkway (Henderson)

Spring – The Hat (pastrami dip restaurant from CA) 6215 S Rainbow Blvd

June-July? – EDO Gastropub 9205 W Russell Rd

February – Braseria (at The Collective)

In Other Food News –

WORST FOOD of the week came from California Fish Grill In Centennial Hills.

The Salmon Wasabi Bowl was AWFUL. The whole experience was also awful. They didn’t turn on heaters for us so we left and did take out. Sauces were missing. Ingredients that should have went into the Salmon Wasabi bowl were missing and the fish was partially BURNT. ( I do note that we’ve been here several times and previous visits were reasonably good so I can’t say for sure what happened here.)

Best of the week was Rang’s Cocina Moderne. We’re there about once a month because the food and service is always perfect. They serve a unique menu of Italian, Spanish, that is mixed with a little bit of Asian. Below are many of the dishes we’ve tried there.

And in Silly and or Cute Food News – My dogs eating salmon from California Fish Grill.

“Give me all that nasty salmon so you don’t have to eat it.”

“Do you know that this salmon tastes a bit burnt?”

That was The FORKING Las Vegas Food Buzz of the Week.

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NEW WeiRD difFERENT Limited and Special Edition Foods – January 2026

There is always something new, weird, different, limited, or special edition out there in the wonderful world of food. These days we never know what the FORK we’ll find when we shop for food.

Up above is –

LIMITED EDITION – Post Honey Bunches of Oats in Sugar Cookie (WOW sweet! but doesn’t sound healthy?)

DIFFERENT – Lay’s Limon flavored Potato Chips – Pucker up!

DIFFERENT – Lay’s Potato Chips in a flavor called All Dressed (they must have run out of ideas for flavors)

WEIRD – Lay’s Salted Caramel Potato Chips with OTHER natural flavors

DIFFERENT – Planters ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED Toasted Marshmallow Hot Chocolate Cashews (someone REALLY must have been on drugs to think this flavor up and someone else was on drugs to approve production on this flavor. (That’s NUTS!)

DIFFERENT and possibly WEIRD – Emerald Sugar Cookie Flavored Cashews (another nutty flavor)

DIFFERENT – Smackin Cinnamon Churro FLAVORED Sunflower Seeds (CRAZY Nuts)

DIFFERENT – Octonuts roasted Snickerdoodle Almonds and Roasted Gingerbread Cashews – Ho ho ho nuts!

DIFFERENT – Matzo Project Everything Matzo Chips – Oy Vey!

NEW – Martone Street – Tomato Sauces by Celebrity Chef Scott Conant – only sold at Sprouts. (no raw onions in those jars)

DIFFERENT – Citrus Lollipops I saw at Homegoods

WEIRD – Nicos COFFEE Coated Green Peas – ICK!

WEIRD – Lepaon – Angel Hair Candy – Pinky White Chocolate filled with Pistachio Cream and COTTON CANDY

DIFFERENT – Keurig IHop ARTIFICALLY FLAVORED Chocolate Chocolate Chip Ground Coffee

WEIRD – Hot Fudge for BEARS? (how many bears do you see shopping?)

DIFFERENT and possibly WIERD – Confusion Black Truffle Masala dry roasted Peanuts (more nutty food)

NEW – Ferrero Rocher Dark Hazelnut and Caramel Hazelnut Chocolates

And there is usually something Oreo

DIFFERENT – Nabisco Golden Oreo Cakesters

LIMITED EDITION – Nabisco ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED Cookie Dough Flavor Creme with Choco Chip Flavored Cookie

That was the New, Weird, Different, Limited, and Special Edition Foods for January 2026. WHO KNOWS WTFork we will come across next month.

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Dining Out With DOGS in Las Vegas NV – January 2026

Dining out with dogs is just a “FLUFF” story about taking my dogs out to eat. It all sort of started with my late dog Louie. He always enjoyed going out to eat. When he came down with aggressive cancer we were told that poor old Louie probably only had three months or at the most 6 months to live. Since Louie always enjoyed going out to eat I took him out to eat as often as possible and Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.

We had an unusually warm winter day and the dogs got to eat at our local Great Greek Mediterranean Grill. I got a rice bowl salad and my husband got a gyro plate with a shrimp skewer. The dogs got to eat shrimp, gyro meat, chicken, and cucumbers with feta cheese.

They LOVE going to the Great Greek Mediterranean Grill.

6540 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-749-8582

www.TheGreatMediterraneanGrill.com

The next week it got cold so we did a quick trip to In-N-Out Burger. We fed them on the patio.

Of course they enjoyed the cheeseburger!

www.In-N-Out.com

The next week it was cold so they got a car ride to Arby’s and got some roast beef.

They enjoyed the Arby’s Roast Beef.

www.Arbys.com

The next week it warmed up so the dogs got to go to Habanero’s Taco Grill. They happen to have just one patio table.

The dogs got to eat some pork from my husband’s green chili pork bowl and some chicken from my taco salad. It was suppose to be grilled chicken but they gave us fried chicken with breading. We ate it anyway.

The dogs enjoyed their first trip to Habanero’s Taco Grill.

Habanero’s Taco Grill #5

171 W Centennial Pkwy North Las Vegas NV

702-331-4498

www.HabanerosTacoGrill.com

That was Dining Out With DOGS for January 2026. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month!

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In Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017

Cin Cin Brewery – Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

Cin Cin Brewery is a small brewery, bar, and sushi sort of restaurant located in the arts district of downtown Las Vegas NV. Inside you can sit at the bar, a community table or a half booth. I heard very good things about this restaurant so I wanted to give it a try.

They had a special on small oysters for $1.00 each so my husband ate 6 of them.

We also shared an order shishito peppers. They were embellished with bonito flakes, soy sauce, something citrus, and tasty small tomatoes.

We also shared a spicy tuna roll.

It’s different. I get almost too much heat from the jalapeños (? maybe they are Serranos?). Soy paper I don’t usually get. It’s different but good.

Cin Cin Brewery is worth a try!

Cin Cin Brewery

914 S Main Street Las Vegas NV

www.CinCinBreweryLV.com

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La Mojarra Loca – Good Authentic-Style Mexican Restaurant – Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

La Mojarra Loca is an Authentic Style Mexican Restaurant with a seafood heavy menu. They have four locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The North Rancho Drive location is large with plenty of parking spots.

Whatever you order they start you off with chips, spicy salsa, and bean dip.

Last time we tried the Filet Al Mojo De Ajo (mild whitefish in citrus, garlic, butter)

And the Molocajete Triol – Shrimp, Chicken, Beef, Cactus, Avocado, Jalapeño, with spices and sauces, rice, beans, and tortillas.

All was good also portions were enormous and prices were reasonable.

This time we tried –

Filete Zarandeado -Marinated and Grilled mild white fish with achiote sauce. The plate come garnished with salad, rice, and beans.

Steak Ranchero – Seared steak in smokey tomato chipotle garlic and jalapeño sauce with rice, beans, and tortillas.

I am pleased to say that everything was at least GOOD. Portions were very large and pricing was reasonable. I do note that most dishes do run spicy. Some of the wait staff is hard to understand. Also bring your readers if you have them because the menu is hard to read.

Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

La Mojarra Loca

3520 N Rancho Dr Las Vegas NV

725-202-2142

Website doesn’t work

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The FORKING Las Vegas FOOD Buzz of the Week

Going to the International Marketplace near to downtown was the most exciting trip of the week. I wish it was closer to me so I could shop there more often. I LOVED the low prices on their produce. I also came across many hard to find items from all over the world, lots of seafood, and housewares too.

Maybe the best bite of the week was the Pastrami Sando from GastroPub Nisei Bar & Grill. It just BANGED with flavors! (locally made pastrami, yuzu slaw, and hot honey mustard)

Also our Hot Pots from the Chubby Cattle (Hot Pot) were very good expect for the flounder there but everything else was very good.

In other food news –

At my local Smith’s Grocery Store. – Watch out for wet slippery floors.

In other Food News –

Area 15 is getting NINE New Restaurant that are expected to open April-June-ish

Alien Pizza Party

The Bowl (with a robot chef)

Chilangos Tacos (Mexico City Style)

Cosmic Pretzel

Fuku (by David Chang) Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwiches

Good Company Burgers

Museum of Ice Cream

Nacho Daddy

Saint Honore Doughnut and Beignets

In other Food News –

January 27-26 – Zippy’s plans to open at 10810 W Charleston Blvd

Sometime Maybe Spring – Casa De Pizza & Wings plans to open – 765 N Nellis Blvd

The James Beard Nominees have been announced Some of the Las Vegas “Best Chef SW Restaurants’s Chefs are from these Las Vegas Restaurants –

Calabash African Kitchen

Sparrow & Wolf

Partage

Casa Playa

The Black Sheep

Bar Boheme

Best New Restaurant – Tamba

Emerging Chef – from Main Street Provisions – Ellie Parker

and in Silly and or Cute News – My dogs eating Grilled Chicken from Habanero’s #4.

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Mostarda Style Cranberry Orange Sauce Recipe

This Mostarda Style Cranberry Orange is something different that you might want to try for your Thanksgiving Turkey. It’s not too sweet and is sort of light and refreshing. True Fruit Mostarda is made from candied fruit and mustard syrup since I didn’t use candied fruit or mustard syrup I called the recipe “Mostarda Style.” Serving size is hard to determine. My guess is up to ten servings.

Ingredients

1 12oz bag of cranberries

2 oranges – use all the zest and put to the side and remove the rest of the skin and chop the fruit into small pieces

1 cup dark brown sugar

1/4 cup dry white wine

1/2 cup water

1 Tablespoon dry mustard

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon\

1/4 teaspoon ground star anise

1/4 teaspoon course sea salt

Directions

Everything except for the zest goes in a medium sized pot on high heat. Stir and turn down to medium when it starts to boil. Stir occasionally and continue to cook until the berries burst. When it’s done stir in the orange zest.

Serve either warm or chilled.

Mostarda Style Cranberry Orange Sauce

ENJOY!!!!

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The Lakes Lounge 24/7 Food, Gaming, Bar, Reasonably good Food, LOW Prices but no Lake View – Las Vegas NV

I got fooled by a certain review site on this one. I was expecting Lake Views at a place called The Lakes Lounge in the Summerlin part of Vegas (that is why I picked this place). But I had GOOD REASON to expect Lake Views. Many Lake Views were pictured for me to look at on a certain review site, And this was done by not one, two, three, or four but by a bunch of different people. The Lake is nearby but on the other end of this strip mall.

Anyways-

It’s just a 24/7 Food, Gambling, and Bar, type of place. (Gosh we have millions of these places here) Here the bar and gaming is on the other half of the restaurant and the dining area is separate.

We looked at the menus (also a breakfast menu is offered) and noticed that prices are very low.

My husband goes with the Shepard’s Pie Special that comes with either a side salad or soup. He picks the soup that is Cream of Chicken today.

He said that it is reasonably good.

I tried the Beer Battered Fish Tacos.

WOW! It’s an enormous plate of food. The tacos you can clearly see are non-traditional. But the fish batter is tasty and their salsa is very flavorful.

The Shepard’s Pie is mostly potatoes but also is reasonably good.

The food we tried was reasonably good. Large portions and LOW prices.

NO LAKE VIEW

The Lakes Lounge

2920 Lake E Drive Las Vegas NV

702-363-9733

www.TheLakesLounge.com

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My Trip to Timbers Bar & Grill Las Vegas NV – Very Average

Timbers Bar & Grill is a 24/7 food, bar, and gaming type of place with seven locations in the Las Vegas Area. They’ve been awarded best bar food from the Las Vegas Review journal for a number of years. Since they are close we decided to give them a try.

It looks like your usual 24/7 bar, gaming and restaurant type place.

I tried the grilled fish tacos.

They look nice and are well packed. They are extra light with seasoning. Almost no seasoning. The salsa does very little to help.

My husband gets a cheeseburger with onion rings.

The onion rings are perfect and are warm and nice and crisp. (my husband likes medium-rare burgers. The server suggested ordering a rare burger so it wouldn’t be over cooked.

He got a medium-well burger instead of a rare burger.

The server apologized.

The manager apologized and also took the burger off our bill.

Timber’s Bar & Grill better than average service but the food is very average.

Timber’s Bar & Grill

7240 Azure Dr Las Vegas NV

702-645-6655

www.TimbersGaming.com

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Bar Boheme – Prix Fixe Menu – Worth a Fork! Las Vegas NV

Bar Boheme is a Contemporary Fine Dining French Restaurant located in Downtown Las Vegas in the Arts District. This restaurant is brought to you by very well seasoned chef James Trees. He is native to Las Vegas and has worked for many of the biggest named chefs on the Las Vegas Strip. He also was James Beard Nominated and has worked with Gordon Ramsay on a few of Chef Ramsay’s TV Shows.

Inside is bar seating, traditional seating, and booth seating.

The Prix Fixe starts off with Canapes. Tonight was a cheese and black truffle gougeres and a mini grilled cheese.

Next was the crispy baguette with cultured French butter and ($5. extra) for special French Butter with a long French name that is suppose to be France’s finest butter…..(insert angels singing here). (oh and it does have more taste to it but the other is also very good)

Tuna Tartare with ratatouille, basil aioli, and basil oil, was next for me.

My husband had Frisee Aux Lardons – poached egg, lardons, sherry vinaigrette, and brioche croutons

Mains were –

Trout Aux Lentilles – braised fennel, red wine citrus jus, lemon

My husband had the –

Boeuf Bourguignon – braised beef, matignon (mirepoix), pomme detere au chèvre (goat cheese potatoes)

Desserts were –

Croustillant Chocolate Cremeux – gavotte, milk & dark chocolate cremux, smoked vanilla ice cream

and

Paris Brest – choux, hazelnut praline, praline cream, caramel, toasted hazelnuts

Bar Boheme’s Prix Fixe menu is certainly Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Bar Boheme

401 S Main Street Las Vegas NV

702-848-6823

www.BarBohemeLV.com

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