Chica is a Latin Restaurant located in the Venetian Hotel Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The restaurant is located just off the casino floor. The menu offers Chef Lorena Garcia’s spins on classic Latin Foods and flavors.

The atmosphere is on the dark side.

They have a ceviche bar in the middle of the restaurant and a rotisserie in the back. Our server suggested that we need about two plates a person so we ordered two appetizers and two dinners.

Both of our appetizers were brought out at once. We decided to start with a Peruvian Snapper Ceviche.

It was bright from citrus, spicy from chili, sweet from sweet potatoes and crunchy from Peruvian corn. It was served with crisp thin sliced plantains that were very tasty.

We almost got to the Trio of Picos we ordered…..At the time we were still in the middle of the ceviche and our dinners arrive.

We pushed our dinners to the side and tried the arepas because they were warm and fresh made. One was corn flavored, another was cilantro flavored, we had a beet root one and a purple corn arepa. We had the rest packed up but we didn’t get to eat it so this appetizer was just wasted.

It seemed like the waiter was trying to rush us out. I don’t know why because there were hardly any other customers at the time.

I had the Pacific Striped Bass. It came out with a crispy skin that turned soggy fast but the fish was tender and perfect. It rested over Peruvian Corn Succotash and a guajillo chili sauce and corn salsa that was delicious.

My husband had the Slow Roasted Suckling Pig Porchetta.

It sat in a pool of pork jus and was topped with spiced plantains, pickled onions and water crest. He enjoyed it very much. He said it was even better than the one he had last time here.

The manager did apologies to us for all our food coming out at mostly the same time. She did offer to re-make our dinners so we could enjoy the appetizers. I declined because I know what not all but what some cooks do to food when they have to re-make it. She also offered a complimentary dessert that I declined because I was full.

Last time I had the rotisserie chicken.

My husband had a different plating of the Porchetta.

All the food we tried was Worth a Fork!

I tell The Forking Truth and this is how it was.

Last time we received very good food and they treated us like VIPS here.

This time the food was still very good but the service was more like from a diner.

That was my trip to Chica in Las Vegas – Still very good food but service can be hit or miss.

www.ChicaLasVegas.com

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