Basilico Ristorante Italiano is a modern high quality Italian Restaurant located in southwest Las Vegas Nevada.

They have an indoor-outdoor bar and a patio for when the weather is nice.

They also have traditional seating with classic Italian movies minus the sound playing.

Recently it was restaurant week (extended to June 23 2023). So we got a nice sampling of things. We added on the bread basket olio d’oliva +balsamico with buffalo ricotta because it sounded really great and it was……

We got more goodies than we could eat here but it all was very good. My favorite bread were the herbed bread sticks. The cheese tasted like it was fresh made and was really different. It had shaved bitter chocolate on it that added a really different complexity to the bread. It was a great surprise I never had anything like that before. I bet your grandpa hasn’t had anything like this either.

My first course was the burrata.

It was an artsy rainbow carrot salad with sorrel pistachio pesto. It was tasty and not too heavy.

My husband went for the gnocco fritto.

It was a nice Italian Nosh plate. It had stracciatella cheese, adobbo di parma, red onion, arugula, hand made crackers, and Lambrusco jam.

Next were the pasta courses.

I had the spaghetti.

I do have to say that this is the most perfect spaghetti that I have ever had. It’s a little too much food for me so my husband steps in to finish this for me. After all I still have dinner and dessert.

My husband had the cavatelli norcina.

It’s a fennel seed sausage ragu with sottocenere cheese. I heard that it was very good. I never heard of sottocenere cheese before have you?

For my main I tried the branzino. It’s fancy and colorful. It’s embellished with micro greens.

The fish is surrounded by Meyer lemon nage sauce and a squash blossom and some unusual but delicious caponata complete the plate.

My husband had the short ribs.

This came with a really deluxe maitake mushroom and was also was made with impossible to find castelmagno cheese. My husband enjoyed this very much.

We also had parmigiano gelato for dessert. They serve the gelato table side here because your server preforms molecular gastronomy here.

They sure don’t do this at grandpa’s Italian restaurant.

Actually this is very complex and detailed and delicious.

The fresh made parmigiano gelato is served with lemon ginger pound cake, some poached sliced pear, and Saba. It’s all delicious together.

I have to say…….

Basilico Ristorante Italiano is Worth a Fork!

Basilico Ristorante Italiano

6111 South Buffalo Drive Las Vegas NV – 702-534-7716

www.BasilicoLV.com

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