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
Every THING is subject to change.
