New China Cuisine offers your usual American Chinese Foods and also offers NEW Boiling Cajun Shellfish dishes and a milk tea menu instead of the sushi they recently offered. They are located in North Las Vegas Nevada. It looks like your typical Chinese Restaurant with roomy booths and Chinese Style decorations.
I went with Szechuan Chicken.
It’s a very large portion and does come with LOTS of tender crisp vegetables. I have red and green bell peppers, baby corn, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, onions, carrots, and zucchini. The white meat chicken is MASTERFULLY tender…….The sauce is kinda flat and not very spicy……It taste mostly like thick soy sauce………Like from not all but most of the American Chinese Restaurants I’ve been to in Nevada……I’m beginning to think that Nevada Style American Chinese Food mostly taste like soy sauce………..
speaking of soy sauce……
The Hunan Beef also is MASTERFULLY TENDER like butter but taste even more like soy sauce. It comes with nicely steamed broccoli.
That was my trip to New China Cuisine……It might be Nevada Style American Chinese Food because what we tried was extremely soy sauce forward.
John Mull’s Meats & Road Kill Grill might look familiar to you if you watch Food Network’s Diners Drive-ins and Dives.
John Mull’s Meats & Road Kill Grill is located in the North Central Part of Las Vegas Nevada in a residential section. Around seventy years back this business was a slaughter house and meat shop that did catering. They no longer slaughter their own cattle here. They added a few outdoor picnic tables and serve mostly take out barbecue. They offer soups, sandwiches, dinners, and a variety of combo plates. The choices for the combo plates are – brisket, 1/4 chicken, hot link, pulled pork, pulled chicken, rib tips, pork ribs, (Tuesday-Thursday Tri-Tip).
I planned to dine here with the dogs because I read that this place is dog friendly but I had no idea that the place would be packed like sardines with people. It wasn’t the right environment to dine here with dogs so I waited in the car with the dogs and we did take out like most people.
Portions are tiny here……HA!…..I’m FORKING KIDDING!
My husband got an enormous combo plate with pulled chicken, pulled pork, brisket, macaroni and cheese, beans, cornbread, and a side order of hot links.
I got a combo plate of 1/4 dark chicken, brisket, macaroni and cheese, yams, and cornbread. Oh and it’s not tiny either.
My husband and I favored some things over other things….But the dogs enjoyed everything!
Between us out of what we tried we liked best the 1/4 dark chicken, pulled pork, hot links, beans, yams, sweet cornbread.
We both thought the brisket was tasty but we received a mix of fatty and lean brisket. Some pieces were dried out and others were moist.
We both thought that the macaroni and cheese was strange……..I thought it seemed like macaroni that was suspended in cream cheese with a little bit of cheddar mixed in.
“I enjoy the macaroni and cheese!” says the pup!
John Mull’s Meats & Road Kill Grill is Worth a Try!
Honey Salt is a farm-to-table type restaurant and bar located in the Summerlin part of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer weekend brunch, weekday lunch, dinner, vegan menu, kids menu, and more. They also have an outside patio for when the weather is nice.
When you walk in you see a vintage salt and pepper collection.
Other vintage items are used to decorate the cozy place.
Today I went with the Mighty Kale Salad with added Salmon. (kale, hearts of palm, apples, grapes, Thai basil, cilantro, kaffir lime leaves, Fresno chili, crispy chickpeas, vegetarian tom yum vinaigrette)
It’s all tasty together. Surprisingly I really enjoy the fresh cut grapes in here. The crispy chickpeas are almost like nuts. The kale looks fried but was really marinated. The salmon is well seasoned and was prepared perfect. All GOOD here!
My husband got the Roasted Ribeye Sandwich (provolone cheese, caramelized onion, horseradish aioli (requested on side), pickle chips, house potato chips)
The ribeye is tender like butter…..All GOOD here too!
We also shared a side of macaroni and cheese. (it has some kale, hatch chili, and breadcrumbs)
The flavors are very good but the pasta is mushy…..Maybe it’s that southern style that is served mushy?
Sometimes you go to a restaurant and try a dish that is so FORKING SCRUMPTIOUS it is just FANTABULOUS>>>You feel they deserve an award or prize for making something so over the top delicious————-Lemongrass & Lime is a Thai Bistro with two locations in Las Vegas Nevada. They have earned a “Best Of” by Las Vegas Review Journal and has also won GOLD as the 2023 Winner .
They do many great dishes but these Golden Pouches are so FORKING Fabulous they just might appeal to everyone out there.
They are little crisp rice paper pouches that contain mashed potatoes. They sit in this most amazing massaman curry accented with crispy shallots. It’s amazing! I’ve had them somewhere else and the sauce that sat in there was a different curry that wasn’t as delicious. Even my husband who hates most curries thinks that this is really delicious.
The Golden Pouches from Lemongrass and Lime is an “Official” FANTABULOUS Dish.
Island Comfort is a small casual order at the counter restaurant that offers Guam Style Barbecue in Las Vegas Nevada.
They offer Guam Style Comfort Food Plates. That means you get TONS of food stuffed into a styrofoam container.
I tried the #2 BBQ Chicken – 3 chicken thighs with 2 scoops red rice, potato salad and chicken kelaguen (Guam chicken salad) This also came with a condiment called finadenne (vinegar, soy sauce, scallions, pepper)
The chicken has a nice char and has a really great moist texture…….But for me it is WAY TOO SALT FOWARD………To me it’s a SALT BOMB. It taste like I am chugging soy sauce. I DON’T KNOW IF THIS IS TYPICAL or an OFF BATCH? I do note that I might be slightly sensitive to salt…..But hey nothing crazy…I DO salt my food and I do EAT salted pretzels and salted nuts so I do eat more salt than some people. However my husband tolerates far more salt than I do and it is also too salty for him so I can say that this chicken bbq was too salt forward. The potato salad is ok. The chicken kelaguen (chicken salad is edible but a little dry. The rice is one note but maybe it’s suppose to be one note?
My husband tried the #3 All-In-One Plate – bbq chicken, spare rib, short rib, empanada, and lumpia with 2 scoops red rice, potato salad, chicken kelaguen (chicken salad), and condiment finadenne (vinegar, soy sauce, scallions, pepper)
He said the best thing in the plate was the lumpia (thing that looks like a spring roll stuffed with pork). The BBQ chicken ran extra salty. The beef rib had the same flavor but seemed less salty but was tough today. The pork rib was better but had very little meat on it. The rest ok.
I wanted to like this place and there were other plates that I wanted to try. I don’t know if I hit them on an off day or not?
This restaurant has an impressive 4.5 star average on Yelp so that means that most people do enjoy the food here.
That was my trip to Island Comfort.
Your experience may or may not differ.
Island Comfort 3231 N Decatur Blvd Las Vegas NV – 702-992-3866
Rangs Cocina Moderne is a small Mom and Pop restaurant where Rang does most of the cooking and her husband Benedict does most of the serving. They offer a menu that is a blend of mostly Italian, Spanish, and a little Filipino inspired foods. They offer soups, salads, small plates, pasta, entrees, sides, desserts, soft beverages, and wine.
So far we tried –
Sweet potato carrot ginger soup.
It’s creamy and rich and does taste like sweet potatoes, carrots, and is mildly gingery. It’s garnished with a few croutons that taste like fresh toasted bread.
The Dulong
Is toasted baguette with whitebait (small mild white fish), olive oil, garlic, lemon, caper, red pepper flakes.
It’s tasty and is not very fishy at all.
We tried the smoked salmon & goat cheese on baguette.
It different but tasty with pesto and capers. The salmon taste like nova.
We tried the Bacalao Potato Croquettes.
This one is also less fishy than I was expecting. It is fried to perfection and seems free of oil. The panko coating has an interior of mostly a mashed potato with very mild salt cod. It’s topped with lemon aioli and sits on a small amount of something red peppery (that I should have asked for more of)
We also tried the mushroom ravioli.
Little pillows stuffed with mushrooms in a creamy rich pesto sauce.
My husband tried the Chorizo Bolognese.
This was made with garlic, onions, spicy chorizo, tomato sauce, and parmesan cheese. The pasta wasn’t soggy and was well prepared. I heard that this was different and also tasty.
We shared the fish Florentine.
The mild meaty cod was prepared to perfection. The spinach taste fresh made. The potatoes Anna are really scrumptious.
The pesto crusted salmon is different and also delicious. The fish was also prepared properly (bloodline and skin removed) and prepared medium-ish so it was moist and not fishy tasting with an interesting crisp and tasty crust. The petite green beans (haricots verts) are sweet and crisp. The mashed potatoes were terrific too!
We also shared the slow braised beef cheek.
The beef is melt in your mouth tender and is flavorful. The petite green beans are tendercrisp and are the sweetest best green beans I’ve ever tasted and the mashed potatoes are also very good. The dish was embellished with a little gremolatta too.
New to the menu is a New York Strip. This was in a citrusy soy type sauce and was topped with caramelized onions. The steak was prepared to medium to please most people. This also came with petite green beans and rice.
The one thing that all the dishes had in common were that they all were seasoned to perfection. You don’t need to add salt or pepper to anything. Everything is perfect.
So far for dessert –
We shared a lemon meringue tart.
It has lemony curd and a tasty crust but has a marshmallow meringue.
On another visit we shared the opera cake.
It’s full of different flavors of thin layers. It’s mildly coffee flavored with almond sponge and chocolate. It’s topped with a gold coated chocolate that looks like a coffee bean and on the side was whipped cream and a cherry.
Everything was delicious and service was amazing. It’s better than many of the strip restaurants and cost a lot less.
Rang’s Cocina Moderne is WORTH A FORK!
Worth a Fork!
Rangs Cocina Moderne – 5900 W Charleston Blvd Las Vegas NV – 725-214-1188
There are basically two kinds of burgers out there. The regular ones are made with commercial ground beef and the ones with better tasting patties are fresh ground in-house. I haven’t tried all the ground-in-house burgers in Vegas yet but they are the only ones I will eat. You really don’t go back to commercial beef after trying most ground in house burgers.
The burger above is the 10 oz. Market Street Burger from MRKT Sea & Land Restaurant at Aliante Casino/Hotel in North Las Vegas. This one was the most expensive of the burgers ($26. at the time of my visit) I was expecting it to be the best….
I asked about the patty and was only told that it was mostly filet mignon. This burger was white cheddar cheese (left off at my request because you taste the meat more without the cheese), caramelized onions, tomato, wild arugula, dijonaise, griddled potato bun, with parmesan garlic fries.
For whatever reason this burger today was juiceless and dry on the ends. It also lacked a good flavor. Possibly whoever was cooking might have squished all the juice and flavor out of the burger? Or maybe the blend of meat to fat ratio was off? Or maybe there is another reason??????????????? This burger is at the bottom of my ground-in-house-burger list. I should note that I did enjoy a steak dinner special here so I will come back to try a steak or fish next time.
MRKT – 7301 Aliante Pkwy North Las Vegas NV 702-692-7777
www.AlianteBoydGaming.com
At another Boyd restaurant called Carved Prime Rib at The Canney Casino/Hotel also in North Las Vegas……The ground- in -house PRIME Rib burger was very good. Also cheaper ($20. at the time of my visit).
This one is a 10 oz. ground-in-house prime rib burger patty with Swiss cheese (left off at my request to taste the beef better), mushrooms, onions, lettuce, tomato, pickles, brioche bun, skinny fries. This one is juicy and has a good flavor to it. Not crazy about the skinny fries but I have to give them credit for cooking them to perfection and serving an extra generous portion in a heated bowl that stayed hot the whole time.
Carved Prime Rib – 2121 E Craig Road North Las Vegas – 702- 507-5777
www.CanneryCasino.com and it takes you to www.CanneryBoydGaming.com
Jerry’s Famous Coffee Shop at Jerry’s Casino also offers a ground-in-house NYStrip & top round burgers in THREE different sizes. Below is a 1/2 lb burger with sweet potato fries.
It’s a pretty basic burger with nice grill marks. It t DOES have a nice burger taste. The roll is a little large for the burger but they get POINTS for serving a fresh baked bun from Jerry’s Bakery. I also note that the sweet potato fries today are especially good with a crisp exterior and a great sweet potato flavor……I don’t recall the exact price for the burger but remember that it was very reasonable.
So far the best two I’ve tried are next in no particular order. This one is the Signature Burger from Echo & Rig.
WOW! Now this burger gots lots of flavors……..Inside it is bib lettuce, heirloom tomato, red onion and aioli……the fries are a little dried out today but the burger today is super great! (at the time of my visit the price was only $17)
Echo and Rig 440 S Rampart Blvd Las Vegas NV – 702-489-3525
www.EchoandRig.com
The other really great burger (so far) was the smoked and grilled ground-in-house brisket burger from Soulbelly BBQ.
The brisket burger is served with American cheese special sauce and a pickle. An alternative suggested serving is topped with slaw that I got but also with special sauce. I think they cooked it slightly less than the medium I asked for but I do have to say that this is another FORKING Delicious burger full of all kinds of flavors. (at the time of my visit was only $18)
Soulbelly BBQ 1327 S Main St Las Vegas NV – 702-483-4404
www.SoulbellyBBQ.com
These were the ground-in-house burgers that I tried in Las Vegas……SO FAR. (P.S. I know there is a ground in house prime burger served at Summer House in The Durango)
My husband said that it was a good burger. I’ll have to try it next time.
Burrito Tyme is a small casual Mexican Restaurant located by a gas station in North Las Vegas Nevada. It’s very casual. You order and pay at the counter. Next to the cashier is a small bar of salsas, limes, radishes, pickled carrots, and grilled jalapeños and maybe a few more things so you can dress up your order as you like.
It’s small but they offer a long menu of all kinds of things like breakfast, and of course burritos, quesadillas, tortas, tostadas, enchiladas, tacos, combo plates, fajitas, taco salads and MORE! Mostly soft beverages are available (I only noticed a bottle of sangria but wasn’t sure if it had alcohol in it because it looked more like a soda?)
I tried three tacos – a fish taco, a chicken taco, and an asada taco (steak)
Above is the fish taco and the asada (steak) taco.
They are much larger than I was expecting and are also very generously packed.
The first one I tried was the chicken taco. (lower left side below.
It’s well packed and doubled shelled with white corn tortillas that I can’t separate ……The chicken is ok….this tacos also is dressed with pico and guacamole…..The asada is next……I’m surprised….the beef isn’t chewy…..it’s ok ………My favorite of the tacos is the fish taco……It’s the one with lots of crunchy lettuce. The fish is fried really perfect. It moist, fresh tasting, and meaty inside with a shattering crisp crust. It’s different than any other fish taco I’ve tried anywhere. It’s dressed with Mexican tartar sauce…..This one is my favorite I’ll come back to get this again.
My husband tried adobada (pork) and carnitas (pork) tacos and a combo plate of a chile relleno with a cheese enchilada that comes with rice and beans.
The chile relleno is unique from others we’ve tried. Inside is a fresh roasted poblano type pepper with lots of white melty cheese encased in a light bread-ee fried batter. My husband said the beans were good.
Worth a Try!
Burrito Tyme 5575 N 5TH St North Las Vegas NV – 702-399-3693
Saffron Flavors of India might be the only Indian Restaurant near North Las Vegas Nevada. We decided to give them a try.
It’s nice and neat inside.
Some alcohol is served here.
We started out by trying the gobi manchuriam (cauliflower appetizer in Chinese style sauce)
It taste like Chinese Take out……It’s kinda sweet and kinda spicy with not too much in-between….We ordered #8 out of #10 for heat……It’s not crispy like from other places I’ve tried……..Not sure that the cauliflower is battered or not…seems like just vegetables and a sweet and spicy sauce. Different….I’ve never had this dish like this before.
This restaurant does have dishes on the menu that you don’t find at other restaurants like the Frankie Naan. It’s like a cheese stuffed Indian Pizza (cheese stuffed Indian type bread topped with garlic, basil, spinach, cilantro, and pesto.)
It’s tasty.
Then we shared a few dishes.
Goan Fish Curry – ginger, tomato, coconut curry sauce #7 out of #10 heat
Makhi (butter) Curry with Chicken #7 out of #10 for heat.
Both curries are #7 out of ten for heat and both are just above mild. n the lower right hand corner is the Goan Fish Curry. The dominate flavor of the curry is ginger. I would recommend not to order the fish here….It’s stronger than I enjoy…..
On the upper part of the plate is the Makhi (butter) Curry with chicken…..The white meat chicken is prepared nicely and is tender. The sauce is fragrant and more balanced than the Goan Fish Curry….For my taste this one is much better but it is different from what I tried from other Indian restaurants that I’ve been to. Different isn’t negative…..It just means different.
I noticed Rogan Josh on the menu and that is a dish I haven’t found before in Indian Restaurants that I’ve been to.
That was my trip to Saffron Flavors of India.
Saffron Flavors Of India 4450 N Tenaya Way Las Vegas NV – 702 – 489 – 7900
Nusr-et Steakhouse is a Steakhouse by Chef Nusret Gokce who is known by the name Chef Salt Bae.
Nusr-Et Steakhouse is in almost 30 locations across the world including places like Istanbul, Dubai, London, Mykonos, Miami, and LAS VEGAS just outside of the New York New York Casino/Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. Quality flake salt is the signature of this restaurant and it is sprinkled on most things savory.
The steaks run up in Price to $1,500.
Nusr-Et also offers a three course Lunch Special for $39.00. I thought this would be an amazing opportunity to try Nusr-Et.
The Las Vegas location looks like this with a big modern attractive bar in the middle of the lower floor of the restaurant.
A larger than life portrait of Chef Salt Bae is in the middle of the room.
We shared the appetizers and started with the salmon tartare. It sure looks AMAZING but doesn’t taste amazing.
It taste like salmon that is mixed with mayonnaise on top of creamy avocado that is embellished on the top with crisp (maybe freeze dried) capers (I don’t think they are fried because when capers are fried they open up like flowers …and have some flavor). On the plate is an artistic red splat that looks incredible but doesn’t add anything……….Honestly I think a few ingredients are missing from this dish today.
Next we share the best of what I tried at Nusr-Et.
It a BIG Nusr-Et Salad. (greens, tomato, apple, walnuts, feta, raisins, cherries, pomegranate dressing)
The salad is big and fresh. Everything is fine here.
Now on to the mains…..I’ll show my husband’s main first because the picture shows what is wrong better. He got the 5 oz. New York Strip with mashed potatoes.
You can tell just by looking at the photo that this doesn’t taste good. THE STEAK is tender but THE STEAK IS GREY. It’s NOT SEARED. The grill marks look like they possibly could be painted on? The steak is salted but other than salt it’s tasteless………Sadly to admit that the mashed potatoes are stomach turning to be. They are gluey……..I KNOW that for $39. for three courses I don’t expect a high quality steak but it is so easy to make a cheap steak taste at least good……..Don’t mean to brag but even I can make a cheap steak taste good….see picture below.
Would you prefer this? (sometimes I salt crust the potato)
Sous Vide and seared NY Strip
Or this?
ANYWAYS-
I got the 5 oz filet mignon. It sure looks better and also is tender but also is next to tasteless……..Salty and not much else. To me the mushrooms are too salty too.
We also shared a side of macaroni and cheese.
It looks great and does taste like it was made with real cheeses but has a weird texture and doesn’t taste right. It’s very grainy and the sauce looks good but taste like it is missing something…………..It’s missing either butter or milk….take like cheese and water……(maybe that is why it’s grainy?)
The baklava is ok…….and not too sweet.
Never had Turkish Ice Cream before so I’m not sure what it is suppose to be like but this I can’t stomach. My husband can’t eat it either……..It’s so strange. It’s sort of hard and chewy in a really weird way.
To me the three course $39.00 lunch at Nusr-Et was disappointing.
I do note that your experience and taste may indeed differ.
Nusr-et – 3786 Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV – 702-623-0664
