Stallone’s Italian Eatery is a casual East Coast Style Italian Restaurant with a new location at the Santa Fe Casino in Las Vegas Nevada. You order at the counter and your name will be called as your order gets made.
In the picture below if you blow it up you can see one of the co-owners (behind the counter by the 28 shirt on the wall) that is well known for a reality show called “Tanked” that airs on Animal Planet.
We tried a variety of things and brought home leftovers….I heard that the sandwiches here are very good but enormous so I went with a garlic knot sandwich in the eggplant parmesan variety.
It’s not really something that you can pick up and eat. It’s more like a fancy appetizer. It’s cheesy.
It’s garlic-ee but not too much. The sauce is flavorful and delicious. The eggplants are fried perfect and seem like they are free of oil.
I also tried a plain slice of pizza.
It looks like a New York Slice but taste more like a neighborhood type slice. You need to add the spices to your liking. The crust is not thin enough to fold like a New York slice and it’s also not as oily as what I’ve tried from New York. But this slice has a nice crisp bottom.
My husband tried the #32 Super Hero called, The Godmother (veal cutlet, prosciutto, fresh mozzarella, cherry peppers, arugula, and balsamic glaze)
This stands out not just because of its size but also because of the special tasty bread that was baked for it. The veal is also prepared perfect and I was told that this was a delicious sandwich.
My husband also tried a slice of pepperoni pizza.
Both of us thought the sandwiches we tried were the way to go here.
Stallone’s Italian Eatery is newly opened at Santa Fe Casino and is Worth a Try!
The Martini is a twenty four hour restaurant, bar, and gaming place located in Las Vegas in the Summerlin area near Boca Park. When you walk in it looks pretty much like a big bar with a couple rooms for additional seating if needed.
Besides bar drinks and games they offer appetizers, salads, flatbread’s, sandwiches, burgers, entrees, and more. They also have a $15. filet mignon special that runs midnight to six am daily and all day Sunday.
We tried the truffled macaroni and cheese balls.
They were fried nicely and sat in a tasty tomato sauce embellished with shreds of parmesan cheese. We both didn’t get much of a truffle taste but that’s ok.
I was very surprised with how good and extra large the trail mix salad was with added seared tuna (soft greens, apples, blue cheese, cranberries, candied seasoned pecans, tangerine vinaigrette)
This was actually very good! I don’t know if they always give such large portions but this was so large I could only eat maybe less than half. Even the tuna was a very generous portion.
My husband enjoyed the Eastwood burger with fries (fried egg, jalapeño, cheddar cheese, grilled onions, avocado, mayo (left off at request), prosciutto, bacon).
The bun is big but I was told that this was a really great burger and turned out close to medium – rare as requested.
We went back on a Sunday to try the $15.00 filet mignon special.
Just add salt and pepper.
The Martini is Worth a Fork!
Worth a Fork!
The Martini – 1205 S. Fort Apache Rd Las Vegas NV – 702-227-8464
The Market Place Buffet is located in the Rampart Casino in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas Nevada. This buffet offers a combination of American foods and global inspired foods. They are open for breakfast, lunch, brunch and dinner. They offer soft beverages, beer, and wine.
We tried them on a Saturday night that happened to be Aloha Night.
Not all but a few of the offerings were kalua pig (pictured above)
fried chicken
huli huli chicken
fried shrimp
coconut creamed spinach
sweet potatoes
mashed potatoes
roasted turkey breast
prime rib
a salad bar
assorted cheeses and cold cuts
assorted bread buns and tapenades
raviolis and pasta dishes
pizzas
three different soups
around 6 different Chinese dishes (the curry chicken was really great!)
and a dessert station with gelato
All this was only $30.99 a person (subject to change).
This wasn’t fancy food but honestly this was much better than I expected it to be. All the meats EVEN THE TURKEY BREAST were warm, tender, moist, and nicely seasoned. The desserts that we tried (gelato, lemon tart, lemon roll) were also a better quality than most typical buffets.
The Market Place Buffet at Rampart Casino is WORTH A TRY!
Amazing Thai Restaurant has two locations in Las Vegas. They are a little different from other Thai Restaurants because they offer vegan dishes and traditional Thai dishes. The North Las Vegas location isn’t a fancy place but is cozy with traditional seating, booth, and bar seating.
This is the first time I saw eggplant chips on a menu so I wanted to try them.
WOW! They are really great! they are made from a fancy white flesh eggplant and are creamy and sweet inside. The exterior is so crisp and it’s fried so perfect that it seems free of oil. I didn’t think I’d like the sweet sauce but it’s not too sweet and has flavors and heat. It’s pretty good too!
I tried the spicy basil eggplant with chicken and brown rice.
It’s very good but different from other places that I tried this dish from. The white meat chicken is tender. They use white flesh fancy sweet eggplant here too. It’s the sauce that has a deeper kind of taste…….
My husband tried the drunken noodles with beef.
Flavors are good. Heat level is good but beef today is a little on the chewy side.
1228 Main Bakery Bar & Restaurant is located in the Arts District of Las Vegas Nevada Downtown. This restaurant offers fresh brewed coffee, baked goods, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a late night menu. This restaurant is part of the Wolfgang Puck Restaurant group but nothing about that is found on the website.
Besides salads, sandwiches, and entrees you might splurge to take home a loaf of bread or maybe try a fresh baked pastry.
During lunch time it’s very casual and you order and pay, grab a table number, and seat yourself.
I tried a smoked salmon latke.
The salmon seems fresh and silky. It seems like it might be from the belly area…..It also seems to be hand sliced…(you don’t find that at most places) This is very good! The smoked salmon, red onion, fresh dill, and dill cream fraiche sit on top of a perfectly prepared potato latke.
My husband a sandwich called Italian meat.
It’s made of fresh baked rosemary focaccia, basil aioli (on side at request), provolone cheese, soppressata, mortadella, prosciutto, and a very good salad on the side. My husband commented that the meats used were a very good quality and that he would enjoy eating this sandwich again. He also said that I made a very good choice today.
We managed to save room to try a lemon cruffin.
The lemon cruffin is FORKING AMAZING…….It’s like a croissant but more tender and moist and it’s filled with the most splendid lemon curd that is so flavorful….so true lemon tart with just enough sweet. There should be a line out the door for this dessert alone.
We came back to take advantage of their happy hour (3-6 every day) We got a bottle of cabernet that was only a couple dollars over cost so that was a great deal!
Then we shared what they call a Cypress Grove Bermuda Triangle (goat cheese and toasted pumpernickel….embelleshed with beets)
Oh YUM!! This is delicious……It’s a different style of pumpernickel than what I’m used to but it is all delicious together.
For dinner I had one of the most PHENOMENAL chicken dinners ever!
This was the roasted jidori chicken thigh with Brentwood sweet corn, romesco, and chive oil. The skin was reduced to as thin as paper. The chicken is infused with great flavors and is so tender it melts in your mouth. It was really FORKING AMAZING!
My husband tried the 1228 Wagyu Burger (dijonaise, American cheese, red onion, kosher dill, and fries)
It a solid good tasty burger (2 patty smash style) with very above average tasty fries with fluffy interiors. But my husband said if he knew how amazing the chicken was he would have ordered the chicken and he almost never orders chicken out.
I was too full to fit in dessert but I did take out a Amalfi olive oil lemon cake.
It taste the way it looks….It’s moist, rich, and very lemon-ee………
1228 Main Bakery Bar & Restaurant is Worth a Fork!
Seafood City is a Filipino Supermarket Chain with locations in California, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, and Washington.They also have Canadian locations in Ontario, Alberta, and Manitoba.
The North Las Vegas Location has a bakery inside called Red Ribbon Bakeshop.
They also have a Filipino BBQ called Grill City.
We decided to try Grill City.
There is a lot to see. Some of the pans are marked but with no explanation so some people have to use cell phone for google. Saw Balut here…….(undeveloped bird eggs).
They don’t sell skewers by the each and you have to buy five. My husband got a mix of pork and chicken skewers. He also got a longanisa sausage skewer.
He said that the meat on the skewers was tender but wasn’t a fan of the sweet sauce on them. He did like the sausage!
I saw 4 different fish dishes and picked the fish that I thought looked best and an ear of corn. We also shared a side order of rice.
This fish turned out to be grilled bangus. It’s also known as vinegar marinated milkfish served with spicy vinegar on the side.
This one is stuffed with onions, tomatoes, and peppers…..At first I didn’t like it but for some reason it did taste better when I added the spicy vinegar. The meat is a little dry but not hard and chewy like from the last Filipino restaurant I went to.
The corn is on the dried out side too.
We are done with lunch and are looking around some. There are lots of dry goods, baked goods, produce, and fish here. I saw prepared foods, live plants, and liquor too!
LOTS of fish here.
Surprisingly it doesn’t smell like fish here.
I’m going to buy halibut collars next time.
There is lots of milkfish here and lots of frozen milkfish here.
milkfish in citrus pepper
smoked milkfish
milkfish belly
Not all but some of the potato chips are very expensive.
$20.89 for an 8 oz bag of potato chips…My husband said he read duck eggs were an ingredient.
They also sell pig heads here.
We bought salmon here that seemed very fresh and my husband smoked it on aider wood and it came out really great! We also bought bok choy that was very good.
Smoke & Fire BBQ is located in Las Vegas Nevada. One of their signature dishes might be a blueberry chicken sandwich or it might be the massive burger called, The Smoke Show.” They offer starters such as sliders, smoked chicken wings, and loaded bbq fries. They also offer a fire Caesar salad, smoked ribs, burgers, sandwiches, and meat plates.
It’s slightly casual. You seat yourself at the bar, patio, or dining room. You do need a cellphone to view the QR menu. Then someone takes your order.
I tried the Fire Caesar Salad with added chicken.
I received a large aluminum tin filled with crunchy romaine, shreds of nutty Italian type cheese, crunchy nicely flavored croutons, spicy but delicious chipotle Caesar dressing, and pulled chicken on the side. This all taste much better than I was expecting. It is actually very good. The dressing is so darn flavorful that you only want a little and this is just right. The cheese and the croutons are just delicious. The pulled chicken is moist, tender, and delicious. It is a really great salad! It’s also big I enjoyed it for lunch and dinner!
We also shared a side order of macaroni and cheese.
It’s pretty good…Lots of cheeses and doesn’t taste like Velveta.
My husband got the burger that they call Smoke Show………It’s a whole bunch of stuff!
1/2 pound Angus burger patty, bacon, 3oz. brisket, 2 oz. pulled chicken, 2 oz, pulled pork, American cheese, pepper jack cheese, crispy onions, fries, fire sauce, mustard bbq sauce, spicy bbq sauce, and bbq sauce on brioche bun with fries. He said that it was a very good burger. He asked for medium-rare and he thought it came out closer to medium but was still very good because it was juicy and moist. He thought all the separate meats were very good. This was also a very rare time when my husband had leftovers to bring home.
Smoke & Fire BBQ is for sure Worth a Try!
Smoke & Fire – 3315 E Russell Rd Las Vegas NV – 725-214-5398
Those Guys Pies is a pizza and sandwich shop with three locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The North Las Vegas location looks pretty much like most pizza restaurants……..BUT if they look familiar to you it might be because this restaurant was on Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Inns, and Dives TV Show.
You order and pay at the counter. Then you grab a beverage and seat yourself. I noticed something very unusual here…………
…………They have a dog biscuit vending machine here! I never saw one before. Dogs are allowed on the patio. I’ll bring my dogs here when the weather is better.
Anyway back to the food……
I tried the chicken steak hoagie (no cheese) with a side of cherry peppers.
It’s PRETTY GOOD! It might be better than an actual chicken steak from Philly (I’m originally from the Philadelphia area). Instead of shaved or foamed chicken like what many places serve here they chop up moist chicken breast. To my surprise they don’t slather the bread with mayo either. They use oil and vinegar seasoned with Italian seasoning and the cherry peppers are vinegar brined and HOT! The bread isn’t Amorosa’s but holds up to the filling and isn’t as squishy as what most places serve. This is also a very large sandwich to me so I ate half. My husband said that he wouldn’t mind eating the other half later so I guess he will.
He got rib eye pizza steak with cherry peppers and American cheese instead of mozzarella.
He enjoyed it and ate the whole thing!
On another visit we started out by sharing a large lake side salad (mixed greens, roasted tomatoes, pickled red onions, smoked almonds, cranberries, goat cheese, and balsamic vinaigrette)
It tasty and something a little different.
We also shared a regular sized (14 inch) Italian White Pie (with the sausage on the side). (ricotta, mozzarella, broccoli rabe, sausage, garlic, caramelized onion, roasted tomato, lemon oil)
WOW! This one is very delicious with all kinds of flavors and it taste like a good amount of quality ricotta was used too! This is a really great pizza!
Those Guys Pies is Worth a Fork!
Worth a Fork!
Those Guys Pies
5585 Simmons Street North Las Vegas NV – 725-251-5826
I noticed that there are several Bravo Top Chefs in Las Vegas Nevada. So far I’ve been to four of them but hope to get to rest eventually.
The first one I tried was The Black Sheep by Top Chef contestant Jamie Tran. It’s a modern Vietnamese Eatery that is simply amazing! If you try this restaurant then you can taste why chef Jamie Tran made it to the Bravo show Top Chef.
Everything was FORKING AMAZING but I will cut them all down to a couple so this isn’t too long.
hamachi crudo
This hamachi crudo maybe was the best I ever had anywhere.
Boneless crispy trout
The boneless crispy trout is unique, delicious, and easy to eat. It sure is a top fish dish in Vegas by a Top Chef! We were lucky and got to see the chef Jamie Tran hard at work in her restaurant.
The Black Sheep – 8680 W Warm Springs Rd Las Vegas NV – 702-954-3998
www.BlackSheepVegas.com
We made it to Soulbelly BBQ in the arts district downtown. This restaurant is by chef Bruce Kalman. It’s casual but sort of refined BBQ with live music at certain times.
Caesar Salad with BBQ Turkey
My salad might look average but it doesn’t taste average. The turkey is moist, developed with delicious flavors. When I tried the salad I discovered that it sort of is deconstructed…..I was missing flavors from the dressing and then “BANG” the missing flavors and MORE are in the FORKING AMAZING black pepper corn bread croutons. This was an unexpected joy to eat.
My husband tried a sandwich called “The Belly of Soul.” (brisket, pickled onions, crispy onions, cheese sauce, fried egg, spicy BBQ sauce)
I tried a tiny bite of the brisket and is was really great! My husband said that all the flavors went really well together and said that he’d like to eat this sandwich again!
Soulbelly BBQ – 1327 S. Main St Las Vegas NV – 702-483- 4404
www.SoulbellyBBQ.com
********UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS*******138 Degrees Craft Chophouse, Killer Burgers, Bourbon, & Brunch is a chef crafted quality brunch, bar, and steakhouse by chef Matt Meyer with consulting chef and managing partner Alex Resnik (Bravo Top Chef). This is a place where they dry age their own meats and do their own smoking. They even culture their own sour cream.
We tried brunch shared the very best tacos (so far that I’ve tasted in Nevada. Smoked King Salmon Tacos. The fish was fish house quality, prepared to perfection, and these tacos were complex with flavors. The in-house made tortillas were also extra delicious. I also enjoyed an avocado toast.
My husband enjoyed a Salvadorian style pancake called a pupusa.
soft egg, brisket, cheese with fried bananas on the side. I was told that it was very good!
138 degrees Bar, Bourbon, Killer Burgers, Steakhouse – 1450 W Horizon Ridge PKWY Henderson NV – 702-272-0839 *****UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS*****
www.138Restaurant.com
Ai Pono Cafe is expected to open November 20th 2023 at the soon-to-open Durango Resort in Las Vegas around 8 miles from the Strip. It’s a chef crafted Hawaiian Plate Lunch Type of restaurant by (Bravo Top Chef) chef Gene Villatra. This past June I we were lucky to try a “Pop Up” of Ai Pono Cafe at The Red Rock Casino. The (Bravo Top Chef) Gene Villatra was there hard at work too!
Everything was good. However I couldn’t try every dish that was on the menu but out what I tried the favorite was the sandwich called, Da Side Chick. It was a guava chile breaded chicken sandwich.
I remember that the sandwich was big and tasty. It also only cost slightly more than fast food. ($10.) and this tasty delicious sandwich was a whole bunch better than anything fast food.
I hope to try-
Retro By Voltaggio by Bravo Top Chefs Michael & Bryan Voltaggio
Limoncello Fresh Italian by Bravo Top Chef Carla Pellegrino****UPDATE Top chef Carla Pellegrino is no longer with this restaurant**********
Boom Bang Fine Foods & Cocktails by Bravo Top Chef Elia Aboumrad
STK Steakhouse (Cosmopolitan) Bravo Top Chef Stephen Hopcraft
That was a little taste of Bravo Top Chefs in Las Vegas NV.
*******UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS********Twice Baked Gourmet Potato Restaurant is a casual order and pay at the counter type of restaurant in Las Vegas Nevada.
They offer a menu of around eleven different potatoes stuffed with a variety of proteins. They also offer vegetarian and a vegan choice. You can also custom your own potato. Besides the main dig…….POTATOES…….They also offer crisp rolls in either meat or vegetarian, they also offer tacos with flour or corn shells, salad, and soft beverages.
I tried a salmon potato today.
The potato is unusually tasty. It’s perfect with very tasty ingredients (cheese sauce, shredded cheese, white onions, scallions, sour cream, red pepper flakes) The salmon isn’t fish house quality but hey..you don’t expect that here.
My husband tried the potato called, “some like it hot……” (spicy turkey sausage, red peppers, shredded spicy cheese, cheese sauce, jalapeños, it also gets sour cream but he requested no sour cream, and habanero pepper flakes.)
This one was very good!
They offer three desserts that sound interesting and unique but after a stuffed baked potato there isn’t much room for dessert. They offer something called strawberry poppers, a lemon supreme pie, and a stuffed sweet potato dessert.
******UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS*********
Twice Baked is Worth a Try!
Twice Baked – 6020 W Craig Rd Las Vegas NV – 702-626-2833
