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My Trip to Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill – Las Vegas NV at Caesars

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Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill is an English Style Pub located in Caesars Hotel/Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. Gordon Ramsay is an award wining famous celebrity chef with several restaurants in Las Vegas. Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill is a beer place and has 36 taps and offers 63 different bottled beers.

inside
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They offer a variety of different tables, booths, and a bar to sit at.

I ordered the famous fish and chips that come with mushy peas. I’ve had his fish and chips from his more casual restaurant called Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips and it was very good from there. Here’s the fish & chips from Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill.

fish & chips with mushy peas

This is all falling apart. When you stick a knife into it the fish flakes just crumble…….It doesn’t taste bad but seems off today. No crunch………Chips are kinda soggy but don’t taste bad. They have a nice potato flavor. I never had real mushy peas before…..It’s almost like minty pea soup. It’s really hard to eat with a fork. Below are the fish and chips that I had from Gordon Ramsay’s more casual restaurant Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips at the LINQ. These were much better and came with more sauces (and cost far less…….almost half).

Fish & Chips from Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips

Anyways-

My husband tried the short rib grilled cheese with fries.

short rib grilled cheese sandwich

My husband is slightly upset with this sandwich because it cost almost $30. and is overly scant with cheese. (most of the white in the sandwich is pickled onions)

inside the short rib grilled cheese

Much of the grilled cheese sandwich is free of cheese. All you can see is the short rib & pickled onions.

My husband complains about cheese not in a grilled cheese sandwich. They bring him a new one quickly that was burnt on one side but did have cheese on the bread this time. The beef was slightly dry and the fries were ok but didn’t have much of a potato taste.

Might have been an off day?

That was my trip to Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill

3570 S Las Vegas BLVD Las Vegas NV

702-731-7410

www.Caesars.com

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Buddy V’s Ristorante – Las Vegas NV 2022 Venetian – Still Worth a Fork!

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Buddy V’s Ristorante is an East Coast Style American Italian Restaurant located in the Venetian Hotel Casino in the Grand Canal Shops that is on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. Celebrity Chef Buddy Valastro’s is well known for his TV roll playing the Cake Boss.

Carlo’s Bake Shop across from Buddy V’s

Buddy V grew up working in his father’s bakery called Carlo’s Bake Shop. The business grew. Buddy became the Cake Boss and opened his American Italian Restaurant based on food recipes his grandmother and mother made for him.

Inside is casual.

inside

They start you off with light fermented focaccia bread and olive oil splashed with balsamic.

We shared the Tuscano Salad as an appetizer. I don’t know but I think they accidentally gave us full size portions because these are enormous even for full size portions.

Toscano salad

This is an arugula based salad. The arugula is small and tender and sweet for arugula. This salad contains crispy artichokes, a good amount of pecorino, marinated tomatoes, prosciutto and lemon vinaigrette.

Today I tried the Sicilian Style Fish & Chips.

Sicilian Fish & Chips

This is parmesan crusted Atlantic cod, Tuscan Fries, fresh, crispy well seasoned but drippy slaw, ketchup, and unusually really great tartar sauce. The tartar sauce has chunky pickled pieces in it that taste extra good. This is very good. Everything is nicely made and seasoned nicely. This is better and almost half the price of fish & chips I had somewhere else in Vegas. I did use my lemon from my iced tea to squirt on the fish. Maybe you should ask for a wedge of lemon when you get this dish? I do warn you that this is a very big lunch….I could only eat almost half and I am a good eater but I did notice that someone at the next table had this and ate the whole thing.

My husband had the Nonna’s Lasagna al Forno.

Nonna’s Lasagna Al Forno

This is made with Italian sausage, beef, pork, ricotta, mozzerella, and provolone cheeses. My husband thought that it was very good. He was going to try to eat the whole thing but stopped around half. This is a really crazy large portion for lunch. But sometimes when you see a show it’s good to have a big lunch so you can skip dinner.

A lighter lunch is the salmon that I had last time.

Salmon with chickpea salad

Behind the salmon is the orecchiette plate but sadly it wasn’t on the current menu. My husband said it was his favorite plate of orecchiette that he has ever had.

DAM it! ………….. We saw everyone getting these amazing looking cakes so we had to order one.

This is called the Italian Birthday Cake. It’s a sponge cake soaked with rosolio liquor. It has cannoli filling, really chocolatey pastry cream and toasted almonds.

Italian Birthday Cake

Yes it’s worth the calories. It’s rich and very delicious! You can Taste why Buddy V is the Cake Boss.

Buddy V’s Ristorante is still Worth a Fork! It’s also a very good value.

Worth A Fork!

Buddy V’s Ristorante 3327 S Las Vegas BLVD Las Vegas NV

702-607-2355

www.BuddyVsRestaurants.com

www.VenetianLasVegas.com

Grand Canal Shoppes Shopping Mall – Venetian

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2022 Trip to L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon – Las Vegas Nevada

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L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon is a high end multi award winning small plate French Restaurant located in the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. It’s from the late chef and most award wining chef of the century Joel Robuchon.

Most of us mere mortals sit at the counter and watch the action. A few people get to sit at the few tables on the side. Maybe they are high rollers? Or maybe they gave “B” jobs to get a table?

Anyways-

They started us off with a FORKING Amazing amuse bouche. It was some sort of apple gelee, finger limes, and I think some sort of smoked citrus cream? It was a mind-blowing highlight of the evening.

Another highlight is always the incredible bread basket with French Butter.

Baguettes, croissants, milk breads…….All great. The croissants really stand out…… the very best that I ever had anywhere..made with that French butter that you can clearly taste in them along with all the amazing layers of the croissant …..

The menus and prices did differ from my last visit. There are less choices and less Tonight we went a la cart instead of the tasting menu because one round of the tasting menu was not for me.

I started off with the cauliflower salad called Les Choux.

It’s cooked cauliflower with micro vegetables, crunchy peanut tuiles with a sweet and sour vinaigrette. A nice light start……..

My husband started with the Iberico ham.

In case you didn’t know this is very special ham from black footed pigs that were kissed by Jesus and only eat acorns. It’s the finest ham. They serve it with bruschetta.

For dinner my husband went with the La Bavette (seared skirt steak, onions and crispy shallots).

It taste beefy with crispy shallots going crunch, crunch, crunch. It was served with the famous buttery whipped Robuchon Potatoes.

For dinner I tried the Roasted Cod (Le Cabillaud) with grilled shiitakes, and soybeans in a saffron broth. It came with the famously RICH Robuchon Potatoes.

It really is very good…but….is the smallest dinner that I have ever had here….and I have been coming here for over TEN YEARS…..

See it’s more of a tasting. The cod is only slightly bigger than a quarter.

I know small plates is very small but this is extra tiny more like a tasting….See even ALL the appetizers that I’ve have prior to this visit are much more filling than this dinner was. (this is only some of the appetizers I’ve had here)

SEE!

Salmon Carpacchio – appetizer

Beef Cheek – appetizer

Kampachi belly with eggplant compote in cilantro sauce – appetizer

smoked salmon potato waffle with dill cream cheese – appetizer

Red snapper carpaccio with lemon gelee and turmeric vinaigrette – appetizer

All the appetizers that we’ve tried here were all more substantial than the dinner I was served tonight….

Anyways

Roasted cod entree

I had room for dessert so we shared the les tartes.

The top one taste like a chocolate candy bar, We both really enjoyed the lemon meringue, Pumpkin was lightly spiced, my husband’s favorite was the cinnamon cream pie.

Then they usually surprise you with another dessert. Tonight was blackberry macarons.

That was my 2022 trip to L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon at MGM Grand Las Vegas Nevada.

3799 Las Vegas BLVD South Las Vegas Nevada

702-891-7358

www.MGMGRAND.com

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Ocean One Bar & Grill – Great Value CHEAP Food on Las Vegas NV Strip***UPDATE CLOSED AND EXPECTED TO RELOCATE

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****UPDATE CLOSED AND EXPECTED TO RELOCATE****Ocean One Bar & Grill is a full service restaurant and bar located in the Miracle Mile Shops on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. They offer breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinks at rock bottom astonishingly low prices and are better and cheaper than fast food. Breakfast starts at $5.99 and the whole lunch menu is only $5.99 EACH! Dinner isn’t much more. And drinks….

I tried a glass of wine and GOT THREE of these for $12. It’s not the finest wine but it’s drinkable.

This is even filled more than most places would fill

They have a patio that wraps around the restaurant, lots of inside and bar seating.

half of the patio….It continues down past the corner
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inside

One day we tried breakfast. My husband went with the $8.99 Spanish Omelette with added on sausage $2.50.

He was happy with it.

I tried the $9.99 smoked salmon platter.

The smoked salmon platter is very large. I think that it is nice that it comes with fresh fruit. The salmon is good, it comes with a slice of Philadelphia cream cheese, capers, red onion mixed greens and a toasted west coast style bagel.

We have tried a lunch here.

We tried the wings on the lunch menu….I wasn’t expecting this much food or it to be as good as it was.

Wings $5.99

I also had a $5.99 Salad.

Not bad for $5.99….Sometimes I get $14. salads that aren’t as good.

My husband got a HOUSE MADE pasta dish for $5.99.

Not bad for $5.99……….

Tried dinner here.

I got the Wild Island Salmon Salad $11.99. It’s made of greens, marinated onions, pistachios, supreme oranges, and house made mango vinaigrette.

I am very surprised on how well they prepared the salmon. It’s as moist as a fully cooked salmon can be. Even the oranges are very fresh tasting like they were just picked. It’s a great salad for only $11.99. A lot of salmon salads are very expensive these days. They often run twenty dollars and up these days. I was somewhere and I remember seeing a salmon salad for $30.

My husband tried the 1/2 pound burger and asked for it to be medium rare $6.99. He added on extra cheese ($1.00 + sautéed onions .50 cents) With the burger you have a choice of fries or rice and beans.

The burger DID COME OUT MEDIUM/RARE! They don’t use the best buns but the actual burger came out very flavorful and juicy.

I haven’t tried dessert yet here but they do look delicious!

******UPDATE CLOSED BUT EXPECTED TO RELOCATE******

Ocean One Bar & Grill – Great Value CHEAP Food on the Las Vegas Strip!

702-696-9080

3667 Las Vegas BLVD South Las Vegas Nevada (at the Miracle Mile Shops)

www.OceanOneGrill.com

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Momofuku Cosmopolitan Las Vegas 2022 – Still Worth a Fork!

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Momofuku is a Global US, Korean, and Japanese Fusion sort of restaurant established by Celebrity Chef David Chang. Today’s (Nov 30/22) Momofuku website shows four locations of Momofuku New York, Toronto, Las Angeles and the Las Vegas Location. The menu highlights steamed buns, noodles, meat, and raw seafood.

Inside you can sit at a table or the bar or around the counter watching the action from the open kitchen.

inside

We started with a small plate of pork belly buns with hoisin sauce, cucumber, and scallions.

pork belly buns

For my main I had the spicy tuna bap.

spicy tuna bap

It’s made of , chopped tuna, tasty sesame rice, seaweed salad, beni shoga (pickled ginger), crisp cucumber, a creamy pepper sauce. You are suppose to mix it all together. The flavors are all delicious together.

My husband had the ginger scallion noodle dish.

ginger scallion noodle

The pickled shiitake really make the flavors pop. This dish also contains wakame salad (seaweed), noodles, scallions, cucumbers.

Really delicious dishes!

Last time here we enjoyed –

Pear Burrata small plate

Jidori Rotisserie Ssams This was really great too!

Momofuku at The Cosmopolitan is still Worth a Fork!

Worth Fork!

Momofuku at the Cosmopolitan

3708 Las Vegas BLVD Las Vegas Nevada

702-698-2663

www.CosmopolitanLasVegas.com

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Superfrico Restaurant – Cosmopolitan Las Vegas NV – Just Weird

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Superfrico calls themselves an Italian American psychedelic restaurant and bar that is located in the Cosmopolitan hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. I’ve read very good reviews for the food and that it is almost like a show with dinner………So I thought why not?

We entered.

entrance

It’s a little dark inside. It is moderately loud with a disk jockey playing records. Some colorful lights are all over. There is a person walking around with a full length penguin mask……….slightly weird.

We ordered the hamachi crudo to start with….

hamachi crudo

The first piece of fish that I tasted I had to spit out because it had a strong fish taste that it shouldn’t have. This got sent back.

We got a Sicilian salad instead.

Sicilian Salad

This salad was light and fresh tasting. It contained fennel, onion, citrus, candied pine nuts, olive gremolata, and fennel vinaigrette.

During dinner we see a few characters waltz threw the restaurant.

My main was the eggplant parmesan rollatini.

Eggplant parmesan rollatini

It’s very small…..but it’s almost very good! I three thin small rolled eggplant slices stuffed with a fresh good quality ricotta cheese that is on top of acidic tomato sauce and topped with parmesan, parmesan fricos, and crisp basil.

We also shared a side order of mushrooms.

Side of roasted mushrooms

The mushrooms sounded interesting because they were made with sherry vinegar, shoyu, cured and smoked yolks. These were pretty good with a nice rich flavors.

My husband had the beef cheek rigatoni.

beef cheek rigatoni

It was slightly disappointing because the pasta was over cooked. Beef cheeks usually have a great tenderness to them and an extra good beef flavor but the beef here could pass (taste wise) like pot roast. Also the mushrooms weren’t nearly as flavorful as from the side order of roasted mushrooms.

Superfrico they say that they are an American Italian Psychedelic Restaurant…..

I thought it just was WEIRD.

Superfrico at the Cosmopolitan

www.CosmopoltanLasVegas.com

3708 Las Vegas BLVD South Las Vegas Nevada

702-534-3419

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A Little Taste of Bouchon – Vegas NV

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Bouchon is a Parisian Style Restaurant by multi award wining chef Thomas Keller. Bouchon on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada is located in the Venetian Hotel Casino. It may be somewhat challenging to find because it is located on the tenth floor in the Venezia Tower.

The restaurant has a rich old fashioned look and the servers are formally dressed.

If you are in the mood for shellfish you are in luck. The shellfish bar might have what you desire.

shellfish bar

Depending on the day you are here….For lunch or as a starter you might want to start out with something masterfully prepared.

Butternut squash soup

Salmon rillettes

Spinach ravioli with forest mushrooms, bacon, potato chips, and parmesan cream

endive salad with red wine poached pears, candied walnuts, and goat cheese

escargot

Chickpea soup

Dinner might be something like boudin blanc.

Masterfully prepared sustainable Loch Duart Salmon

Diestel Farm Turkey

Some of the desserts

lemon tart

K+M chocolate gateau

Trio of tartes – pumpkin, pecan, apple

Bouchons

The famous Bouchons (these were baked by me recipe www.TheForkingTruth.com)

Bouchon Bakery Mini Coffee Cake (baked by me)

Bouchon coffee cake (recipe www.TheForkingTruth.com )

Bouchon 3355 Las Vegas BLVD S Las Vegas NV

702-414-6251

reservations – 866-659-9643

www.ThomasKeller.com

www.VenetianLasVegas.com

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Emeril’s New Orleans Fish House Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork

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The Las Vegas Emeril’s New Orleans Fish House is located in the MGM on the Las Vegas Strip. This restaurant is owned by celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse. This is a full service seafood restaurant that offers a few New Orleans specialties.

bar area
part of dining room

They started us off with four pieces of warm sweetened corn bread and butter. (we each ate a piece before I snapped picture)

My husband started with the gumbo because that is a must have if you can do it ($13.)

I had the fresh catch. It was grilled salmon today with mixed vegetables ($27.).

My husband went with the shrimp po boy that came with pickled cauliflower salad ($16.).

Everything was prepared reasonably well and everything was good!

Emeril’s New Orleans Fish House is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

www.EmerilsRestaurants.com

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Twist By Pierre Gagnaire at Waldorf Astoria Las Vegas NV – WORTH A FORK! The most FORKING Amazing Food EVER! – *****UPDATE NOW CLOSED

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*******UPDATE NOW CLOSED*******Twist By Pierre Gagnaire is a fine dining French Restaurant located on the 23rd floor of The Waldorf Astoria in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip. They offer a variety of menus. We went with the four course vegetarian tasting menu and it was like OUT OF THIS WORLD FORKING AMAZING….Like from another planet. It was one of the very best meals I ever had.

The dining room is sort of like dining under the stars with all those hanging lights..The tables are covered in linen and silverware actually looks like silver and not stainless steal.

My table has a view of the Las Vegas Strip.

They started us off with a whole bunch of amuse bouche.

They were all so thrilling and delicious and then it gets even better.

We get a baguette and this incredibly delicious bread that’s made from charcoal and apricots…..The butters that go with them are extra delicious too. The butters are hand churned French Butter and one butter is slightly spicy from Piment d’ Espelette.

First course for me is called Quinoa.

It taste as amazing as it looks. It’s made of red quinoa salad, avocado, pineapple mousse, coconut and marigolds. All the flavors are MIND-BLOWING!

My husband isn’t a big fan of quinoa and asked to exchange his starter for different one and got the Zezette Bouillon.

It’s also pretty as a picture…..I can see this on my wall somewhere. It’s made of pumpkin gnocchi, oyster mushroom, and a ricotta croquette.

Next for me was the Bell Pepper.

It’s crispy sun chokes, leeks bell peppers, mascarpone and sauce pitchi. So many flavors that it is impossible to describe…..

We added on the risotto special with white alba truffles and it was served with our main entree the Autumn Vol-au-vant.

We started with the risotto.

OMG it’s Forking amazing! These truffles are super flavorful. It’s bursting with so much flavor and then when you hit the parmesan tuile…it just pops a little more. This is the FORKING BEST Truffle dish I ever tasted!

The Autumn Vol-Au-Vant is also amazing. It’s made with onion cream, celeriac, turmeric cauliflower, Swiss chard, soy beans and quince puree. I don’t know how they made this but it taste so FORKING wonderful.

Then we get a palate cleanser.

OMG even the palate cleanser is FORKING delicious……..It has so many flavors…..raspberry sorbet, fennel, another MIND BLOWING PLATE!…..I could be done now.

Then we get three desserts each.

These are all CRAZY crazy CRAZZZZZZZZZY good….The little one on the bottom is some sort of lemon curd marshmallow and topped with a really delicious cream and topped thin milk crisps. To the right is a layered chocolate cake with a fig and really great chocolate on top of it with little gel fruit cubes…..But the thing in the glass was SUPER AWESOME FORKING MIND BLOWING….You crack the edible cube open and all kinds of flavors make your brain go bonkers…..There was pomegranate, grapefruit, I think Thai basil, Lemongrass and others I can’t remember….

Then we got surprised with another plate of very detailed amuse bouche…..all desserts.

The layer cakes are thimble sized painstakingly made opera cakes, the ones that look like pears on crackers are passionfruit cakes, little cubes are fruit gels and the chocolate is very intense with a nut….

Twist by Pierre Gagnaire in Las Vegas was astonishing as astonishing gets.

UPDATE*******NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS**************

Worth a Fork! Worth flying in to Vegas for!!!

www.WaldorfAstoriaLasVegas.com

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My Trip to The Crack Shack Las Vegas Nevada – Worth a Fork for casual tasty food

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The Crack Shack is a casual order at the counter Chicken theme restaurant with California locations and one location on the Las Vegas Strip in Park MGM. The chicken is of a higher quality than the usual and is made of Jidori Chicken.

The restaurant is co-founded by celebrity Top Chef Richard Blais. The Crack Shack offers a variety of chicken sandwiches, fried chicken, a variety of bowls, deviled eggs, biscuits, children’s meals, sweets, a bar and more.

You order at the counter, pay, grab a pager, seat yourself and pick up at the window when the pager goes off. They also offer a variety of sauces to jazz things up.

Don’t recall exactly but from left, sweet, house ketchup, bbq, enchilada and sriracha mayo

In reasonable time the pager goes off.

Here’s Matzo Ball Pazole ($10.)

The Matzo Ball is light and fluffy and sits in a Mexican Seasoned broth with pieces of tender braised chicken. We add seasoned lime, tortilla strips, cabbage and avocado and it becomes a hearty feast.

Then we shared a Firebird Crispy Chicken Thigh Sandwich ($12) with Schmaltz fries ($3.).

The sandwich is made with juicy tender flavorful chicken. It has a very thin crisp exterior. It’s seasoned well and is tasty. It’s a little smoky and a little spicy sort of like a hot smoked paprika kind of taste with a thin shattering crisp coating. The sandwich also contains a good amount of pickle slices that seem like they could be house made. There are also very crisp pieces of fried onions. We had it with the ranch dressing on the side because both of us aren’t big fans of ranch dressing. The fries appear to be hand cut. They are moist inside and tasty. The exterior isn’t particularly crisp and is dusted in a salty slightly spicy seasoning.

The Crack Shack is Worth a Fork for a semi quick casual meal out.

Worth a Fork!

www.CrackShack.com

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