Da Braddah’s Grindz serves Hawaiian Food from a food truck and also has two locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The North/West Location newly opened in a Sinclair Gas Station. They offer Hawaiian Plate Lunches (enormous amounts of food with rice and macaroni salad served in styrofoam boxes), all day breakfast, burgers, and more. With only two tables inside to sit at so this is mainly a take out location.
You order and pay at the counter.
I tried the Korean Chicken Lunch Plate.
The steamed rice and macaroni salad is very good. The dark meat chicken is very tender and does have good flavors to it but something is wrong with the breading because it is wet and soggy.
My husband tried a two meat plate, (kalua pork & furikake chicken).
He said that the pulled pork, rice, and macaroni salad, was very good. Same problem with the chicken here. The chicken was tender and had good flavors to it but here the breading was wet and more like a paste texture.
Maybe the breading problem is an newly opening hiccup?
For now I’d avoid breaded foods here and the rest is worth a try.
Cornish Pasty is a growing group of British Style Pub and Restaurants. Several locations are in Arizona and one location is in the Arts District in Las Vegas Nevada. The specialty of the house is the Cornish Pasty. It’s a hearty stuffed pastry. They offer many varieties of the pasty. Typical ones are meat and potato filled but they also offer vegetarian and vegan pasty. Inside is a mix of bar area, long bench tables that look similar to church seating, and some traditional tables.
The Arts District Las Vegas location gets slammed when festivals and conventions are in town and is often out of menu items so much that they have these QR Table tents on the tables.
I thought it was weird when our waiter told us to scan the QR with our phone instead of just telling us what they were out of.
My husband is usually really good at these things but here the print on the phone was so small that my husband missed a lot of it.
They were out of my first two choices so I went with my third choice and ordered the Chicken Tikka Masala Pasty. It comes with your choice of yogurt or tahini for dipping. My waiter didn’t ask me what I wanted and brought me the yogurt. I asked him if I could exchange the yogurt for tahini since that was unique.
The pasty looks good….Inside is mostly potatoes with some green bell peppers a little bit of chicken and tikka masala sauce. The bottom of my pasty is soggy and the bottom of the dough crimp (top middle) is raw. I didn’t complain because it is a generous serving and I have enough to eat. By the way the tahini sauce is awful with this pasty.
My husband did much better with the Carne Adovada (Mexican Beef) because it isn’t saucy inside. This one wasn’t soggy or raw inside.
We shared British Style Chips.
I don’t know if they were made correctly? We received a mix of soggy and raw fry shaped potatoes. Some of them had burnt ends…….???? I thought British Style Chips had crisp exteriors and fluffy interiors?
Yoshiharu Ramen is famous in Orange California. This is the flagship restaurant that is considered to be the #1 ramen restaurant by the O.C. Register. There are around 13 other locations in California, one location in Onterio, and one (at the moment) location in North Las Vegas Nevada. The North Las Vegas Location offers soft beverages, beers, and sake. They also offer appetizers like fried seafood plates, and fried calamari. They offer around several varieties of pork bone broth ramen, vegetable ramen, chicken ramen, and a variety of sushi rolls. Their website list the dishes that they offer in California. Here in Las Vegas the selection does differ some.
Inside it looks exactly the same as it looked when the last Ramen Restaurant was here. Inside is a mix of booths, and half booths with an open kitchen.
We started out by sharing the Crispy Spicy Tuna.
It taste great but isn’t spicy. But this is very hard to eat because of the way they shaped it and also because they made it so darn crispy that you might need dental work after munching some down. It’s like trying to eat rocks. I don’t know if they always make the rice so hard?
I planned to get the spicy tuna bowl that I saw on-line but none of the bowls are on the menu here so I tried the Tuna Lover Sushi Roll (Tuna, Spicy Tuna, Cucumber, Mentaiko, Ponzu, Onion Chips).
This does have a nice heat to it. At first it doesn’t seem spicy at all but then it hits you. It’s pretty good. My only peeve is that the onion chips are too small and too crisp. They are like hard shreds of glass.
My husband tried the Tonkotsu Spicy Black Ramen (Pork Bone Broth and Miso topped with Pork Chashu (he added extra), Scallions, Bean Sprouts, Wood Ear Mushrooms, Bamboo Shoots, Roasted Black Garlic Oil, House Spicy Paste, Flavored Egg, Sesame Seeds, and Ramen Noodles).
He said that the pork chashu was tender and good. He didn’t think that the broth was spicy or as deep as some that he prefers but it was A-OK.
The Golden Pouches from Lemongrass & Lime are so darn tasty that everyone will like them. My husband hates curry but still thinks these things are delicious….and THEY ARE! They are rice paper that is stuffed with mashed potatoes and they sit on a very good massaman curry sauce and are topped with some crispy shallots.
The Notable Dish of the Week was the Golden Pouches from Lemongrass & Lime.
All the food pictured has a recipe that you can find here. These are some things I prepared for gatherings.
Up above are sweet potato pierogi and chocolate chip cookies (some had almonds)
Pizza (slightly under so I can re-heat nice)
Potato and Cheese Pierogi and Butter and Sesame cookies
Apple pies, corn souffle puddings, corn cookies
Potato Cannoli’s
Chipotle Rice Corn & Cheddar Stuffed Peppers with Potato String Crust (my recipe is here and also was featured on the front page of the food section of a Phoenix News Paper years ago by the food critic they had at the time. This time I used mini bell peppers instead of jalapeños and slightly less chipotle sauce to make them slightly milder. Don’t mean to brag but these are FORKING AWSOME!
Dining Out With Dogs is just a “Fluff” story about taking my dogs out to eat. It all sort of started with my late dog Louie. He really enjoyed dining out (so do my current dogs). When Louie got elderly he got diagnosed with aggressive cancer. We were told that Louie only had probably three months but maybe up to 6 months to live. I took Louie out to eat as often as I could and he made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.
The weather was nice and we went to the Great Greek Mediterranean Grill. We almost always get the salad rice bowls here. Below is the salmon salad rice bowl.
Today the salmon is pretty good. Of course both dogs enjoy some salmon.
This dog also enjoy chick peas.
This dog also enjoys cucumbers.
About to enjoy more salmon.
They also got to enjoy some gyro meat. Today it was on the dry side but the dogs never complain or refuse…….(Louie used to be picky and did refuse some things)
The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill
6540 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV
702-749-8582
www.TheGreatGreekGrill.com
The next week it was cloudy and chilly windy…..I thought it would be too cold and too windy to dine out so we took the dogs to In-N-Out for a cheeseburger and fed some to them on the patio there.
The Dogs always enjoy an In-N-Out double cheeseburger.
It was almost too cold again the following week but we dined out anyway at Mezzo Bistro and Wine. It’s an Italian Restaurant with a nice dog friendly patio.
The dogs got to eat some chicken from my beet salad.
They also got to eat sausage, pasta, and cheese from my husband’s plate.
The dogs were very happy to dine at Mezzo Bistro and Wine.
Mezzo Bistro & Wine
4275 N Rancho Drive Las Vegas NV
702-944-8880
www.MezzoBistro.com
The Dogs also got to go to Those Guys Pies. If they seem familiar you might have caught them on Food Network’s Diners Drive Ins and Dives. This place specializes in cheesesteaks and pizza. They are very dog friendly and even have a craft dog biscuit vending machine inside so we got the dogs some beef craft dog biscuits.
We all shared a house salad with fried chicken.
And we shared a plain pizza.
We always enjoy Those Guys Pies
5585 Simmons St North Las Vegas NV
725-251-5826
www.ThoseGuysPies.com
That was Dining Out With DOGS for November 2024. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.
The Forking TruthIn Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017
China Hot Wok is a small casual Chinese/American take out or dine restaurant located in North/West Las Vegas. It’s not a fancy place. You order and pay at the counter. Your order comes out as it’s prepared.
My dinner, Spicy Garlic Szechuan Chicken with fortune cookies and rice were the first plates that came out.
This is a generous serving. There are lots of fresh vegetables and a good amount of tender white meat chicken with the normal amount of take out heat. But the sauce is pretty one note and sweet. I think this is what Nevada Style is because most Chinese/American restaurants in the area make these dishes this way.
About five minutes latter my husband’s dinner of Hunan Beef arrives.
I think they tried to make this with dry crispy beef but the beef is chewy and leaves a floury aftertaste in the mouth. The sauce runs sweet in the dish with less heat than the chicken dish.
About five minutes latter that appetizer arrives it’s the paper wrapped chicken (that is actually foil wrapped).
I had this dish before and I thought it was delicious…But here the chicken is slightly dry and seasoned in a strange way. Neither of us can stomach it.
That was my trip to China Wok. Your experience and taste may indeed differ.
The California Fish Grill is a chain of seafood restaurants that are located in the greater Las Angeles area, the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, Arizona, and Nevada. They say that they only serve responsibly sourced seafood.
On the menu are grilled plates, bowls, salads, tacos, sandwiches, kids meals, and more.
The Las Vegas Centennial (North/West) location has a dog friendly outside patio.
But inside is a mix of tables and a few booths.
The Las Vegas Centennial location has two self ordering stations and one traditional ordering counter.
You seat yourself and they text you when your order is ready.
Almost everything was very good and delicious and they serve the food on real plates.
Battered fish (swai that seemed as good as cod) and shrimp (the battered white fish is actually quite good)
Shrimp taco
Cajun Salmon Taco
Side – tomatoes and feta cheese
Side – Parmesan green beans (this was REALLY tasty)
Side – beans
Mediterranean Branzino Grill Plate
Grilled sockeye salmon salad with added avocado. This was the only plate that wasn’t perfect. The salad is delicious. They gave a generous portion of salmon but it is slightly over cooked. The other issues are that they didn’t remove the bloodline and the the salmon skin on the bottom isn’t crispy. They told me that they can cook less if I ask them too….So I’m not sure if the salmon will be better next time or not?
The California Fish Grill was Better than I expected it to be.
Rang’s Cocina Moderne is a full service Restaurant that serves a combination of Spanish, Italian, Asian Foods. Rang herself does most of the cooking and her husband Benedict does most of the serving. I’ve been here a bunch of times and on every visit any dish we’ve tried has been prepared to perfection. This restaurant has been featured in the July 3rd 2024 issue of Las Vegas Weekly and the Chef is also currently nominated for an award by the N.R.A. (Nevada Restaurant Association).
Tonight we had the Dulong.
This is embellished whitebait fish on grilled baguette slices.
My husband enjoyed the Chorizo Potato Croquettes.
Tonight I had the Chilean Sea Bass in a lemon coconut soy sauce.
And my husband enjoyed the real style Carbonara.
EVERYTHING Here at Rang’s Cocina Moderne is always delicious and prepared perfect.
I was searching for a corn cookie recipe because I made that really great Vivian Howard’s Corn Pudding Recipe and it is great but I thought some sort of corn crust might be good with it? I came across a King Arthur Baking recipe for corn cookies that is also based on another recipe…..A recipe by Christine Tosi for Momofuku’s Milk Bar so I thought it had to be delicious. I only made two small changes to the ingredients and one change to the method. When I read the comments for the King Arthur Recipe many people did say that the cookies were delicious but they spread like crazy when being baked. I thought that recipe had too much butter in it so I cut it by two tablespoons. I also cut the amount of cookie dough for each cookie and so they couldn’t spread I baked them in a muffin pan. FIXED THAT! The other small change is that I substituted some dark brown sugar for a small amount of the white sugar because a little bit of brown sugar adds great flavor. I do need to mention that cookies not always but usually do come out better if you make the dough the day before and chill it in the refrigerator so that is what I did……The dough the next day was EXTRA HARD but the cookies worked out well so that is how it goes. This will make at least 24 cookies.
Ingredients for 24 cookies
1 1/3 cup flour
1/4 cup masa harina
1/4 cup cornmeal
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
10 Tablespoons unsalted butter – melted
1 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons dark brown sugar
1 egg
non stick cooking spray
Directions
Ina large mixing bowl mix together the flour, masa harina, cornmeal, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, sugars, and egg. Mix well cover and chill over night.
This dough is going to be very hard the next day.
The Next Day
Set oven to 350 F convection Bake (If you don’t have convection bake I’d suggest 350F) and spray a muffin pan with non stick spray and set it to the side.
Use a small meatball scoop and PACK the dough into it and put one in each of the muffin cups.
This goes on near bottom rack of your preheated set at 350 F convection Bake (that is actually 325 F)
In my oven they were perfect in 21 minutes.
They don’t look special BUT THEY TASTE SPECIAL!
They have a crispy crunchy exterior and the first day have a moist chewy delicious interior with a great corn taste. The 2nd day they still taste FORKING AMAZING but the one I tried was very crispy…..The rest other people ate.
A Special THANKS!!! To www.KingArthurBaking.com so I could do what I got here.
