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Bramare Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

Bramare is a fine dining Italian Inspired restaurant, cocktail, and wine bar located in Las Vegas Nevada only about ten minutes from the strip. They are open for dinner and late night dinner. Some of the food they offer are small plates that serve one to two people like onion focaccia with olive-caper spread, king salmon collar with Calabrian chile and agrodolce. A couple of the medium plates that serve around two to three people are things like wagyu hanger steak, and brick oven chicken. They also offer large plates that might serve four or more people such as porchetta with root vegetables and salsa verde, and twenty eight day dry aged Flannery rib steak. They also offer a variety of pastas, pizzas, and more.

It seems dark when you walk in and you notice that there are no visible windows inside.

Instead of candles they have these spiffy thin lanterns that light up the table surface really great.

We shared several small plates-

Funghi Fritti – with garlic and Chile sauce, pecorino cheese – the honshimeji mushrooms have a thin crisp coating and are delicious with all the flavors and a mild heat.

Fresh baked Onion Focaccia with olive caper dip – tasty

King Salmon Collar with Calabrian spicy cucumbers and agrodolce. The salmon is caramelized and MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH amazing and also delicious with interesting flavors. I do like the spicy cucumber salad but for my taste it is overpowering for the salmon so I ate them separate.

For our main we shared a medium plate of Beef Cheek Brasato with chili, verde fregola, and parsley salad.Tender beef and the parsley salad adds a nice fresh taste to it. LOTS of tasty firm fregola…This one can stretch to three servings.

With the beef cheek brasato we also had a small plate of broccolini.

This broccolini is really great!!!!! It’s a mix of crunchy and cooked with tasty flavors from black garlic cream, breadcrumbs, and pecorino cheese……

We were pretty full but decided to try hazelnut and pistachio gelato.

It was a nice sweet ending.

Bramare is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Bramare

3900 Paradise Rd Las Vegas NV

702-342-2111

www.Bramare.com

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Juan’s Flaming Fajitas – North Las Vegas – Worth a Try!

Juan’s Flaming Fajitas is a Mexican Restaurant and Bar with Three Locations in Las Vegas. The North Las Vegas location often has live music at night. This is the type of Mexican Restaurant that gives you complimentary house made chips and more. They offer most of your usual favorites, FLAMING FAJITAS and they do sing, “Happy Birthday” to birthday guests.

And makes their own tortillas.

With whatever you order they always start you off with hot chips, bean dip, green salsa, and red salsa.

Then they give you Fideo Soup (chicken broth, tomato, short noodles).

Most likely you are going to order a fajita.

This is a double steak and chicken fajita (Steak, chicken, peppers onions). The fajitas are served with tortillas and a side dish.

Above is a side dish of rice, beans, guacamole, sour cream, and pico de Gallo.

Juan’s Flaming Fajitas is always Worth a Try!

2660 W Centennial PKWY North Las Vegas NV

702-473-5529

www.JuansFlamingFajitas.com

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Cafe Breizh – Las Vegas NV – FINE French Baked Goods and More!

Cafe Breizh is located in Las Vegas Nevada. They offer fine French Baked Goods, some grocery, and also serve breakfast and some French Cafe Type Meals like galettes, crepes, salads, hot & cold sandwiches, and platters.

As you enter you get so see so many pastries……

YIKES! This is only a small fraction of what to see…………What to get? think I’m gaining weight just looking at all of them.

Then you make it to the dining room if you are ordering a meal.

My husband tried to order the croque madame but we were told they were all sold out of them today so he went with the La Tartiflette Galette not knowing that it was a buckwheat crepe……In America galettes are flat pies.

This Galette is stuffed with prosciutto, roblechon cheese, potatoes, onion, and cream.

I tried a salmon platter.

I got toasted brioche bread, smoked salmon with capers, cucumber slices, sweet tomatoes with onions, lemon, and chive cream.

I thought both desserts we tried were fabulous!

Lemon Tart

Brownie – quality chocolate and lots of it but very rich…..

That was a little taste of

Cafe Breizh

3555 S Fort Apache Las Vegas NV

702-209-3472

www.CafeBreizh.com

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Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano at the Venetian Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano is a North Italian Type Full Service Restaurant located on Restaurant Row in the Palazzo part of the Venetian Hotel/Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. (Not pictured) is a cocktail bar on one side of the restaurant and on the far end (not pictured) is a pasta bar and in the middle is the main dining area.

Whatever you order they start you off with complimentary ciabatta, oil, and balsamic.

We shared an appetizer of sweet and spicy peppers stuffed with soft cheese.

They were adorned with pesto, grana padano, arugula, and oil.

For my main I had the Insalata Nizzarda.

This bountiful salad was made with confit blue fin tuna, seasoned hard boiled egg, olives, green beans, potatoes, and a salsa verde aioli.

My husband had the Gnocchi.

This plate was made of semolina dumplings, pork sausage ragu, onions, spicy tomato passata and cheese.

Everything was perfect and delicious.

Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano at The Venetian (Palazzo Restaurant Row area)

3355 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-414-1222

www.VenetianLasVegas.com

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Famous Chicago Style Tacos North Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

Famous Chicago Style Tacos is a small casual order at the counter taco restaurant located in a strip mall on Craig Road in North Las Vegas NV.

Besides tacos they also offer a few breakfast items, burritos, a quesadilla, nachos, tortas, a taco salad, and fries.

I got three tacos. Two chicken tacos and one carne asada.

I got small sized but very well packed double shelled corn tacos. I like the chicken tacos more than the asada…………because the asada doesn’t have much flavor to it…..On the side are three bottles of house salsas to try with them. One of the green salsas is FLAMING HOT…..The red salsa seems medium to me, and the mild green salsa has much more flavors in it than the others………I like using the mild because of all the flavors and in the middle I use one of the spicier salsas and it works well for me that way.

My husband got four tacos with rice and beans.

Rice and beans are average. Some tacos are better tasting than others…….

(carnitas good but a little dry today. barbacoa maybe the best tasting of all the tacos. cecina ((thin salted steak)) a little dry and not as delicious as the barbacoa. chorizo good.)

Reasonably priced and Worth a Try! (Lunch for two was under $30.)

Famous Chicago Style Taco

3415 W Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

702-823-2315

I haven’t found a working website for this restaurant.

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Namu Korean Tapas & BBQ Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try! (If you skip the Kalbi Patties)

Namu Korean Tapas & BBQ is located in the North/West Part of Las Vegas Nevada. This restaurant offers a menu of Tapas items and also Korean BBQ. Soft Beverages and Soju, and beer are served here.

The main dining room is a mix of tables and booths. Smaller rooms are also available.

They start you off with radish, kimchi, and fish cakes.

Then it’s up to you on what to try………..

We started with the fresh “MADE IN HOUSE RICOTTA” Salad.

It sure isn’t “Tapas” sized to me but both of us thought that this was an unusually delicious salad. Something about the creamy fresh cheese, almonds, and vinegar is so good! We packed most of this up for latter.

Felt different about the next plate. It’s a BIG FAT NO!

These were Kalbi Short Rib Balls. They came out all dried out and not so tasty…..I can NOT recommend getting them to anyone 🙁 🙁 🙁

The salmon carpaccio was interesting and different with pesto on it……..This was good.

Tasty…..and have leftovers to bring back for latter.

They called this a bulgogi arancini………..To us it is not arancini but really was tasty…They should call it Korean Bulgogi and parm rice ball.

My husband can fit in another plate so he tried the Korean Sausage with a tasty honey mustard.

He called this hot dogs…..

Namu Korean Tapas & BBQ is Worth a Try! (If you skip the Kalbi Patties)

702-489-3981

3350 Novat Street Las Vegas NV

www.NamuTapas.com

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A Little Taste of Double Zero Pie & Pub – Las Vegas NV – Top 50 Pizza in USA

Double Zero Pie & Pub is located in China Town in Las Vegas Nevada. They say that they are a Neo-Neapolitan Tokyo Style Pizza Shop. (on my visits I noticed the double Duo does periodically change)

A few of the appetizers have ingredients in them such as yuzu kosho, aged fish sauce, and enoki mushrooms.

It’s not a big place so you might need a reservation.

Here’s the Burrata E Pesto Pizza (white sauce, for Di Latte, Dorati Tomatoes, Basil, Pistachio Pesto, Burrata, Parmesan Frico, Balsamic Glaze)

The crust is thin with a thick chewy blistered edge and is developed with flavors. I don’t really notice a white sauce but there is a very good play of flavors between the cheeses, pistachio pesto, tomatoes, and balsamic.

The Funghi Pizza has a white sauce that also isn’t very noticeable. It also contains fior di latte, mozzarella, garlic butter mushrooms, charred green onion, parmesan, chives, and sea salt. Today the mushrooms are kinda hard and slightly burnt tasting but the crust is very good.

TheEggplant Caponata also is made of red sauce, fior di latte, Dorati Tomatoes, Calabrian Chili Oil, olive tapenade, herb labneh, and chives. Tasty but I’m not really feeling caponata here….Maybe more like eggplant pizza only because I’m not getting the sweet and sour that caponata normally has.

The Diavola (Red Sauce, Fior Di Latte, Spicy Sausage, Giardiniera, Spicy Soppressata, Marinated Roasted Peppers) Is not for Tenderfoots and so far is my husband’s favorite pizza that he tried here.

That was a little Taste of Double Zero Pie & Pub.

3853 Spring Mountain Rd

702-463-0755

www.DoubleZeroPie.com

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Notable Dish Of The Week – Long Twisted Pasta with Swordfish & Romesco Sauce from Basilico Ristorante Italiano – Las Vegas NV

This week was another difficult week to decide on what plate to pick. All the dishes from Basilico stood out and were detailed like no other. I went with the Busiate Teapanesi (long twisted pasta) because this really was the first time that I was wowed by a pasta dish. The pasta alone was unlike any other….The fish was more like a very good tuna and the flavors were just right….There was something completely different about this dish that was exciting. I do note that if my husband was picking the notable dish that he might have picked the Lamb Ragu Rigatoni dish because he just kept saying how great that one was……He really enjoyed the flavors in that dish too.

The Busiate Trapanesi long twisted pasta with swordfish and Romesco sauce is the notable dish of the week from Basilico Ristorante Italiano. I do also have to note that this dish was from one of a weekly tasting menu that they were offering.

6111 S Buffalo Dr Las Vegas NV

702-534-7716

www.BasilicoLV.com

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Dining IN With DOGS Las Vegas NV August 2024

We try to take the dogs out to eat at least once a week but it has been too hot outside to dine out with dogs in Las Vegas so we are dining in. This is a combination of dining in with dogs and taking them for a ride to get a cheeseburger.

We took the dogs to a Jack In The Box and brought the burger home.

They get to eat about 1/3 of the burger without bread as a treat today and the rest over the next two days.

The dogs never refuse a cheeseburger!

The dogs also got to eat Thai Food from Amazing Thai in North Las Vegas.

They enjoyed Chicken Spicy Basil and Salmon Panang.

Then from Born and Raised Sports Bar in North Las Vegas the dogs enjoyed part of a Texas Burger.

and chicken from their signature salad.

Today the dogs got a cheeseburger from Five Guys.

Today we took the dogs to the In-N-Out to bring home a cheeseburger for them. They know the cheeseburger is coming from someplace inside.

Now at home they get to eat some.

We took out a cheesesteak WITHOUT onions (because onions are toxic to dogs) for the dogs from Those Guys Pies. We just give them some meat and cheese.

That was dining in with dogs for August 2024. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.

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Tony’s Mexican Food North Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

Tony’s Mexican Food is a Mexican Restaurant with three locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The North Las Vegas Location offers breakfast, a very wide assortment of Mexican favorites, a child’s menu, desserts, soft beverages, beer, margaritas, and more!

For our first visit we tried take out.

We took out a carnitas burrito with red and green sauce on the side.

A Chile relleno with sauce on the side.

and two fish soft tacos with a half avocado on the side.

Everything was packaged nicely. Everything was prepared reasonably well and everything was tasty.

Tony’s Mexican Restaurant is Worth a Try!

Tony’s Mexican Restaurant

3053 W Craig Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-646-1110

www.TonysMexicanFoodLV.com

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