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A Little Taste of Dominique Ansel Patisserie – Las Vegas NV

Dominique Ansel is a multi award wining pastry chef. He also is the inventor of the Cronut that is a cross between a croissant and a doughnut.

Up above to the left is the famous cronut and to the right are pain au chocolat.

Cookies shaped like cups filled with vanilla milk.

Spinach and cheese quiche, croque monsieur sandwich, and fluffy egg sandwiches are available.

Assorted cakes

pumpkin pie

bourbon pecan pie

novelty desserts

novelty desserts

desserts

Three days in a row we tried something.

My first try was this amazing looking fortune cookie.

The limited seating is all filled up so I take our dessert to a slot machine with a tray to enjoy. It’s softer than it looks. My husband takes a bite and says, “YUK.”……… Well it’s not a yuk ……but it is different from what I was expecting. The thin tender fortune cookie is filled with slightly lemon laced cream. It’s richer than frosting but taste exactly like a lemon laced frosting from a bakery. The baked goodie on the bottom taste buttery and the Lucky Me fortune is white chocolate.

The next day we tried a pain au chocolat.

They look amazing but maybe I was unlucky and the one we got had very little chocolate in it. My half didn’t have any. My husband dug out a small piece for me to try. It was very good. Obviously high quality chocolate but ours had very little in it. The croissant also doesn’t have many layers in it. The croissant part looks amazing but wasn’t nearly as many layers or that from French butter taste as the croissant from L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon.

I had to try a cronut. I didn’t know that it was filled with mocha cream. Mocha is my least favorite flavor so it wasn’t for me.

Dominique Ansel Las Vegas

3570 Las Vegas BLVD S Las Vegas NV

www.Caesars.com

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Famous Foods Street Eats – Streetbird, Blood Bros BBQ – Resorts World Las Vegas NV

Resorts World on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada offers 40 choices of food and beverage restaurants. They have a large food court called Famous Foods Street Eats. A little taste of Famous Restaurants from all over the world might be found there. Not all but many of the foods swing Asian. I was all set to try dumplings from one place but then I found something that I haven’t seen offered anywhere else.

I see Blood Bros BBQ offers shichimi togarashi BBQ turkey breast. I want that! Why shouldn’t I want to try a multi award wining 2021 TOP 50 NY Times listed restaurant.

No order at the counter here. It’s modern and cashless so you have to order like this.

We ordered and soon we got this.

The flavors are really great together and the sauce is delicious too but unfortunately the turkey is mighty dry and the white bread is stale. (BAH!) We didn’t eat much………Maybe you might hit them on a better day?

I saw Streetbird by multi award winning chef Marcus Samuelson so I wanted to go there.

We tried M’s Fried Chicken Thigh and the Buffalo Cauliflower.

It was larger portions than we were expecting. The cauliflower is tasty, fried nice and not too spicy. It came with a ranch type of dressing on the side. The chicken was cooked to perfection and is tasty and mildly spicy. It’s almost like Nashville style but it is different….It seems like we got the same exact stale white bread with it that we got from the Blood Bros BBQ? This also came with house made pickles.

This was a little taste of Blood Bros BBQ and Streetbird from Famous Foods Street Eats at Resorts World

Resorts World 3000 S Las Vegas BLVD Las Vegas NV

www.RWLasVegas.com

They only list a phone number for room reservations.

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

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
inside
inside

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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My Trip to Sushi Plus – Glendale AZ

Sushi Plus is located in Glendale Arizona. They are named for what they serve. They serve a variety of sushi, sushi combination plates and lots of rolls. Many but not all of the sushi items are cooked.

As for the “Plus” they also offer appetizers like gyoza, soft shell crabs, and tempura. They offer noodle dishes – several ramen dishes, yakisoba, and seafood noodle soup. They offer a few salads, a kids menu, and entrees like teriyaki, sesame chicken, fish and chips, and bibimbap. They offer soft beverages, sake, and wine.

They happen to have an impressive 4.5 average out of 5 stars on Yelp so I thought this restaurant should be pretty darn good.

We thought we’d start out by sharing a combination sushi plate. We waited a while. But for some reason our server serves us our entrees first.

Japanese Curry Rice

I got the Japanese Curry Rice with Vegetables with chicken. I guess it was sitting a while because the sauce has grown it’s own skin. The vegetables in this dish are microscopic. It is suppose to be with vegetables…… I think this bowl was microwaved because parts of the bowl are steaming hot. Some of the chicken is ok but about half the chicken has a very strange texture. Like biting threw an over cooked chicken gizzard….The sauce is thick and very gingery. It is torture eating this dish. Our server only has one other table but didn’t ask how it was.

My husband tried the spicy chicken.

It is better than the curry rice. The chicken seems fresh prepared and is reasonably tender. The thin flat sauce taste taste laced with gochujang. This came with one piece of broccoli, some cabbage, and a generous portion of rice.

When we pushed the plates to the side our combination sushi plate arrived. We got a variety plate of sushi and a spicy tuna roll.

I started with a salmon nigiri. (look at the bottom end of the fish)

It’s leathery and warm. It’s also unseasoned under the fish. It isn’t spoiled but isn’t the freshest.

Then I try some spicy tuna roll. It is actually spicy. It seems ok. The white fish nigiri is a little warm but seems ok.

I try the tuna nigiri. I take a very small bite.

I can’t eat it. It’s way too fishy tasting for me. My husband tries it and can’t eat it either.

The server here didn’t ask how anything was, didn’t clear plates, didn’t even ask if we wanted to bring leftovers home. Didn’t question the tuna we left behind.

That was my trip to Sushi Plus in Glendale.

Sushi Plus

5830 W Thunderbird Rd Glendale AZ

602-595-9891

They are on Facebook and UberEats.com

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

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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Food Truck Friday West – Que Chevere, Fogo & Soul, Fippin Rice – at Glendale AZ

Food Trucks show up from all over the valley for Food Truck Friday West. It is held in Glendale at 18551 83rd Ave between Sam’s Club & Walmart 5pm-9pm most Friday nights. See www.GetLocalArizonaEvents.com for schedule and food truck line ups.

One of the food trucks we tried tonight was Flippin Rice. They are an Asian Fusion and Filipino Food Truck that came here all the way from Gilbert.

We tried them a few weeks back and had the Bulgogi that was pretty good.

bulgogi

So tonight I wanted to try the orange chicken with crispy kale & fennel because that sounded interesting to me.

orange chicken with crispy kale & fennel

Sad to report that this wasn’t as exciting as it sounds. The chicken does have a nice crispy exterior and is very tender inside but lacks a nice flavors. The kale was cut into very small pieces and is almost not there and the fennel was just shaved…..Maybe this is their least interesting dish? The bulgogi from here was much better. We didn’t eat much of this dish so we had some room.

Flippin Rice 480 – 244 – 6102

www.FlippinRice.com

Our next food truck does have a brick and mortar restaurant in Mesa called Que Chevere. They serve Venezuelan Cuisine. The food truck offered empanadas, arepas, plates and more.

Tonight we shared a white corn arepa stuffed with chicken salad with plantain chips on the side.

arepa reina pepiada

WOW! What a game changer! This is unusually delicious! The chicken is moist and developed with flavors. It has a cilantro sauce threw it and avocado but what makes it special is the fresh made white corn arepa. On the side are plantain chips and a dip that seems like ranch dressing to snack on. What a great stop this was!

Que Chevere

480 – 474 – 4954

www.QueChevereAZ.com

Restaurant – 142 W Main St Mesa AZ

Our last stop was Fogo & Soul. They are a Southern Brazilian BBQ Soul Food Fusion Food Truck. We’ve tried them before and it was very good…..Will they be that great again?

They do a nice set up with lights, tables, chairs and a portable heater. We tried their mixed grill trio again but with different sides.

mixed grill trio linguica sausage, chicken, sirloin, potato salad and almost famous cornbread

SCORE! *********** Everything is delicious! The meats are all tender, delicious, and seasoned nicely. The potato salad is seasoned nicely and is laced with dill. The cornbread is buttery, moist and a little sweet. Two times in a row Fogo & Soul was very good!

www.FogoandSoul.com

480 – 849 – 7685

That was a taste of Food Truck Friday West in Glendale AZ

www.GetLocalArizonaEvents.com

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

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

****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
inside
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!

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

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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