safta 1964 by Alon Shaya is a very nice Mediterranean Restaurant by James Bread Award Wining Chef Alon Shaya. This restaurant is located in the Encore part of the Wynn Hotel/Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.

The notable “MUST GET DISHES” are –

The Chef’s Salatim Platter full of dips, spreads, vegetables……

The Salatim Platter comes with hot fluffy pita bread and a lot of delicious side dishes such as Luenitsa (our fav. made eggplant and red pepper), Labneh, Smoked Trout Roe with Cream Cheese, Pickled Vegetables, Lima Beans, Baba Ganoush, Caramelized Tomato Olive Tapanade, & Candied Almonds.

You also must get the hummus because it is by far the best I’ve tasted in Nevada…….

You also must get The Safta’s Delights for Dessert.

Three of each ultra mini pistachio baklava, marble halvah, chocolate cake, blueberry rugelach, mini lemon tart.

The Salatim Platter, The Hummus, & the Safta’s Delights from Safta 1964 by Alon Shaya are among the most notable Las Vegas Strip dishes from Restaurants to get and are Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Safta 1964 by Alon Shaya

Wynn Encore Las Vegas 3131 Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-770-5310

www.WynnLasVegas.com

Cheba Hut is a group of hoagie restaurants with somewhere around fifty locations in the United States. The Newly Opened North Las Vegas Location offers 26 hoagies on your choice of white, wheat, or garlic herb bread. They offer a variety of different meats and also some vegetarian options. Besides hoagies a few of the other things they offer are things like French Onion Soup, cups of meatballs, pretzel nuggets, and cookies. This location offers soft beverages, beer, and spirts.

It’s casual. You order and pay at the counter and seat yourself.

There is a bar in the corner. Lots of natural light fills the room during the day.

The atmosphere is LOUD with music. A combination of hip hop, rap, and Reggie is what we heard today.

The sandwiches come in small medium or large or as a salad.

I tried a small tuna melt on wheat called the Pacific Blue (tuna salad, cheddar, lettuce tomato onion, pickle, house dressing)

I didn’t get my tomato slice but the rest is pretty good.

My husband tried the medium sized La Canna on white bread (smoked ham, Genoa salami, prosciutto, olive, provolone, lettuce, tomato, pickle, shake and house dressing)

His sandwich is also missing the tomato but it is still pretty good.

Cheba Hut – Worth a try!

345 W Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

725-286-1256

www.ChebaHut.com

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Mariscos El Ancla is a Nayarit Mexican Style Seafood Restaurant in North Las Vegas Nevada. They offer a variety of shellfish, ceviches, tostadas, fried fish chips, soups, fajitas, and many different seafood platters.

It’s not a fancy place but it seems clean.

Whatever you order they start you off with complimentary chips and extra hot but very good salsa.

They have a few bottles of hot sauces on the table for embellishing the food. I never saw this interesting and different Mexican Hot Sauce for Seafood.

It has radish, sardines, and chiltepin chili in it.

We start out by sharing a marlin taco.

Oh wow it’s really great! It does actually taste just like marlin tacos that I tried in Jalisco Mexico. I tasted bunches of marlin tacos at various Mexican restaurants in Phoenix and none of them compare to this one. The fish is smoked just right. It looks just like what I had in Mexico. The chipotle sauce is just right too.

For my main I tried the salmon a la plancha.

It’s a large filet of salmon that has been prepared reasonably well. The plate also includes unseasoned steamed vegetables, corn and pea studded white rice, and also is garnished with lettuce and cucumber slices. It’s kind-a very plain for Mexican Food. It’s more like a double sized weight watchers meal.

Moving on

My husband tried the shrimp in medium/hot red sauce (camarones rojo). (this plate also comes with rice and beans that were forgotten but brought out quickly once we mentioned it to our server)

This plate is good but difficult to enjoy for some people.

The sauce is good and the shrimp are cooked nicely…but…….

The whole shrimp contain digestive tracks and shells……..that are hard to clean in the sauce.

I think some people just eat the digestive tracks and shells?

The shrimp dishes aren’t for everyone.

Great Marlin Tacos!

Mariscos El Ancla

3960 W Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

702-291-8131

I haven’t found a website or Facebook Page for Mariscos El Ancia

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Rang’s Cocina Moderne is a full service Spanish, Italian, Filipino Style Restaurant. They are located not too far from the Las Vegas Strip. They are expectational because even after seven visits everything they serve is always perfect and delicious!

Recently they were featured in Las Vegas Weekly Magazine.

The Big Story to me is that they aren’t a flash in the pan. The food is always very good and always prepared perfect and always is delicious.

Here’s a taste.

Caesar Salad

Gambas Y Chorizo

Albondigas

Chilean Sea Bass in lemon coconut sauce

Bistek

Rang’s Cocina Moderne is one of the Notable Off Strip Restaurants of Las Vegas and is Worth a Fork!

Rang’s Cocina Moderne

5900 W Charleston Blvd Las Vegas NV

725-214-1188

www.RangsCocina.com

Lit Wings recently opened a new location in North Las Vegas. This is a casual order and pay at the counter restaurant that specializes in chicken wings. They offer TWENTY ONE flavors of wings or boneless that THEY CALL TENDERS. They also offer several side orders like garlic noodles, fried macaroni and cheese, rice, and shrimp chips. Soft beverages, Asian beverages, beer, and more is served here.

I ordered a 1/2 wing and half tender plate that was buffalo garlic flavored and got elote fries as my side.

I thought they made me the wrong flavor because I wasn’t expecting cheese on buffalo garlic chicken…… I try a wing first…..It’s slightly over cooked and a little dry…I don’t really get a buffalo flavor here ……it mostly taste like parmesan….

I try a tender next….The tender looks more like a nugget to me……But it does have a much better buffalo taste than the wing…….It’s also cooked better than the wings…

Then I try the elote fries.

Part of this is not edible to me because it is painful for me to eat it. For my taste this is very over seasoned.

My husband tried 1/2 buffalo hot and half Nashville hot wings with fried macaroni and cheese.

They gave him much plumper wings than what they gave me. But his wings are also over cooked and on the dry side. He wasn’t wild about the flavors either. The fried macaroni and cheese taste very similar to Kraft Mac-n-Cheese so if you like that all is good.

At the time of my visit this location of Lit Wings has an impressive FIVE STAR average on Yelp out of 49 reviews.

Lit Wings

6520 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-533-6249

www.GetLitWings.com

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La Cantine Sandwich Shop is located in the North/West part of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer a variety of sandwiches made on house baked breads. They also offer salads, quiches, salads, sides, and French Style macarons.

It’s a small place. I noticed most customers I saw did take out.

They offer a pastrami reuben and also a wagyu pastrami on rye….The wagyu pastrami cost $8. more than the pastrami reuben so I thought it would be better so I went with that.

The seedless rye doesn’t really taste like rye bread that I am familiar with but the pastrami is FORKING AMAZING! In fact it taste just like my pastrami…….(I wonder if they used my recipe?) There’s kraut, there’s dressing, There’s melty Swiss that I pulled out and ate first….Then I ate the sandwich. This sandwich is very messy but really delicious. The pastrami was hand cut. It’s tender. It’s smoky but not too smoky. It has some fat to it but not too much fat. But most importantly IT FORKING TASTE LIKE PASTRAMI.

My husband had a ham and cheese baguette.

He said that the ham is unusually great ham that you just don’t get anywhere. This sandwich also had brie cheese, pickles, herb butter, and garlic confit. This was a really great sandwich.

We tried macarons for a sweet ending.

First one was an Earl Grey.

Ummm it’s very good and really different.

Next is strawberry.

UMMMMMM!!!!! This one is really such a treat…..It has flavors of a really rich cake but with pops of strawberry…Kinda like a strawberry short cake with cream.

These are really great macarons!

La Cantine Sandwich Shop is Worth a Fork!

La Cantine Sandwich Shop

3250 Tenya Way Las Vegas NV

702-749-7400

I haven’t found a website for La Cantine Sandwich Shop.

They are on Facebook but are not active there.

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Casa De Juliette Mexican Cocina recently opened in the Centennial Hills part of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer elevated Mexican Cuisine by way of French Techniques blended with Mexican Cooking. They offer food like Mexican Street Corn in bone marrow with salsa macha. Another unique offering are the family style platters that serve two or three people.

Inside is dark but also light enough to read the menu.

They have traditional tables, booths, partial booths, a bar area, and also some outdoor seating.

We tried a Margarita and a Valle de Bravo.

Due to an opening hiccup we waited over thirty minutes for our cocktails to arrive. They came with the dinner.

We had a family style platter of Chicken Tinga and Carne Asada.

and bone marrow corn.

The flavors are all good here ……..We got all kinds of goodies here (carne asada, chicken tinga, tortillas, rice, beans, creama, pickled carrot and cauliflower, salsa morita, salsa verde, jalapeños, bell peppers, onion, radishes and bone marrow corn) but due to another opening hiccup the food arrived already cooled off…..

Casa De Juliette Mexican Cocina – Newly Opened

7585 Norman Rockwell Lane Las Vegas NV

702-665-4949

www.CasaDeJuliette.com

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