The Marlin Taco from Mariscos El Ancia is the first one that I have tasted that taste the same as Marlin Tacos I’ve tried in Jalisco Mexico. It just has the right taste. The right amount of smoke. It also comes dressed with the same sauce. It’s also generous in size and also is delicious.
The Marlin Taco from Mariscos El Ancla is the Notable Dish of The Week and is Worth a Fork!
Worth a Fork!
Mariscos El Ancla
3960 W Craig Road North Las Vegas NV
702-291-8131
I have not found a website and have not found them on Facebook.
I saw an Onion Galette on the internet and that inspired me to come up with this recipe. The one I saw on the internet I didn’t agree with how they did the crust or the filling so I did it my way. This makes 6 up to 12 serving if you want cocktail sized portions.
Ingredients for around 6 portions
2 cups flour – dough
1/2 cup canola oil – dough
1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar – dough
1 teaspoon course sea salt – dough
1/3 cup – water – dough
1/2 teaspoon baking powder – dough
2 egg whites – dough (*note you will use a yolk or two to glaze the dough)
5 Tablespoons unsalted butter
1 large onion – sliced thin
12 scallions – diagonal cut thin
Fresh ground black pepper to taste
2 Tablespoons dijon
1 cup parmesan cheese grated
1-2 egg yolks
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
The onion slices need to be cooked till brown. You can do this on the stove top on medium/high heat or just toss the onions and butter in a pan in your oven.
In a large bowl mix together the flour, oil, vinegar, salt, water, baking powder, and egg whites with a fork until it’s a ball of dough.
The dough gets rolled out to fill sheet as best as you can. (I use plastic wrap and it doesn’t stick to pin that way). You also make cuts around the edge for folding latter.
Put a thin coating of dijon on the dough.
Add about 1/2 cup of grated parmesan.
By now your caramelized onions should be done. Mix them with the scallions and they go on next.
The rest of the parmesan goes on now and you top that with fresh ground black pepper.
Fold up dough ends.
Brush dough ends with egg yolks.
This goes in a 375 F preheated oven on middle rack till done. In my oven this took 45 minutes but ovens do differ so timing may differ.
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.
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
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.
Sweet Potato Carrot Ginger Soup Smoked Salmon and Goat Cheese on Baguette Dulong – Whitebait, olive oil, garlic ,lemon, caper, red pepper on baguette
Caesar Salad
Gambas Y Chorizo
Albondigas
Bacalao – salt cod potato croquettes Mushroom Ravioli Chorizo bolognese Truffle Mushroom Asparagus PastaFish Florentine with Spinach and Potatoes Anna Three Cheese Garlic Salmon Pesto crusted Salmon
Chilean Sea Bass in lemon coconut sauce
Binagoongang Pork Belly with Coconut Risotto Slow Braised Beef CheekNY Strip with citrus, soy sauce, caramelized onions, rice haricots
Bistek
Lemon Meringue Tart Opera CakeInside
Rang’s Cocina Moderne is one of the Notable Off Strip Restaurants of Las Vegas and is Worth a Fork!
The WAGYU PASTRAMI sandwich from La Cantine Sandwich Shop is FORKING AMAZING! ….I do note it’s easy to order the wrong sandwich here because they offer TWO different pastrami sandwiches. They offer a pastrami reuben that cost $8.00 LESS than the Wagyu Pastrami Sandwich….YOU WANT TO ORDER THE WAGYU PASTRAMI SANDWICH.
Wagyu Pastrami Sandwich
Not east cost style rye but the hand cut Wagyu Pastrami makes up for it. The pastrami is a mix of just the right delicious flavors, right smoke, and right fat. It’s embellished with kraut, dressing, and melty Swiss.
It’s a really GREAT Pastrami Sandwich.
The hand cut Wagyu Pastrami on Rye from La Cantine Sandwich Shop is The Notable Dish of The Week!
These Parmesan Pistachio Crostini are basically savory biscotti. We will call them crostini because it is easier to know how they taste when you call them crostini. This recipe makes 20-22 crostini so if one is a serving then you will get around 20 servings. But if you eat two then you will get 10 servings. I made mine pretty small so I will say 10 servings.
Ingredients for around 10 servings
4 oz parmesan cheese – shredded
6 oz bread flour
1 oz polenta
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
2 eggs
1+1/2 oz greek yogurt
2 Tablespoons olive oil
2 oz pistachios
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line sheet pan(s) with silicon mat(s)
Mix together the ingredients (cheese, flour, polenta, baking powder, salt, eggs, yogurt, oil, pistachios.
Make the dough into two logs and refrigerate at least one hour.
Each log goes on a silicon mat lined baking sheet.
They go into the pre-heated 350F oven till lightly browned – 25-45 minutes (ovens do differ) Leave them out until they are cool and then you slice.
Turn down your oven to 300F and the crostini go back in the oven till just slightly brown on each side and also until the crostini is very crisp. 15-35 minutes on BOTH sides.
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.
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!
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.
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…..
