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My Trip to Greens and Proteins Restaurant – North Las Vegas NV

Greens and Proteins is a local group of healthy eating restaurants in Las Vegas Nevada. They all offer all day breakfast, soups, salads, thin pizzas, burgers, wraps, sandwiches, bowls, a kids menu, and smoothies. Some locations offer meal prep.

It’s casual inside. You order and pay at the counter and seat yourself. They run the food to you when it’s ready.

I tried the Thai peanut Chicken Bowl. It’s suppose to be a bowl of chicken with basmati rice, squash, zucchini, mushrooms, asparagus, peanuts, sesame seeds, spicy peanut sauce.

My husband was disappointed with his Bulgogi Korean Steak Bowl because the beef was tough and chewy and didn’t taste so great. He also didn’t enjoy the undercooked hard crunchy brown rice.

I got this-

The squash are ok…….The chicken is very dry and tough and doesn’t have much flavor. My bowl is missing the asparagus and mushrooms. The basmati rice is very mushy today. I think some ingredients might be missing from the sauce because it’s pretty tasteless and isn’t spicy at all.

I do not plan to return to Greens and Proteins.

Greens and Proteins

6180 N Decatur Blvd North Las Vegas NV

702-853-0650

www.GreensandProteins.com

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Mezzo Bistro and Wine Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

Mezzo Bistro and Wine is an American-Italian Restaurant located in North/West Las Vegas Nevada. If you didn’t make a reservation there is a chance that they will offer you a seat on the patio.

They start you off with house baked bread, and oil embellished with balsamic and lemon.

We shared a grilled vegetable plate appetizer.

Gosh it’s enormous but it is so darn tasty too…….(grilled tomatoes, artichokes, yellow squash, zucchini, and mushrooms). I’ll eat some and bring some home for another day.

I tried something that isn’t normally on any Italian menu…..Sesame Crusted Ahi Tuna with Spinach Risotto and topped with Wasabi Aioli. Melty mozzarella type cheese was on here too.

The fish is in a soy type sauce…..The mozzarella cheese has almost no flavor so it adds richness to the fish. The risotto is very cheesy. I don’t think it really pairs with the fish but you can separate it to a latter course by eating the asparagus after the fish.

My husband tried the Chicken Riggies (New York rigatoni dish with creamy tomato sauce, peppers, and chicken).

The Mezzo Bistro Version also has mushrooms, cherry peppers, prosciutto, capacola, romano cheese, white wine, tomatoes and mozzarella cheese……..(you are not going to leave hungry from this one).

We packed up almost half of what we had so we could try a cannoli.

It was a nice sweet ending.

Mezzo Bistro and Wine – Worth a Try! (make a reservation if you want to sit inside)

4275 N Rancho Dr Las Vegas NV

702-944-8880

www.MezzoBistro.com

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Komex Fusion Restaurant – Korean – Mexican Fusion Foods – Worth a Fork!

Komex Fusion Restaurant is located in the west side of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer Fusion tacos, burritos, enchiladas, chimichangas, and a fusion toastada that was featured on Food Network’s Taco trip. They also offer a lot of Bulgogi. Some of the bulgogi that they offer are bulgogi cheesesteaks, bulgogi grilled cheese, bulgogi sliders, bulgogi torta, flautas, rice bowls, fried rice, a platter, and bulgogi chow fettuccini. A few of the other things that Komex Fusion offers are musubi, a swai fish platter, won ton soup, a kid’s menu, and Mexican tacos, burritos, torta, and quesadillas.

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

This place has been recognized for it’s food by a number of well knowns such as-

Food Network

The Cooking Channel

All Recipes Weekly

The Buzz Feed

Food and Wine

Las Vegas Review Journal

Desert Champion

We ordered several things to try! But they start you off with complimentary chips and very good salsa. They also offer complimentary bottled water.

We tried-

Bulgogi grilled cheese on Texas Toast (seems like challah Texas Toast?)

The famous fusion toastada that was featured on Food Network’s Taco Trip (the bottom is a crispy rice patty topped with beef bulgogi, Komex slaw, pico de gallo, and topped with Korean hot sauce.

fried stuffed wontons

pork taco

Fish taco on flour tortilla and a chicken taco on double corn tortilla.

Everything really was very good. All the proteins were expertly prepared. My personal favorite was the toastada because it had the most going on with it……It also was more filling than I expected it to be. My husband really enjoyed the bulgogi grilled cheese. He is undecided if he will get it again next time or one of the toastadas. The tacos were very good but next time I think I’d order a little side of the Korean hot sauce for them because it was so tasty.

Komex Fusion is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Komex Fusion

633 N Decatur Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-646-1612

www.KomexFusion.com

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The FORKING FANTABULOUS Dish of the Week – Tonno Alla Puttanesca from Mother Wolf at Fontainebleau Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

Forking Fantabulous means life changing. It’s crazy amazing. It’s the reason why you must try this restaurant.

I had the very best tuna steak that I have ever had in my life at Mother Wolf in the Fontainebleau on the Las Vegas Strip. No other tuna steak can even compare…To the taste and tenderness. Maybe it was fresher than I am used to?

The sauces around it were magical…..There was a cherry tomato sauce called pomodoro e pomodorini, They were the most tomato-ee sweet tomatoes ever.

It had olives that never had before that were really different called taggiasca olives.

The dish also contained capers and LOTS of basil.

This was the very best tuna dish that I have ever tried anywhere.

P.S. or PRO TIP – You have to order the chef’s signature focaccia bread called sfincione to mop up all that goodness.

The Tonna Alla Puttanesca from Mother Wolf is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Mother Wolf at Fontainebleau

2777 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-678-9170

www.MotherWolfLV.com

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First Taste at Thai Spoon Las Vegas NV

Thai Spoon is a Thai Restaurant that is located in the North/West part of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer your usual Thai Favorites and also some vegan dishes and more seafood dishes that you normally see on Thai menus. Some of the seafood offerings are salmon teriyaki, seabass panang, catfish pad cha, seafood curry in young coconut, and house scallops. I noticed that they also offer plenty of bottles of wine here.

For seating they have 1/2 booths and whole booths.

We started out by sharing the chicken potstickers.

Here they are fried crispy all over. Inside they are very mild with juicy moist chicken and a soy type is on the side for dipping.

The seabass panang was seared nicely and prepared masterfully with a melt in your mouth texture.

The curry is smooth, a little basil-ee, with a nice heat. (I picked #7 out of 10)

The spicy basil has that traditional spicy, garlic basil taste.

But instead of hand chopped protein or sliced protein the meat was ground……..To me that is strange because all the spicy basil dishes we’ve tried in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and California the protein for spicy basil was always either hand chopped or sliced…….I’m thinking that ground meat in spicy basil might be a “Nevada Thing.”

Little Green Tomato Candies were given to us with the check. I thought the candy was green tomato but someone wrote to me and said the candy is guava flavored.

That was our first taste at Thai Spoon.

Thai Spoon Las Vegas – 702-430-2221

6440 N Durango Dr Las Vegas NV

www.ThaiSpoonLasVegas.com

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Born And Raised North Las Vegas – 24/7 Sports Bar & Restaurant – Worth a Try!

Born And Raised is a 24/7 Sports Bar and Restaurant with four locations in Las Vegas. Besides bar drinks they also offer bar bites like bulgogi tacos, crispy zucchini, and steak poutine. They also offer salads, wraps, burgers, sliders, all day breakfast, and what they call favorites like buffalo chicken macaroni and cheese, dragon bowls, and tequila lime chicken pasta.

You can sit in the bar area.

Or you can have a seat in the main dining area with lots of big screen TVs.

In this room is one strange hilarious chair.

Anyways-

I thought the Bar Signature Salad sounded great so that’s what I ordered.

It’s moist chicken breast (They say it’s blackened but isn’t so blackened but it is tasty and moist so that’s ok). This salad also contains greens, strawberries, oranges, candied pistachios, goat cheese, and strawberry dressing. It was just right for me today. I’d get it again.

My husband said that the Mexico City Prime Beef Burger was very good!

They cooked it to a perfect medium-rare as requested. This burger is topped with pepper jack cheese, an onion ring, pickled jalapeno, and chipotle mayo (left off at request) and comes with lettuce, tomato slice, raw onion, and fries.

Based on this visit I’d say that Born And Raised is Worth a Try!

Born And Raised – 702-202-3698

1125 E Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

www.BornAndRaisedLV.com

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Mother Wolf at Fontainebleau Las Vegas NV – You MUST get the Tuna and the Sfincione

Mother Wolf is a Luxury Roman – Italian Restaurant located in the Fontainebleau Casino/Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. The James Beard Award Winning Chef of this restaurant is Chef Evan Funke. Who is a Master Pasta Maker.

The two stand out dishes offered here are the Sfincione (chef’s Signature focaccia) and his cacio e pepe.

It’s a large formal restaurant with more than one dining area, a bar, and an open kitchen. Rap music fills the air…..

We started out by sharing some of the chef’s signature focaccia called Sfincione.

It’s hot out of the oven. It’s fluffy, moist, and tasty.

Next is our pasta course. This was Linguine Al Lemon (oil, lemon, asparagus, pecorino cheese)

It’s delicious, well seasoned and prepared with perfect pasta….

I ordered the tuna alla puttanesca (big eye tuna steak, tomatoes, Taggiasca olives, capers, basil)

This is drop the mike moment – GET THIS – THIS IS THE DISH TO GET! And you need some of the sfincione (focaccia) to help mop things up.

To start with the tuna is also amazing. It’s a large portion and is maybe the freshest tasting tuna I ever had anywhere. It’s also tender as can be. These tomatoes are also the best tasting tomatoes. There are different flavors of basil here, pops of capers, fancy little olives that are different. This dish is a reason on why you would dine here.

My husband ordered the Saltimbocca (pounded veal, prosciutto, sage, white wine, butter, lemon, with a wild arugula salad.)

Tonight the veal is a little tough and dry….but still edible. Instead of our waiter waiting for us to take a few bites…Instead he asked us how the plates were as soon as they arrived. We told him that the plates looked good……

The wild arugula salad.

My husband said that this salad was very good and insisted that I taste it…..I thought the vinegar used was incredibly harsh. I can’t eat it but then again I am more sensitive.

GET THE SFINCIONE and the TUNA

Mother Wolf

2777 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-678-9170

www.MotherWolfLV.com

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Letty’s De Leticias Cocina Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

Letty’s De Leticias Cocina is a full service Mexican Restaurant located in the Arts District of Downtown Las Vegas Nevada. They offer a variety of Mexican all day breakfast dishes such as pozole, menudo, chilaquiles, and a few more things. A few of the other items they offer are appetizers like chips and salsa, ceviche, and quesadillas. They also offer soups, and sandwiches on fresh baked bolillo bread. You can also find Tamales, Enchiladas, Burritos, Pupusas, Carne Asada, Grilled Chicken, Carnitas and MORE!

If this restaurant seems familiar to you then maybe you saw them on Food Network’s Diners Drive Ins and Dives.

This is a small restaurant that fills up fast.

We started out with some margaritas and chips and salsa.

My husband enjoyed the steak ranchero burrito packed with cheese, rice, and beans and topped with red guajillo sauce and more cheese.

I tried the birria ramen.

I liked the eggs because they were nice and jammy. The beef isn’t bad because it’s tender and flavorful. They also gave a generous portion of beef. For my taste the broth is too fatty for me to eat it but my husband has a different taste and enjoys this. He will eat it over the next two days.

Worth a Try!

Letty’s De Leticias – 702-476-9477

807 S. Main St Las Vegas NV

www.LettysDeLeticias.com

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China Mama 2 Shanghai Plaza Las Vegas NV – Real Chinese Food – Worth a Fork!

China Mama 2 is located in Las Vegas Nevada’s Chinatown in Shanghai Plaza. This restaurant offers mostly authentic Chinese Food but they also offer a few American Chinese Dishes like orange chicken.

It’s always busy here and you wait for your table by signing in on an iPad. The wait is usually 1-2 hours but We got lucky today and only waited eleven minutes.

Whatever you order they start you off with ice water in cold metal tumblers and hot Jasmin Tea.

We started out by trying the wood ear mushroom salad.

It’s crisp and kinda spicy…..

The waiters favorite dish here is the sliced fish filet with ginger and scallions so we went with that.

it’s light and mild and easy to eat.

But the dry pepper chicken is another story.

The chicken is bite sized, breaded and fried. It’s fried well because it seems free of oil but it was fried with MOLTEN HOT dried and fresh peppers and garlic. This dish really is too spicy hot for us……We’ve had this dish before at other Chinese Restaurants and it is always very spicy hot but not MOLTEN HOT like this one. We manage to eat a little of this one but I brought most of it home minus any pepper I came across. At home I made a honey based sauce that took the heat down a couple levels.

We also shared some of the sautéed lettuce.

The lettuce is nice and crisp and only very mildly seasoned.

We also had some steamed rice. The rice doesn’t come with the meals here and you have to order it.

We had plenty of leftovers to bring home.

The food was all very good but for our taste the dry pepper chicken ran too spicy hot.

China Mama 2 (at Shanghai Plaza) is Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

China Mama 2

4266 Spring Mountain Rd Las Vegas NV

702-900-8802

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Dish Of The Week – Grilled Salmon from 1228 Main – Las Vegas NV

The Dish Of The Week that impressed me the most was the Grilled Salmon from 1228 Main. This Restaurant is in the family of Wolfgang Puck Restaurants and is located in downtown Las Vegas Nevada. The Grilled Salmon dish impressed me for several reasons.

1 – They didn’t even ask how I wanted it done and prepared it medium-ish

2 – They removed most of the bloodline that gives fish a fishier taste

3 – They crisped up the skin so much that it was like eating a crispy potato chip

4 – the fish was great and sauce and vegetables were unusually FORKING DELICIOUS

Everything we had on all our visits to 1228 Main were all VERY GOOD but I do need to mention that the menu changed on my every visit there. In case you don’t know 1228 serves daily made fresh baked goods, breakfast, lunch, brunch, dinner, and also has a bar.

The other plates we enjoyed on our last visit were –

Focaccia with provolone cheese and mortadella on the side

Spanish style cheese cake

This time we sat in the bar area

The Dish of the Week came from –

1228 Main – at – 1228 S. Main Street Las Vegas NV

702-602-0531

www.1228MainLV.com

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