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A Taste of Promenade Food Court at Fontainebleau Las Vegas NV

The Promenade Food Court is located in Fontainebleau Casino/Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada.

My first taste came from El Bagel. At the time of this writing this restaurant has an impressive 5 star rating on Yelp. They offer breakfast and regular bagel sandwiches. They also offer sides of matzah balls.

While I was waiting for our order I spotted Chef Aaron May eating a matzah ball from El Bagel but when I got ready to snap his picture he got up to leave (that is him on the right).

The better of the two bagel sandwiches was the Pastrami Classico (18 hour smoked pastrami, Swiss cheese, coleslaw, thousand island dressing) on a plain bagel because they ran out of most of their bagels by 11:00.

It’s tender and seems fresh. To us it is smokey but isn’t flavored so much like pastrami….It’s like if you wanted pastrami but with less flavors…..

We also shared a Lox Supreme -Open Faced (cold smoked Nova Lox, plain cream cheese, tomato, cucumber, pickled onions, capers, and a very small amount of fresh dill). On a plain bagel because they were out of sesame, everything, and poppy bagels. They only had plain and salt by 11:00.

The best part of this sandwich are the most flavorful freshest cucumbers that I have tasted in a very long time. These are the best cucumbers ever……The rest is ok…..Not the best bagel…….

Not the best cream cheese….It seems like it was watered down……..

The lox has a nice texture but taste ever so slightly fishy…….

Really don’t like the pickled onions…….because they taste more like candied onions…..Maybe they spoil the balance of flavors and maybe the sweet pickled onions make the lox taste off?

El Bagel – 702-678-9000

Fontainebleau Las Vegas 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

www.FontainebleauLasVegas.com

Moving on……

Next to El Bagel is Capons.

They offer Chef Capon’s custom beef blend burgers and chicken sandwiches on house made potato buns. They also offer chicken tenders, fries, onion rings, house made gelato, and soft serve ice cream.

We shared one of the chicken sandwiches called The Firebird (hot honey glaze, sriracha aioli, spice rub, bread and butter pickles on the house made potato roll.

It’s an ugly duckling (or an ugly capon?) BUT IT’S FORKING DELICIOUS!

It rocks with all kinds of delicious flavors and textures…….Sweet, Tangy, Spicy, Crunch, Juicy, Tasty, Delicious !!!!!

The pickles are BOMB diggity GREAT!!!!! WOW I wish they sold them separably. They have so much going on with them…They can make anything taste great…I wonder how I can make pickles like this? The chicken is marvelously juicy and flavorful with a shattering crisp exterior that Is coated in deliciousness and is embellished with a zingy sriracha aioli…. YUM

THIS IS A FORKING GREAT CHICKEN SANDWICH!

We tried a few scoops of the house made gelato.

The single scoops here are double the size of most places.

Both flavors here are amazing and are top notch.

We tried chocolate peanut butter chunk and pistachio.

They really are as good as can be…..The Chocolate Peanut Butter Chunk was made with quality tasting chocolate and DOES TASTE like chocolate but you also get pops of peanut butter cups….It’s just great together. The Pistachio really does taste like pistachio…..and has lots of real toasted pistachios in it……There is a possibility that this might be the best gelato in Las Vegas.

I will add that they are so creamy and rich that I would have guessed them to be ice cream.

Capons was a really great stop.

Capons – 833-702-7070

Fontainebleau Las Vegas 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

www.FontainebleauLasVegas.com

We also got to try Bar Ito. It’s a quality hand roll and sushi bowl stand. The menu is very limited and you can order either 3 rolls, 5 rolls, miso soup, or select one of the few bowls.

We tried three rolls (spicy tuna roll, toro roll, and a salmon roll).

They came in this amazing box with very nice chopsticks.

It’s so pretty (and so wasteful)

You need to read directions on how to unravel the sushi.

It’s very good sushi……and they also fill the sushi with a generous amount of fish…..It is very good….But I feel guilty wasting the magnificent box when I’m done.

Bar Ito – 702-678-9000

Fontainebleau 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

www.FontainebleauLasVegas.com

Roadside Taco from L.A. California has a stand in the food court that we tried.

We shared a mushroom taco and a hot chicken taco. I also noticed that they make margaritas here but it was early so I passed on margaritas.

We tried the mushroom taco first.

It’s cremini mushrooms that were sautéed in cilantro vinaigrette, Oaxaca cheese,arbol salsa, onions, and cilantro. I think this one is pretty good….The mushrooms are developed with flavors…….I also taste a nice spicy tasty sauce…The cheese flavor and the cilantro all mix together just right…….

After the mushroom taco for some odd reason the hot chicken taco is very bland.

The chicken is moist and the breading fell off of some of the chicken. It taste like they forgot to season the chicken……The slaw and chipotle aioli taste kinda more like mayonnaise and lack a chipotle taste……The mushroom taco was far more flavorful and also far more spicy than the hot chicken taco……

Roadside Taco – 702-678-9000

Fontainebleau Las Vegas 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

www.FountainebleauLasVegas,com

That was a Taste of Promenade Food Court at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.

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My Trip to Cafe Hollywood at Planet Hollywood Las Vegas NV

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Cafe Hollywood is a casual full service restaurant located in Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. They feature all day breakfast but also offer lunch and dinner. Inside you can sit at the counter or a table and marvel at all the Hollywood stars that grace the walls.

I tried the smoked salmon and avocado toast.

It’s a slice of wheat toast topped with smoked salmon, mashed avocado, poached egg, sour cream, pickled red onions and capers. It was mostly good but I asked for a medium poached egg and they just poached it soft and it was a little underdone. The waiter did offer to get me another egg but I declined.

My husband tried the breakfast burrito.

The burrito is stuffed with scrambled eggs, pepper jack cheese, green bell peppers, refried beans, bacon, sausage, and ranchero sauce. The burrito comes with breakfast potatoes. This platter was A-OK.

An overall A-OK so …….Worth a Try!

That was my trip to Cafe Hollywood at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino

3667 Las Vegas BLVD S Las Vegas NV

702-732-1222

www.TheCafeHollywood.com

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A Little Taste of Dominique Ansel Patisserie – Las Vegas NV

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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

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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

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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.

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.

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.

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)

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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

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

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****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

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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Superfrico Restaurant – Cosmopolitan Las Vegas NV – Just Weird

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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.

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….

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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A Little Taste of Bouchon – Vegas NV

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Bouchon is a Parisian Style Restaurant by multi award wining chef Thomas Keller. Bouchon on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada is located in the Venetian Hotel Casino. It may be somewhat challenging to find because it is located on the tenth floor in the Venezia Tower.

The restaurant has a rich old fashioned look and the servers are formally dressed.