Fisher’s Deli is a small but busy Jewish Style Deli in Henderson Nevada (Around 30 minutes from Las Vegas). Off to the side of the dining area you can buy fresh baked goods and deli items.
They also offer some specials.
Today it was a 15 minute wait for a table.
I tried a whitefish platter today.
They ran it out before the cream cheese and onions were suppose to be added. I don’t know but think they gave me the wrong white fish. Usually you get a piece of fish not all these ends. It also doesn’t taste as fresh as I like. This is not a good example of a white fish plate.
The pastrami here is better than the whitefish. Also the potato salad lacks seasoning but is better than the cole slaw.
We also shared a knish. It tastes right but the crust is rubbery.
Harvest Cafe recently opened a second location in North Las Vegas Nevada. It’s really not too far from their original location on Craig Road. The new Losee Road location only serves Breakfast and Lunch. They are open from 7am-3 every day.
Inside is a mix of traditional tables and booths.
I tried a balsamic chicken salad.
It’s not perfect but is ok. It came out a bit warm and over dressed. I would recommend to ask for the dressing to be on the side. But the chicken in it is very good and moist and developed with flavors. This salad was also adorned with feta cheese and walnuts. On the side was toasted buttery garlic toast.
My husband tried a medium/rare cheeseburger with onion rings.
It came out medium/rare so he was happy. The onion rings were made nicely and were crisp and seemed free of oil.
Harvest Cafe (Losee Rd) is Worth a Try!
6412 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV
725-204-o475
As of today the Losee Road location is not on the website for the Craig Road location. They have different hours and a slightly different menu.
Often I see $8.00 off coupons for The Harvest Cafe in the local Neon Magazine that they give away for free at our local Smit’s Supermarket.
What’s Zaap Thai For is located in Las Vegas Nevada just minutes way from Red Rock Casino and minutes away from The Durango. If they seem familiar to you then maybe you caught them on Food Network’s Diners Drive Ins and Dives TV Show. A loop of that episode is continually playing on a TV there. In case you care to know Zaap means Next Level Great in Thai and it really is from what I just tasted here!
Several awards are under the TV and one is from Yelp that rates What’s Zaap as #35 of the top 50 restaurants in Vegas.
It’s a smaller restaurant. I noticed a few patio tables outside but I am not sure if they ever get used.
We started out by trying the crispy spring rolls.
They are just spring rolls but as soon as we started eating them they suddenly became the best spring rolls we ever tried. They have a special fresh taste I don’t usually get and the sauce is different but very good. Off to the side (not pictured) is the chef’s condiment tray with a special chef recommended hot sauce sauce that embellishes the food even more.
Check this out! Look how beautiful the Salmon Green Curry is.
Not only is this green curry layered with delicious flavors and adorned with tiny sweet baby eggplants and baby corns……..
THE SALMON IS MASTERFULLY PREPARED!!!!!
Crisp and seasoned on the outside. Moist and rich inside. Very few places prepare salmon this well. This is next level. Even my two closest steak houses don’t prepare salmon even close to this masterful.
The Spicy Basil (Pad Gra Pow) with Beef is the VERY BEST Spicy Basil Dish that I’ve tried in Las Vegas so far.
They are the only Thai Restaurant in Vegas that offers (a $2.00 upgrade) to use Holy Basil in the dish as it should be made with Holy Basil for the correct taste. They also hand chop the meat for more surface area and that holds in more flavor. Also the beef by the way is very good. This by far is the best Pad Gra Pow that I tasted in Vegas so far or at this time.
It’s fun for me to come up with a new cranberry sauce every Thanksgiving. I’m sorry that I didn’t get to publish this in time for your Thanksgiving celebration but maybe you can use it soon anyway. This year I came up with two new cranberry recipes. Next week I will publish an Italian inspired Cranberry sauce that is Mostarda Inspired. This week I’m doing something very different for me…….I already have at least eight cranberry sauce recipes published so I know something about making cranberry sauce but this is the first one that is more traditional and plain. Serving size is almost impossible to determine. I don’t know if you like a spoonful or a quarter cup serving. Since a one pound bag of cranberries is considered to be 7 servings I will guesstimate this recipe to be 14 servings. Leftovers can be frozen.
Ingredients for about 14 servings
32 ounces of cranberries (or 8 cups)
2/3 cup apple cider vinegar
2 + 2/3 cup dark brown sugar
2 cups filtered or spring water
1/2 teaspoon course sea salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground star anise
Directions
Everything goes in a sauce pot on high heat. Stir occasionally. When it starts boiling turn heat down to medium. Stir occasionally. When the boiling bubbles get fast again turn heat down again to medium-low. Break down berries you see that are whole with your spoon or another utensil. Cook until most berries are broken.
The Peppermill & Fireside Lounge is a famous American Style Diner and Bar located on the Las Vegas Strip. All kinds of BIG TIME celebrities have dined here. This place has also been featured in movies and TV Shows (maybe because of all the Neon inside).
They do have a partially open kitchen so you can see some of the kitchen action.
We tried lunch last time. We tried a cauliflower appetizer that isn’t on the current menu.
A salad.
and a burger.
It was all reasonably good.
We went back eventually and this time tried dinner.
Our dinners started with Caesar Salads that I forgot to photo. They were generous in size but the dressing lacked full flavors. ( I don’t know but think it wasn’t real Caesar…I don’t know but think it was missing the anchovies and could have used a little more garlic. It just seemed kinda flat and bland)
We were with two other people. Maybe? the best dish of the evening was the crab cakes because the person that had them said that they were ok but they felt that the restaurant over sauced her salad with salad dressing.
The other three dinners were ALL BAD! Everything was cold, hard, tough, or over cooked, either unseasoned, or slammed with too much salt. Nothing was good.
Maybe the worst one might have been with the person who ordered the New York Strip? EVERYTHING on the plate was BAD. Someone spilled A LOT of salt on the steak. The Steak was tough and COLD. The mushrooms were COLD. The potato wasn’t a russet but was a wax potato and also was COLD AND HARD. You couldn’t get butter to melt on it if you tried.
My Meal was the the Hot Honey Halibut with Gochujang mixed vegetables, rice, and garlic bread. (and I didn’t get any garlic bread)
The Halibut was over cooked and only tasted sweet like honey. The vegetables tasted completely unseasoned and were served cold. The rice was also cold.
My husband had a cold tough pork chop with gummy mashed potatoes, and cold unseasoned vegetables.
BLECH!
Maybe the worst part was that nobody from the restaurant seemed to care.
Maybe you will do alright if you order a breakfast or sandwich here?
Those where my trips to The Peppermill & Fireside Lounge.
L&L Hawaiian Barbecue is a Casual Hawaiian Food Chain with TWO HUNDRED locations and growing more. We happen to have many similar restaurants in Las Vegas and also many in North Las Vegas. These places specialize in the Hawaiian Plate Lunch. That means that you get a styrofoam box that is jam packed with a lot of meat, rice, and other stuff. It’s casual. You order at the counter or on-line. You grab a seat inside or on the community patio if the weather is right.
I never tried L&L Hawaiian Barbecue when I lived in Phoenix because we had Leo’s Island BBQ nearby in Peoria AZ that was very good. We used to enjoy one of the near by Hawaiian Barbecues until it changed and sort of went down the tubes. (below is from the last thing I tried there)
Anyways-
One of my neighbors said that their favorite Hawaiian BBQ Restaurant was L&L Hawaiian Barbecue so we gave it a try. This location shares a community patio that is only two doors down. The weather was nice so we brought the dogs with us to help eat up the massive amount of food.
We shared an order of chicken potstickers that were tasty (and also had a bunch to bring home).
I tried the Healthier Chicken BBQ Plate. It came with two scoops of brown rice, salad, and ranch dressing.
They gave me THREE nicely browned and juicy chicken thighs. This is very tasty and is enough for THREE lunches.
My husband tried the Spicy Beef.
This is kinda sweet and spicy. I can’t chew the beef but my husband can. Maybe my teeth aren’t sharp enough?
Dogs didn’t have a problem eating it either.
He also had a coupon for a free Spam Musubi so he enjoyed that too.
We also sampled one piece of Fried Fish.
Not sure if I will try fish again here. It has that like frozen fish from the supermarket taste.
Cantinetta Pizza & Pasta is an Italian Restaurant and Bar located in Las Vegas Nevada. It’s under the same ownership as Brunello LV in Summerlin and both restaurants are embellished with Sofia Loren Photos all around.
They offer the usual Italian Foods that you would expect to find on the menu but they also offer some plates that you wouldn’t expect like beet carpaccio, salmon carbonara, and chocolate fettuccini.
Whatever you order they start you off with warm bread with sun-dried tomato oil.
We shared the Fried Eggplant Appetizer.
It comes on top of a creamy walnut sauce. The eggplant is fried very nice and seems free of oil. The eggplant itself is very sweet and taste like a white eggplant. I’m not sure if the walnut sauce does much for the eggplant but it’s different and ok.
The chicken piccata was traditional and good.
It’s in a white wine lemon caper sauce and came with nicely prepared fresh vegetables and some potato.
The rigatoni picante is a bit different.
Instead of being made with sausage it”s made with nduja (spreadable SPICY sausage made with Calabrian Chili) My husband said that it was good but much spicier than he was expecting.
We were pretty full but managed to fit in a gelato. They were nice enough to offer 1/2 and 1/2 gelato so we went with pistachio and Amareno Cherry.
There is always something New, Weird, Different, Limited, & Special Edition in the wonderful world of food. We never know WTFORK we will come across when we shop for food.
Up above is –
DIFFERENT – Irvin’s Salted Egg Salmon Skin. Is it fishy? Well they didn’t scale back on this one.
WEIRD – Evie’s Banana Bread and Cinnamon Churro flavored Pecans……I like my pecans to taste like pecan….If I want banana bread or a cinnamon churro I will get them and not a pecan.
DIFFERENT – Evie’s Brown Butter Rum Pecans…..Now they sound tasty…..I was going to buy them but they were something like $10. for only 3 ounces.
DIFFERENT – Xochitl Tortilla Chips flavored with Cholula Hot sauce
DIFFERENT – Sargento Queso & Asadero Cheese flavored with Cholula
DIFFERENT – Sargento Cheddar, Colby-Jack, American Cheese flavored with Frank’s RedHot Sauce
DIFFERENT – Wendy’s No Beans and Beans Chili
WEIRD – Rotten – Sour Gummy Crunchy
LIMITED EDITION? – Cheetos White Cheddar Bag of Bones (left over from Halloween)
WEIRD – Cheetos Flaming Hot Dill Pickle …..(I thought they were CHEESE Curls?)
WEIRD – Sprouts MAPLE flavored Potato Chips – Why?
EXPENSIVE – only a 5 ounce bag
LIMITED EDITION – Flipz Apple Cider Donut Coated Pretzels
Maybe WEIRD – Famous Dave’s DEVIL”S SPIT pickle chips…..Devil’s SPIT doesn’t sound appetizing. Bet they are as hot as HELL.
DIFFERENT – The Cheesecake Factory – Brown Bread
LIMITED EDITION – General Mills Apple Pie Toast Crunch
NEW – Kellogg’s – Apple Jacks GLAZED Apple Cinnamon Donut Holes
DIFFERENT – General Mills Cinnamon Cheerios Protein
LIMITED EDITION – Kellogg’s Frosted Mini Wheats in Pumpkin Spice
DIFFERENT – Wonder peanut butter wafers —-I WONDER if they are good?
DIFFERENT – Wonder Cream Filled Chocolate Cupcakes
DIFFERENT – Wonder Brown Sugar Cinnamon Donut Sticks – I WONDER Isn’t Doughnut spelled Doughnut?
DIFFERENT – Chef’s Cupboard – Hot Honey Cornbread Stuffing…?
DIFFERENT – Chef’s Cupboard – Regular Hot Honey Stuffing…..Maybe Hot Honey on the cornbread but I don’t think hot honey would taste good on regular stuffing.
And there is usually SOMETHING OREO
DIFFERENT – Two Bites – Oreo Muffins
More Oreos
LIMITED EDITION – Nabisco – ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED Apple Pie Ala Mode Cookies
That was the New, WERID, Different, and Limited Edition Foods for November 2025. Who know WTFORK we’ll come across next month.
Dining out with DOGS is just a “Fluff” story about taking my dogs out to eat. It all sort of started with my late dog Louie. He was old and elderly and got diagnosed with aggressive cancer. We were told that he probably only had about three months to live or possibly up to six months. I knew one of the things that Louie enjoyed most was going out to eat so I took him out to eat as often as possible. Instead of the diagnosed 3-6 months of life Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.
This week they got to try a different Hawaiian Restaurant near us called L&L Hawaiian Barbecue. They don’t have their own patio but share a community patio with several restaurants. They tried a variety of things. They tried Brown Rice, Hawaiian BBQ Chicken, Spicy Beef, and Fried Fish.
“Brown Rice is tasty!”“The Fried Fish taste like frozen fish from our local supermarket”“I don’t mind the fried fish”“The BBQ Chicken is the best of what we tried”
L&L Hawaiian Barbecue
www.HawaiianBarbecue.com
The dogs got an extra car ride and got an In-N-Out Cheeseburger.
They are always thrilled to get an In-N-Out Cheeseburger.
www.In-N-Out.com
The Dogs also got to go to the California Fish Grill. They ate battered fish and some shrimp skewer.
They also ate rockfish and sweet potato fries.
The Dogs always enjoy the California Fish Grill.
California Fish Grill
6440 Centennial Center Blvd Las Vegas NV
702-550-1700
www.CAFishGrill.com
The Next week it rained so the dogs just got a car ride to In-N-Out Burger and got to eat their cheeseburger at home.
www.In-N-Out.com
The dogs also got an extra car ride to Burger King and we got them a plain Whopper but added the cheese from home because the cheese always sticks to the bun. (incase you don”t know bread isn’t so good for dogs and the seeded buns are even worst so you don’t feed Whopper buns to dogs)
www.BK.com
The dogs also got to go Mezzo Bistro & Wine. It’s a neighborhood type Italian Restaurant.
They were very nice and brought the dogs their own bowl of water.
The dogs got to eat just a little bread, Some steak, and some sausage.
“umm tasty bread”
“I enjoy steak”
The dogs always enjoy Mezzo Bistro.
Mezzo Bistro & Wine
4275 N Rancho Dr Las Vegas NV
702-944-8880
www.MezzoBistro.com
That was Dining Out With DOGS for November 2025. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.
The Forking TruthIn Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017
Wexler’s Deli was a popular Jewish Style Deli from California. Chef Wexler formally worked at Craft by Tom Colicchio and L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon. The late restaurant critic Johnathan Gold wrote that Wexler’s O.G. Pastrami Sandwich was superb. Now all the Wexler Locations are gone and only a small Wexler’s Food Court Location remains. I read that Wexler’s is one of the few delis in anywhere that cures and smoked and also hand cut their own pastrami and lox. The tiny little Las Vegas location in the Proper Eats Food Hall also cures, smokes, and hand slices their own pastrami and lox and might also be the only deli in Las Vegas that does so.
We ordered our usual. We split a lox on an everything bagel and also split the OG Pastrami.
The lox and cream cheese has capers under the lox. It’s sliced masterfully thin and might be the finest lox sandwich that you can get in Vegas.
Today the pastrami is maybe a more generous serving than usual but also is more fatty. It’s masterfully tender but I think it is also flavored slightly different. It has more bark than the last couple times, maybe more fat, and is a brighter color. (I suspect a heavier amount of curing salt..) HOWEVER it is still one of the very best pastrami sandwiches anywhere.
Prior pastrami sandwiches did differ slightly.
Above was my first Wexler’s Pastrami Sandwich
A prior pastrami sandwich
They all were masterfully tender and delicious. The Lox and Cream Cheese must be the very best one in Vegas.
Worth a Fork!
Worth a Fork!
Wexler’s Deli in the Proper Eats Food Hall in the Aria on the Las Vegas Strip
