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Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar – Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar is a Spanish Tapas Restaurant and Bar with two locations in Vegas. They offer various hot and cold small tapas plates, paellas, sangria, and much more. The Hughes Center Drive location is quite large and also is located very close to the Las Vegas Strip. This location has an outside patio, a bar – (below is bar area)

And lots more beautiful and rich looking dining areas.

It’s hard to decide what to order and how many plates to order. Our server recommended 3 or 4 small plates a person. Maybe we ordered the hardier plates and found that a total of 4 plates was plenty for the two of us.

Whatever you order they start you off with complimentary bread that comes with delicious almond honey butter.

Our first tapas plate was the Tuna Tartare (marinated ahi tuna, sesame dressing, taro chips)

Gosh this was delicious! It’s also spicy that we weren’t expecting. It’s so flavorful that it turned out to be our favorite plate. (wasn’t expecting that)

The Spicy Beef Salad was also very good (filet mignon, orange soy dressing, pickled ginger, romaine, salsa verde, wontons)

The filet was tasty and tender like butter. The flavors were interesting. But the surprise was that it was less spicy than the Tuna Tartare.

Next was Chicken Skewers (mojo-mojo glazed chicken, roast garlic cream)

On this one I really liked the chicken because it was tasty and tender and developed with god flavors. The sauce to me tastes more similar to mayo than to roasted garlic…..

Last plate was the Manchego Mac-N-Cheese with Tomato Pepper Relish.

The Mac-N-Cheese came out with a crispy thin crust and a little bite of tomato/pepper embellishment.

In general all the food was very good so Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar is Worth a Fork!

Firefly Tapas Kitchen & Bar

335 Hughes Center Dr. Las Vegas NV

702-369-3971

www.FireflyLV.com

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Tony Shalhoub Inspired Spinach & Cheese Stuffed Pastry – Idea

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I was watching the new TV Show called Tony Shalhoub’s Breaking Bread. He made these Lebanese Pastries called Spinach Fatayer. I found his recipe on the web and I think it was at www.FoodNetwork.com They might have fixed the recipe since I looked but at the time the pastry recipe had a major misprint an didn’t work out many people said. I figure that the recipe for the pastry part is pretty close to pizza dough so I just whipped up m normal batch of pizza type dough. To his spinach recipe I added more spinach and just added feta and mozzarella and a big sprinkle of Alepo pepper but kept the flavors the same. I also added a beaten egg to the pasties for a nice finish. This is only a recipe idea so I didn’t fully figure this out for you. You just have to wing it. But it’s pretty easy anyone can do this and you can even buy pizza dough to make it even easier. I do note that I mixed up the spinach the day before so that it cooked itself.

In a big bowl mix up –

1 8 ounce bag spinach

1 onion – chop fine (I slice thin on mandolin and then chop)

1 large lemon – the fresh squeezed juice

2 heaping teaspoons dried mint

2 teaspoons z’atar (or more to taste)

1 teaspoon sea salt

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon Aleppo pepper (or more to taste)

This gets mixed well and sits in a ziplock bag in your refrigerator over night.

*******Next Day ********

Set your oven to 375F

Take your spinach mixture and try to leave the liquid in the bag. Add your spinach mixture to a bowl and add 4 ounces of crumbled feta cheese and 16 ounces of shredded fresh mozzarella and set to the side.

Get out your meatball scoop and scoop out a meatball size piece of dough. You might need a little extra flour and roll your dough into a circle. Add a scoop of the spinach and cheese mixture. Fold up three ends of the pastry over the spinach filling. you can leave a small hole in the center if you like. These go on a non stick sprayed baking sheet. Then brush them with a beaten egg. They go in the oven till lightly Browned. (about 25 minutes)

Tony Shalhoub Inspired Spinach and Cheese Pastry

A Special Thanks to Tony Shalhoub so I could make what I got here.

ENJOY!!!!

THREE CAN’T MISS THAI Dishes of Las Vegas NV

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The thing that surprised me the most about dining in Las Vegas were the amount of Thai Restaurants here. GOSH there are so many! Nearly all of them are at least good and several of them are exceptional and offer those “Tip” “TOP” FANTABULOUS Killer dishes.

One is the Pla Rad Prik (Crispy Fish) with Crispy Basil from Skye Thai Grab & Go (9650 W. Skye Canyon Park Dr.) We are very fond of other dishes here and also are a fan of their unusual for a Thai Restaurant dishes like Brussels sprouts, a pumpkin and egg dish, and even chicken pho but this Pla Rad Prik is extra special.

Tender mild white fish that is shattering Crispy but delicious. It’s savory, sweet, spicy, sour, and tangy. It’s delicious and topped with CRISPY basil, green beans, and bell pepper strips, and come with steamed Jasmin rice. This is so good that even my husband who often doesn’t like fish said that he would order this dish.

Lemongrass and Lime Thai Restaurant (8431 Fam Rd.) might have more than one can’t miss dish. You MUST get the Golden (potato) pouches.

GOSH YUMMMMMMM! Crisp Crunchy Eggroll wrappers stuffed with mashed potatoes that sit in the BEST massaman curry adorned with some fried crispy shallots.

Lemongrass and Lime also really kills it with their curries. I think the FORKING best green curry, massaman curry, and pumpkin curry, also was from Lemongrass and Lime so those too are must gets if you enjoy Thai Curry.

Yet another YUM-DINGER Crazy great Thai Plate is the Crispy Spinach Salad from Nittaya’s Secret Kitchen (8427 W. Lake Blvd).

FAMOUS Crispy Spinach Salad from Nittaya’s Secret Kitchen

This is so great that even if you think you don’t like Thai Food you will love this. It’s Spinach Leaves that are carefully tempura battered and fried to a perfect crisp. The sauce on the side is what turns this magical….The sauce is lime-ee and bright, it slightly spicy, and has lots of cashews in it.

Those were three of the MUST GET Thai Dishes of Las Vegas NV.

And this is –

Bites Of Europe – Hit & Miss – Las Vegas NV

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Bite of Europe is a European Style Bar and Restaurant located in the North-West Part of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer things like Beef Stroganoff, Schnitzel, Pelmeni, Pierogi, and Specials.

The regular menu items we tried were all reasonably good.

Smoked Salmon Deviled Eggs

Peach Dessert

Potato and Cheese Pierogi

Turkey Stuffed Cabbage

Then we tried specials on our second visit.

Khachapuri Adjaruli – Bread filled with cheeses and an egg yolk that you mix into the cheese. (bread was a bit raw and lacking salt and the cheese ran bitter)

Goulash Stew – Tasty but pork was dry and stringy.

Chicken Parikash with spetzel – This just didn’t taste good. My husband tasted it and said, “THAT’S WEIRD TASTING.”

Bite of Europe – Hit & Miss – Safer to go with the regular menu and to avoid the specials.

Bite of Europe 10040 W Cheyenne Ave Las Vegas NV

725-254-0095

www.BitesofEurope.net

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2025 Viva Taco Fest – North Las Vegas NV

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The 2025 Viva Taco Fest Happened in North Las Vegas Nevada at Craig Ranch Park on Craig Road (Oct.31, Nov.1, Nov.2). This was billed as the largest taco fest in the country. A fifteen dollar ticket got you a general admission ticket to get you in and the rest was up to you. You enter and see an endless amount of venders selling all kinds of goods. It was sort of like a swap mart was brought to you. Then you pass by various Day of The Dead displays. (below are just a few)

Then you finally get to the food venders. This was the first food truck I saw.

Not all but the majority of food was offered here.

I was very surprised that a lot of the food offered wasn’t tacos.

There were several different French Fry Vendors.

Funnel cake vender. I also saw pizza here, a few doughnuts, and few Ice creams.

Further down was a large stage with blaring Mexican Music.

They also had covered patio seating.

We tried a variety of tacos from a variety of places here.

Fish and Shrimp Tacos

Bulgogi Beef, Carne Asada, Chicken with red salsa, Chicken with Green salsa

Chicken and Carne Asada Tacos – These were the best by a long shot. They were so darn flavorful that the other tacos SUCKED after tasting these tacos.

They came from here.

I don’t think there is a name anywhere. I see a logo for Mr Papas Potato chips but nothing else. (a couple people on Facebook told me the correct name for this place is Mr Papas Y Raspados)

Also our newspaper and local TV news do very little in the way of food mews and this taco festival wasn’t featured. Also no list of venders on the Viva Taco Fest Website. BAH!

That was my trip to the 2025 Viva Taco Fest.

www.VivaTacoFest.com

NEW WEIRD DIFFerenT Limited & Special Edition Food Out There October 2025

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There is always something new, weird, different, limited, and special edition in the wonderful world of food. We just never know WTFork we’ll come across when we shop for food.

Up above is –

DIFFERENT – Kellogg’s – Wednesday – artificially flavored – Cookies and Cream Cereal – Not so sure about this cereal because I like natural flavored chocolate. Don’t most people?

DIFFERENT & WEIRD – Kellogg’s – Wednesday Howlin’ Confetti Cake Cereal with PURPLE Color Changing Milk – Maybe it makes you fart purple?

WEIRD – General Mills Wicked – Glenda Good Berry (WTFORK! is that?)

LIMITED EDITION – General Mills – Wicked Elphaba Caramel Apple

LIMITED EDITION – Special K pumpkin Spice

LIMITED EDITION – Cap’n Crunch’s – Orange Cream Pop Crunch – Orange you glad you saw this?

LIMITED EDITION – General Mills Pumpkin Spice Cheerios

WEIRD – Kellogg’s – Naturally Flavored with “OTHER?” Natural Flavors and Marshmallows – Sounds frightening

WEIRD – Kellogg’s Froot Loops turns milk wild berry purple so you might poop purple

DIFFERENT – Kellogg’s – Raisin Bran Crunch

LIMITED EDITION – Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes – Pumpkin Spice

LIMITED EDITION – Post – Halloween Fruity Pebbles oh so scary

DIFFENT & WEIRD – Marvel Fantastic 4 Blue Raspberry Pop Tarts – the bright blue filling looks nauseating and I bet it makes you poop blue.

LIMITED EDITION – Pop Tarts – Frosted Pumpkin Pie

DIFFERENT _ Bettergoods – Roasted Shishito Pepper and Garlic flavored wavy potato chips – sounds delicious but I don’t know (yet) if they are.

DIFFERENT – Bettergood – Smoked Gouda Mac-N-Cheese flavored potato chips. Sounds good but don’t know.

DIFFERENT – Bettergoods – Cassava, Red Quinoa, brown flaxseeds, and chia seed chips…?…They sound healthy and tasty but don’t know?

DIFFERENT – Popcorn Indiana – Netflix Late Night Ramen Pop Corn

DIFFERENT – Cheez It in 30 pouches

DIFFERENT – Trader Joe’s Mini (Almost) Everything Bagel Sandwich Crackers with Cream Cheese Filling and OTHER natural flavors.

DIFFERENT – Trader Joe’s Pizza Ranch Salad Kit.

DIFFERENT & maybe New or Limited Edition – Mountain Dew Soda in Dragon Fruit Flavor???

DIFFERENT and maybe NEW? – Skippy Salted Nut Roll

DIFFERENT – Reese’s 18 assorted packs

DIFFERENT – Mrs Freshley’s Reese’s Peanut Butter Flavored Cup Cakes

Different and maybe NEW? – Reese’s Frozen Peanut Butter Dessert Cup

LIMITED EDITION – Reese’s Werewolf Tracks with vanilla cream?….Why would I want vanilla on my Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup? and What makes vanilla a Werewolf Track?

DIFFERENT – Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies Ice Cream and Strawberry Shortcake Rolls Ice Cream

DIFFERENT – Reggano Halloween Pasta

WEIRD – Favorite Day – Assorted Gummy Candy, witch fingers, sour spiders, sour apples, edible slime, popping candy (ick)

LIMITED EDITION – Snickers Ghoulish Green Snicker Bars – (ick)

LIMITED EDITION – Twix Ghoulish Green Twix Bars (Ick)

Nothing is more Halloween-ee than BEEF ORGANS

WEIRD – Heart & Soil Beef Organs (I saw them at Sprouts)

And there is usually something Oreo

LIMITED EDITION – Nabisco Spooky Halloween Designs Oreo Cookies

That was the New, Weird, Different,Limited & Special Edition Foods for October 2025. Who knows WTFork we will come across next month.

Dining Out With DOGS in Las Vegas NV

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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 always loved going out to eat. When he got elderly he came down with aggressive cancer. We were told that poor old Louie only had 3 months to live or possibly up to 6 months to live. Louie couldn’t do much but I took him out to eat as often as possible and Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.

The dogs got t go to one of their favorites – SNS Diner BBQ If they seem familiar to you then maybe you saw them on Food Network’s Diners Drive Ins and Dives.

My husband shared a lot of his three meat platter with the dogs (Brisket, pulled pork, links, and macaroni and cheese)

I shared my BBQ 1/2 Chicken with the dogs.

The Dogs always enjoy SNS Diner BBQ

3229 Losee Rd N Las Vegas NV

702-269-9696

www.SNSDiner.com

Dogs got to go to the newer California Fish Grill in NORTH LAS VEGAS. They got some branzino today

and they also got

Fried fish, sweet potato fries, and crispy parmesan green beans.

“Yum Fish”

“Yum Fish”

“Yum Green Bean”

“Yum Green Bean”

“Yum Sweet Potato”

They always enjoy the California Fish Grill

1930 W Craig Rd N Las Vegas NV

702-623-8884

www.CAFishGrill.com

The Dogs also got to go to Those Guys Pies. If they sound familiar to you then maybe you saw them featured on Food Network’s Diners Drive inns & Dives. This restaurant is mainly a pizza and cheesesteak restaurant but they do sell there things and also happening to have a craft dog biscuit vending machine inside.

We got the dogs some craft beef dog biscuits while we were waiting on our order.

In reasonable time our order arrives.

I got the lakeside salad with fried chicken and my husband got a cheesesteak.

The dogs got to enjoy some chicken and some cheesesteak.

We always enjoy Those Guys Pies.

Those Guys Pies

5585 Simmons St North Las Vegas NV

725-251-5826

www.ThoseGuysPies.com

The Dogs also got to go to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill. They had some salmon, cucumbers, and chickpeas from my Greek Rice Bowl.

They also enjoyed some gyro and steak from my husband’s rice bowl.

The Dogs always enjoy The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill.

6540 Losee Rd N Las Vegas NV

702-749-8582

www.TheGreatGreekGrill.com

That was Dining Out With DOGS for October 2025. We hope that you’ve enjoyed an we hope to see you next month.

Good Pie is Good and is Worth a Try! – Las Vegas NV

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Good Pie is a multi award wining pizzeria with two locations. One is in Henderson and the one we tried is in Downtown in the Arts District of Las Vegas Nevada. Good Pie offers a variety of pizzas. They are known for their Grandma Pie (square crispy bottoms). They also offer Brooklyn Style Pizzas (thin crusts), Detroit (crispy squares), and Sicilian (thick and fluffy). It’s not on the menu but you can also get a variety of pizzas by the slice. You just have to walk up front and see what the offerings are.

On one side is a large bar and on the other side are booths and lots of photos of many grandmothers. In the back is the main kitchen.

We tried a few slices, a salad, and a fried pizza.

Grandma Slice – Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions, Cheese

Grandma – Upside Down Grandma – Extra Cheese, Double Sauce, Oregano, Pecorino

Greek Salad

My favorite was the Fried Pizza with Burrata Cheese – It’s fried and baked. Topped with a rich tomato sauce, fresh basil, parmesan, and extra virgin olive oil. I liked the delicate what seemed like light and not a heavy crust, the richer tomato sauce, the tastier cheese, and the fresh basil. It’s very different from most pizzas that I’ve tried. I heard that some people don’t like this pizza because it does cool off faster from the cold burrata cheese that is applied at the end.

Good Pie is Good and is Worth a Try!

1212 S. Main Street Las Vegas NV

702-844-2700

www.GoodPie.com

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Komex Fusion (Korean/Mexican) Restaurant – Worth a Fork! Las Vegas NV

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Komex Fusion is a casual restaurant here in Vegas. They offer their spin on Mexican Foods with a Korean Touch. They’ve been featured in various publications and various television shows.