Freshly ground burgers are usually superior due to fresher meat and better fat distribution and also the ability to choose specific cuts for flavor. This results in a juicier and more flavorful burger compared to store bought and commercial options that often contain additives, preservatives, and gases for longer shelf life.

Chip Off The Block (connected to Butcher Block Butcher in Centennial) isn’t a fancy place. You order and pay at the counter and then seat yourself. They offer sub sandwiches, smokehouse sandwiches, cheese steaks, a wagyu melt, reuben, pastrami, meatballs sandwiches, AND A VARITY OF FRESH GROUND IN HOUSE BURGER PLATTERS.

We both tried The Gourmet Steak Burger.

My husband asked for his medium-rare with the sidewinder fries.

I asked for a medium cook without cheese and also without mustard but with sweet potato tots.

The flavors are really great on everything.

Mine was cooked nicely and was juicy and flavorful and did taste kinda like a steak.

For some odd reason they over cooked my husband’s medium-rare burger to well done.

Jeremy the owner said that he was sorry.

Not perfect but still tasty.

Chip Off The Block does serve fresh ground in house burgers.

Chip Off The Block

6440 N Durango Dr Las Vegas NV

702-812-9300

www.ButcherBlockLV.com

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328 Thai is a nicer Thai Restaurant that offers some of the harder to find Thai Dishes. They do also offer cocktails, beer, and wine. Inside are a mix of traditional tracks and booths. They also have an open kitchen. They are located very close to the Las Vegas Strip a couple doors down from the famous Golden Steer Steakhouse.

One of the FORKING AMAZING dishes that is also hard to find is the Miang Kam (light bite)

It’s basically three shiso leaves topped with toasted coconut, lime, ginger, shallots, cashews, sprouts, and this amazing yummy mango sauce called Miang Kam. This is FORKING Scrumptious. YOU MUST GET THIS.

The other FORKING AMAZING Dish was the Tom Zaap Seabass Soup.

It is a lighter dish because it doesn’t come with rice or noodles but somehow is still satisfying. The taste of the soup really BANGS with great flavors (lemongrass, lime, chili) and heat. The seabass is also a generous amount and is nice, moist, and flaky.

My husband tried the Pad Ka Pow with fried Egg.

He picked the ribeye option. This is reasonably good. It was made with fried Thai basil and the ribeye was tender and developed with flavors.

There are plenty of interesting dishes to try.

The only issue is that the drive and parking can be challenging to some people.

That was my first trip to 328 Thai. I hope to try again!

328 Thai

328 W Sahara Ave Las Vegas NV

702-462-9828

www.328Thai.com

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Lumberjacks is a small chain of casual restaurants from California with one location in North Las Vegas Nevada. They serve an American menu that includes breakfast all day. They also offer a soft beverage menu, a child’s, and a senior menu. The menu does run a bit beef heavy but does have enough choices to please most people.

It’s casual and kind of rustic when you walk in.

The desserts are also on display in a glass case off the side of the front desk.

Unfortunately we were seated in what might be the overflow room. It emptied and we had the room to ourselves. I couldn’t get a photo of where you might typically sit that was crowded with people and also was a much larger room.

My husband started with a cup of soup of the day (included with his meal) – chicken tortilla. He said that it really was well made and delicious, also a bit spicy.

I tried the Apple Fuji Chicken Salad.

It was surprisingly very good! The most stand out thing was on how fresh the soft green were. They were so fresh that they were crisp. The chicken was moist and flavorful. The citrus dressing seemed light but also had a nice flavor to it. There were also embellishments of raw onion, walnuts, cranberries, and crisp sweet apple chips.

My husband enjoyed the Chicken Fried Steak.

It was reasonably good.

We took a chance and decided to try the Blackberry Cobbler.

It’s very different.

Nt what either of us were expecting.

It’s more like a muffin with TONS of blackberry filling.

It’s also not very sweet.

It’s not awful but I wouldn’t recommend or order again.

I do note that the soup, salad, and chicken fried steak were all at least reasonably good.

Lumberjacks of North Las Vegas is Worth a Try!

Lumberjacks

965 W Craig Road North Las Vegas NV

702-487-5007

www.LumberjacksRestaurant.com

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STK Steakhouse is a Modern Style Steakhouse, Lounge, and Bar with a location in the Cosmopolitan Casino/Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. It’s very modern looking inside with curvy walls and curvy tables and booths. It is also kinda dark inside and music that might be too loud and maybe too modern for some people fills the air.

I often see a three course special offered that differs slightly in name and some of the offerings but whatever it is is always looks like a good deal. (Sunday-Thursday 3:30-5:30). Tonight the three course special is called the Steaknight Special and is three courses for $69. I was surprised that the hostess sat is and did give us the steak night special menu. We had to ask for it.

We started with tuna tartare and a shrimp cocktail.

A Roll and Chive oil came out with the dinners.

We got –

8 ounce Skirt Steak

6 ounce Filet Mignon and a generous amount of lemon zest and almond asparagus and macaroni and cheese (good but really needed a little pepper)

We took home the chocolate cake but ate the Banana Pudding with Ice Cream there.

The dogs didn’t mind eating some of the steak we brought home.

The Sunday-Thursday STK Steakhouse Menu is usually a Bargain. At it is if they offer what I got here.

STK Steakhouse in the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas

3708 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-698-7990

www.CosmopolitianLasVegas.MGMResorts.com

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Aroma is a contemporary artsy type of South American style restaurant located in Chinatown in Las Vegas Nevada. It’s not a fancy place but the dishes are ultra creative and fancy. They offer lots of smaller plates and larger plates that can be shared. I do warn you that this is a small restaurant and the tables inside are a bit too small for the large plates. They also (as of this posting so that might change) don’t have a bar so they are only offering beer and wine (at this time).

We started out with the Peruvian Ceviche.

It’s made with yellowtail fish. It’s nice and light and fresh tasting.

BUT one of the MUST GET dishes are the Tamarindo (Japanese Bay Peaches, tamarind balls, apple, jicama, other goodies)

Really great!

Another MUST GET is the Mangonada (NIXTAMEL tomatoes, chili lime, peanuts, greens, grapes, and other goodies)

For out main we had the Churrasquito (Brazilian Fat Cap Steak)

All very good flavors here. The steak was good but today not perfection. I’ve had it a few times before at the original location. Today it is slightly chewy but still good. Usually it’s perfection. There are plenty of tasty embellishments to keep you busy..

Dessert was pretty darn delicious too.

It’s called a Chococo (a rich chocolatey dessert with pineapple rum and coconut and a few other things.

Not perfect but many of the dishes are amazing!

Aroma

3355 Spring Mountain Road Las Vegas NV

702-683-4135

www.aromacocinaLV.com

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Village Pub is not a fancy place. It is one of the many casual 24/7 Bar, Gaming, Restaurants that we have in Vegas that offers an American Food and Breakfast Menu. There are (at this time and about to grow even more) sixteen Village Pub locations in Vegas. The North Las Vegas Aliante location has a separate bar and gaming room and also a non smoking dining room.

I decided to try the Apple Pecan Salad with added salmon.

I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised. My blackened salmon was nicely seasoned and moist and fresh tasting. It was cooked to around medium (that’s pretty darn rare especially in North Las Vegas). It was surrounded by fresh soft greens. crisp fresh cut apple, a good amount of candied pecans, lots of garlic toast and citrus vinaigrette.

My husband tried the Chicken Fried Chicken.

He was pretty pleased with this dish too. He said that the chicken was moist and delicious as were the potatoes and eggs. He also enjoyed the rye bread that he got with it.

Pricing was reasonable and portions were large.

First visit here to Village Pub was a winner!

Village Pub (on receipt it reads Village Pub Aliante but Aliante is not on the building)

2770 W Centennial Pkwy North Las Vegas NV

702-555-1212

www.VillagePubVegas.com

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Trattoria Reggiano is a full service Italian Restaurant and Bar with two locations in Vegas. One location is in the Venetian Casino/Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and the other location is in the Downtown Summerlin open mall. The Summerlin location offers a more casual slightly shorter menu with sandwiches and Monday-Friday Happy Hour Menus. The Summerlin location also offers outdoor patio seating, bar seating, and traditional table seating.

Below is the front dining area.

Below you can see some of the patio area.

You can also see the open kitchen.

I decided to try the Grilled Salmon.

It’s a nice large portion of fish. They removed the skin and the bloodline so you don’t have to worry about that. It’s cooked around medium so it’s nice and moist and is fresh tasting. It came with perfectly cooked and seasoned broccoli, fancy carrots with garlic, and those gourmet mini potatoes with fresh rosemary. It’s very good! It’s also a very large portion of food. Not everyone but many can get two meals out of this.

My husband’s Chicken Parmesan was also perfect and very good.

It’s also a large generously sized plate of food.

I had half of my plate packed up so we could share an Imported Italian Tartufo. (chocolate shell with strawberry, pistachio, chocolate gelatos inside)

Everything was perfect until dessert.

It looks good but it tastes like no frills budget ice cream. I would not recommend the imported Italian Tartufo.

But the salmon and chicken parmesan were very good.

Maybe we’ll try Happy Hour next time?

Trattoria Reggiano was Mostly Very Good!

Downtown Summerlin 2020 Park Centre Dr Las Vegas NV

702-749-6966

HTTP://Trattoria-Reggiano.com

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Flecha Cantina by Mark Wahlberg is a creative style Mexican Restaurant and Bar located in the Towns Square shopping center in Las Vegas that is not too far from the Las Vegas Strip. This restaurant is bought to you by local celebrity and resident Mark Wahlberg. (at this time) this restaurant offers lunch, brunch, and dinner. This restaurant has an outdoor patio, bar seating, booth, and traditional tables.

On every visit (so far on 5 visits) they served us complimentary fruit cocktails on the way to the table.

On all our visits we received delicious spicy salsa and chips to start on.

The pistachio goat cheese appetizer used to be so delicious that we ordered it on 4 out of 5 visits so far.

It was described as goat cheese with pistachios and spicy tamarind sauce with fried pita breads.

This is the July 2026 version below.

You can certainly see that it is no longer the same. You can see it’s a less layered sauce that is more flat and you can also see that they cut way back on the pistachios. I can’t say for sure but I think? it tastes closer to cream cheese too than to goat cheese?

The dishes we tried today were the new $20 lunch special menu.

I tried the Verano Watermelon Salad – watermelon, cucumber, goat cheese, baby spinach, arugula, cloud 23 honey mustard dressing, basil, mint, candied pistachios, option to add chicken

I don’t tastes basil or mint. The candied pistachios are impossible to identify. If they are there they are crushed so fine that you don’t really get them. The dust on the salad tastes spiced and possibly includes a candied crushed pistachio? The watermelon, cheese, and chicken are all ok. The dressing is tasty on the salad.

My husband tried the Street Tacos (pork belly, carnitas, chicken)

He said that the tacos were tasty but they were lighter with the meat in the pork flavors than the chicken taco.

The lunch specials included a soft beverage and a dessert. We both tried the ice cream with churros and took 1/2 the churros packed for home because two orders are too much to eat for most people.

The ice cream and sauces are good.

The churros are all different.

Some seem raw inside.

Some seem filled

But they all lack cinnamon and sugar on the exterior.

Below are some pictures from previous visits to Flecha Cantina.

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Flecha Cantina by Mark Wahlberg

6663 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-728-2774

www.FlechaCantina.com

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La Casa De Juliette is a full service Mexican Restaurant and Bar located in the Centennial Hills or North/West part of Vegas. It’s a little dark inside but well lite so you can read the menu.

They currently are offering lunch and a $21. special 2-course lunch.

I tried the fish tacos. They were HUMUNGOUS but more importantly REALLY DELICIOUS! Maybe the best I’ve tried in Vegas so far.

Plump moist mild whitefish with a creamy chipotle slaw and really great tasting pineapple salsa that they call “Pina Pico de Gallo.”

My husband tried the lunch special.

He started with the wings 1/2 mild 1/2 spicy

Unfortunately today someone over cooked the wings or they would have been good.

Then he had the brisket enchiladas.

The flavors are good but the brisket is over cooked today.

Previously we tried La Casa de Juliette for dinner and tried –

Not perfect but Worth a Try!

La Casa De Juliette

7585 Norman Rockwell Drive Las Vegas NV

702-665-4949

www.LaCasaDeJuliette.com

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Burrito Tyme isn’t a fancy place. It’s a small casual Mexican restaurant connected to a gas station in North Las Vegas Nevada. They offer things like breakfast, tacos, tostadas, combo plates, fajitas, cheeseburgers and bottled soft beverages. You can do take out or do some dining in.

It’s very casual. You order and pay at the counter. You pick it up when it’s ready and you can dress the food as you like with their salsa bar.

A chile relleno (fried battered poblano pepper stuffed with cheese) is tasty and you might want to give it a try.

Or maybe you want something like a taco salad.

Something more hardy is something like a green chile pork plate. (it comes with tortillas)

Or maybe you just want tacos

Not destination Mexican but neighborhood Mexican.

If you are in the area Worth a Try!

Burrito Tyme

5575 N 5TH St North Las Vegas NV

702-399-3693

www.BurritoTyme.com

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