Sicilian Guys Trattoria is a full service Italian Restaurant and Bar located in the North/West part of Vegas. Inside they offer a variety of seating. They offer booths, traditional tables, bar seating and indoor patio seating.

On our most recent visit we were here at dinner time and they started us off with house made bread with a large sprig of rosemary and a small dish of embellished oil.

This was good we were happy with the bread.

My husband tried the arancini.

He said that this was less seasoned than he is used to but was the highlight of dinner tonight.

The most disappointing plate from all my visits here was the chicken marsala.

It looks good and the chicken is nice and tender but –

It’s next to tasteless.

It sits in something very watery that tastes like mushroom water.

My husband tastes a piece of the chicken and he says, “WOW that is tasteless” “You are going to need to add salt and pepper to it”

The other problem was that the pastas very over cooked and the bucatini are splitting in half.

My husband’s dinner is slightly better.

He had the chicken parm.

Again the chicken is tender and nice and moist and also the cheese on it is good.

But the pasta is also very over cooked and falling apart. Also the tomato sauce is very thick and has little flavor.

Below is Charlie eating a piece of pasta.

Below are reasonably good foods from previous visits.

beet & arugula salad

white pizza

Sunday Braciole

pollo vesuvio

pollo piccata

cannoli

Like most restaurants this one too can be hit or miss.

Sicilian Guys Trattoria

9800 W Skye Canyon Park Dr Las Vegas NV

702-331-6873

www.SicilianGuysTrattoria.com

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Lazeez Pakistani Indian Mediterranean Grill is a very unique restaurant located around the North Summerlin part of Vegas. They offer Pakistani-Type Indian Foods and also Mediterranean foods like hummus, falafels, and kabobs. Pakistani food runs more meat protein heavy than regular indian foods so you will find beef here and also hamburgers.

We decided to try the lunch buffet offered every day starting at 11:30.

Cold part of buffet

There’s a lot of food to try for only about $21.00 a person.

I was full after my first plate.

The appetizers were tasty (samosa and fried vegetable something) I also got chili chicken, chicken tikka masala, chic pea curry, chicken byiani, spinach curry, and suji halwa (taste like spiced apples but is semolina) Everything we tried seemed freshly made and was hot and fresh. I have to say it was mostly very good.

They also give you fresh made hot naan breads that are delicious.

Lazeez Pakistani Mediterranean Grill is Worth a Fork!

Lazeez Pakistani Mediterranean Grill

8580 W Desert Inn Rd Las Vegas NV

702-778-1613

www.LazeezGrill.org

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Sizzle Stack Burger is a small casual family owned burger place in the Spring Valley part of Vegas.

They have a small simple but good smash burger menu of fresh ground in-house brisket burgers and beef tallow fries.

It’s very casual inside.

You order and pay at the counter (BTW – This establishment is cashless you need a bank or credit card)

Then you get a number and seat yourself. The cashier serves you your beverage and runs the food out a few minutes latter.

We both tried smash burgers called Sizzle Stack Burgers (double patty, American cheese ((mine no cheese), grilled onions, pickles, house sauce) and some tallow fries.

This was all surprisingly very good. It’s like if fast food was good this would be it. Prices were also reasonable and the girl at the counter even checked on us.

We let Charlie try some.

Sizzle Stack Burger is Worth a Fork!

Sizzle Stack Burger

3585 S Fort Apache Rd Las Vegas NV

702-609-8513

www.SizzleStackBurger.com

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The Charcoal Room is a steakhouse with two locations in Las Vegas NV. One is located in Palace Station that is close to the strip and the other is in Santa Fe Station that is in North/West Las Vegas. The Santa Fe has a large bar in the middle of the restaurant with mostly booths all around the room and a few traditional tables.

Whatever you order they start you off with a bread basket and butter.

This time we tried the shishito peppers as an appetizer.

They are good but run a bit too spicy hot today. I take most them home to freeze and use for when I need hot peppers.

For my main I tried the miso glazed sea bass special.

For me it’s reasonably good. All is well.

My husband tries the surf and turf special (lobster tail and 6 oz Prime Filet).

with a side order of macaroni and cheese.

All here is prepared nicely and is delicious.

Here are pictures from a few visits.

Here’s Charlie enjoying some Prime Filet.

The Charcoal Room at Santa Fe is Worth a Try!

4949 N Rancho Dr Las Vegas NV

702-515-4385

www.SantaFeStation.com

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Yu By Sijie is a Chinese Restaurant located in Tivoli Village in the Summerlin part of Las Vegas Nevada.

Inside are traditional tables surrounded by mostly booths and an open kitchen.

Ordering is very moderne and different.

You order off a tablet.

There are no definitions and some items are in Chinese.

We started out by trying the chicken soup dumplings.

Ummm they are very good! Best chicken soup dumplings that I’ve tried anywhere! Good soup inside and a good amount of chicken that is tender moist and layered with flavors.

Then we also shared several dishes.

This is spicy boiling fish…..Very good but also very spicy with mouth numbing Szechwan pepper corns.

Next was sweet garlic eggplant. This cooled you off from the spicy boiling fish.

It came on a very fancy pretty plate.

Last dish was red chili pepper stir fry chicken.

This was interesting and different. To me it seemed more like chili chicken and not a stir fry. For some reason it doesn’t seem spicy at first but then heat builds as you eat it and then you need more eggplant to cool off.

We had leftovers and they gave us a cute bag to carry them home in.

Yu By Sijie is certainly Worth a Try!

400 S Rampart Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-268-8624

www.YuBySijie.com

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Cajun Cracken is in four locations of Vegas. The North Las Vegas location on Losee Road offers Boiled Seafood, Combo Seafood Plates, Po Boy Sandwiches, various fried shellfish, sushi (YES SUSHI) and Hawaiian BBQ, some alcohol and MORE!

You can sit at the bar or in the dining area.

My husband started with a cup of gumbo.

He thought the gumbo was pretty good but didn’t contain rice like it does at most places.

We also tried the crispy green beans.

The green beans would be great if they didn’t have this sauce on them that isn’t mentioned on the menu. The green beans are fried nice and are crisp and fresh.

I’d get them again but I would ask them to leave the sauce off.

I tried the Hawaiian BBQ Chicken.

The chicken is very tender dark meat with a mild BBQ sauce on it. They do give you way more chicken than you can eat. For my taste I’d like to add a splash of sriracha or something because it’s good but needs a splash of something. The rice is good and the macaroni salad is kinda average.

My husband settled on the fried oyster basket with upgraded sweet potato fries. (he really wanted 1/2 fried shrimp and 1/2 fried oysters but they don’t do that here.)

He thought if was A-OK.

That was a first taste of Cajun Crackin.

5960 N Losee Rd N Las Vegas NV

702-998-9926

www.CajunCrackinNV.com

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Dragon Tiger Noodle is a build it yourself type casual Ramen Restaurant brought to you by James Bead Award Wining Chef Jet Tila. He has one location in Colorado and four locations around Las Vegas Nevada. The Summerlin Location is very casual.

You order and pay at the counter. Then you might add on an appetizer like a gyoza or something like a chicken wing.

To build your bowl you first decide on size bowl, broth, then noodle, then protein, and vegetables, condiments, and toppings.

The broth offerings do change from time to time.

Last time I had a vegetarian Szechuan Broth with poached chicken lots of vegetables, hand made noodles, ramen eggs, and garlic oil.

It was very good but almost too spicy for me.

This time I had the chicken broth based with poached chicken, hand made udon noodles, premium mushrooms, garlic oil, and more.

This is good but much plainer that what I had last time…GOOD but could use a kick of something. (I should have added something more).

This time my husband had a Sumo sized birria ramen with spicy noodles. My husband questioned the person behind the counter on what the broth was made of but that person wouldn’t give us an answer perhaps due to a language barrier? Or just didn’t know? (so I wouldn’t try)

He said that the flavors were VERY GOOD and came with lots of birria but today the meat was a little stringy.

Charlie didn’t mind.

Charlie also enjoyed the poached chicken.

Dragon Tiger Noodle is Worth a Try!

Dragon Tiger Noodle

750 S Rampart Blvd Las Vegas NV

725-204-9700

www.DragonTigerNoodle.com

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Lilli is a Fine Dining, New American, French Style Restaurant located in the Chinatown of Las Vegas. The Chef is well seasoned and has previously worked at The French Laundry in Napa California. At the time of my visit they were offering a tasting menu, a four course menu, and a limited amount la carte menu in the lounge. I should mention that (at this time) This restaurant is hard to identify from the road because at this time they only had one very small sign that is too hard to see.

Once inside it looks like this.

Here’s only part of the main dining area.

We ordered the four course menu and they started us off with an amazing amuse bouche of mushroom consommé with a goat cheese foam.

This next dish I can’t praise enough because you can’t taste how special this really is.

It’s this OUT OF THIS WORLD Crazy great Potato Salad Mousse with a fancy Trout.

Next was Hawaiian Kampaci.

This next one was another of the PHENOMENAL dishes.

Missouri Chestnut Gnocchi with Cheese and caramelized rice wine and dates.

Next was Pacific Patrale Sole with grapes, lettuce, and brown butter sauce.

Then they brought out some focaccia with butter.

Entrees were –

Liberty Duck Breast with Cippolini Onions , Jujubes, Foie Gras Port Jus

Dry Aged Flannery Flat Iron – Carrot Puree, Burdock, Borscht Sauce

Desserts were – (Both very special)

Honey Roasted Pear – candied pumpkin, thyme, toasted barley semi freddo

And the incredible-

Ile Flottante

With figs, almond tuile, anglaise

and of course we brought Charlie some things to sample.

If you can swing it – GREAT for a Splurge Night

Lilli

3616 Spring Mountain Rd Las Vegas NV

702-350-1620

www.Lilli.Vegas

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Krazy Buffet is a Chinese Buffet located in Vegas not too far from the Las Vegas Strip. We tried them on a Sunday and I noticed that they offer a shellfish heavy buffet. But it’s a buffet s there are many other things to try.

It was packed so we had to wait for a table. Got seated pretty quickly and started the buffet journey.

I noticed that someone dropped a chicken leg on the floor and nobody wants to pick it up. All the workers just ignored it.

Here’s my first plate.

The spicy chicken is really gross and I don’t think anyone would like it unless you don’t mind chicken cartilage in your mouth. The one sushi is also really gross and I had to spit that out too because the fish is hard, dry and chewy. The green beans taste good but they are over cooked and squishy. The sesame ball is good.

I thought I would like the sea bass and the fried chicken.

The sea bass is GROSS. I can’t identify the WEIRD flavor…YUK! The chicken is dry, stringy, and GROSS too!

The only thing I liked (and it really wasn’t that great) was the soft serve vanilla with a fresh hot doughnut. The fresh pineapple was so sour that it hurt my mouth. The fried banana was ok.

Krazy Buffet – Maybe ok for raw shellfish but – Not the best.

8095 W Sahara Ave Las Vegas NV

702-869-6699

I couldn’t find a working website for Krazy Buffet.

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Papa Joe’s Chicken & Waffles is a Southern Soul Type Casual Restaurant located in the Centennial part of Vegas. This is mainly a take out restaurant because they only have three tables to dine at inside.

I tried the chicken & fish dinner with sweet potato fries, macaroni and cheese that comes with a dinner roll.

The chicken wings here are really GREAT! They are big and juicy with lots of meat and are fried to perfection (nice and crisp, delicious, and seem free of oil). I also got two generous fish filets that are also perfectly fried. For my sides I got macaroni and cheese (a bit over cooked and broken up), sweet potato fries and a dinner roll (that seems buttered with added sweetness).

My husband tried the chicken and shrimp dinner with macaroni and cheese, dressing (stuffing), and a corn muffin.

Happy to say that the chicken and shrimp are both fried to perfection. The macaroni and cheese is a bit over cooked. The stuffing seems a bit wet. The corn muffing is fresh and moist but is a bit sweet.

Papa Joe’s Chicken & Waffles is certainly Worth a Try!

6320 Simmons Street North Las Vegas NV

725-251-5855

www.PapaJoesChickenWaffles0547.s4shops.com

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