Shucks Tavern Gaming and Oyster Bar is a 24/7 breakfast, lunch, dinner, a seafood heavy menu, and Gaming Bar and restaurant with two locations in Las Vegas. The Centennial location offers bar seating, traditional tables and booths.

On one visit I tried a Golden Cadillac Margarita. It didn’t have a traditional taste to me but it was so strong that it could do push ups.

Here’s the blacked salmon chopped salad below.

It’s a gigantic serving….(maybe they accidentally gave me extra?) It can feed 2-3 people. It’s nothing exciting but it is reasonably good.

My husband tried the Fisher Platter (Fried Haddock and Fried Shrimp)

It’s also a tremendous amount of food with a generous serving of tater tots.

Below is the grilled Haddock.

(all this food was $20. subject to change)

Below is the Jambalaya that was also reasonably good.

Large Portions of reasonably good food that is reasonably Priced.

Shuck’s Gaming & Oyster Bar is Worth a Try!

Shack’s Gaming & Oyster Bar

7155 N Durango Rd Las Vegas NV

702-651-6227

www.ShucksTavern.com

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Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano is a North Italian Style Restaurant and Bar located in the Restaurant Row in the Palazzo part of the Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. The menus change with the seasons but here are some of their offerings. At lunch time it looks like this.

Dinner looks more like this at dinner time.

On our first visit at lunch time they started us off with Ciabatta, Oil, & Balsamic. On our second visit for dinner nothing was complimentary.

Below are the Sweet & Spicy Peppers with soft cheese and adorned with pesto, grana padano, arugula, & oil.

Insalata Nizzarda – A bountiful salad of – Confit Blue Tuna, Seasoned Hard Boiled Egg, Olives, Green Beans, Potatoes, & Salsa Verde Aioli.

Below is one of the three Ligurian Focaccias offered.

The Ligurian Focaccia with mushrooms, asparagus, Italian parsley and squash blossoms that is stuffed with Crescenza Cheese….(This is expensive but amazing……..It’s different and more like a light as air balloon bread)

Gnocchi – Semolina dumplings, Pork Sausage Ragu, Onions, Spicy Tomato Passata, and Cheese

Casonzei – Veal & Pork filled Pasta with Pancetta, Parmigiana Reggiano, Sage, Brown Butter

North Sea Salmon – Crushed English Peas, Lion’s Mane Mushroom Duxelles, Black Garlic Sauce (This was the best salmon I had in Vegas so far. The meat was sweet moist and silky. Prepared medium and the skin was seasoned and stayed crisp like a potato chip.

The only dish I don’t recommend is the pistachio and chocolate gelato.

We enjoyed the fresh fruit but the pistachio the night we had it tasted weird and not like pistachio. Both of us didn’t care for the chocolate either. The chocolate tastes 1/2 espresso to me and only mildly chocolate.

Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano is With a Fork! If you skip the pistachio and chocolate gelato.

Matteo’s Ristorante Italiano -Restaurant Row in The Palazzo Venetian

3355 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-414-1222

www.VenetianLas Vegas.com

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Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant opened this spring in the Centennial (North West) part of Las Vegas Nevada. It’s a small restaurant that is only open for dinner.

If you get seated at a booth it is well lit but if you get seated in the main dining area you need to use your cell phone as a flash light. You can order a la cart or choose the multi course menu.

We started out with the chicken karaage (fried chicken appetizer).

The chicken tastes unseasoned and floury. The dipping mayo on the side doesn’t help much.

The Toro Nigiri – The fish has a melt in your mouth quality like from better sushi restaurants but the rice under the fish is loose and wet……..and falls apart.

The spicy tuna salad is good.

The hamachi Kama (fish collar). is severely over cooked to a point where the meat is dry and stringy. I don’t know how they cooked it but it seemed microwaved to me because I burnt my mouth trying to eat it stayed burning hot.

The shishito pepper skewer is delicious and very good and the same with the shiitake mushroom skewer.

The pork belly skewer is very dry.

The SPECTACULAR BITE was the wagyu skewer …..WOW it really was an amazing bite of delicious flavor and just melted in the mouth like butter. It seemed like it was from a $$$$$ restaurant…not a neighborhood restaurant.

My visit was a mix of hits and misses….so Good Luck!

Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant

9570 W Skye Canyon Park Las Vegas NV

702-838-8889

No website can be found for Ginza Izakaya Japanese Restaurant

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Quality Thai is a small Thai Restaurant located in the Centennial or North/West part of Las Vegas Nevada. They only have six tables inside so when they get busy you either have to wait for a table or do take out.

The day I was there they only had two people to cook, answer phones, and to serve customers.

We started out by sharing the Vegetable Thai Fresh Rolls.

They are fresh salad that is wrapped in rice paper that you dip in an Asian sort of peanut-ee sauce.

For my main I tried the Garlic Thai Basil Eggplant with Chicken and I picked #6 out of 10 for heat.

The eggplants are sweet and creamy and seem free of oil. The chicken is still moist and it’s in a basil infused sauce that is lightly laced with other flavors. Some crispy shallots were sprinkled on to the dish. For me the #6 is just right for heat for this dish.

My husband tried the Thai Basil with Shrimp that is also known as Pad Kra Pao.

I hear that it was good but my husband will order a #7 for heat next time instead of the #8 he ordered this time.

No problems here and all the food was good.

Worth a Fork!

Quality Thai

6710 W Hualapai Way Las Vegas NV

702=476-3663

www.Quality-Thai.com

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Skye Thai Restaurant is a sort of Grab & Go Thai Restaurant located in the Centennial Area of Las Vegas Nevada. It’s very casual. You order and pay at the counter. You either take out or you can sit at one of the four tables in the restaurant.

They offer most of your usual Thai Favorites and a few dishes not so common at Thai Restaurants like Brussels Sprouts, Chicken Pho, and Pumpkin/Zucchini with Egg. Soft beverages are offered here. For dessert they offer Coconut Ice Cream with Roti and Banana Fritters. Whatever you order the food is served in to go containers. Also most of the dishes come with your choice of heat from 1-10. For my taste 6 is plenty hot and 4 is mildly hot but my husband likes #8.

So far we tried –

Egg Rolls

Green Curry with Chicken

Glass Noodle Salad (contains shrimp & pork)

Pad See Eiw (Crispy pork with noodles)

Pla Rad Prik (Crispy Fish in a slightly sweet chili sauce with green beans and crisp basil) Everything was good but this dish was my personal favorite so far.

Skye That Grab & Go is CERTAINLY Worth a try!

Skye Thai

9650 W Skye Canyon Park Dr Las Vegas NV

702-998-6647

I haven’t found a website for Skye That but they are listed on some take out sites.

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Sparrow & Wolf is a sort of fancy ever-changing Global Menu Type Restaurant in the Las Vegas Chinatown that is very close to the Las Vegas Strip. It’s dark but not too dark inside and also energetic.

We started off by sharing the Oxtail Hummus.

The Hummus came with naan bread and the hummus was embellished with shredded dry oxtail, crispy chickpeas and the tiniest amount of curry oil that was too small an amount to taste. (a miss because the hummus was very average and the oxtail was dry…..naan bread was also gummy)

Next was a Mango Crudo that came with trout, fish roe, and radish.

We also shared the Robiola Agnolotti. (Hit)

It had too much pickled ramp foam and chewy morel mushrooms. The flavors overpowered the robiola cheese. (MISS)

Our dinner was the Tile Fish for two.

This dish was delicious! It was lightly breaded and laced with epazote & santo and came with fava bean salsa verde. (Big HIT)

We also enjoyed the Honey Toast for dessert (Japanese milk bread, candied orange, cream cheese, blood orange sorbet, spiced Grand Marnier)

Hit

Some Hits and some Misses.

Sparrow and Wolf

4480 Spring Mountain Rd Las Vegas NV

702-790-2147

www.SparrowandWolfLV.com

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Panevino is a large Bar, Fine Dining Italian Restaurant, Italian Deli, and Banquet Restaurant located not far from the Las Vegas Airport in Nevada.

Here’s part of the Deli.

Here’s the bar.

And here is part of the dining room. If you look to the left side in the picture below then you can see this restaurant has a view of the Las Vegas Strip.

It was our first visit to Panevino so the waiter said we get a complimentary balloon bread.

It was different and also tasty.

We also shared the Gorgonzola and Pear Salad. They were kind enough to split the salad on two plates for us.

For my main I tried the grilled Scottish Salmon with Roasted Potatoes and the Seasonal Vegetables.

It’s covered in a lemony parsley sauce. They didn’t ask how I wanted the fish done but to my surprise they prepared it just so to medium.

My husband tried the Trinity Ossobuco.

Everything was prepared just as it should be. It was also a very generous portion.

We tried dessert.

Here’s the Chocolate and Hazelnut Temptation.

The dessert was good but I thought it was odd that they garnished the plate with a frog.

Service was very professional and all the food we tried was reasonably good.

Panevino is certainly Worth a Try!

Worth a Try!

Panevino

246 Via Antonio Ave Las Vegas NV

702-222-2400

www.PanevinoLasVegas.com

Every THING is subject to change.