Firefly Tapas is a Spanish Style Taps Restaurant and Bar with two locations in Vegas, The Hughes Center Drive location is located near to the Las Vegas Strip. It’s spacious and rich looking inside with a large bar area, large dining areas and a large patio.

Whatever you order they always offer you complimentary bread with delicious spiced butter with almonds.

Our favorite tapas from our last visit was the tuna tartare so we got it again.

It’s different. This tuna tastes more like raw tuna.

Last time the tuna was marinated and had a delicious sauce. See below.

Don’t know what happened with the tuna tartare here?

The apple manchego salad was delicious and very good.

So was the tomato basil soup with mini grilled cheese but-

One sandwich hardy had any cheese in it.

I thought the stuffed peppers were tasty.

The steak and mushroom skewers also were delicious but –

The steak is very chewy

That was my trip to Firefly Tapas

Las time the food was either perfect or amazing. (well most places aren’t perfect all the time)

This time slightly hit and miss.

Firefly Tapas Restaurant and Bar

335 Hughs Center Dr Las Vegas NV

702-369-3971

www.FireflyLV.com

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Marché Bacchus is a contemporary French Style Restaurant and Wine Bar and Store located about ten minutes away from the Las Vegas Strip. The restaurant has changed ownership a few times over the years. I read on www.360Vegas.com that Celebrity Chef Alex Stratta and his Executive Chef Dave Middleton created the menu but those chefs are no longer with Marché Bacchus. The restaurant offers a stunning lakeside atmosphere. It also offers over 950 choices of wine.

After multiple visits I can recommend getting The French Dip and the ever changing menu of desserts because both were so far delicious and top notch on all our visits.

Below is the chocolate tart with blood orange sorbet

The most disappointing plate here might be the HK Burger

The roll tastes burnt and the burger has almost no flavor at all. I was told that the burger is ground in house and the menu reads that this is a Linz (from Chicago) Angus patty. The burger comes with your choice of fries or a salad and at the time of my visit was $28.

Pictures below are from previous visits. All the desserts and the beef bourguignon was very good.

Stunning Atmosphere and lots of wine to try.

Some things are better than other things here so enjoy the lovely atmosphere, maybe drink some wine, and get the French Dip and the desserts!

Marché Bacchus

2620 Regatta Drive Las Vegas NV

702-804-8008

https://huklhospitality.com

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Gjelina is a contemporary restaurant and bar that is located on restaurant row in the Venetian Hotel/Casino. During lunch time they offer a menu with raw fish, salads, sandwiches, hand made pastas, wood fired pizzas, platters, vegetable sides, and more.

Inside are multiple dining areas and a bar.

We shared a vegetable side order of Oyster Mushrooms with Guajillo Pepper, and Cilantro-Avocado Emulsion.

Tasty – It’s almost like chicken taco filling. Somehow I almost wish this was a taco.

My main was the Blackened Sea Bass Sandwich withBlack Garlic Aioli and Slaw and house made potato chips.

This is harder to eat than it looks. There is a very generous amount of pickled vegetables under all that fish. It’s all very good but also hard to eat. The house made potato chips are also very good. Nice and crisp and seems free of oil.

My husband tried a Cured Chorizo Pizza (pomodoro, Calabrian Chili, Red Onion, Mozzarella)

They bring him seasonings too.

He said that this pizza was delicious and very good.

Gjelina is certainly Worth a Try!

3355 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-414-6333

www.Gjelina.com

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Bar Boheme is a contemporary fine dining French Style Restaurant located in downtown Vegas in the Arts District. The chef is very well seasoned Vegas Native James Trees. He has worked for many of the biggest name chefs on the Las Vegas Strip.He also was a James Beard finalist and has worked for chef Gordon Ramsay on a few of his TV Shows. For dinner you can order a la carte, Prix Fixe, and a seven course tasting menu. Right now he is offering his Prix Fixe ,Menu for restaurant week.

You will start off with some amuse bouche that’s ultra fancy with several layers of flavors and textures.

Then you get French Baguette and French Butter and you can add on an even fancier French Butter.

Now the first courses come.

Gnocchi a la Pareienne

Salade Nicoise

Main Coures –

Barramundi Cuit a la Vapeur (lentils & mushroom stock)

Sautéed Filet of Ocean Trout

Desserts

French Cheeses

Croustillant Chocolate Cremeux

more sweets with the check

This was the amazing Prix Fixe Menu that was also offered for Restaurant Week. Extended to June 19

Menus change slightly with the seasons.

Bar Boheme is Worth a Fork!

Bar Boheme

1401 S Main Street Las Vegas NV

702-848-6823

www.BarBohemeLV.com

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Zippy’s is a Hawaiian Based casual Fast Food Chain of Hawaiian Comfort Food restaurants with wait service and a limited bakery. They also have a very organized take out area.

A new location recently opened in North Las Vegas.

When dining in you check in at the hostess desk.

Then you get seated somewhere in the dining room.

I decided to try the Korean Salad today with house dressing.

It’s a plate of plain soft greens surrounded by tomato wedges and cucumber slices. It is topped with crispy sweet chicken nuggets. I note than I am not an expert on Korean cuisine but have had what they call Korean Chicken several times and none of the times did it taste just very sweet like it does here at Zippy’s. I think children would love this chicken but it is maybe a bit sweet for most adults. The house dressing is creamy but taste mainly like sesame oil.

My husband tried the popular plate what they call Zip Pac (pickled radish, rice topped with furikake, fried chicken, fried fish, Spam, teriyaki beef and chili)

My husband said his favorite meat was the Spam. He said the chicken was alright but a little dry today. The fish was a little fishy. The beef was tender but also was very VERY sweet (like the Korean Fried chicken). Macaroni salad was creamy like it is suppose to be. The furikake was a nice embellishment to the rice that you usually don’t get at most Hawaiian places.

We felt the need to try a dessert so we tried the dobash (chocolate chiffon cake with a chocolate pudding type frosting.

This one tastes like a box mix to me.

That was my trip to Zippy’s

5485 Camino Al Norte North Las Vegas NV

725-210-8990

www.Zippys,com

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Arata Sushi has two locations in Las Vegas. We went to the North/West location at 3250 N Tenya Way. It’s a smaller sushi restaurant that only offers soft beverages.

We started out by trying the tempura vegetables.

Everything was tasty and fried very well all shattering crisp and seemed free of oil. We got onion rings and all fried sweet potatoes.

For our sushi we got fresh wasabi.

Here’s the Nevada Roll (tuna, salmon, yellowtail)

All the sushi held together well and all the fish used seemed reasonably fresh.

The Spicy Tuna isn’t too hot and has a bit of a kick to it.

The Salmon Lover Roll came with a fruit sauce that was not mentioned on the menu. This roll has the most flavors going on with it but has an unusual creamy texture to it that was odd to us.

Arata Sushi is Worth a Try!

Arata Sushi

3250 N Tenya Way Las Vegas NV

702-878-0100

www.ArataSushiandBowl.com

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