The Cantina is a 24/7 Bar, Restaurant, and Gaming type place with a couple locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The Centennial Location offers a limited Mexican Food Menu and also Smash Burgers. Inside it’s kinda dark with Day of the Dead Decor, Big Screen TVs, and Country Music filling the air.
They start you off with a basket of chips and two very good but spicy salsas.
My husband starts out with a carnitas taco (but without the avocado).
He said that it was VERY GOOD!
We also shared a chicken & steak fajita. Below is the rice, refried beans, pico, sour cream, and guacamole.
Below are can tortillas
Below is the chicken and steak fajita. (they said that they needed to add on more steak so a few minutes latter they ran out a little more steak.)
This fajita is VERY GOOD. The chicken is moist, tender, and flavorful. The steak is tender with a DELICIOUS char. I think that this is the best steak I ever had for a fajita.
The 702 Sandwich Shop is located in the north part of the Summerlin part of Las Vegas Nevada. This small restaurant was formally known as La Cantine French Sandwich Shop. They offer a limited menu of sandwiches made on French style house baked breads, a few varieties of quiche (maybe? no quiche anymore? wasn’t on menu but they were soon to close for a long vacation?), soup, salad, and macarons (and a few other desserts). Below is the latest menu. (***Temporary closed for vacation. reopens January 5-2026)
It’s casual and you order and pay at the counter or do take out like most people I saw.
Some of the things we tried were –
Special – Wagyu Pastrami Sandwich
Special – Chicken Char Siu Banh Mi Sandwich
Ham & Cheese Sandwich
Cuban Sandwich
Special – Lox on Croissant with avocado Italian Sandwich
This is what was in the dessert case on my last visit.
Fisher’s Deli is a small but busy Jewish Style Deli in Henderson Nevada (Around 30 minutes from Las Vegas). Off to the side of the dining area you can buy fresh baked goods and deli items.
They also offer some specials.
Today it was a 15 minute wait for a table.
I tried a whitefish platter today.
They ran it out before the cream cheese and onions were suppose to be added. I don’t know but think they gave me the wrong white fish. Usually you get a piece of fish not all these ends. It also doesn’t taste as fresh as I like. This is not a good example of a white fish plate.
The pastrami here is better than the whitefish. Also the potato salad lacks seasoning but is better than the cole slaw.
We also shared a knish. It tastes right but the crust is rubbery.
Harvest Cafe recently opened a second location in North Las Vegas Nevada. It’s really not too far from their original location on Craig Road. The new Losee Road location only serves Breakfast and Lunch. They are open from 7am-3 every day.
Inside is a mix of traditional tables and booths.
I tried a balsamic chicken salad.
It’s not perfect but is ok. It came out a bit warm and over dressed. I would recommend to ask for the dressing to be on the side. But the chicken in it is very good and moist and developed with flavors. This salad was also adorned with feta cheese and walnuts. On the side was toasted buttery garlic toast.
My husband tried a medium/rare cheeseburger with onion rings.
It came out medium/rare so he was happy. The onion rings were made nicely and were crisp and seemed free of oil.
Harvest Cafe (Losee Rd) is Worth a Try!
6412 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV
725-204-o475
As of today the Losee Road location is not on the website for the Craig Road location. They have different hours and a slightly different menu.
Often I see $8.00 off coupons for The Harvest Cafe in the local Neon Magazine that they give away for free at our local Smit’s Supermarket.
What’s Zaap Thai For is located in Las Vegas Nevada just minutes way from Red Rock Casino and minutes away from The Durango. If they seem familiar to you then maybe you caught them on Food Network’s Diners Drive Ins and Dives TV Show. A loop of that episode is continually playing on a TV there. In case you care to know Zaap means Next Level Great in Thai and it really is from what I just tasted here!
Several awards are under the TV and one is from Yelp that rates What’s Zaap as #35 of the top 50 restaurants in Vegas.
It’s a smaller restaurant. I noticed a few patio tables outside but I am not sure if they ever get used.
We started out by trying the crispy spring rolls.
They are just spring rolls but as soon as we started eating them they suddenly became the best spring rolls we ever tried. They have a special fresh taste I don’t usually get and the sauce is different but very good. Off to the side (not pictured) is the chef’s condiment tray with a special chef recommended hot sauce sauce that embellishes the food even more.
Check this out! Look how beautiful the Salmon Green Curry is.
Not only is this green curry layered with delicious flavors and adorned with tiny sweet baby eggplants and baby corns……..
THE SALMON IS MASTERFULLY PREPARED!!!!!
Crisp and seasoned on the outside. Moist and rich inside. Very few places prepare salmon this well. This is next level. Even my two closest steak houses don’t prepare salmon even close to this masterful.
The Spicy Basil (Pad Gra Pow) with Beef is the VERY BEST Spicy Basil Dish that I’ve tried in Las Vegas so far.
They are the only Thai Restaurant in Vegas that offers (a $2.00 upgrade) to use Holy Basil in the dish as it should be made with Holy Basil for the correct taste. They also hand chop the meat for more surface area and that holds in more flavor. Also the beef by the way is very good. This by far is the best Pad Gra Pow that I tasted in Vegas so far or at this time.
The Peppermill & Fireside Lounge is a famous American Style Diner and Bar located on the Las Vegas Strip. All kinds of BIG TIME celebrities have dined here. This place has also been featured in movies and TV Shows (maybe because of all the Neon inside).
They do have a partially open kitchen so you can see some of the kitchen action.
We tried lunch last time. We tried a cauliflower appetizer that isn’t on the current menu.
A salad.
and a burger.
It was all reasonably good.
We went back eventually and this time tried dinner.
Our dinners started with Caesar Salads that I forgot to photo. They were generous in size but the dressing lacked full flavors. ( I don’t know but think it wasn’t real Caesar…I don’t know but think it was missing the anchovies and could have used a little more garlic. It just seemed kinda flat and bland)
We were with two other people. Maybe? the best dish of the evening was the crab cakes because the person that had them said that they were ok but they felt that the restaurant over sauced her salad with salad dressing.
The other three dinners were ALL BAD! Everything was cold, hard, tough, or over cooked, either unseasoned, or slammed with too much salt. Nothing was good.
Maybe the worst one might have been with the person who ordered the New York Strip? EVERYTHING on the plate was BAD. Someone spilled A LOT of salt on the steak. The Steak was tough and COLD. The mushrooms were COLD. The potato wasn’t a russet but was a wax potato and also was COLD AND HARD. You couldn’t get butter to melt on it if you tried.
My Meal was the the Hot Honey Halibut with Gochujang mixed vegetables, rice, and garlic bread. (and I didn’t get any garlic bread)
The Halibut was over cooked and only tasted sweet like honey. The vegetables tasted completely unseasoned and were served cold. The rice was also cold.
My husband had a cold tough pork chop with gummy mashed potatoes, and cold unseasoned vegetables.
BLECH!
Maybe the worst part was that nobody from the restaurant seemed to care.
Maybe you will do alright if you order a breakfast or sandwich here?
Those where my trips to The Peppermill & Fireside Lounge.
L&L Hawaiian Barbecue is a Casual Hawaiian Food Chain with TWO HUNDRED locations and growing more. We happen to have many similar restaurants in Las Vegas and also many in North Las Vegas. These places specialize in the Hawaiian Plate Lunch. That means that you get a styrofoam box that is jam packed with a lot of meat, rice, and other stuff. It’s casual. You order at the counter or on-line. You grab a seat inside or on the community patio if the weather is right.
I never tried L&L Hawaiian Barbecue when I lived in Phoenix because we had Leo’s Island BBQ nearby in Peoria AZ that was very good. We used to enjoy one of the near by Hawaiian Barbecues until it changed and sort of went down the tubes. (below is from the last thing I tried there)
Anyways-
One of my neighbors said that their favorite Hawaiian BBQ Restaurant was L&L Hawaiian Barbecue so we gave it a try. This location shares a community patio that is only two doors down. The weather was nice so we brought the dogs with us to help eat up the massive amount of food.
We shared an order of chicken potstickers that were tasty (and also had a bunch to bring home).
I tried the Healthier Chicken BBQ Plate. It came with two scoops of brown rice, salad, and ranch dressing.
They gave me THREE nicely browned and juicy chicken thighs. This is very tasty and is enough for THREE lunches.
My husband tried the Spicy Beef.
This is kinda sweet and spicy. I can’t chew the beef but my husband can. Maybe my teeth aren’t sharp enough?
Dogs didn’t have a problem eating it either.
He also had a coupon for a free Spam Musubi so he enjoyed that too.
We also sampled one piece of Fried Fish.
Not sure if I will try fish again here. It has that like frozen fish from the supermarket taste.
Cantinetta Pizza & Pasta is an Italian Restaurant and Bar located in Las Vegas Nevada. It’s under the same ownership as Brunello LV in Summerlin and both restaurants are embellished with Sofia Loren Photos all around.
They offer the usual Italian Foods that you would expect to find on the menu but they also offer some plates that you wouldn’t expect like beet carpaccio, salmon carbonara, and chocolate fettuccini.
Whatever you order they start you off with warm bread with sun-dried tomato oil.
We shared the Fried Eggplant Appetizer.
It comes on top of a creamy walnut sauce. The eggplant is fried very nice and seems free of oil. The eggplant itself is very sweet and taste like a white eggplant. I’m not sure if the walnut sauce does much for the eggplant but it’s different and ok.
The chicken piccata was traditional and good.
It’s in a white wine lemon caper sauce and came with nicely prepared fresh vegetables and some potato.
The rigatoni picante is a bit different.
Instead of being made with sausage it”s made with nduja (spreadable SPICY sausage made with Calabrian Chili) My husband said that it was good but much spicier than he was expecting.
We were pretty full but managed to fit in a gelato. They were nice enough to offer 1/2 and 1/2 gelato so we went with pistachio and Amareno Cherry.
Wexler’s Deli was a popular Jewish Style Deli from California. Chef Wexler formally worked at Craft by Tom Colicchio and L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon. The late restaurant critic Johnathan Gold wrote that Wexler’s O.G. Pastrami Sandwich was superb. Now all the Wexler Locations are gone and only a small Wexler’s Food Court Location remains. I read that Wexler’s is one of the few delis in anywhere that cures and smoked and also hand cut their own pastrami and lox. The tiny little Las Vegas location in the Proper Eats Food Hall also cures, smokes, and hand slices their own pastrami and lox and might also be the only deli in Las Vegas that does so.
We ordered our usual. We split a lox on an everything bagel and also split the OG Pastrami.
The lox and cream cheese has capers under the lox. It’s sliced masterfully thin and might be the finest lox sandwich that you can get in Vegas.
Today the pastrami is maybe a more generous serving than usual but also is more fatty. It’s masterfully tender but I think it is also flavored slightly different. It has more bark than the last couple times, maybe more fat, and is a brighter color. (I suspect a heavier amount of curing salt..) HOWEVER it is still one of the very best pastrami sandwiches anywhere.
Prior pastrami sandwiches did differ slightly.
Above was my first Wexler’s Pastrami Sandwich
A prior pastrami sandwich
They all were masterfully tender and delicious. The Lox and Cream Cheese must be the very best one in Vegas.
Worth a Fork!
Worth a Fork!
Wexler’s Deli in the Proper Eats Food Hall in the Aria on the Las Vegas Strip
Marche Bacchus is a French Bistro and Wine Shop located in Summerlin by Lake Jacqueline. They offer a French Mediterranean Menu that includes steak, seafood, pasta, and more! It’s very large inside with several dining areas.
As you enter there is a bar area.
The other side of the bar area holds many refrigerators packed with wines and champagnes. You can buy a bottle in the store here and they charge just $10. over price of bottle to serve it to you in the restaurant.
To the left is a formal dining area (no photo).
Pass the bar is this area –
Then I got seated in this area.
With stunning views –
We also saw a variety of wildlife here. I saw rabbits running around. A variety of birds flying over and swimming. Turtles and a variety of fish swimming and also someone in a boat.
We started off by sharing the Leeks in Vinaigrette (grilled leeks, lime vinaigrette, crispy garlic, finger limes, shaved hearts of palm, frisee)
Good but I expected it to pop more. I could taste lots of lime but didn’t get the finger lime texture anywhere that I was expecting. I will try something else next time.
Had the Niçoise salad (tempura anchovies, sesame seared tuna, potatoes, green beans, tomato, hard boiled egg, herb salad, butter lettuce, olive tapenade, gigante beans).
Good and it was nice that they seasoned the egg. Probably good for most people but the olive tapenade is a bit strong for me.
My husband enjoyed the French Dip (Angus beef, provolone, baguette, au jus, creamy horseradish) He did say that this was maybe the best French Dip that he has ever tried.
A sweet ending was the Orange Ricotta Poached Figs a la mode with Vanilla ice cream, fig coulis, and phylo crisp
Very Good
A few weeks latter we came back for dinner.
They started us off with whipped butter and a tasty sliced baguette.
We tried the Truffled Goat Cheese Napoleon.
It’s a bunch of layers of light crisp pastry with super creamy truffled goat cheese.
For dinner I tried the Trout Almandine.
It’s a large portion of Boneless Trout. It came out with a crisp skin but in a while the skin turn soft. The flesh is mild and meaty for trout. Toasted almonds, butter and fresh herbs adorn the fish.
My husband said that the Beef Bourguignon was very good.
He said that it was tender with delicious flavors.
I brought back 1/2 my dinner home so we could share the Chocolate Indulgence Dessert.
Now this is very good. I can taste rich and quality chocolate with nice textures. Under is a slice of moist chocolate cake. The middle tastes like chocolate pots de creme. On the top are multiple little crunchy things.
