*******UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS*******Cafe Peru is a small casual Peruvian Restaurant that offers a few ceviche appetizers, a few Peruvian Sandwiches, empanadas and a few more things. It’s extra casual. You order and pay at the counter and seat yourself.
We started out by sharing a fish ceviche.
It’s made of lime marinated fish with seasoned onions, crisp plantain strips, corn nuts, sweet potatoes, and Peruvian Corn. Green salsa and spicy creamy orange salsas were also served. It good but I think the corn (maybe?) should be cooked more because it still is a bit tough to eat.
my husband tried the Pork Sandwich.
It came with onion salsa and in the sandwich was sweet potatoes.
These sandwiches are quite large and are extra packed…….He said that the flavors are very good and the sweet potato adds a nice creamy sweetness to the sandwich.
I tried the Chicken Sandwich. To my surprise it’s chicken salad.
It’s enormous! Even half is enormous. It’s creamy and good. Maybe slightly too creamy but it taste good. I added some green salsa to it to perk it up.
Cafe Peru is Worth a Try!*******UPDATE NOW CLOSED FOR BUSINESS********
Cafe Peru
6010 W Craig Rd Las Vegas NV
702-941-7443
I haven’t found a website for Cafe Peru but have found them on Facebook.
Lemongrass & Lime is a Thai Restaurant with two locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The Summerlin location has traditional tables and booths inside. This location doesn’t have a bar but wine is available.
They offer a variety of appetizers and most of your expected Thai Dishes.
My most recommended appetizer is the insanely delicious Golden pouches below. They are crispy won ton wrappers filled with mashed potatoes. They sit in the really yummy massanman curry with shallots. It’s a FORKING YUMdinger.
Golden Pouches
A few of the other appetizers are –
Vegan Fried Cauliflower
Crispy Spinach Salad
All the entrees are delicious –
Red Curry Halibut Special
Garlic Eggplant with Chicken
Pumpkin Curry (A favorite) Spicy Basil with Egg, Chicken, Beef, and Shrimp
Garlic Short Rib with Fried Rice
Drunken Noodle Combo
Salmon Green Curry (anything green curry is another favorite)
Khan Soi – Massanman & Yellow Curry with Egg and Crispy Noodles with Chicken
We also enjoyed the unusually scrumptious Spicy Thai Chocolate Cake Special
Flecha Cantina is a Modern Mexican Restaurant and Bar by Actor and Local Resident Mark Wahlberg. They offer a slightly elevated take on your usual Mexican Type Food Restaurant. We’ve been here three times and on every visit they gave us complimentary passionfruit margaritas on our way to be seated.
Then they start you off with complimentary fresh chips and salsa.
Goat Cheese with Spicy Tamarind Sauce and Pistachios with Fried Pita Breads (This is very delicious and also is a very large serving)
Balsamic Beet Salad with Achiote Chicken (slightly fancier salad with extra moist and flavorful chicken)
Lunch Burrito Bowl with Salmon – (good but less flavorful than other dishes I tried here)
Fajita Salad with Achiote Chicken (Even on this visit the chicken was moist and flavorful)
Carnitas – First visit this was perfect. Second visit still delicious but not as perfectly moist
Chile Relleno with Shrimp – This was prepared perfect and was very tasty
Fried Ice Cream – Impressive and good ice cream but not crazy about all the cereal on and with the ice cream here.
Flecha Cantina – Mostly very good and still Worth a Fork!
I don’t usually purchase barbecue sauce. I only needed enough for two dinners so this is how I made barbecue sauce for 2 servings of barbecued brisket.
1/2 cup ketchup
1 teaspoon molasses
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon sweet paprika
1/2 teaspoon hot paprika
Just mix the above together. That’s how you make a delicious quick very basic Barbecue Sauce.
I happened to have a 1/2 cup of caramelized onions so I added them to the barbecue sauce.
Asian Wok is a small very casual American/Chinese Restaurant that also offers a few Thai Dishes located in the North/West part of Las Vegas Nevada.
You order and pay at the counter and do take out or grab a seat in the dining room. It’s not a fancy place but it seems clean.
They start you off with some crispy noodles with duck sauce.
So far we tried –
Pork Egg Rolls
My husband said that these pork egg rolls are very good but did have to ask for mustard for dipping. Most Chinese Restaurants here serve spring rolls instead of egg rolls.
Szechwan Chicken – Delicious, full of flavors and lots of fresh vegetables, tender infused chicken with a nice kick……….Not flat and sweet like most places serve.
Black Pepper Beef – Nice tender beef with that black pepper taste.
Ginger Scallion Flounder – delicious and the flounder was cooked so darn perfect. Also a very large serving that can feed two.
Spicy Chicken Shrimp – Nicely prepared chicken and shrimp that was flavorful with a nice heat
Asian Wok is the Best American/Chinese We’ve found so far in Vegas and is Worth a Fork!
Bistro 57 is an American Italian Inspirated Restaurant and Bar located in the Aliante Hotel/Casino in North Las Vegas NV.
Enter here
To the right is the bar area.
Or a little further down the hall is plenty of seating.
I’ve been here at least 4 times and the bread basket was never good but on my last visit the bread basket was even worst. This bread just tastes artificial with an artificial texture…….Kinda like bread dough mixed with chemicals and styrofoam.
3 out of 4 visits I had the Flounder Francese and it was reasonably good on all my visits.
3 out of 4 visits my husband had the rigatoni with sausage and that too was reasonably good.
On our 4th visit we both tried the specials.
The Snapper Florentine looks different from photo.
It’s so overcooked that you need a steak knife to cut it. Our server didn’t check on us till I ate most of the vegetables that weren’t so great because they seemed like old leftovers that were reheated. I told her that the snapper was over cooked. She did offer to get me something else but I didn’t want my husband to stop eating plus I lost most of my appetite from this mediocre dish.
My husband’s Pork Parmesan was also over cooked.
He didn’t complain because he said this kind of pork is usually over cooked.
Shared some pistachio ice cream.
The Pistachio Ice Cream was ok.
Bistro 57 – Some Things are Reasonably Good and other things Not So Good.
Moia Peruvian Restaurant is located in the historic West Side of Las Vegas Nevada not too far from the Las Vegas Strip. They offer MANY appetizers of all sorts of things. A few of the appetizers are – Beef heart, Mussels, Fried Fish, Crab, Calamari, Hamachi, Yucca Huancaina. And also many Ceviches (marinated raw fish). Main Plates are fish and seafood, chicken, beef, fried rice plates, and large sharing plates. They offer beer and wine and at least one Peruvian Mixed Drink. Inside is an exotic atmosphere.
There’s neon. You see wild big cats on the wall. There’s interesting fixtures too.
We started out by trying the Peruvian Sour Cocktails.
They are fruity and have a passionfruit base. They also have a tiny marble inside that is a small light inside that you shouldn’t accidentally swallow.
We shared the Ceviche De Pescado (marinated fish with sweet potatoes, Peruvian Corn, Onion Salsa, some sort of seeds or nuts?, and a plantain chip)
You do have your choice of heat with this dish and I picked medium. They gave us creamy green and creamy spicy orange salsa to kick it up more.
For my main I tried the Pescado Plancha.
it’s a mild white fish filets that were cooked on the plancha. It came with lemon, sweet potatoes, onion salsa, rice, and some Peruvian corn. I embellished it with a small amount of spicy orange salsa and some of the green salsa. (It’s a GREAT BIG plate of food for only $17.) ((Subject to change)).
My husband tried the Lomo Saltado Pobre (New York Strip with eggs).
The plate also included rice, fried plantains, onions, and tomato strips. The steak was tender and flavorful.
There is ALWAYS something new, weird, different, limited, or special edition in the wonderful world of food. We never know WTFork we will come across when we shop for food.
Up above is –
DIFFERENT – Old El Paso Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dessert Shells. I guess it’s something to TACO about.
LIMITED EDITION – Kellogg’s Fruit Loops Sweethearts….UGH!……..They are not LOOPS if they are hearts………..Dah!
DIFFERENT – Nomad Ramen flavored Popcorn…..Something to go STIR-Crazy for?
DIFFERENT – Nomad Chimichurri Popcorn……….DILL-Licious!
DIFFERENT – Chata Cochinita Pibil shredded pork in a can – Pig Out when ever you want!
NEW – Pringles (not so new I’ve seen them months ago) Mingles Dill Pickle and Ranch….??????
DIFFERENT – Pringles Chili Cheese Fries
DIFFERENT – Pringles Mexican Street Corn
DIFFERENT – Pringles – All Dressed – Tomato, Onion, Vinegar ……
LIMITED EDITION – Goldfish ….?….Butterscotch…..Butterbeer….? Harry Potter Crackers….?……Sounds like Goldfish Crackers have gone crackers.
DIFFERENT – Dolly Parton’s Original Syrup in a guitar shaped bottle might be music to someone’s ears.
WEIRD – Emerald Sugar Cookie Flavored Cashews. Someone must have been on drugs to think this one up.
DIFFERENT – Grillo’s Pickles – Pickle de Gallo in mild and hot – It a cure for the usual.
WEIRD – Long Chips – Mashed Potato Honey BBQ Long Chips. Why would anyone want honey & BBQ on their mashed potatoes? ……I Gave it a try…..Not bad…actually good….but too bad….can’t be found anywhere…..Maybe discontinued?
DIFFERENT but also kinda WEIRD – Protein Poppers Birthday Cake Chips. I don’t know…This one almost seems normal after the last two.
DIFFERENT – The Saucy Ladies – Marinara Kettle Chips. Maybe someone was sauced to think this flavor up?
DIFFERENT – Tochi Kung Fu Panda 4 Chili Crisp Gourmet Popcorn – Sounds tasty…don’t know….haven’t tried.
DIFFERENT Rao’s Chicken & Gnocchi Soup…….Awwwwwwww…..The pastabilities!
and there is usually something Oreo
DIFFERENT – Oreo Thins in ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED Irish Cream.
Well that was the New Weird Different Limited and Special Edition for March 2025. Who knows WTFORK we’ll come across next month.
Dining Out With DOGS is just a “FLUFF” story about taking my dogs out to eat. It all sort of started with my late dog Louie. Dear Old Louie always enjoyed going out to eat. When Louie got elderly he got diagnosed with aggressive cancer. We were told that Louie probably only had three months to live or maybe six at the most. Since Louie couldn’t do a lot but still enjoyed going out to eat I took him out to eat as often as I could. Instead of the 3-6 months Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when the weather is right and when I can.
The Weather is just turning nice here and we took the dogs to SNS Diner BBQ. If they seem familiar to you then maybe you saw them on Food Network’s Diners Drive-ins and Dives TV Show.
The dogs enjoyed some of my husband’s Philly Brisket Sandwich.
They also got to eat some of my (made in house) Pastrami Sandwich.
Dogs happen to love pastrami.
They always love SNS Diner BBQ
SNS Diner BBQ
3229 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV
702-269-9696
www.SNSDiner.com
We also took the dogs to the California Fish Grill.
They ate some of my husband’s Cajun Maui Maui.
Some of his Shrimp Skewer
Some Parmesan Green Beans
and Some of my Mediterranean Branzino Bowl
She is eating a green bean
He is eating some fish here.
The dogs enjoyed three kinds of fish, parmesan green beans, and zucchini today from The California Fish Grill.
California Fish Grill
6440 Centennial Center Blvd
725-231-7444
www.CAFishGRill.com
We also did take out from Hawaiian Barbecue. They happen to have a community patio only two doors down. My husband got a #4 Bento Box. All the proteins are terribly dry today.
Same with this coconut chicken…..BAH……but these dogs don’t mind.
“This chicken is stringy and dry today. Some pieces areas hard as rocks”
“I got nice big fangs” I can bite threw anything”
Hawaiian Barbecue
5870 N Losee Rd N Las Vegas NV
702-642-4600
www.BestHawaiianBarbecue.com
It almost was too cold again but we made it to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill because their patio faces the sun. We usually get salad rice bowls. I got mine with salmon and my husband got his with gyro meat. Got lucky and the salmon was cooked really perfect today….The gyro was on the dry side but it usually is sort of dry.
The dogs get to eat chickpeas, cucumbers, salmon, and gyro meat.
We did A-OK at The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill.
The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill
6540 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV
702-749-8582
www.TheGreatGreekGrill.com
Well that was Dining Out With DOGS for March 2025. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.
The Forking TruthIn Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017
Shuck’s Tavern Gaming & Oyster Bar has two locations in Las Vegas Nevada. They are open twenty four hours a day and are open seven days a week. The North/West Centennial Location offers bar seating, booths, and traditional tables inside.
They offer all your bar dinks, a traditional American Menu, and of course OYSTERS, shellfish, and a seafood heavy menu.
We started out by trying Cadillac Margaritas.
They don’t taste traditional to me but they really are so strong that they can LIFT WEIGHTS!
For my main I tried the grilled haddock that comes with mixed vegetables and wild rice blend.
It’s nothing fancy or original but everything is prepared perfect and seems fresh. It’s also a very large portion and is two meals for some people. It sure is worth the reasonable $19.99 that it cost today. (subject to change)
My husband tried the Jambalaya.
It came with your choice of rice or pasta and cheesy garlic toast. My husband said that it is good and flavorful. All the fish was cooked nicely but wasn’t spicy as he likes but is still good. He already wants to come back to try more.
Shuck’s Tavern Gaming & Oyster Bar is Worth a Try!
