This is an easy Boursin Style Cheese Recipe. It’s basically cream cheese, butter, sour cream, some herbs and sweet roasted whipped garlic. I do note that I used dried herbs because it would cost a lot here to buy all fresh herbs. Serving size is always difficult to determine. I’d say that it makes around 12 servings. (Pro Tip – It’s my big fat secret in my deviled eggs that I’ve been making. Everyone says that they are extra delicious)
16 oz cream cheese – room temperature
4 oz butter – room temperature
1/2 cup sour cream
2 oz sweet roasted garlic whipped (roast lots of garlic cloves with olive oil at 300F covered for about an hour – whip- add a splash of honey so it stays fresh or freeze in small portions)
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 teaspoons parsley
1 teaspoon dried dill
1/2 teaspoon marjoram
1/2 teaspoon basil
1/2 teaspoon chives
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon piment d’ espelette
1/4 teaspoon thyme
Instructions – mix well. Taste. Adjust if you care too!
Boursin Style Cheese on home made cracker (crisp bread recipe is on this site)
Napoli Pizzeria has 4 location in Vegas. But for some odd reason the North Las Vegas Location is not listed on the Napoli Website and might only share the name and same sign. On Yelp this restaurant is listed as Napolis Pizza……?…..Maybe they just use the Napoli Sign and same cash register because Napoli is what I see on my receipt. Anyways…..They are an average Pizzeria that offers the usual pizzas, wings, pastas, sandwiches, and more.
We tried a plain pizza.
There’s a good amount of cheese and the crust is ok….but the top is salted….and is really too salty for me.
But-
It’s like the sauce is missing. No herbs, no flavors (but salt), almost no sauce.
GastroPub Nisei Bar & Grill is an Asian Fusion Unique Bar & Grill located in the Chinatown of Las Vegas Nevada. It’s sort of Las Vegas inside with neon. And it’s pretty quiet today mid-week at lunch time.
We started out by sharing the Kalbi Tacos (Korean Marinated Short Ribs)
Umm Tasty flavors. I like the sauces. One was called spicy mayo and the other was called salsa verde but are unique and different. Very good flavors but the meat is ever so slightly chewy.
We also shared a Mini Chicken kabob.
A little plain but ok.
I think the winner was the unique and unusual Pastrami Sando with Yuzu Slaw, and Hot Honey Mustard and added Truffle Fries.
The sandwich is actually banging with flavors. The Pastrami we were told was made by a nearby butcher. It’s very flavorful and the hot honey mustard is really perfect here. The pickles taste good but are kinda squishy. The fries are cooked perfect but the truffle stuff falls out and the fries seem broken.
Cantinetta Pizza & Pasta Restaurant is an Italian Restaurant located in Las Vegas Nevada. They offer many of your usual Italian favorites. They also offer things like beet carpaccio, salmon carbonara, and chocolate fettuccini. They are under the same ownership as Brunello LV in Summerlin and both restaurants are adorned with a Sofia Loren Pictures.
Whatever you order they start you off with warm bread and sun-dried tomato oil.
Maybe you want to start off with the soup of the day (minestrone was the soup)
or a fried eggplant appetizer with creamy walnut sauce.
Below is the beet salad with burrata, pistachios, pine nuts, oranges, greens, and chicken.
One of the pasta dishes is rigatoni picante with spicy nduja sausage.
Another pasta dish is the gnocchi al taleggio with lots of walnuts and some sausage.
Below is the chicken piccata (lunch portion)
A few of the desserts are gelatos (below is 1/2 pistachio and 1/2 Amareno Cherry)
Another dessert is a cake called chocolate temptation.
Everything was at least reasonably good so Cantinetta Pizza & Pasta is Worth a Try!
Aroma Latin American Cocina (by a 2024 James Beard Nominated Chef) Has recently closed at their Henderson location. Below are dishes we’ve tried there. All were amazing.
The good news is that Amora Latin American Cocina plans to open in Chinatown in February at 3355 Spring Mountain Road.
In Other FOOD News –
January 30th – Hearthstone expects to officially open at Red Rock
A second location of WSKY is now open in North Las Vegas at 720 E Cheyenne Ave.
North Las Vegas has a NEW casual Indian Restaurant….SORT OF……….
It’s called Spice Bomb-Bay and it shares the Hummus Republic Restaurant Building. 2546 E Craig Road
Noticed Slim Chicken’s Restaurant being built on Craig Road almost across from Pandora’s Burgers.
Also noticed a Vegas 888 Buffet being built on Decatur Rd
In even more FOOD News –
Maybe Spring? – Able Baker Bomb Shelter – 6371 Centennial Center Blvd
Maybe Spring – Istanbul Mediterranean Restaurant at 505 Fremont Street
Maybe this year? – Mediterranean Latin Grill 1216 Owens Ave.
Maybe this year? – Nashville Cats Cafe – somewhere on the strip
This Year – China Mama 2233 N Rampart Blvd
May-June? – China Mama 2550 Rose Parkway (Henderson)
Spring – The Hat (pastrami dip restaurant from CA) 6215 S Rainbow Blvd
June-July? – EDO Gastropub 9205 W Russell Rd
February – Braseria (at The Collective)
In Other Food News –
WORST FOOD of the week came from California Fish Grill In Centennial Hills.
The Salmon Wasabi Bowl was AWFUL. The whole experience was also awful. They didn’t turn on heaters for us so we left and did take out. Sauces were missing. Ingredients that should have went into the Salmon Wasabi bowl were missing and the fish was partially BURNT. ( I do note that we’ve been here several times and previous visits were reasonably good so I can’t say for sure what happened here.)
Best of the week was Rang’s Cocina Moderne. We’re there about once a month because the food and service is always perfect. They serve a unique menu of Italian, Spanish, that is mixed with a little bit of Asian. Below are many of the dishes we’ve tried there.
And in Silly and or Cute Food News – My dogs eating salmon from California Fish Grill.
“Give me all that nasty salmon so you don’t have to eat it.”
“Do you know that this salmon tastes a bit burnt?”
That was The FORKING Las Vegas Food Buzz of the Week.
There is always something new, weird, different, limited, or special edition out there in the wonderful world of food. These days we never know what the FORK we’ll find when we shop for food.
Up above is –
LIMITED EDITION – Post Honey Bunches of Oats in Sugar Cookie (WOW sweet! but doesn’t sound healthy?)
DIFFERENT – Lay’s Limon flavored Potato Chips – Pucker up!
DIFFERENT – Lay’s Potato Chips in a flavor called All Dressed (they must have run out of ideas for flavors)
WEIRD – Lay’s Salted Caramel Potato Chips with OTHER natural flavors
DIFFERENT – Planters ARTIFICIALLY FLAVORED Toasted Marshmallow Hot Chocolate Cashews (someone REALLY must have been on drugs to think this flavor up and someone else was on drugs to approve production on this flavor. (That’s NUTS!)
DIFFERENT and possibly WEIRD – Emerald Sugar Cookie Flavored Cashews (another nutty flavor)
DIFFERENT – Smackin Cinnamon Churro FLAVORED Sunflower Seeds (CRAZY Nuts)
DIFFERENT – Octonuts roasted Snickerdoodle Almonds and Roasted Gingerbread Cashews – Ho ho ho nuts!
DIFFERENT – Matzo Project Everything Matzo Chips – Oy Vey!
NEW – Martone Street – Tomato Sauces by Celebrity Chef Scott Conant – only sold at Sprouts. (no raw onions in those jars)
DIFFERENT – Citrus Lollipops I saw at Homegoods
WEIRD – Nicos COFFEE Coated Green Peas – ICK!
WEIRD – Lepaon – Angel Hair Candy – Pinky White Chocolate filled with Pistachio Cream and COTTON CANDY
DIFFERENT – Keurig IHop ARTIFICALLY FLAVORED Chocolate Chocolate Chip Ground Coffee
WEIRD – Hot Fudge for BEARS? (how many bears do you see shopping?)
DIFFERENT and possibly WIERD – Confusion Black Truffle Masala dry roasted Peanuts (more nutty food)
NEW – Ferrero Rocher Dark Hazelnut and Caramel Hazelnut Chocolates
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. He always enjoyed going out to eat. When he came down with aggressive cancer we were told that poor old Louie probably only had three months or at the most 6 months to live. Since Louie always enjoyed going out to eat I took him out to eat as often as possible and Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when I can and when the weather is right.
We had an unusually warm winter day and the dogs got to eat at our local Great Greek Mediterranean Grill. I got a rice bowl salad and my husband got a gyro plate with a shrimp skewer. The dogs got to eat shrimp, gyro meat, chicken, and cucumbers with feta cheese.
They LOVE going to the Great Greek Mediterranean Grill.
6540 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV
702-749-8582
www.TheGreatMediterraneanGrill.com
The next week it got cold so we did a quick trip to In-N-Out Burger. We fed them on the patio.
Of course they enjoyed the cheeseburger!
www.In-N-Out.com
The next week it was cold so they got a car ride to Arby’s and got some roast beef.
They enjoyed the Arby’s Roast Beef.
www.Arbys.com
The next week it warmed up so the dogs got to go to Habanero’s Taco Grill. They happen to have just one patio table.
The dogs got to eat some pork from my husband’s green chili pork bowl and some chicken from my taco salad. It was suppose to be grilled chicken but they gave us fried chicken with breading. We ate it anyway.
The dogs enjoyed their first trip to Habanero’s Taco Grill.
Habanero’s Taco Grill #5
171 W Centennial Pkwy North Las Vegas NV
702-331-4498
www.HabanerosTacoGrill.com
That was Dining Out With DOGS for January 2026. 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
Cin Cin Brewery is a small brewery, bar, and sushi sort of restaurant located in the arts district of downtown Las Vegas NV. Inside you can sit at the bar, a community table or a half booth. I heard very good things about this restaurant so I wanted to give it a try.
They had a special on small oysters for $1.00 each so my husband ate 6 of them.
We also shared an order shishito peppers. They were embellished with bonito flakes, soy sauce, something citrus, and tasty small tomatoes.
We also shared a spicy tuna roll.
It’s different. I get almost too much heat from the jalapeƱos (? maybe they are Serranos?). Soy paper I don’t usually get. It’s different but good.
La Mojarra Loca is an Authentic Style Mexican Restaurant with a seafood heavy menu. They have four locations in Las Vegas Nevada. The North Rancho Drive location is large with plenty of parking spots.
Whatever you order they start you off with chips, spicy salsa, and bean dip.
Last time we tried the Filet Al Mojo De Ajo (mild whitefish in citrus, garlic, butter)
And the Molocajete Triol – Shrimp, Chicken, Beef, Cactus, Avocado, JalapeƱo, with spices and sauces, rice, beans, and tortillas.
All was good also portions were enormous and prices were reasonable.
This time we tried –
Filete Zarandeado -Marinated and Grilled mild white fish with achiote sauce. The plate come garnished with salad, rice, and beans.
Steak Ranchero – Seared steak in smokey tomato chipotle garlic and jalapeƱo sauce with rice, beans, and tortillas.
I am pleased to say that everything was at least GOOD. Portions were very large and pricing was reasonable. I do note that most dishes do run spicy. Some of the wait staff is hard to understand. Also bring your readers if you have them because the menu is hard to read.
Going to the International Marketplace near to downtown was the most exciting trip of the week. I wish it was closer to me so I could shop there more often. I LOVED the low prices on their produce. I also came across many hard to find items from all over the world, lots of seafood, and housewares too.
Maybe the best bite of the week was the Pastrami Sando from GastroPub Nisei Bar & Grill. It just BANGED with flavors! (locally made pastrami, yuzu slaw, and hot honey mustard)
Also our Hot Pots from the Chubby Cattle (Hot Pot) were very good expect for the flounder there but everything else was very good.
In other food news –
At my local Smith’s Grocery Store. – Watch out for wet slippery floors.
In other Food News –
Area 15 is getting NINE New Restaurant that are expected to open April-June-ish
Alien Pizza Party
The Bowl (with a robot chef)
Chilangos Tacos (Mexico City Style)
Cosmic Pretzel
Fuku (by David Chang) Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwiches
Good Company Burgers
Museum of Ice Cream
Nacho Daddy
Saint Honore Doughnut and Beignets
In other Food News –
January 27-26 – Zippy’s plans to open at 10810 W Charleston Blvd
Sometime Maybe Spring – Casa De Pizza & Wings plans to open – 765 N Nellis Blvd
The James Beard Nominees have been announced Some of the Las Vegas “Best Chef SW Restaurants’s Chefs are from these Las Vegas Restaurants –
Calabash African Kitchen
Sparrow & Wolf
Partage
Casa Playa
The Black Sheep
Bar Boheme
Best New Restaurant – Tamba
Emerging Chef – from Main Street Provisions – Ellie Parker
and in Silly and or Cute News – My dogs eating Grilled Chicken from Habanero’s #4.
That was The FORKING Las Vegas Food Buzz of the Week
