Brunello LV is a neighborhood type Italian Restaurant in the Sun City Part of Summerlin in Las Vegas Nevada. We tried them for Restaurant Week when they were generously offering 3 course dinners for $40.00. (Since my visit the Restaurant Week deal for this restaurant has been extended to June 20th.) See the Restaurant Week Website for other extension deals .

It’s a mix of modern and vintage inside. Modern tables and Vintage portraits of Sofia Loren everywhere.

At the time of my visit they are waiting for their liquor license but can serve wine.

They started us off with complimentary warm bread and a sun dried tomato sauce.

We started with freshly made –

Beet Salad

Pear Salad

My husband added the Happy Hour Meatballs

Our mains were –

Salmon Toscano – white wine cream sauce, artichokes, tomatoes, spinach, and assorted vegetables

Gnocchi Con Cipolla Rosa – gnocchi, brie cheese, Italian sausage, onions, walnuts

For desserts we shared

Pistachio Ricotta Cake

Chocolate Passion Cake

Everything was reasonably Good!

Worth a Try!

Brunello LV

9320 Sun City Blvd Las Vegas NV

725-205-0259

www.BrunelloLV.com

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Peter Luger Steakhouse offers USDA Prime Burgers, Steaks, and Dry Aged Steaks so when they are offering a Lunch Restaurant Week Menu for $40. Per Person it is certainly worth a try.

They have a nice large bar and multiple dining areas around the bar.

Bar area

One of the dining areas.

They started us off with delicious fresh baked breads, butter, and Peter Luger Steak Sauce.

My first course was a nicely made Caesar Salad.

My husband went with the sizzling bacon.

My main was a medium ground in house burger. 30%dry aged beef mixed with chuck with extra great fluffy fries.

Even half is a very generous portion.

My husband had his with cheese and it was prepared a perfect medium/rare.

Then we had sundaes with house made cream embellished with a Peter Luger Chocolate Cow, a cherry, some walnuts, and quality chocolate sauce.

Then chocolate coins with the bill.

Worth a Fork!

Peter Luger Steakhouse at Caesar’s Palace

3570 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-731-7267

www, Caesars.com

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My Garage Kitchen is a garage themed family owned restaurant located in North Las Vegas Nevada. They are open for American Style breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Inside is mostly traditional table seating. They do have a small bar and an outside patio.

I tried the Grilled Salmon.

I requested medium but was served well done. The server did offer to remake the dish but I just ate it anyway. The mashed potatoes are a very generous portion but are more like a smashed potato and is a bit dry. The asparagus are unusually great. Nice and fresh crisp and seasoned unusually well and also are a bit spicy.

My husband tried the patty melt.

He said that the patty is also a bit over done but tastes ok with all the cheese and onions. He also said that the rye bread was very good and he liked the onion rings. The server also offered to remake this one too but we were about 1/3 finished already by that time and didn’t want to start over.

Very good if you like your food all well done.

I suspect that breakfast might be the sweet spot here.

That was my trip to My Garage Kitchen.

My Garage Kitchen

4040 W Craig Rd North Las Vegas NV

725-232-0852

www.MyGarageKitchen.com

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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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