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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Skye Thai Restaurant is a sort of Grab & Go Thai Restaurant located in the Centennial Area of Las Vegas Nevada. It’s very casual. You order and pay at the counter. You either take out or you can sit at one of the four tables in the restaurant.

They offer most of your usual Thai Favorites and a few dishes not so common at Thai Restaurants like Brussels Sprouts, Chicken Pho, and Pumpkin/Zucchini with Egg. Soft beverages are offered here. For dessert they offer Coconut Ice Cream with Roti and Banana Fritters. Whatever you order the food is served in to go containers. Also most of the dishes come with your choice of heat from 1-10. For my taste 6 is plenty hot and 4 is mildly hot but my husband likes #8.

So far we tried –

Egg Rolls

Green Curry with Chicken

Glass Noodle Salad (contains shrimp & pork)

Pad See Eiw (Crispy pork with noodles)

Pla Rad Prik (Crispy Fish in a slightly sweet chili sauce with green beans and crisp basil) Everything was good but this dish was my personal favorite so far.

Skye That Grab & Go is CERTAINLY Worth a try!

Skye Thai

9650 W Skye Canyon Park Dr Las Vegas NV

702-998-6647

I haven’t found a website for Skye That but they are listed on some take out sites.

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Sparrow & Wolf is a sort of fancy ever-changing Global Menu Type Restaurant in the Las Vegas Chinatown that is very close to the Las Vegas Strip. It’s dark but not too dark inside and also energetic.

We started off by sharing the Oxtail Hummus.

The Hummus came with naan bread and the hummus was embellished with shredded dry oxtail, crispy chickpeas and the tiniest amount of curry oil that was too small an amount to taste. (a miss because the hummus was very average and the oxtail was dry…..naan bread was also gummy)

Next was a Mango Crudo that came with trout, fish roe, and radish.

We also shared the Robiola Agnolotti. (Hit)

It had too much pickled ramp foam and chewy morel mushrooms. The flavors overpowered the robiola cheese. (MISS)

Our dinner was the Tile Fish for two.

This dish was delicious! It was lightly breaded and laced with epazote & santo and came with fava bean salsa verde. (Big HIT)

We also enjoyed the Honey Toast for dessert (Japanese milk bread, candied orange, cream cheese, blood orange sorbet, spiced Grand Marnier)

Hit

Some Hits and some Misses.

Sparrow and Wolf

4480 Spring Mountain Rd Las Vegas NV

702-790-2147

www.SparrowandWolfLV.com

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Panevino is a large Bar, Fine Dining Italian Restaurant, Italian Deli, and Banquet Restaurant located not far from the Las Vegas Airport in Nevada.

Here’s part of the Deli.

Here’s the bar.

And here is part of the dining room. If you look to the left side in the picture below then you can see this restaurant has a view of the Las Vegas Strip.

It was our first visit to Panevino so the waiter said we get a complimentary balloon bread.

It was different and also tasty.

We also shared the Gorgonzola and Pear Salad. They were kind enough to split the salad on two plates for us.

For my main I tried the grilled Scottish Salmon with Roasted Potatoes and the Seasonal Vegetables.

It’s covered in a lemony parsley sauce. They didn’t ask how I wanted the fish done but to my surprise they prepared it just so to medium.

My husband tried the Trinity Ossobuco.

Everything was prepared just as it should be. It was also a very generous portion.

We tried dessert.

Here’s the Chocolate and Hazelnut Temptation.

The dessert was good but I thought it was odd that they garnished the plate with a frog.

Service was very professional and all the food we tried was reasonably good.

Panevino is certainly Worth a Try!

Worth a Try!

Panevino

246 Via Antonio Ave Las Vegas NV

702-222-2400

www.PanevinoLasVegas.com

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House Of Dutch Pot is a Caribbean Restaurant located around twenty minutes past the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. If it seems familiar to you then maybe you caught an episode of Guy’s Grocery Games on Food Network

and saw the chef of House Of Dutch Pot or maybe you caught the Diners Drive Inns and Dives also on Food Network and saw House of Dutch Pot?

Anyways –

They have a big screen TV inside and guess what channel it’s on…..Food Network.

Here’s the inside. I do warn you that the tables might be uncomfortably close to each other (they were the day we were there).

We started off with one of their new to the menu appetizers called stir fried vegetable wonton.

They are filled with stir fried vegetables and are tasty. They come with a dipping sauce that tastes similar to hoisin sauce.

For my main I had to try the jerk chicken.

WOW! The chicken is tender like butter and melts in the mouth. It’s infused with all kinds of flavors and some heat. To the side are cooling macaroni and cheese with steamed vegetables.

My husband tried the oxtail.

He said that they were delicious and very good. (I didn’t try because oxtails are too succulent for me and can’t handle the fat in them). his sides were tangy vinegary slaw and rice with peas.

Try House of Dutch Pot if you want a taste of the Caribbean.

Worth a Fork!

House Of Dutch Pot

4255 S Durango Drive Las Vegas NV

702-485-3500

www.HouseOfDutchPotLasVegas.com

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Aloha Hawaiian BBQ is a casual Hawaiian Restaurant located in North-West Las Vegas Nevada. They offer the usual TONS of food in a styrofoam box. Hawaiian food is usually lots of protein with lots of rice and macaroni salad served to you in a styrofoam box.

I got the fried maui maui platter with brown rice.

The fish is fried nicely and is ok. The tartar sauce not pictured to the side is pretty much just straight mayonnaise. In the corner of the platter is macaroni mixed with extra thick mayonnaise. The brown rice is kinda dry. For some reason they added raw shredded cabbage to this dish.

My poor husband’s plate is worst.

Got dried out fried shrimp, hard crispy fish, and really GROSS extra sweet weird flavored pounded thin chicken thigh with rubbery skin. The taste of the chicken is so strange and so sweet. Neither of us could stomach it and I thought it might make my dogs sick so I didn’t bring it home for them either.

Not the best. Not so good.

Aloha Hawaiian BBQ

4990 W Craig Rd Las Vegas NV

702-839-2291

www.AlohaHawaiianBBQVegas.com

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