China Kitchen newly opened in North Las Vegas. It is an American/Chinese dine in or take out kind of restaurant. This restaurant shares a nice community patio with several other places and it was a nice day today so I wanted to try it. We did take out and sat on the patio.

Maybe the best of what we tried was the potstickers (chicken & scallion).

They are crispy all over but have little flavor.

We got free vegetable egg rolls with our purchase so we tried them.

To us they are more like spring rolls and are kinda gooey inside. (ick)

I tried the Hot Garlic Szechwaun Chicken.

The chicken is tender but doesn’t taste hot or garlicky. It taste very sweet. So sweet that you can pour it on pancakes. You can add on rice, fried rice, or noodles so I tried noodles.

It’s a very large portion. They have little flavor and are slightly over cooked and are a little gummy.

The Kung Pao Beef is hard to eat because the beef is very chewy.

My husband thought that the added on fried rice was ok.

My small dog thought that the Hot Garlic Szechwan Chicken was too sweet too!

That was my trip to China Kitchen. – Not the best.

China Kitchen

6885 N Aliante Pkwy North Las Vegas NV

702-644-5858

www.ChinaKitchenorthNV.com

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Scoundrels Tavern & Eatery is a 24/7 Bar, Gaming, and Restaurant with two locations in Vegas. The North Las Vegas Location has a covered patio and the usual games and big screen TVs inside.

We decided to try the macaroni and cheese bites.

They were fried nicely and seemed free of oil. They also came with ranch dressing. They taste similar to that blue box type macaroni and cheese. (kinda artificial)

Who knew that the Thai Salad would be really good!

The chicken is warm and moist. The salad is a very generous portion and is really embellished with lots of things. There’s peanuts, mandarine oranges, zucchini strings, carrots, bean sprouts, sweet tomatoes, greens, and a sorta spicy peanut-tee dressing.

The Smokehouse Bacon Burger didn’t come out medium-rare as requested.

I was told that the cheese, onion straws, and bacon were very good…….but….The burger was dry, dense, and cooked to medium-well instead of medium-rare. The fries were also kinda hard and dry.

Good Thai Style Salad but not so good burger or macaroni and cheese bites unless you love the blue box stuff.

Scoundrels Tavern & Eatery

6310 N Lamb Blvd North Las Vegas NV

725-780-4091

www.ScoundrelsPubii.com

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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!

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.

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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.

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

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

Lemongrass & Lime is Worth a Fork!

Lemingrass & Lime – A Thai Bistro

8431 Farm Rd Las Vegas NV

702-566-4727

wwwLemongrassLime.com

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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!

Flecha Cantina

6683 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas NV

702-728-2774

www.FlechaCantina.com

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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 –

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!

Asian Wok

6515 North Buffalo Dr Las Vegas NV

702-432-8886

www.AsianWokLasVegas.com

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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.

7388 Aliante Pkwy North Las Vegas NV

702-692-7777

www.AlianteGaming.com

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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.

Moia Peruvian Restaurant is Worth a Fork!

Moia Peruvian Restaurant

2301 W Bonanza Rd Las Vegas NV

702-331-5734

www.MoiaLasVegas.com

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