Eggslut (logo is eggslut) is a casual restaurant that is based in Los Angelas CA. The menu is limited and focuses on the cage free egg. There is an Eggslut location in the Cosmopolitan Casino Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada. The line is always very long here but it seems to move reasonably well.

I tried the Fairax. It’s a locally made Brioche Bun that’s very eggy on the top but white inside. The sandwich is stuffed with LOTS of extra soft loose Scrambled Eggs, Chives, Caramelized Onions, very mild Cheddar Cheese and Sriracha Mayo. It’s a pillow of soft squishiness. Soft squishy roll with soft squishy insides that are laced with Sriracha Mayo….Did I mention that this sandwich was really squishy?

My husband got the Bacon eggslut.

They put lots of crispy bacon on his sandwich, cheddar cheese, one over medium egg, chipotle ketchup on a brioche bun. I don’t think his sandwich was as squishy as my sandwich.

If you prefer your eggs loose and your sandwiches squishy…….You will be Egg-Cited to eat here!

www.CosmopolitanLasVegas.com

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Mercato della Pescheria is an Italian Seafood Restaurant located in the Cannal Section in the Venetian Casino Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. Most of the seating is out in a square in front of a faux building under a faux sky.  Just a short distance from the patio are singers that are singing Italian songs, some dancers, a living statue person and a stilt walker. It’s quit a bit of entertainment.

They start us off with really delicious bread presented in a tomato can.

WOW, the bread was really great. So crusty, hot and delicious. I haven’t had bread this good in over ten years. The bread is very good here.

We start off by sharing the Swiss Chard Ravioli in Pesto that’s topped with Pine Nuts and Grand Padana.

The Pasta is thin and seems like a 50/50 semolina to flour ratio. It’s stuffed with cooked Swiss Chard and each Ravioli has two of the corners stuck together so they look like little packages  and hold more pesto sauce. We thought the raviolis were very good.

I had the Mediterranean Sea Bass (also known as Bronzino)  They served me a very large portion. It might not be enough for two people but I can say it’s bigger that any Bronzino I’ve been served before. The center bones have been removed and the fish was prepared with some coal smoke for a unique taste. The fish was prepared reasonably well but was just slightly over done….

My platter was served with creamy Saffron Laced Cauliflower Puree, some Cauliflower and a Salad of Arugula with shaved Fennel that contained small amounts of charred fish skin from my fish.

My husband had the Coal Smoked Braised Veal Osso Bucco.

The Shank was topped with some gremolata and roasted vegetables and rested over creamy saffron laced risotto. Technically the shank and the risotto were not perfect  but were passable with nice flavors.

Our service was efficient but very fast paced.

That was my Trip to Mercato della Pescheria in Las Vegas.

www.MercatoDellaPescheria.com

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L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon made it to be a Top Ten Essential Las Vegas Restaurant, a Four Diamond AAA also a Forbes and Michelin Travel Guild Restaurant. You know it’s going to be Worth a Fork!  This restaurant is business casual. It’s also very small but very dramatic….the decor is all shiny black accented with red. Besides your server all you hear are the orders being called out by the expediter with a French Accent. Here you sit at the counter and watch the exhibition kitchen. There are some tables to the side but over the years I’ve seen only a very few  people that have sat at those tables. I don’t know but I’m guessing that only VIPS or maybe very High Rollers ever get to sit at the tables. There also a few seats at the tiny bar but it might be just for show because I’ve never seen anyone sit there either.

The menu is full of tiny extraordinary plates so it’s sort of tapas. You can order a la carte or pick from the fixed priced menus that suits your appetite (or wallet). We always go with the smallest menu (three course) that includes dessert. It turns to to be enough food.

Ok here we go….

Expect the unexpected. Everything is a masterfully crafted surprise. Most of the plates you can’t duplicate at home. The food is mostly all Mind Blowing! Words aren’t necessary here or can truly describe the flavors and textures.

They start us off with an Amuse Bouche.

I had the Vegetarian option on the left. Mushroom Mousse in the thinest crisp pastry resting in pink peppercorns. It was extremely flavorful and had a surprising pink peppercorn infused pastry. My husband had something warm with Foie gras.

Then they serve us a basket of their AMAZING breads and delicious French Butter. My favorite is the little round buttery croissant…so yummy!

My first course was the Le Saumon – Smoked Salmon with Potato Galette and Dill Whipped Cream.

The salmon is cut masterfully thin and the plate includes a “line” of Piment d Espelette (perhaps the world’s most delicious red pepper). Of course it delicious…how could it not be? It’s so good that I could eat this everyday….in my dreams….

My husband starts with one of his favorite plates …..The Le Jambon – Iberico de Bellota with toasted Tomato Bread.

The ham is something really special. It’s made from Black Footed Pigs that kissed by Jesus (only kidding) and eat nothing but acorns. The meat is slightly laced with acorn and just melts in your mouth.

My second course was really truly AMAZING! Who knew such a dish could ever be so memorable!

It was called Le Potager – Market Vegetable Napoleon in Root Vegetable Broth.

They poured a milky buttery laced with dill vegetable broth over mushrooms and really fancy vegetables. Did you ever see such a baby carrot before. Maybe i can’t make it sound as great as it was but let me tell you….It was really great! Maybe more like Mind-Blowing!

My husband had the Le Thon – Tuna Belly Confit.

What a stunning presentation. I tried to taste it but it clashed with my dish…..so I went back to enjoy mine.

My main course was Le Bar – Seared Atlantic Sea Bass crusted in celery leaves over citrus beet reduction and the famous Robuchon Potatoes with one gram of Truffles.

The celery crust with beet reduction is interesting. It’s sophisticated…….They go so well together but in a why that’s different.  Potatoes are amazing…well they always are………I was told once that the potatoes are 50% fingerlings and 50% butter……..

My husband had the Le Ris De Veau – Veal Sweet Bread with Bay leaves and a Lardon stuffed Romaine Lettuce.

We both picked the Les Tarts for Dessert.

Little but Forking Amazing slices of heaven….(insert disk of angels singing here)….

From the left cinnamon, chocolate, lemon meringue, apple and mango

Then they give us an extra for the road.

The menu we picked from (2018 pricing) w/o upgrades is $98.00 per person without beverages tax or tip.

I’d say dahhhhhhhhhh of course L’ATELIER de Joel Robuchon in Las Vegas is Worth a Fork!

www.MGMGRAND.com

These are some of the plates we enjoyed from previous visits.

The famous Beet Valoute over Mustard Sorbet Salad………Sophisticated but Mind-Blowing.

Everything is subject to change and YOUR experience may…or may not differ.

 

 

Momofuku Restaurant was established by celebrity Chef David Chang. This location is in the Cosmopolitan Casino Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. At the time of this review this location of Momofuku is the only west coast location. The menu that is offered at Momofuku is a fusion of Global US, Korean and Japanese Foods. The menu highlights are steamed buns, noodles, meat and raw seafood. The menu items are meant for sharing. This is a casual restaurant with a hip and modern atmosphere and one that also plays cool classic rock music in the background. There is a view of the Las Vegas Strip and also a view of the open kitchen.

There are so many tasty things to try but I decide to start out sharing the Pear and Burrata small plate. It’s made of tender butter lettuce, milky burrata cheese, pears, hazelnuts and black truffle.

It’s so delicious! I can’t imagine adding a protein to it but you can….The flavors are so great the way they are….it’s just so light and flavorful….it’s surprising.

We also share the Jidori Rotisserie Chicken Ssams with ginger rice and lettuce.

The chicken is moist, developed with flavors (marinated) with also a very flavorful exterior. I don’t know all the flavors here but one of the exterior flavors I know is star anise……The chicken alone is delicious. But you make Asian Style tacos to eat it with the lettuce as your taco. The hoisin, kimchi and mint make the lettuce wraps even BETTER…We both didn’t expect that this food would be so delicious. Wow! I’m going to try this place again the next time I’m in Vegas!

Our server was pleasant and efficient.

There was only one thing that cracked me up. When the food runner ran out the chicken plate. …Instead of removing our empty starter plate. He slapped the chicken plate over the starter plate.

Slight update- Management was happy I enjoyed the food but was very concerned about the food runner. We all know that this was fluke or isolated circumstance and you shouldn’t expect this to happen to you. But you all know I tell the Forking Truth and this is truly WTFork happened.

Food was Great! Waiter was good…..Food Runner ……well you heard.

I’d still say Momofuku was Worth a Fork!

www.Vegas.Momofuku.com

The Forking Truth is that everything EVERYWHERE is subject to change and your experience MAY or MAY NOT differ.

 

 

Lago in the Bellagio and Milos in the Cosmopolitan offer $28.00 and $29.00 three course lunch specials (at this time 3/2018**subject to change). Both are amazing restaurants. Lago is Italian themed and Milos is Greek. Lago is by James Beard Award Winning Michelin decorated Chef Julian Serrano. Milos might be considered to be the finest Greek Restaurant in American. Only the highest quality Greek Ingredients are used in their dishes.

Lago

This time at Lago we started with a vegetarian Minestrone Soup and an Antipasto Mista ($5.00 up-charge)

Both appetizers were unusually great! I never had a minestrone soup like this….It’s so clean and flavorful and studded with creamy sweet squash. It’s great! My husband loves the antipasto mista. There is creamy burrata in the middle with sweet charred roasted bell peppers. There’s also this super thin crisp bread included.

Main courses we picked were Bronzino and Spinach Lasagna

No complaints ……All is well.

Chef’s Choice Dessert.

Not too shabby! I’d say the $28.00 Three course lunch at Lago is certainly Worth a Fork!

Here’s Milos

At Milos they start you off with really good and hardy fresh baked bread with this super high quality Greek Olive Oil.

At Milos we picked the Tomato Salad with Greek Feta and the Salmon Tartare to start with.

The tomatoes are exceptional…..so sweet…and I never tasted Greek Feta like this before. It is tangy but also isn’t salty. The Salmon Tartare is so fresh and light.

Main courses were fresh flown in that day Dorade Royal Grilled Mediterranean Sea Bream seasoned with Greek Olive Oil, Capers and Kyhira Sea Salt and Shrimp Sagaraki.

I do have to say I ate a lot of fish this week and the fish at Milos was absolutely stunning….It was simple but absolutely perfect. This was the best fish I had in Vegas this week. Shrimp were just as great.

Desert at Milos is very simple and we did have our choice of three but we both went with the fresh fruit.

I would say the Three Course Lunch at Milos is certainly Worth a Fork! ($29.00 at this time March 2018 but I know the price goes up about once a year)

Both Three Course Specials were Worth a Fork!

Lago  www.Bellagio.com

Milos  www.Milos.ca

The Forking Truth is that EVERYTHING is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.

 

 

 

 

Most of us are very familiar with the Gordon Ramsay’s TV Show called Hell’s Kitchen. Gordon Ramsay is an actual Michelin Stared Celebrity Chef that is well known for yelling, insulting and cursing at his crew on the Hell’s Kitchen TV Show.  It was sort of fun when I heard about this new Hell’s Kitchen Themed Restaurant by Ceasar’s Casino/Hotel on the Strip in Las Vegas. They announced on the News that this is the most booked restaurant in Las Vegas at the moment. I made my reservation months ago actually before they opened when I knew I was going to be in Las Vegas. I’ll be honest here….The food menu isn’t cutting edge in any way……it’s pretty much old school……….. Well here I am. I had no idea of what it was going to be like…..I was kind of imagining Gordon Ramsey’s voice calling people Forking Fork Face Donkeys ………after all that’s how he is on TV.

When you enter the restaurant you see this projected Gordon Ramsey image that walks around the front of the restaurant and sort of greets you when you walk in and he tells you to order the Wagyu meatballs.

Then it looks like this. You see an open kitchen with this years winning contestant from Hell’s Kitchen on the line.

The main dining room with a sort of fiery wall and pitch forks with lights hang from the ceiling.

I got seated just past this…….. With a view of the Flamingo Casino  is across the street. (Soon to become a different Casino…….bye bye Flamingo)

It’s very noisy in here and they are playing some sort of music I can’t identify. I think it’s techno….??? No singing just sounds that seem random and move fast.

What to order…?

The Wine List runs very expensive.

We’ll go with Cocktails. My husband gets some sort of interesting cocktail called a Smoke on the Blvd. It’s Rye, Aperol, Amaro, Averna, Sweet Vermouth with Smoked Cherrywood presented in a smoking box with a branded orange twist……Eeks! It’s way too smokey for me……. I just had a Negroni. It didn’t photo so well…It’s a clean tasting not sweet red drink with a single ice cube with a HK on it.

I thought Gordon Ramsey made an appearance tonight at Hell’s Kitchen. They had a look-a-like make an appearance and it looked like Gordon Ramsey was supervising the line. I don’t know if he is a paid look-a-like or if one of the chefs there just has a strong resemblance to Gordon Ramsay.

We shared a Caesar Salad and a Red Quinoa Salad.

We both really enjoyed the Red Quinoa Salad. It was different and interesting with little chunks of apple, dried apricots, hazelnuts and goat cheese. It was tasty and different. We both were slightly disappointed with the Caesar. It was just very average for a Caesar and was ok but tasted more like vinegar lemon dressing rather than balanced flavors should include garlic ,anchovy, Worcestershire, Parmesan and Black Pepper. Despite the small amount of Cheese Frico in the salad it was very bland…..

I was hoping for John Dory here…….Isn’t Ramsey calling out on Hell’s Kitchen, “Where’s the Forking John Dory?”  “Can someone get me a John Dory?”    …….. I didn’t see John Dory on the menu so I settled for the Crispy Skin Salmon. Bye the way…….earlier I was checking out the lunch menu…(****this is only slightly amusing if you watch Hell’s Kitchen)….I didn’t notice any “Idiot sandwich” on the lunch menu either.

The Salmon Skin is indeed Crispy and seasoned well. It actually stayed crispy from start to finish. The fish flesh was moist and cooked to a perfect medium. On the side was a lightly pickled fennel salad and everything was on top of seasoned Beluga Lentils (the little black ones).

My husband went with the Beef Wellington.

The Hell’s Kitchen Beef Wellington is a Filet Mignon, medium rare  coated with prosciutto and mushrooms in a crispy pastry. It was served with potato puree and root vegetables. I didn’t try this but my husband said the beef was reasonably good but for him it could have used more seasoning. He also complained to me that the potatoes were cold. I then tried a taste and I would say room temperature at best.

Neither of use ever had Sticky Toffee Pudding before……It came with my husband’s meal so I tried some.

It’s a wet very soaked cake that has a slight molasses kind of taste and is topped with an unfamiliar lightly spiced creamy ice cream called “specious.”

That was my Trip to Hell’s Kitchen……I guess it’s fair to say it’s Worth a Pitchfork!

www.Caesars.com

The FORKING Truth is that every FORKING Thing is subject to change and YOUR FORKING experience may or may not Forking differ.

 

The Carnegie Deli was one of the most famous iconic Delis in New York. They were famous for over stuffed sandwiches and over sized slices of cheesecake. The big selling sandwiches were pastrami and corned beef. Many celebrities were known for dining at Carnegie Deli.  There is tale that the waiters were surly.

I’ve been here to Carnegie Deli in Las Vegas years ago before the real Carnegie Closed and we thought a re-visit might be fun.

You enter and see some autographs from celebrities.

You order at one of the counters and then take a number.

If your at this counter you try to ignore the picture of the cow so you don’t feel guilty with your corned beef, pastrami or brisket.

Then you seat yourself.

Hope you are hungry and brought a few friends……one sandwich is enough for FOUR hungry people.

Oy VEY! There is too much meat for me. I remove about 70% of the meat for a normal size sandwich.

That’s better.

The Pros-

You get a LOT of food for your money in Vegas. This sandwich can easily feed four people. The food runner is happy to bring you extra bread to make more sandwiches.

The Cons-

This sandwich really is ok but it’s not the best……I really don’t think this is similar to what the real Carnegie Deli Served.

To start with real New York Style Deli Places give you a bowl of assorted pickles (not just one pickle) to get your stomach ready for a big sandwich.

The bread is wrong. The correct bread for a New York Style Sandwich is double baked Rye and not squishy weak tasting rye.    (But hey we are in Las Vegas….It might be a west coast thing…NOT  ALL but most bread in Arizona, Las Vegas and California isn’t so great)

The meats (pastrami and corned beef) are ok but not succulent like they should be. I don’t think the flavor is right either. The pastrami is unbalanced with flavors with too much added smoke flavor and not enough black pepper.

Corned beef isn’t bad corned beef but is weakly flavored…..also not succulent like really good corned beef.

We also tried a potato knish.

The knish is also extra large. It’s about four servings. I like that the knish isn’t wrapped in puff pastry like many places are doing these days because to me knishes should be made with knish dough. The potato filling inside is ok…..better than some I’ve tried but not as flavorful as others. Good places with serve a knish with gravy. They didn’t offer gravy here.

The Las Vegas Carnegie Deli is quick and value priced if you are alright with sharing and have the chutzpah to ask for the extra bread you will need to make more sandwiches. ($25.00 at this time can feed four people on the strip)

I started to wonder…..on the menu it reads that the corned beef and pastrami come from the Carnegie Deli in New York…How can that be if the Carnegie Deli is closed?

I called to find out.

A Carnegie Warehouse is still in business and supplies the Corned Beef, Pastrami and Cheesecakes to the Carnegie Deli in Las Vegas. I don’t know but I am guessing that the Carnegie meats are the ones produced for the masses. I know I come across Carnegie Deli meat maybe once a year at Costco. It might be a similar thing that wine companies do… like the major wine companies make high end wines that are very expensive and lesser wines for the masses.

Everything is subject to change and your experience may or may not differ.

Ok food reasonably priced on the Las Vegas Strip located in the Mirage.

www.Mirage.com