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The Plant Based Italian Dinner at Crossroads Kitchen April 17th 2015 – Las Vegas NV at Resorts World – FORKING AMAZING and Worth a FORK!

April 17 2025 A five course menu by –

Top Chef Season 6 Winner – Michael Voltaggio

James Beard Award Winner – Rocco DiSpirito

Crossroads Founder – Tal Ronnen

Was served at Crossroads Kitchen at Resorts World in Las Vegas NV.

Here’s the menu –

Below it says on Instagram that the three Chefs unite for a 5 course journey.

How exciting! I’m here!

It’s a kinda cool rock and roll type of atmosphere with rock tunes playing.

If you look at the above photo you see Chef Rocco serving food to someone (Left side).

We started out with Focaccia with a dairy free tomato dip.

Next were marinated olives and asparagus arancini with Calabrian Pepper dip,

Below is Chef Rocco’s Artichoke Carpaccio with mushroom guanciale and lemon truffle aioli.

This next course really was so FORKING AMAZING but my photo does it no justice at all.

This was the Pasta Nero with morel “calamari” sea bean powder, and arrabbiata emulsion. This dish really was incredible.

The Eggplant Milanese was also amazing.

It was topped with spring greens, pea greens, and a whole grain mustard vinaigrette. I also never tasted pea tops with so much flavor before.

The dinner concluded with Chef Rocco’s Amazing Croccante Alle Nocciole

With hazelnut cremeaux and Amarena Cherry.

Since Chef Rocco was the only one running around.

He was the only chef that I could ask what dishes he made. I have a guess on the others but can’t say for sure.

The Plant Based Italian Dinner at Crossroads was FORKING AMAZING and Worth a Fork!

Worth a Fork!

Crossroads Kitchen at Resorts World

3000 Las Vegas Blvd S Las Vegas NV

702-676-7978

www.CrossroadsLasVegas.com

www.RWLasVegas.com

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My Trip to China Kitchen – N Las Vegas NV – Not The Best

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!

“I can break my teeth on the Kung Pao Beef too”
“I like sweets”

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

Every THING is subject to change.

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My Trip to Scoundrels Tavern & Eatery – N Las Vegas NV – Very Good Salad & Not so Good Burger

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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Lemongrass & Lime – A Thai Bistro Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

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.

Golden Pouches

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

Pumpkin Curry (A favorite)
Spicy Basil with Egg, Chicken, Beef, and Shrimp

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

Spicy Thai Chocolate Cake Special

Lemongrass & Lime is Worth a Fork!

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 – Las Vegas NV – Mostly Very Good and Worth a Fork!

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!

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 Las Vegas NV – Best American/Chinese so far – Worth a Fork!

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 –

Pork Egg Rolls

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!

Worth a Fork!

Asian Wok

6515 North Buffalo Dr Las Vegas NV

702-432-8886

www.AsianWokLasVegas.com

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Moia Peruvian Restaurant Las Vegas NV – Worth a Fork!

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!

Worth a Fork!

Moia Peruvian Restaurant

2301 W Bonanza Rd Las Vegas NV

702-331-5734

www.MoiaLasVegas.com

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Dining out with DOGS in Las Vegas NV March 2025

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. Dear Old Louie always enjoyed going out to eat. When Louie got elderly he got diagnosed with aggressive cancer. We were told that Louie probably only had three months to live or maybe six at the most. Since Louie couldn’t do a lot but still enjoyed going out to eat I took him out to eat as often as I could. Instead of the 3-6 months Louie made it another 17 months. Today I take my current dogs out to eat when the weather is right and when I can.

The Weather is just turning nice here and we took the dogs to SNS Diner BBQ. If they seem familiar to you then maybe you saw them on Food Network’s Diners Drive-ins and Dives TV Show.

The dogs enjoyed some of my husband’s Philly Brisket Sandwich.

They also got to eat some of my (made in house) Pastrami Sandwich.

Dogs happen to love pastrami.

They always love SNS Diner BBQ

SNS Diner BBQ

3229 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-269-9696

www.SNSDiner.com

We also took the dogs to the California Fish Grill.

They ate some of my husband’s Cajun Maui Maui.

Some of his Shrimp Skewer

Some Parmesan Green Beans

and Some of my Mediterranean Branzino Bowl

She is eating a green bean

He is eating some fish here.

The dogs enjoyed three kinds of fish, parmesan green beans, and zucchini today from The California Fish Grill.

California Fish Grill

6440 Centennial Center Blvd

725-231-7444

www.CAFishGRill.com

We also did take out from Hawaiian Barbecue. They happen to have a community patio only two doors down. My husband got a #4 Bento Box. All the proteins are terribly dry today.

Same with this coconut chicken…..BAH……but these dogs don’t mind.

“This chicken is stringy and dry today. Some pieces areas hard as rocks”

“I got nice big fangs” I can bite threw anything”

Hawaiian Barbecue

5870 N Losee Rd N Las Vegas NV

702-642-4600

www.BestHawaiianBarbecue.com

It almost was too cold again but we made it to The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill because their patio faces the sun. We usually get salad rice bowls. I got mine with salmon and my husband got his with gyro meat. Got lucky and the salmon was cooked really perfect today….The gyro was on the dry side but it usually is sort of dry.

The dogs get to eat chickpeas, cucumbers, salmon, and gyro meat.

We did A-OK at The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill.

The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill

6540 Losee Rd North Las Vegas NV

702-749-8582

www.TheGreatGreekGrill.com

Well that was Dining Out With DOGS for March 2025. We hope that you’ve enjoyed and we hope to see you next month.

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In Memory of Louie 5-5-2001 – 3-3-2017

Shuck’s Tavern Gaming & Oyster Bar Las Vegas NV – Worth a Try!

Shuck’s Tavern Gaming & Oyster Bar has two locations in Las Vegas Nevada. They are open twenty four hours a day and are open seven days a week. The North/West Centennial Location offers bar seating, booths, and traditional tables inside.

They offer all your bar dinks, a traditional American Menu, and of course OYSTERS, shellfish, and a seafood heavy menu.

We started out by trying Cadillac Margaritas.

They don’t taste traditional to me but they really are so strong that they can LIFT WEIGHTS!

For my main I tried the grilled haddock that comes with mixed vegetables and wild rice blend.

It’s nothing fancy or original but everything is prepared perfect and seems fresh. It’s also a very large portion and is two meals for some people. It sure is worth the reasonable $19.99 that it cost today. (subject to change)

My husband tried the Jambalaya.

It came with your choice of rice or pasta and cheesy garlic toast. My husband said that it is good and flavorful. All the fish was cooked nicely but wasn’t spicy as he likes but is still good. He already wants to come back to try more.

Shuck’s Tavern Gaming & Oyster Bar is Worth a Try!

Shuck’s Tavern Gaming & Oyster Bar

7155 N Durango Dr Las Vegas NV

702-651-6227

www.ShucksTavern.com

Every THING is subject to change.

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My Trip to SK Seafood Restaurant Las Vegas NV – Authentic Cantonese Seafood Restaurant

SK Seafood Restaurant is a casual Cantonese Style Seafood Restaurant located in the Chinatown Area of Las Vegas Nevada. They offer a large menu of appetizers, soups, delicacies like abalone and sea cucumber, live seafood, many proteins, tofu, vegetables, and claypot.

English is the second language here. They have some sort of Chinese Food Network on the big screen TV, They were cooking brains and some sort of stomach.

they serve everyone a hot pot of tea to go with your food. I noticed a few other bottled beverages are served here.

We started out by sharing the cold cucumbers.

They are light and refreshing.

We have to try something seafood so we tried the stir fried fish filet with assorted mushrooms.

It’s a large plate for sharing with a lot of mushrooms and perfectly cooked fish. I enjoyed most of the mushrooms but one type came out very hard and was difficult to eat. There are chunks of ginger that are explosive…..LIKE A BOMB……….I think it would be much better (FOR MY TASTE) if the ginger was chopped fine or ground.

We also shared the Cantonese Chicken.

This one taste amazing (The chicken is well infused with flavors and was tender) but it is extremely difficult to eat because it’s made up of end pieces of TINY chicken with skin and bone on each piece with only a morsel of meat……It looks like much more but you are looking at a lot of rubbery chicken skin……..I think it’s a total of maybe only two ounces of chicken meat.

That was my trip to SK Seafood Restaurant

SK Seafood Restaurant

5600 Spring Mountain Rd Las Vegas NV

702-272-2462

I haven’t found a website for SK Seafood Restaurant

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